12.13.13 |
Criminal charges are being filed in connection to the hazing death of a student at a college in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. The Monroe County District Attorney says he won’t decide on “who” to charge&nbs...
12.13.13 |
A bill that would authorize the Pennsylvania Game Commission to set a bounty on coyotes is advancing in the Legislature after winning the approval of the state House of Representatives. Named the “coyote control incentive program,” ...
12.12.13 |
The Pennsylvania House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would require drug testing for prospective teachers and other school employees in the Keystone State. The bill, sponsored by Allegheny County Democrat Tony DeLuca, would ...
12.11.13 |
In Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, you've got to lose the birds, but you can keep the bees. The Altoona suburb has voted to curtail in-town agriculture while carving out legal exceptions for gardeners and beekeepers. The borough council ...
12.11.13 |
A black bear attacked a teenager in central Pennsylvania as she hunted deer on a family farm. Camille Marie Bomboy of Mill Hall, suffered severe bites on her arms and shoulders, and a deep cut on her head. She was hunting with a large group on ...
12.10.13 |
Governor Tom Corbett’s administration says the federal government isn’t enforcing a Jan. 1 deadline to shift tens of thousands children from a health insurance program for children to Medicaid. Corbett’s office said Monday the ...
12.06.13 |
The trial for three young men charged with fatally shooting a western Pennsylvania college student during a drug-related robbery ended abruptly when one juror fainted because of a bloody crime scene photo and another remembered knowing one ...
12.05.13 |
A bill at the center of a package of child abuse reforms has passed unanimously through a Senate committee. The legislation could get a full Senate vote as early as next week. The proposal is the legal centerpiece of a huge overhaul of the state's ...
12.05.13 |
Former Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Ed Rendell says the inability to ensure a smooth rollout of the Obamacare exchange website amounts to the greatest failure of management by any Democratic president. Rendell, the former mayor of ...
12.03.13 |
A court clerk in suburban Philadelphia who defied Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage by signing licenses for scores of gay couples is urging the state's highest court to overturn an order that required him to stop. Lawyers for D. Bruce Hanes, ...
