Pennsylvania Government News

President Obama on Tuesday created a Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and named University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann to chair it.

Lieutenant Dan Choi, who came out on the Rachel Maddow Show earlier this year and faces discharge from the military under Don't Ask, Don't Tell, spoke to students at the University of Pennsylvania's LGBT Center in Philadelphia on Nov.

The state of Pennsylvania's prison system is overflowing, and some of its convicts may be coming to Minnesota if a proposal submitted by the Minnesota Department of Corrections bears fruit.

Dennis McCartney, a Pennsylvania dealer who last year reported to us how a PennDOT decision regarding Chinese scooters was forcing dealers to close, has gone out of business himself.

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections officials toured Muskegon Correctional Facility Thursday.

Two people were taken to Pocono Medical Center after a 12:49 p.m. two-vehicle accident Friday involving a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation truck on Route 33 North, near the Sciota exit in Hamilton Township.

On Nov. 20, 2006, Pennsylvania's first casino, Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, swung open its doors to an eagerly awaiting crowd of patrons who could finally spend their gaming entertainment dollars inside our state borders.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has stepped in to remove a pile of hundreds of dead deer from a contractor's property after neighbors said the stench and sight were more than they could take.

"If the legislature sends him a well crafted medical marijuana bill Governor Rendell said he will sign it." That was the exact statement from Governor Rendell to Examiner.com. Last week, Examiner.com had asked Press Secretary Gary Tuma "What is Governor Rendell's position on Pennsylvania House Bill 1393?" HB1393 is also known as the Compassionate ...

Editorials From Around Pennsylvania Share + Nov 18, 2009 5:03 pm US/Eastern Editorials From Around Pennsylvania The Associated Press, JUDGING BY ELECTION DAY, WOMEN IN LAW HAVE COME A LONG WAY IN PA.

A bill to lower the price of legal advertisements that Pennsylvania governments place in newspapers is on its way to the state Senate.

In covering cross country in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the past 27 years, it often occurs to me how the two states stack up against one another in terms of talent.

A former speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives says he hasn't decided whether to serve out the year remaining in his current term or seek re-election while he fights corruption charges filed against him last week.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell speaks to the media after signing this year's state budget.

New York City has one thing right: We are what we eat and drink, and the water used in Marcellus Shale gas drilling is not sounding very appetizing.

Human beings are strange creatures. A person could go hours on end without sending one text message.

Actor Denzel Washington was playing proud father as he cheered on his son Malcolm's first game with the University of Pennsylvania basketball team.

On November 13, Pennsylvania state house member John Perzel surrendered to law enforcement authorities.

A former House speaker, an ex-lawmaker and eight aides Thursday became the latest - and the first Republicans - to be charged in a 3-year-old investigation into the diversion of public resources and employees to Pennsylvania legislative campaigns.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they've discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S. The flaws they've found "represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal investigation and as evidence in trial," the ...