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Published on January 29, 2013 - Page 2
Liberty Bell threat alleged PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Arizona State University professor is facing charges for allegedly claiming to have...
Published on January 29, 2013 - Page 3
TUNKHANNOCK (AP) —A prosecutor says a police officer who shot and killed a man while serving a mental health warrant last fall won’t be prosecuted....
Published on January 29, 2013 - Page 16
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The federal Affordable Care Act is scheduled to begin in October, but Pennsylvania and other states say there are still unanswered...
Published on January 29, 2013 - Page 16
DOYLESTOWN (AP) —Cold air weighed on the lungs like concrete as construction workers ascended the tight metal staircase inside the icy steel shell...
Published on January 29, 2013 - Page 16
HARRISBURG (AP) — The state Supreme Court on Monday announced it would hear arguments in March about a dispute between the attorney general’s office...
Published on January 29, 2013 - Page 16
HARRISBURG (AP) —Gov. Tom Corbett’s chief budget adviser says his boss is likely to call for a reduction in future pension benefits for current...
Published on January 28, 2013 - Page 2
Suicide won’t halt abuse suit PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The civil case alleging a Franciscan friar sexually abused students at a western Pennsylvania high...
Published on January 27, 2013 - Page 2
Accused friar kills himself PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a Franciscan friar accused of sexually abusing students at schools in two states killed...
Published on January 27, 2013 - Page 3
STATE COLLEGE — The latest election for Penn State trustee members may serve as another barometer of how well the university is recovering from...
Published on January 26, 2013 - Page 3
HARRISBURG — Penn State’s negotiator for civil claims involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said Friday the school has been in...
Published on January 26, 2013 - Page 4
HARRISBURG (AP) — The battlefield is beginning to take shape for the upcoming push by Gov. Tom Corbett to enact a major transportation plan, less...
Published on January 26, 2013 - Page 4
SHIPPENSBURG (AP) —The U.S. Food and Drug Administration won’t take any regulatory action over a vending machine at Shippensburg University that...
Published on January 25, 2013 - Page 2
Nuclear winter hits state SHIPPINGPORT (AP) — The National Weather Service says a nuclear power plant was partly responsible for a narrow band of...
Published on January 25, 2013 - Page 3
HARRISBURG — The board chairman of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities and a union leader speaking for 6,000 faculty members on Thursday each...
Published on January 25, 2013 - Page 10
HARRISBURG (AP) —The Pennsylvania Treasury Department is changing the system of debit cards for unemployment and workers’ compensation payments, a...
Published on January 25, 2013 - Page 15
HARRISBURG — A large Pennsylvania outdoors show was postponed indefinitely Thursday after its organizers’ ban on assault weapons triggered a backlash...
Published on January 24, 2013 - Page 2
Mother charged in fatal fire PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh-area woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes for allegedly...
Published on January 24, 2013 - Page 3
HARRISBURG (AP) —Two sides of the political debate over guns brought their respective cases to the Pennsylvania Capitol on Wednesday, pressing for...
Published on January 24, 2013 - Page 3
HARVEYS LAKE (AP) —Authorities say an elderly man was found dead after a fire in his Harveys Lake home. Fire crews in Luzerne County were called to...
Published on January 23, 2013 - Page 2
Sandusky victim files suit HARRISBURG (AP) — A young man who testified at the child sex abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach...
Published on January 23, 2013 - Page 5
HARRISBURG (AP) — Tonight’s “Pennsylvania Cash 5” jackpot will be worth at least $325,000, because no player matched the five winning numbers drawn...
Published on January 23, 2013 - Page 16
HARRISBURG (AP) — State lawmakers began Tuesday to debate potential changes to how child abuse is reported, investigated and prosecuted in...
Published on January 22, 2013 - Page 1
The (Pottstown) Mercury LIMERICK (AP) — Machine guns may be coming to a nuclear plant near you. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a...
Published on January 22, 2013 - Page 2
Accused son dies in cell STROUDSBURG (AP) — Authorities say a man charged with his mother’s choking and stabbing death was found dead in his prison...
Published on January 22, 2013 - Page 3
KEARNY, N.J. (AP) — Bail has been set at $10 million for a Hazleton man accused in the slaying of a teenage girl who was found shot to death inside...
Published on January 22, 2013 - Page 11
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN (AP) — Blue Mountain High School senior Rebecca Downey has studied Spanish and French and is now working on her own to learn a third...
Published on January 22, 2013 - Page 22
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For many in the Philadelphia area, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was a day to roll up their sleeves rather than kick back...
Published on January 21, 2013 - Page 2
CO gas kills lifelong friends CLAIRTON (AP) — Carbon monoxide poisoning from a malfunctioning furnace has killed a pair of lifelong friends here,...
Published on January 21, 2013 - Page 3
FAIRVIEW TWP. (AP) — A suicidal woman set the house fire that killed her and critically burned her husband in November here, authorities say. Here’s...
Published on January 20, 2013 - Page 2
Cabela’s out of gun show PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cabela’s Inc. will not participate in what has been billed as Pennsylvania's largest outdoor sports...