Two former altar boys have filed suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh over allegations that a priest sexually abused them in the 1980s

Native Americans who occupied Alcatraz Island 50 years ago are gathering there for a day of events to mark the anniversary.

A former Pennsylvania police chief who pleaded guilty to stealing heroin from his department’s evidence room has avoided jail time

Pennsylvania lawmakers are trying to assert control over a key part of Gov. Tom Wolf’s effort to fight climate change in the nation’s fourth-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases

Pennsylvania state police say a good Samaritan who stopped to help people involved in a traffic accident was killed and two others were hurt when they were struck by a passing vehicle

Authorities have made an arrest in the shooting death of a man whose body was found in the trunk of his car

A teenage girl has been charged with murder and other counts in the shooting death of a man killed last year during a robbery at a Pittsburgh apartment

Authorities are looking for the person who opened fire on an off-duty Philadelphia police officer who was breaking up a fight outside a bar

Philadelphia authorities say one person has been killed, another is in critical condition and several others have been injured in a night of gun violence

The occupation of Alcatraz Island is often credited as being the seminal event that reinvigorated Native American tribes in the face of a U.S. government streamrolling over their land, their rights and their identities

A man who allegedly used baseball bats and a knife to kill his parents in their home will remain jailed until his murder trial

The owner of a now-closed body donation facility was found civilly liable Tuesday for mishandling remains in about half of 21 cases in a lawsuit filed by families of the dead

The annual convention of thrills, flashing lights and whirling theme park rides is back in Orlando this week.

Authorities say a New Jersey woman left a 4-year-old girl alone in a hotel room while she gambled at a Pennsylvania casino

A Democratic state senator in Pennsylvania is switching his registration to become an independent

Pittsburgh’s third-term city controller is running for an open state auditor general’s office next year

A Pennsylvania man who admitted to shooting a police officer who responded to a call at his home has been sentenced

New limits on gifts to Pennsylvania public officials, including an outright ban on taking cash, are in a bill that’s made it out of a legislative committee

A woman was accidentally shot and wounded when she tried to take a loaded gun from her toddler son at the family’s Pennsylvania home earlier this month

A Philadelphia woman has been charged with murder in the death of her adult quadriplegic daughter

A bagel shop manager in New York drove to Pennsylvania to return a key fob that a customer had left in his shop on Long Island

A Pennsylvania House majority is giving approval to a proposal to require the burial or cremation of fetal remains that end up in possession of a health care facility

Gov. Tom Wolf will sign legislation allowing hunting on three Sundays a year in Pennsylvania

A compromise package to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 is advancing in the Legislature, up against a deadline for Gov. Tom Wolf to relent on his effort to extend overtime pay eligibility to thousands of workers

A man charged with killing eight people on a New York City bike path has insisted on speaking out at a pretrial hearing.

A judge has denied a request by Pittsburgh’s Roman Catholic Diocese to use an $8 million-plus fund for needy children to help compensate victims of sexual abuse by priests

The families of young people who died from a rare childhood cancer have confronted Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf over what they called his administration’s insufficient response to a health crisis they blame on pollution from the shale gas industry

Authorities have dropped a charge of driving under the influence against a state lawmaker whose blood-alcohol level was below Pennsylvania’s legal limit for driving

Authorities say they won’t pursue the death penalty against a man convicted in the slayings of three young men found buried at a suburban Philadelphia farm

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Penn State’s president says he is working to counter difficult national and state enrollment trends

Authorities say two young children who were inside an SUV that was stolen from a Philadelphia restaurant have been found safe and were reunited with their mother

Pennsylvania State Police are seeking a person of interest after a man was found shot to death in the trunk of his car in Franklin County

Police say at least nine people were shot at party in Fresno in what appears to be a “mass casualty shooting,” local media report

Teachers and coaches in Pennsylvania’s state-owned university system are giving their approval to a new four-year union contract

Long lines and traffic jams put an early end to a free electronics recycling event in northeastern Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has suspended 13 employees while authorities investigate an inmate’s death

An American Airlines flight was forced to land at Pittsburgh International Airport due to a mechanical issue

A man who has fathered 15 children with 14 women is now headed to prison for punching his girlfriend in the stomach while she was nine months pregnant with their baby

A fiery interstate highway crash involving a tanker truck and an SUV in Pennsylvania has left three people injured

President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon for a former U.S. Army commando being charged with murder, undermining military justice proceedings

Two people who had been reported missing in California have been found dead at a Pennsylvania rest stop

A federal jury has found an anti-abortion activist illegally secretly recorded workers at Planned Parenthood clinics liable for violating federal and state laws and ordered him to pay nearly $1 million in damages

Discussions toward raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 are heating up, in part to get Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to abandon an effort to extend overtime pay eligibility to thousands of workers

Philadelphia’s sanitation fleet has been involved in about 2,000 accidents since June 2015, with two-thirds of the crashes determined to be the garbage truck driver’s fault