08.30.13 |
Officials in Hazleton in northeastern Pennsylvania will again look to the nation's highest court to bring closure to a seven-year legal battle over the city's never-enforced immigration ordinances. Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi confirmed that the city will ...
08.30.13 |
Scandal-tarnished former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has tumbled into a tie in the race for New York City Comptroller. There's less then two weeks before he faces off against democratic rival Scott Stinger in the city primary.
08.29.13 |
In a legal brief Wednesday, Governor Tom Corbett's attorneys said same sex marriage licenses were never valid, and compared gay and lesbian couples to 12-year-olds who are also barred from marrying under state law. The state Department of Health ...
08.29.13 |
Should boys be allowed to play girls sports-- and girls-- boy's sports-- in Pennsylvania? A state judge declined to hear the case Wednesday, calling on the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association to first make a rule allowing or banning ...
08.29.13 |
Convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky's court case has been moved from a high school in Luzerne county to the county courthouse, but there's no word as to why. The State Superior court was scheduled to hear the appeal the morning of September 17th at ...
08.29.13 |
16 schools across the state have announced a partnership with colleges and private businesses that will allow students a chance to get an associates degree-- at no cost. It's called the "Pathways in Technology College High School Program"-- and it ...
08.23.13 |
President Obama traveled across upstate New York on Thursday to tout a new set of higher-education reforms. He spoke in Buffalo, ate lunch in Rochester with college students and visited a birthplace of women’s rights in Seneca Falls. The ...
08.23.13 |
A new law will modernize and speed the process of reporting election results in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Thursday that will allow county election boards to replace hand-written tallies of vote results with computerized, portable ...
08.23.13 |
According to just released industry data, Pennsylvanians made up a smaller share of new workers in the Marcellus Shale gas industry in 2012, underscoring a shift here from drilling to pipeline work. State residents accounted for 56.8 percent of new ...
08.23.13 |
A Pennsylvania court laid out the issues Thursday to be argued at a hearing in two weeks about a suburban Philadelphia court clerk's decision to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The Commonwealth Court released an order in the case ...
