Pennsylvania News

The battle over hydraulic fracking of oil and natural gas has pitted land owners against each other.

David M. Jacobson wanted a transcript of a public hearing conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , May 2. The public meeting was to allow persons to discuss a proposal by National Gypsum and En-Tire Logistics to build a tire burner plant in Union County that would burn about 100 million pounds of shredded tires each ... (more)

After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.

Alleged Embezzlers Gambled Township's Money, Police Say : Former South Whitehall utility supervisor Nancy A. Tonkin and her husband, a former township police officer, are charged with embezzling $854,497 from township coffers over more than a decade, the Lehigh County District Attorney says.

Pennsylvania Mystery Species, a weekly, serial contest about the wild things and wild places of Pennsylvania, concludes today with the answer.

PennDOT will partner with more than 600 law enforcement agencies and the Pennsylvania State Police to participate in a national "Click It or Ticket" seat-belt enforcement effort through June 9. The effort will focus largely on nighttime enforcement, using traffic safety checkpoints and roving patrols.

Members of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves stand near the Pennsylvania Memorial in Gettysburg, which commemorates the 34,530 Pennsylvania soldiers who fought there in July 1863.

An Ohio newspaper executive has returned to his home state of Pennsylvania to become associate publisher of The Courier-Express in DuBois.

You may have heard of the odd exchange earlier this week in which Pennsylvania Gov.

Though the calendar says late May, the weather will feel more like late March or early April for people vacationing at the beach in New England, the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic this Memorial Day weekend.

A: The Pennsylvania Credit Union Association is a trade association for Pennsylvania's more than 500 credit unions.

Drexel Emergency Medical Services hosted its first barbecue on the Race Street Lawn May 17 in order to increase student awareness of its services.

A suspended northwestern Pennsylvania high school teacher has been acquitted on charges that he fondled a then-12-year-old boy during a Christmas visit which the teacher, and several defense witnesses, testified never occurred.

A group that aired TV ads critical of Gov. Tom Corbett is the impetus for a planned hearing before the House State Government Committee.

"It was just two days ago, my husband said 'Come on out here, I need to show you something in the backyard,' and I was just like 'Wow!' There was a lot of them," said Loretta Blaydon who lives in Middle Paxton Township.

Ephrata police said they have charged two men with the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in a borough motel.

Even 150 years later, Vicksburg is still overshadowed by Gettysburg - so much so, that the Mississippi city is having its Civil War commemoration a few weeks early rather than compete with Pennsylvania for tourist dollars around July 4. Union forces waged a long campaign to conquer Vicksburg and gain control of the lower Mississippi River.

Emily's List is backing Rep. Allyson Schwartz in her bid for governor of Pennsylvania, making their first endorsement of the 2014 gubernatorial cycle.

In recognition of national Emergency Medical Services Week, which runs through May 25, PennDOT has encouraged Pennsylvanians to sign up for two free programs aimed at saving lives in emergency situations - the Yellow Dot and Emergency Contact Information programs.

A Pennsylvania witness at West Brownsville reported watching an object "overtake two military jets" and then make a right angle turn before moving away at high speed, according to May 22, 2013, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network witness reporting database.