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Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering whether to impose a $100-per-resident tax on large municipalities that do not have their own police forces and instead rely entirely on state troopers.

The Republican National Convention showcased a Native American color guard, a black preacher and video footage of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, all part of its effort to present the GOP as a picture of diversity. What it hasn't offered is many minorities speaking from the podium in prime time, or sitting among the delegates.

The convention has a decidedly homogenous look to it, coming hard on the heels of a Democratic gathering where minorities were prominent on the podium and in the crowds, and the spotlight focused squarely on Barack Obama's historic racial breakthrough.

The pilot of a small plane says he walked away uninjured after crash-landing just 200 feet from a residential area in northeastern Pennsylvania.

For months, the watchword of Sen. John McCain's campaign had been "experience," publicly pounding home the Republican message that McCain has plenty and Sen.

A 15-year-old US girl who accused West Australian cycling coach Rick Lee of rape claimed on an adult dating website to be a 19-year-old brain surgery student, his lawyer has argued.

John McCain's vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said Monday that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, but delegates at the Republican National Convention welcomed ...

Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 18:29. Ever since John McCain caught the Grand Old Party elephants with their trunks down by announcing Alaska's Gov.

Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire may have had their preferred ballrooms, and it's clear that the equine Ginger And Fred also has her favorite surface -- The Meadows.

The council president, former borough manager and two other officials have been charged with stealing money and equipment from a cash-strapped borough in western Pennsylvania.

Harrisburg Bureau Chief HARRISBURG Living in a water-rich state, Pennsylvanians for generations have paid little attention to the source of their tap water.

By Jon Hurdle

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Two former Philadelphia funeral directors on Tuesday admitted to selling cadavers to a ring that cut them up and sold the body parts to hospitals for implants.

Gerald Garzone and his brother Louis Garzone pleaded guilty to charges that they conspired with others to take bones, skin and organs from 244 bodies in their funeral homes between February 2004 and September 2005.

They were part of a scheme that plundered 1,077 bodies in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania without the permission of relatives in an operation that netted the conspirators $3.8 million.

Republican John McCain said Tuesday he's satisfied that Sarah Palin's background was properly checked out before the Alaska governor joined the Republican ticket.

Sen. Joe Biden, campaigning in his boyhood town of Scranton with his 91-year-old mother Monday, gave voters a short course on the political climate as he grew up, saying that "to be Irish was to be Catholic was ...

The New Jersey man who was the leader of the stolen body parts scam could face life in prison.

A Chadds Ford man has been indicted on federal drug charges. Horace Lee Calhoun, aka Rashaad Alim Calhoun, is charged with one count of possession with intent to deliver more than 500 grams of cocaine in ...

Two bull elk lock horns during Pennsylvania's elk rut - photos by Phil Burkhouse Pennsylvania's Elk Rut: A Fight for Love and Glory By Ed Wetschler Sex.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Aug. 26--Berks County's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.2 percent in July, according to statistics supplied by the state Department of Labor and ...

Hillary Clinton made her message of support for Barack Obama very clear to her own supporters on Monday.

Keep your eyes on Pennsylvania and Michigan. There are battleground states in the presidential election, and then there are these two, looming larger than most others because they offer such a rich opportunity ...

A conservative think tank in Harrisburg is attacking the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for what it calls a culture of "power, patronage and politics." The Commonwealth Foundation unveiled a two-minute video ...