02.25.19 |
More than 177,000 customers are without power in Pennsylvania after hours of high winds. Nearly two-thirds of the outages are reported in western Pennsylvania, but officials across the rest of the commonwealth say they are seeing their outage...
02.25.19 |
State Senator Jim Brewster says he'll introduce legislation to put a non-binding referendum on the ballot in this November's general election. He said the vote would indicate how much public support in Pennsylvania there is for legalizing...
02.25.19 |
The latest effort by Gov. Tom Wolf to impose a fee on municipalities that rely on state troopers, instead of a local police force, is generating new conversations in Harrisburg This is the third time Wolf has tried to impose a fee on a...
02.22.19 |
On a small island in northern Indonesia, a team of researchers have found the world's largest species of bee. Wallace's giant bee (Megachile pluto), which can reach four times the size of a honeybee, was last seen alive by scientists in 1981...
02.22.19 |
Penn State's president when the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal erupted may soon be going to jail after Pennsylvania's highest court declined Thursday to hear the appeal of his conviction for child endangerment. The state Supreme Court...
02.21.19 |
Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvania’s acting state secretary, also told state senators during an Appropriations Committee hearing that election-security experts agree moving to voting machines that allow voters to double check how their vote was...
02.20.19 |
Republican Senator John DiSanto is cracking down on his commonwealth colleagues and other state employees who are allowed to keep a pension after committing a crime. DiSanto says he wants to revive a bill that passed the Senate but...
02.19.19 |
Of the nearly 5,000 tips fielded in its first month, about a third of them were considered serious enough to pass along to local police and school officials. The goal of the Safe 2 Say Something program, which funnels tips to an...
02.19.19 |
The mayor of Wilkes-Barre says 53-year-old Robert Collins submitted a letter early this month indicating that he's retired as a city police officer after a dozen years on the force. Collins was arrested on charges that he sexually assaulted...
02.15.19 |
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency officials appeared before lawmakers this week in Harrisburg and said they have had to increasingly dip into its reserve fund to pay grants which have decreased by about 12% since the 2007-08...