Pennsylvania News

A SEPTA regional train burns in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. A Philadelphia commuter train caught fire Wednesday, complicating the morning rush already hampered by the city's transit strike.

An appeals court has ruled Pennsylvania State Police botched a prostitution investigation in which troopers gave an informant money to pay for sex four times at a massage parlor, along with a total of $180 for the man's trouble.

The magic of the holiday season comes to life on stage as Pennsylvania Ballet and PNC Arts Alive present George Balanchine's The Nutcracker.

Gas prices in western Pennsylvania held steady over the past week, according to the latest AAA Fuel Gauge Report.

On November 12th 1955, as Albert Miller took a walk through his Pennsylvania property, named Meadowcroft, he noticed a freshly dug groundhog hole.

The operator of an eastern Pennsylvania coal mine has been sentenced to prison and the owner to house arrest in connection with a mine explosion that killed a man three years ago.

Kenny Washington found out the hard way how tough it is to find a job without a high school diploma.

An entrenched stalemate in the Capitol may mean students at four Pennsylvania universities will soon see higher second-semester tuition bills.

Share + Nov 3, 2009 8:27 am US/Eastern PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania voters will be awarding a hotly contested open seat on the state Supreme Court and filling a half-dozen vacancies on the Superior and Commonwealth courts.

It may be a new fiscal year, but Pennsylvania is stuck in the same fiscal rut. The state is spending more money than it takes in.

A major conclusion of the work is that for some organisms, possibly including humans, continued evolution will not translate into ever-increasing fitness.

Lt. Gov. Joe Scarnati's letter to fellow Republicans on behalf of state Supreme Court candidate Joan Orie Melvin was unusually blunt.

Calif. debt firm settles Pa. class-action suit Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. By DAN NEPHIN Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH A California debt collection company has agreed to pay $2.55 million to settle a lawsuit brought by thousands of Pennsylvanians who claim they were wrongly led to believe they had to pay costly fees to avoid criminal charges ...

The Philadelphia transit system's largest union went on strike early today, bringing the city's bus, subway and trolley operations to a halt just hours after the World Series shifted to New York.

One in two Pennsylvanians has experienced pay reduction, layoffs or an inability to pay for medical care, among other hardships, during this worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, according to the latest poll from the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster.

Home : Operations : Research / Development : Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Announces New Energy Initiative Recently the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center won a $500,000 grant from Pennsylvaniaa s Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority to fund a new initiative for the development of new products and ...

Think your school taxes were high this year? Start saving for 2012-13. That's when Pennsylvania property owners will pay a lot more money to cover the generous pension bump state lawmakers awarded themselves, school employees and state workers in 2001.

The LIHEAP program helps people to pay their utility bills. Those who need financial help to pay their energy bills this winter can begin applying for grants starting tomorrow, but some who qualified for help last year might not get it this year.

HARRISBURG -- The battle for Pennsylvania Supreme Court that will be decided in Tuesday's election may not have shed much light on the candidates, but it's been a boost for economic recovery in Pennsylvania.

Stars. Not hex signs, but stars. Patrick Donmoyer , 23, has spent more than a year documenting and photographing 400 examples of such celestial iconography, a form of folk art painted on Pennsylvania barns over the last three centuries.