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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf would make a centerpiece of his first budget proposal an increase in income taxes on P...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two men forced a woman into the backseat of her sport utility vehicle at gunpoint, drove off but later lost control and plowed int...

MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — A psychiatrist’s patient ranted about a gun ban at a suburban medical complex before opening fire there, killing his caseworker and ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michael Guerreri wanted to try human growth hormones so he could look like a pro wrestler. Joe Badalanato hoped HGH would help him...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge in Pennsylvania said Friday she will not halt the criminal case against former Penn State president Graham Span...

STEVENS, Pa. (AP) — Police in central Pennsylvania say a man shot himself to death in front of police on a road in a rural residential area near his h...

HARRISBURG — Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, will host the 12th Annual Senior Citizens Expo on Aug. 8 at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford S...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fire that raced through a row of two-story homes in southwest Philadelphia early Saturday, killing three 4-year-olds and a baby ...

CLARION, Pa. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a woman with emotional problems who jumped from a car that was travelling at high speed on a highway...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett says he will soon put up a new round of television advertisements, with about four months to go before voters ...

LOCK HAVEN (AP) — Police in Lock Haven say the pilot wasn't injured after a J-2 Piper Cub crashed into a backyard, landing in a small tree and on a sh...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett's administration said Friday that insurers are showing strong interest in the Republican's plan to extend priv...

HARRISBURG (AP) — As Pennsylvania lawmakers prepare to reconvene Monday after a four-week break around the primary election, there is no shortage of i...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The four Democrats seeking the party's nomination to take on Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in the fall will meet for their last sche...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A city principal and four teachers promoted cheating on standardized tests by changing student answers, providing answers and impr...

ELIMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — State police are tentatively blaming an improperly vented propane heater as the cause of death for five people who likely succum...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Slapping Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry with a new tax has long been the currency of Democrats, and now an increas...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Shell Oil Co. plans to hold public meetings Wednesday to discuss the possibility of building a huge petrochemical plant in western P...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes were drifting lower Thursday as investors picked over a mixed batch of corporate earnings reports. Biogen Idec, Gil...

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The 16-year-old boy charged in a stabbing spree at a high school outside Pittsburgh was not troubled and his family didn't see...