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Pennsylvania's state House majority leader is telling top Republican Party officials that he plans to run for a U.S. House seat.
This judge's rulings, for better or worse, are poetic justice because they're in verse.
Operators of women's health clinics that perform abortions in Pennsylvania are bracing for new regulations that they say could mean expensive facility expansions and staff additions.
After weeks of anticipation , perhaps the most crucial witness in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case roiling Penn State took the stand and told what he saw after he entered a campus locker room one night in 2002 and heard the sound of skin slapping on skin in the showers.
The state takeover of Pennsylvania's financially troubled capital city received a fresh challenge Thursday, as three Harrisburg residents filed a federal lawsuit calling it an unconstitutional violation of their rights and asking for it to be stopped.
A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday threw out a petition by the City Council of Pennsylvania's debt-choked capital of Harrisburg, saying it had been legally barred by state law from seeking bankruptcy protection and, in any case, had no authority to file it.
Candles, not police lights, lit Penn State's campus on Friday night as thousands of students and supporters gathered to show support for the victims in a child sex abuse scandal roiling one of the nation's largest universities.
Hershey, the nation's second-largest candy maker, on Thursday reported a 9 percent increase in its third-quarter profit, citing higher prices and strong Halloween sales.
In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots of money in their pockets and nothing to do after they get off work.
Gov. Tom Corbett launched a state takeover of the heavily indebted capital city on Monday by declaring a fiscal emergency in Harrisburg — a move viewed as the state's most aggressive intervention yet into the affairs of a Pennsylvania city and one that raises new legal questions.
Republicans in Pennsylvania and Nebraska want to change the way their states award Electoral College votes, moves that could hinder President Barack Obama's re-election chances.
Gov. Tom Corbett released a plan for Pennsylvania's natural gas boom Monday that would allow the state's counties to impose a fee on drilling to help pay to regulate it and fix environmental damage in communities where it is happening.
A new poll shows that most Pennsylvanians don't want to change the way the state awards electoral votes in presidential elections.
A female sergeant who was discharged from the Air Force last year after South Dakota police reported her marriage to a woman wants to re-enlist now that the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in uniform has been lifted.
The requirement in the national health-care overhaul law that individuals buy health insurance is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday in a question that the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to settle.
Wal-Mart has decided not to install 23 state-controlled wine vending machines in its Pennsylvania stores.
After yet another strong quarter for Hershey, the nation's second-largest candy maker raised its outlook for the full year Tuesday, even as analysts questioned its strategy to become a global company.
Gov. Tom Corbett's advisory panel on the rapidly growing Marcellus Shale drilling industry supports making the companies help the government pay for the damage drilling has on roads, the environment and more.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signed a new state budget Thursday night, reaching his goal of enacting a 2011-12 spending plan before the new fiscal year began with just 15 minutes to spare.
After leading The Hershey Co. to three years of strong performances, CEO David West is leaving to take the top job at the smaller Del Monte Foods Co., a surprise move that sent the candy maker's shares plummeting Wednesday.
Pennsylvania's top environmental regulator says he is confident that the natural gas industry is just weeks away from ending one of its more troubling environmental practices: the discharge of vast amounts of polluted brine into rivers used for drinking water.
Pennsylvania is expanding the scope of water tests to screen for radioactive pollutants and other contaminants from its booming natural gas drilling industry, but state officials insisted they aren't doing it because federal regulators prodded them.
The natural gas industry's claim that it is making great strides in reducing how much polluted wastewater it discharges to Pennsylvania rivers is proving difficult to assess because of inconsistent reporting by energy companies — and at least one big data entry error in the state's system for tracking the contaminated fluids.
When John Hanger, then the state's top environmental regulator, was offered a coveted trip to the Super Bowl to see the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2009, he turned it down.
Some state employees have been fired and two agencies have overhauled their regulations in the wake of allegations that a doctor performed illegal abortions that killed a patient and viable infants, Gov. Tom Corbett announced Tuesday.
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