News, PA State News
Aug 17, 2022
Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than ...
Nation, PA State News
Aug 17, 2022
Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than ...
News, PA State News
Mar 29, 2022
HARRISBURG — The remnants of a federal lawsuit by Republicans challenging Pennsylvania’s new congressional districts were dropped Tuesday, three weeks...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 28, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — After 40 witnesses took the stand over the course of more than three months, testimony in the landmark trial over how Pennsylvani...
News
Feb 22, 2022
HARRISBURG — A federal lawsuit claims the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would overstep its authority by selecting a new set of congressional district map...
News
Dec 08, 2021
HARRISBURG — A lawyer for Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary on Wednesday defended the validity of the secretary’s order requiring masks inside K-...
News
Nov 20, 2021
(TNS) — The trial for a landmark case challenging how Pennsylvania pays for public education and highlighting deep disparities between wealthy and poo...
News
Nov 09, 2021
HARRISBURG — A lawsuit that could result in drastic changes to how Pennsylvania funds public education goes to trial Friday in a Harrisburg courtroom,...
News
Oct 20, 2021
HARRISBURG — People can sue to challenge a city’s gun restrictions even if they have not been charged with violating them, Pennsylvania’s highest cour...
News
Oct 20, 2021
A Pennsylvania appeals court heard arguments Wednesday on whether the Wolf administration had the legal right to impose a mask mandate on K-12 schools...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 19, 2021
In an age in which religiosity is waning, the notion that a person would forgo a medical treatment, perhaps even a life-saving one, because of sincere...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 19, 2021
In Wisconsin, families are suing two school districts for dropping their mask mandates, claiming it resulted in their children’s coronavirus infection...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 12, 2021
Remember the Texas Democrats? Last month, 51 Democratic state lawmakers boarded private planes in Austin, headed for Washington, D.C. Their purpose wa...
News
Aug 11, 2021
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court has dismissed a judge’s ruling that threw out Gov. Tom Wolf’s sweeping COVID-19 restrictions, saying the i...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 07, 2021
Sharonell Fulton and Toni Simms-Busch should be household names. Fulton and Simms-Busch were the plaintiffs in a recent foster-care and religious-libe...
News
May 18, 2021
ERIE —The emotional and long-term costs to victims are most often incalculable in cases of clergy sex abuse, but the abuse scandal has produced a doll...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 07, 2020
If it were up to the top executives of state government — the governor and lieutenant governor — recreational marijuana would be legal. But it’s not. ...
Local News
Oct 16, 2020
ERIE — A federal lawsuit claiming that the Catholic Diocese of Erie covered up clergy sexual abuse has been put on hold until the Pennsylvania Supreme...
Local News
Jul 23, 2020
Potter County was the first to respond to a lawsuit by the Donald Trump re-election campaign against the boards of election of all 67 counties in Penn...
Local News
Jan 03, 2020
Retired Erie Catholic Bishop Donald W. Trautman has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit that claims he covered up clergy sexual abuse when he was a...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
