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A toddler who was accidentally left in a hot minivan outside his suburban Philadelphia day care center has died of hyperthermia.

Philadelphia police say they've arrested a woman who "played a significant role" in planning a well-orchestrated murder of a woman and her companion in her upscale apartment building.

By Rick Dandes The Daily Item SUNBURY - Three bikes were stolen early Thursday morning from young children who are living with their homeless families at Haven Ministry, at 1043 S. Front Street.

A defense attorney for a city man accused of attempted homicide is trying to taint the jury pool by alleging the victim is an illegal immigrant, a Northumberland County prosecutor said Wednesday.

The fate of a city bar investigated after numerous community and police complaints may rest on whether the Northumberland County district attorney asks a judge to sanction Maggie Maloney's. Sgt.

For Bruno Cafiso, life today is filled with trains, golf, reading and cooking - all with his 3-year-old grandson, Ryan.

Philadelphia police say a man and woman were shot dead in the hallway of an upscale Philadelphia apartment - and they expect images captured by security cameras to help their investigation.

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Kevin Boyd of Perryville, MD, left, and Merrily Pierce of Wash. D.C. map out the trips home after finishing the North Branch Susquehanna Sojourn on Tuesday at Shikellamy State Park.

A former manager at Columbia University's Neurological Institute has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for submitting $180,000 in fake bills and expenses, including his Poconos wedding.

A southwestern Pennsylvania man is jailed on a charge of criminal homicide because a prosecutor says he ran over his wife after learning she planned to leave him.

During a heated 30-minute exchange Tuesday, Northumberland County Commissioner Vinny Clausi continued pressing President Judge Robert Sacavage to reveal items redacted on court system credit-card statements until the judge took a page from Clausi's playbook.

A retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge will not forfeit his $82,000 annual pension for the insurance fraud that landed him in federal prison for 46 months.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is investigating a new wave of fish kills on the Lower Susquehanna River as far south as the Falmouth area in Conoy Township.

Sunbury Generation LLC is the only facility in the Valley treating gas-well wastewater from Marcellus Shale drilling.

Construction has started on a six-bed Hospice Care Center on the third floor of Sunbury Community Hospital.

The City Council voted Monday to place a 90-day moratorium on a $100 licensing fee some nurses say is "grossly unfair." Barbara Hoffman, along with Virginia Mendler, of Shamokin Dam, and Billie Jo Houtz, of Middleburg, confronted the council on tax bills they received May 7 that ordered them to pay a $100 professional licensing fee to the city by ...

The city of Sunbury averted a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union this week by agreeing to revise an ordinance that bans registered sex offenders from loitering near public places where children gather.

A northeastern Pennsylvania man is accused of attacking a Secret Service agent with brass knuckles and a chunk of asphalt.

The body pulled from the Susquehanna River on Saturday has been identified as this woman, Martha Grove, a West Milton resident who has been missing since February.