05.17.13 |
All of former Pennsylvania Gov. George Leader's living predecessors were among the nearly 500 mourners at his funeral Thursday as friends and family members remembered him as an innovative, energetic and compassionate leader. Gov. Tom Corbett and ...
05.17.13 |
Governor Tom Corbett on Thursday awarded more than $6.7 million in Act 13 funding to 18 companies and organizations making the switch to natural gas for their heavy-duty fleet vehicles. Act 13 of 2012 was the single biggest step in modernizing the ...
05.16.13 |
The mother in Pottsville, Pennsylvania that lost her 30 year old husband, her 4 children and her younger sister in a fire on Mother's Day is speaking for the first time. She told WNEP TV "I have my family, but not my kids. Not my husband of 13 ...
05.16.13 |
A memorial service is planned today in Hershey for former Pennsylvania Governor George Leader. The service is at the Derry Presbyterian Church in Hershey at 10:30am. Leader was 95 when he died a week ago following a brief illness at the Country ...
05.15.13 |
How did the liqour privatization hearing go in Harrisburg yesterday? Two supermarket executives, including one from Wegman’s, based in Rochester, didn't exactly get a warm welcome from Pennsylvania state senators who are exploring the ...
05.14.13 |
Keystone exams go online next fall, and they're based on common core standards in English and Math. Senator Andrew Dinniman said students won't be able to graduate unless they pass the exams, as of 2017. Districts have some issues with it. ...
05.13.13 |
The embattled former President at Penn State University was the highest paid public college official at the time he was forced from power over his handling of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. The chronicle of higher education's annual ranking of ...
05.13.13 |
Students on some Pennsylvania college campuses might be carrying more than their books. At least five Pennsylvania state-owned universities are now allowing guns onto campus. But state system officials appear to be having second thoughts, telling ...
05.10.13 |
Hunting is safer. That's the conclusion of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. They just released a report on hunting-related shooting incidents in 2012. For the first time since the commission began tracking such incidents in 1915, a year came and ...
