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DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Authorities near Philadelphia say a trio of pet ferrets mauled a newborn who was left downstairs in her car seat, chewing off the ba...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — The state of Pennsylvania agreed to pay about $40,000 to an anti-gas drilling group that was erroneously characterized in sec...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Democrat Tom Wolf took office Tuesday as Pennsylvania’s 47th chief executive, portraying himself as a political outsider and appeali...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania woman sent to prison for abducting a newborn from a Pittsburgh hospital has died. Twenty-two-year-old Breona ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man whose pregnant fiancee was struck and killed by a van in a Pittsburgh parking lot says their son was born by emergency cesarea...

HARRISBURG — With nearly two million Pennsylvania residents without enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., on Tuesday ca...

HARRISBURG , Pa. (AP) — Tom Wolf's business background, education and low-key style will aid him as the state's chief executive, but to succeed the go...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Businessman Tom Wolf has been elected Pennsylvania governor after spending $10 million of his own money on a powerful TV ad cam...

MOUNTAINHOME, Pa. (AP) — Scott Malkowski, a task force commander with the U.S. Marshals Service, spied a figure moving from the woods toward an abando...

BELLEFONTE — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced that the application period for the Fiscal Year 2014 Assistance to Firefighters Gra...

ERIE — The Pennsylvania division of National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. has announced a quarterly adjustment to gas supply charges effective Nov. 1, ...

BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. (AP) — A survivalist accused of ambushing two state troopers, killing one and seriously wounding the other, was captured on Thursd...

CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a rifle-carrying man with a mud-covered face spotted in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains is believed to be the s...

Many Pennsylvania voters who plan to vote for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tom Wolf know little about him but are lining up behind the first-time ...

PITTSBURGH — The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced the appointment of David Cord as the new director of the Erie VA Medical Center. Cord wi...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Investigators fear the man suspected of killing one trooper and wounding a second is looking to strike again, the head of the P...

A look at where the two candidates for Pennsylvania governor — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and Democratic nominee Tom Wolf — stand on some key issues:...

Changes are being made locally and at the state level to help curb the rising abuse of pain medications — especially in rural areas of Pennsylvania. L...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has asked for the names of any judges involved in the exchange of hundreds ...

CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — Police say the 2-week-old search for the suspect in the deadly ambush of Pennsylvania state police troopers is continuing in th...