Pennsylvania News

The administration of Gov. Tom Corbett is expecting about $50 million from its new efforts to collect taxes on items sold over the Internet .

Federal environmental investigators examining the impact of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale are focusing on southwestern Pennsylvania's Washington County.

Dionne Warwick has postponed a Valentine's Day concert at a western Pennsylvania theater after the death of her cousin Whitney Houston.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Georgia's attorney general says two new states have agreed to honor Georgia firearms permits in a reciprocal recognition program.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday declared himself Mitt Romney's main competitor, essentially dismissing Newt Gingrich as a frontrunner.

Resistance to a new bill aimed at limiting foreign law in Pennsylvania courts serves as a case study of how Islamists and their allies operate: peddling falsehoods about Shari'a, painting Muslims as victims, and denying that anyone seeks to institutionalize aspects of Islamic law - even as they vigorously promote that very agenda.

The following timeline traces the major developments in the Pennsylvania Legislature bonus scandal as it has unfolded in Harrisburg over the past seven years.

You might have thought it was all over after the 2005 decision by the US district court of Middle Pennsylvania , which ruled in the case of the Dover Area schools that teaching intelligent design is unconstitutional.

The Rev. Sandra Strauss Is the commonwealth government's sense of responsibility to uphold the constitutional mandate to work for the common good of all Pennsylvanians dead? This question came to me as I departed from the Department of Public Welfare budget briefing on Feb.

Gov. Tom Corbett, R-Drillers, opened his Tuesday budget address by thanking his adoring enablers in the Legislature and saying, "Pennsylvanians are people who embrace important qualities.

How to reduce the prison population in Pennsylvania? State corrections officials say part of the answer lies in streamlining the process by which inmates are paroled.

Advocates hope the case against Jerry Sandusky, because it brought publicity, also will bring change to Pennsylvania's child-abuse laws.

An eastern Pennsylvania teenager has been ordered to stand trial in the stabbing death of another teen following a fight at a playground last fall.

Mitt Romney won the presidential straw poll Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an unofficial endorsement from party activists that nevertheless helps the former Massachusetts governor burnish his conservative image.

Looking for a wild-and-crazy time at college? Don't sign up for Justin McDaniel's religious studies class.

JACKSON TWP. An inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas was arraigned Thursday on charges he had a cellphone inside his cell.

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.

Dick Wolf, who created "Law & Order" and its two successful spin-offs, "Law & Order: SVU" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," should probably consider establishing a branch office in Pennsylvania.

Feeling a tug at your heart strings? It might be more than love, experts say. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, heart disease is the number one cause of death among women in the United States.

Pennsylvania Ballet principal dancer Riolama Lorenzo's final performance before retiring is Sunday, but it was already a lovefest Thursday night, when the company opened its Pushing Boundaries series at the Merriam Theater.