Pennsylvania News

In this Feb. 8, 2012, photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen.

State prosecutors don't want the people who live near former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in central Pennsylvania to sit as jurors in his pending child sex-abuse trial.

Pennsylvania is selling out cheaply in the fight against fracking. The Keystone State, the nucleus of national opposition to the deep-drilling technique, is poised to levy a gas tax, ostensibly to cover drilling damages.

A federal judge has ruled that Pennsylvania's 2001 legislative district maps should be used in this year's elections, a setback for Republicans who had tried to get the court to block their use.

A federal judge has ruled that Pennsylvania's 2001 legislative district maps should be used in this year's elections because the state Supreme Court rejected a new redistricting plan.

Gov. Tom Corbett released his 2012-13 state budget that immediately drew either applause or gnashing of teeth depending on which side of the aisle legislators reside.

The finalists include former Pennsylvania horse track and casino executive Richard Knight; New Hampshire Lottery Director Charles McIntyre; former Clinton administration aide Bob Nash, and former Georgia Lottery Senior Vice President Joan Schoubert.

The state's 12,500 nonunion employees have been living on the same salary they have been earning since 2008, and they say it's getting old.

A man has been arrested following a December Sweet 16 party shooting that killed one person and injured seven others at a western Pennsylvania home.

Pennsylvania Ballet presents choreographer Robert Weiss's Messiah , set to the universally popular score by George Frideric Handel and featuring The Philadelphia Singers, March 8-17, 2012 at the Academy of Music.

By Peter Mucha, Inquirer Staff Writer The Philadelphia appearance Aug. 28 at the Wells Fargo Center will kick off a series of 26 North American shows.

Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a primary night watch party Tuesday in St.

Governor Tom Corbett released his $27 billion dollar proposed budget for 2012-13 Tuesday morning.

With the nation focused upon the union-busting Tea Party-backed Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Corbett has snuck in a plan to mine the state's mineral resources, increase employment, reduce educational problems, and whack unions upside the head at the same time.

Read more about Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed $27.1B budget for the year beginning July 1: Pa.

A memorabilia collector and self-styled expert on presidential history pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to steal thousands of documents signed by leaders throughout U.S. history.

A memorabilia collector and self-styled expert on presidential history pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to steal thousands of documents signed by leaders throughout U.S. history.

The midstate almost lost the U.S. Army War College on Carlisle Barracks to consolidation during the last round of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission process in 2005.

Pennsylvania, the only major gas-producing state that does not tax the taking of natural gas from its soil, moved closer Tuesday to imposing a fee on the drilling in its vast Marcellus Shale reserves that has transformed the state in recent years.

Each year since 1982 every person who has been a resident of Alaska for the previous year, and indicates an intention to remain, gets a Permanent Fund Dividend check from the state.