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The city council in Allentown is set to vote on a clean air ordinance that would include round-the-clock monitoring of any new waste-to-energy plants built there.

Senate Republican leaders stood beside their committee chairman Tuesday as he unveiled a liquor privatization plan, but -- with less than two weeks to the governor's June 30 deadline -- said they are still searching for the votes to pass a bill.

The second episode of season four revealed a wavering future for one Liar, investigated a fishy death and the truth behind Wilden's disappearance.

Investigators say Edgar Bonilla, 41, attacked a paraplegic resident inside an assisted living facility shortly after 7 p.m. on the 6200 block of Eastwick Avenue.

As hotels and resorts fall over themselves to cater to the surge in cash-rich Chinese tourists with a taste for luxury goods and silver service, experts say U.S. travelers may also reap the benefits.

City detectives were at the Grayco Apartments at 15 North Street, and officers could be seen searching a first-floor room and loading evidence into a police vehicle just before 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Any statewide transportation funding plan should phase out the massive contributions that the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is currently required to make, the state auditor general said Tuesday.

Legislation that would make it a crime to possess animal fighting paraphernalia in Pennsylvania has passed the state House of Representatives.

Gross revenue from table games at Pennsylvania's 11 casinos rose sharply last month.

Few states have as much to offer retired history buffs as Pennsylvania, one of the original 13 colonies.

Several Republican lawmakers have made clear in caucus and in public over the past week that changes to the law setting wage floors for most public works projects will be a key to their support for any transportation funding package.

Do you love your job? Or do you count down the hours until happy hour? Are you one of those who steals office supplies from the supply closet? Gallup, one of the biggest polling institutions, has a way of measuring workplace satisfaction .

In this June 13, 2013, photo, Natalie Gunshannon of Dallas Twp, Pa., holds a copy of a lawsuit filed by her attorneys against McDonalds.

The York County Probation Department introduced its newest member to the team: Buster, a 24-month-old black Labrador Retriever.

South Strabane Township police identified the dead man as Vincent Kelley, 46, of Washington, Pa.WASHINGTON, Pa.

Pennsylvanians undoubtedly will be wondering whether today's US Supreme Court decision striking down Arizona's voter ID law will have any impact on Pennsylvania's equally controversial voter ID law.

Carlisle police said several calls about a fight in the 400 block of N. Pitt Street were followed by a report of shots fired Sunday night.

Carlisle police said they charged a borough man with indecent exposure and open lewdness after an incident at South Pitt Street and Church Avenue.

Since taking office as your governor, I have made public pension reform one of my top legislative priorities.

The Daily News Pet of the Week is Gideon, a 9-year-old shar-pei mix at the Pennsylvania SPCA.