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Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, dubbed "Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker," was arrested Thursday evening at the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Philadelphia by members of the Philadelphia Police Department, Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow said.

By Eric Boehm | PA Independent HARRISBURG - A new political nonprofit claims to be holding Gov.

It is vanishingly rare for an experimental treatment to wipe out advanced, recurrent cancer, then keep the disease from coming back.

Three cheers for the emergency first responders, PennDOT, its engineers, draftsmen, work crews and the many construction workers who reacted almost immediately to the I-81 bridge catastrophe in Susquehanna Township.

A Pennsylvania native, Kathy Strunk says spring has her craving rhubarb and asparagus, which are bountiful this time of year in Pennsylvania.

The EAC was created in the aftermath of the disastrous elections of 2000 as part of the Help America Vote Act.

More Pennsylvanians went to work in April, swelling the ranks of the state's employed to over 6 million workers.

The answer to this week's Pennsylvania Mystery Species, a weekly, serial contest about the wild things and wild places of Pennsylvania, was posted here earlier today.

After years of development, a new set of educational standards for Pennsylvania has run into late-in-the-game opposition along unusual political lines.

Vanessa Adams stood in line Friday afternoon at a Downtown convenience store hoping to win the largest Powerball jackpot in history.

Pennsylvania State Police have not said what happened in the small town of Baxter.

THE RESTAURANTS and merchants of Rittenhouse Row are gathering again on Walnut Street this Saturday, and that means about 50,000 area residents and guests will be joining them for one of Center City's largest street fairs.

The state Department of Labor & Industry said Friday the April rate of 7.6 percent compared to 7.9 percent in March.

We call it Fact Check Friday , and we have help from factcheck.org, a nonpartisan non-profit part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia On Monday, President Barack Obama said, "The IRS, as an independent agency, requires absolute integrity and people have to have confidence that they're applying it ... (more)

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation , a procedure traditionally used during cardiac surgeries and in the ICU that functions as an artificial replacement for a patient's heart and lungs, has also been used to resuscitate cardiac arrest victims in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

Ms. Pennsylvania Senior America 2012 Linda Bullock of Fleetwood, left, poses with state pageant director Doris Ulrich of Lebanon County.

Inmates at the Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia. The jail has one of the highest rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Every scientist has three key experiences that helped them on the road to a career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM: 1) being born with a desire to learn; 2) having opportunity to apply STEM principles; and 3) guidance from an effective mentor .

The politically popular bill and the high-profile White House meeting underscore how recent cases and reports have rapidly turned combating military sexual assault into a bipartisan high priority.

The nuclear gauge that fell off a truck on Interstate 81 earlier this month has turned up undamaged in Maryland, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced today.