BROCKWAY, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania-based nursing home company has agreed to pay more than $15.4 million to resolve allegations of overbilling for medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy services, federal authorities said Wednesday.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A nearly 400-year-old painting that had long been attributed to someone in Rembrandt’s workshop has now been judged to have been a work of the Dutch master himself.

INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say an armed robbery and shooting at a pair of addresses near a western Pennsylvania university campus left two students injured, one with a gunshot wound.

NEW CASTLE, Pa.-- New Castle police say officers responded to a stabbing on East Washington St. on Tuesday morning, and a woman remains in the hospital recovering from wounds to her chest and neck.  Her boyfriend was also sent to the hospital for stab wounds.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is launching the website where voters for the first time can request the newly legalized mail-in ballots ahead of the state's April 28 primary election. Voters can access the application for the mail-in ballots from the PA Secretary of State's website. 

HARRISBURG, Pa.-- Governor Tom Wolf announced this week that the Office of Victims’ Services in the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) is now accepting sexual assault counseling claims for victims of sexual abuse.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-- The Pennsylvania attorney general's office is suing electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul over how its products are marketed and sold to teenagers.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-- A preliminary report about a bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that killed five people early last month says light snow was falling at the time and that the bus had just passed a sign warning to keep below 55 mph on a curve.

ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. (AP) — A school van driver was killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer on a western Pennsylvania road, authorities said.Officials in Lawrence County said the crash occurred shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday on Route 488 in Perry Township near Ellwood City.Coroner Rich Jo…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf wants to create a major new program for college scholarships, require public schools to provide full-day kindergarten, and pump $1 billion into cleaning up lead and asbestos in aging school buildings.

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog on Sunday declared: “Spring will be early, it’s a certainty.”

NDIANA, Pa. (AP) — A 4-month-old boy was shot in a western Pennsylvania apartment, but the child is expected to survive, police said.

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa.-- The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wants Pennsylvania's most famous groundhog to retire and for the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to and replace the animal with a robot.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf says Pennsylvania won't apply for a Medicaid block grant proposed by President Donald Trump's administration that would include a limit on how much the federal government contributes.

FBI agents were on the scene at Ellwood City's closed hospital this week.  The city's mayor tells reporters about 20 agents were on the scene on Thursday and removed boxes of material from the medical center.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-- Outdoorsy Pennsylvanians can soon keep their fishing license in a pocket rather than having to attach it to an outer garment.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania auditor general's office says a $45 million project to upgrade emergency radio communications system in Pennsylvania is on time and within the budget.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-- There's a move by some state lawmakers to make Pennsylvania player a bigger player in the presidential primary, instead of an afterthought. The state Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would move up Pennsylvania's presidential primary elections by five weeks, sta…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-- Package deliver company United Parcel Service has committed to spending $1.4 billion to expand its operations in Pennsylvania and hire more than 1,700 new, full-time employees, Gov. Tom Wolf's administration said Wednesday.Wolf's administration said it offered UPS $2.7…

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP)-- Lehigh University is imposing new restrictions on fraternities and sororities — amounting to a “pause" on their activities — following reports that earlier warnings about excessive alcohol consumption and other misconduct had gone unheeded by the groups at the eastern P…

NEW CASTLE, Pa.-- In 2015, Governor Wolf reestablished the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs as the Commonwealth’s advocate agency for Latinos.  On Friday, January 10, Maria Delgado was sworn in by Deputy Secretary Jonathan Marks as the Latino Affairs Commissioner for Lawrence…

PLUM, Pa. (AP) — A Pittsburgh-area school district has closed all schools Monday following a potential threat of violence received over the weekend.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — An elderly Amish man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing four girls for years is facing 38 to 76 years in prison, even though the judge acknowledged the sentence is largely symbolic given the man's age.

NESHANNOCK TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Police say the driver of a pickup died in a crash in Neshannock Township early Friday evening.

SLIPPERY ROCK TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — State police say a woman armed with a handgun was shot and wounded by state troopers following a domestic dispute in western Pennsylvania.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a Philadelphia-area college senior who aspired to be a research psychologist was struck and killed by a bus in Pittsburgh over the weekend.

WEATHERLY, Pa. (AP) — State police say a Pennsylvania woman drove into the path of an oncoming vehicle as a way to test her faith, then exhibited no concern about the people who were injured in the crash.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The 14 Pennsylvania state universities hope to reduce the size of their faculties by offering an incentive for professors eligible for retirement.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's Republican U.S. Sen Pat Toomey says the Senate should conduct a fair impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, but he gave no indication of whether he'd support calling witnesses.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) —  Pennsylvania's commercial casinos reached a new high in revenue last year, a record boosted by an aggressive new expansion of gambling authorized in 2017.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania officials are doling out nearly $1 million in grants to prevent and respond to sexual assault at 36 colleges and universities.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania House is voting to expand the state's ban on texting while driving to also prohibit motorists from using hand-held devices to make phone calls.

NEW CASTLE, Pa.-- The Lawrence County District Attorney says police have seized $50,0000 worth of cocaine, heroin, and other drugs from a home on Court Street in New Castle on Monday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's second lady, Giselle Fetterman, will help lead a campaign to raise awareness of this year's Census Bureau count and encourage residents to respond to the census.

MERCER, Pa.-- Governor Tom Wolf has announced that Joy Cone, a Mercer County food processing manufacturer, will add to its cookie manufacturing operations to meet increasing market demand for cookie and wafer products.

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.-- Patrons of New Wilmington’s The Tavern on the Square can now select from a variety of domestic, craft and imported beers and wines as the Borough moves into a new era when it comes to the legal sale of alcoholic beverages.

UNIOINTOWN, Pa. (AP)--The newly elected treasurer of a small city in western Pennsylvania says city officials plotted to block her from taking office because she is black.

Federal investigators said Monday a packed bus passed a truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike shortly before losing control and causing a chain-reaction wreck that killed five and injured dozens.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania State Police are investigating what appears to be a deliberate attempt to release bedbugs in a Walmart store.

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A deadly crash involving a passenger bus and multiple other vehicles on the Pennsylvania Turnpike left at least five dead and dozens injured early Sunday, shutting down a large portion of the highway.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Pennsylvania has fined an energy company more than $30 million but will allow it to resume construction on its natural gas pipelines. State environmental regulators announced a settlement with Texas-based Energy Transfer on Friday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three of Pennsylvania's professional sports mascots are depicted in the Farm Show's butter sculpture, an annual feature of the state's massive agricultural exposition.

NEW CASTLE, Pa. – Attorney General Josh Shapiro this week filed a petition in Lawrence County to compel the owners of Ellwood City Medical Center to pay wages, unemployment taxes, and pension contributions due to approximately 150 hospital workers who have not been paid.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-- It could soon cost more than $50 to drive across Pennsylvania on the nation's first superhighway. Tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike will rise for the 12th straight year in January.

PITTSBURGH (AP)-- Uber is increasing its footprint in the Pittsburgh area with the purchase of a $9.5 million parcel to be used as a new test track for self-driving cars.

An Associated Press review finds that Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses have paid nearly $84 million to 564 victims of sexual abuse. Seven of the state’s eight dioceses launched victim compensation funds in the wake of a landmark grand jury report on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Thousands turned out to watch the annual reenactment of George Washington's daring Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware River in 1776.

ERIE, Pa. (AP)-- Authorities say a 3-year-old boy shot his sleeping father in the buttocks with a gun he found in their western Pennsylvania home.

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police in northeastern Pennsylvania say suspects have returned the decapitated heads from four snowman placed around town as a holiday promotion and arts project.