HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A top Pennsylvania lawmaker says the Legislature may change Pennsylvania's sweeping 4-month-old election law in an effort to avoid a logjam of mail-in ballots that could extend vote-counting in the presidential race for days afterward.

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a college student walking with friends at a state park in western Pennsylvania was injured when she fell about 80 feet from a cliff.

NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Power company workers in Mercer and Crawford counties have helped create new spaces for some Osprey in Mercer and Crawford counties to next.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As many Pennsylvania counties adopting new hand-marked ballot voting systems, a persistent criticism is a perceived loss of privacy in polling places when filling them out and scanning them.

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.