EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police say an 11-year-old boy was shot and killed when a handgun being handled by another juvenile discharged in an eastern Pennsylvania home.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans in Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled Legislature are advancing legislation to reinstate work-search requirements for people claiming unemployment benefits. The bill cleared the House Labor and Industry Committee on a party-line vote Tuesday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Philadelphia judge running for a seat on Pennsylvania’s highest court is disavowing any connection to QAnon, even though she did an interview with supporters of the conspiracy theory who also listed her as a featured speaker at an upcoming gathering.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Mark Nordenberg, the former chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, is the state high court’s appointee and the tie-breaking fifth member of the panel that will redraw boundaries of Pennsylvania’s legislative districts.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pittsburgh-based United States Steel Corp. said Friday that it is canceling a $1.5 billion project to bring a state-of-the-art improvement to its Mon Valley Works operations in western Pennsylvania, saying the world has changed in the two years since it announced its i…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania officials say employees of a vendor paid to conduct COVID-19 contact tracing may have compromised the private information of at least 72,000 people.

WEATHERLY, Pa. (AP) — A judge has ordered a retired school bus driver to stand trial in the cold-case slaying of a pregnant New Jersey teenager whose remains were found on a riverbank in eastern Pennsylvania more than four decades ago.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — COVID-19 vaccines will be sent to more providers in Pennsylvania, widening the distribution network this week to include doctors, small pharmacies and others as part of its effort to overcome lingering hesitancy among residents who have yet to get the shot.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The board of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is advancing a plan to merge six of its 14 universities into two new institutions, as the system struggles with sinking enrollment and stagnant state aid. Wednesday's nearly unanimous board vote launches a …

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania revised its mask mandate on Tuesday to bring it in line with that say fully vaccinated people don’t have to wear them outside anymore unless they’re at a crowded event.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education could merge six of its 14 universities into two new institutions.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans in Pennsylvania’s Senate are trying to make Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration start over on its plans to toll up to nine major bridges.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Graham Spanier’s lawyers are expected to be in a Pennsylvania courtroom next month as a judge considers whether the former Penn State president should have to report to jail to start serving his sentence related to the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — By some accounts, Pennsylvania has the worst accumulation of old, unplugged, ownerless oil and gas wells in the nation.

PITCAIRN, Pa. (AP) — A rabid bat has bitten one child in Western Pennsylvania, and health officials are urging the parents of three other children who might have handled the bat to seek medical attention for them.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania coroner says a young Amish woman whose remains were found this week had been strangled and stabbed in the neck.

NEW CASTLE, Pa.-- The Lawrence County community has been challenged from the beginning of 2020 with the onset of Covid-19 which was a pandemic that we were not prepared for or trained on how to respond. United Way faced H1N1 and SARS and received instruction and policies on how to organize m…

MEHOOPANY, Pa. (AP) — One person is dead in a helicopter crash in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. The Federal Aviation Administration says the wreckage of a Robinson R44 copter was found in a remote area of Wyoming County on Thursday night after the agency had issued an alert about a missin…

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have announced the recovery of human remains during a search related to the disappearance of a young Amish woman in Pennsylvania last summer.

HONOLULU (AP) — A judge is allowing a Pittsburgh man charged with manslaughter in the death of the friend he was vacationing with to return to the U.S. mainland before his trial.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A review of state election law by Pennsylvania representatives is done. Legislative leaders said Wednesday it’s unclear what changes if any might be enacted for the November election.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — For the first time, prominent Republican state senators are putting their support behind legislation in Pennsylvania to change the law to allow now-adult victims of child sexual abuse to sue their perpetrators or institutions that didn't prevent it.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania state House is giving its approval to a Republican-sponsored bill to let many retail stores remain open during a declared state of disaster emergency.

UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. (AP) — People on a morning run to a convenience store in Pennsylvania on Wednesday encountered a series of seemingly random shootings that left a truck driver pumping gas dead, another man wounded and a gunman taking his own life, officials said.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)--Pennsylvania plans to greatly expand its network of COVID-19 vaccine providers as demand for the lifesaving shots begins to slow and existing vaccinators order fewer doses, the state’s top health official said Tuesday.

BARNESVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a Virginia woman was flown to a burn center after an explosion in a recreational vehicle that blew one of her two dogs through the front windshield at a state park in eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pension contribution rates for tens of thousands of public school employees in Pennsylvania could be going up.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will not hear a case out of Pennsylvania related to the 2020 election, a dispute that had lingered while similar election challenges had already been rejected by the justices. The high court directed a lower court to dismiss the case as moot.

EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating a skydiving accident which claimed the life of a New Jersey man.

PITTSBURGH – PennDOT District 11 has announced restrictions on the shoulders of  I-79 in Plain Grove Township, Lawrence County.  The restrictions will begin on Monday, April 19 weather permitting.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bicycles continue to spin out of stores in record numbers.

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Anglers are expecting a fisherman’s paradise toward the end of May parts of Pennsylvania.

A growing number of unfilled appointments and low uptake among nursing home workers are early signs that vaccine hesitancy is becoming an issue in Pennsylvania, prompting state officials to sound the alarm Friday and urge residents to get their COVID-19 shots as quickly as possible.