15:32, 14 Feb 2019
Two Montana women questioned by a U.S. border agent who overheard them speaking Spanish in a convenience store sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Thursday, saying the agent illegally detained them without reason.The agent ...
14:36, 14 Feb 2019
The federal government outlined an ambitious, potentially costly new plan to restore Atlantic salmon in the United States, where rivers teemed with the fish before dams, pollution and overfishing decimated their populations.The Atlantic salmon has ...
14:35, 14 Feb 2019
No decision made to extend March 1 tariff deadline as American and Chinese officials continue negotiation
14:27, 14 Feb 2019
Amazon abruptly abandoned plans Thursday for a big new headquarters in New York that would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city, reversing course after politicians and activists objected to the nearly $3 billion in ...
14:21, 14 Feb 2019
Texas' election chief has apologized for releasing a botched list of 95,000 voters whose citizenship was called into question before being fully vetted. Texas Secretary of State David Whitley previously refused to acknowledge mistakes in the ...
14:13, 14 Feb 2019
Kansas abortion opponents are as eager as ever to impose new restrictions but aren't sure of their options because the state's legal climate is uncertain. So in the meantime, they're putting their energy into condemning ...
14:08, 14 Feb 2019
New Orleans officials moved closer Thursday to imposing a $5 million penalty on a major utility company over the use of secretly paid actors at public hearings last year to support plans for a new ...
13:39, 14 Feb 2019
Officials in an Oregon county agreed Thursday to lower the number of inmates crammed into a single cell and take other actions after a woman filed a lawsuit saying she was jailed under inhumane conditions.Under ...
13:32, 14 Feb 2019
Memory and thinking skills naturally slow with age but now scientists are peeking inside living brains to tell if depression might worsen that decline — and finding some worrisome clues.Depression has long been linked to ...
13:30, 14 Feb 2019
A U.S. judge who has berated Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for its role in California wildfires is demanding more answers from the utility.In a court filing Thursday, Judge William Alsup asked PG&E if it ...
13:14, 14 Feb 2019
The Latest on attack in prison of Chicago officer convicted of killing black teen Laquan McDonald (all times local):12:15 p.m.An attorney for the white Chicago police convicted in the fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan ...
12:55, 14 Feb 2019
The winner of a $1.537 billion lottery jackpot in South Carolina has yet to come forward. That means the state of South Carolina might be a big loser too.Economic officials estimated the winner would pay ...
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09:54, 17 Feb 2019
Retailers and top fashion brands like Gucci and Prada keep apologizing for products that smack of racial insensitivity.The big question is: Why does it keep happening?Experts say many of these fashion companies live in a ...
19:48, 16 Feb 2019
A second suspect has been charged with murder in the friendly fire death of a New York City police detective.Police announced charges of murder, robbery, assault and criminal possession of a weapon on Saturday against ...
18:36, 16 Feb 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez returned to her home district in the New York City borough of the Bronx on Saturday to encourage her supporters to keep up the kind of activism that resulted in Amazon rescinding ...
15:39, 16 Feb 2019
Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick's rise through the Catholic Church hierarchy, during which he established a reputation as a globe-trotting human rights advocate before being brought down by sex abuse scandals, began as an altar boy ...
12:05, 16 Feb 2019
The New York City Council passed a resolution by a full vote Wednesday that will edge the state Assembly and Senate toward passing legislation allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, according to a report by Columbia ...
07:57, 16 Feb 2019
In early November, word began to leak that Amazon was serious about choosing New York to build a giant new campus. The city was eager to lure the company and its thousands of high-paying tech ...
19:02, 15 Feb 2019
Italian fashion house Gucci announced a major push Friday to step up diversity hiring as part of a long-term plan to build cultural awareness at the luxury fashion company following an uproar over an $890 ...
18:47, 15 Feb 2019
It's been a complicated few weeks for Amazon, what with its abrupt pullout from a massive New York City development, extortion claims related to intimate photos taken by its founder Jeff Bezos and increasing antitrust ...
00:56, 15 Feb 2019
Amazon jilted New York City on Valentine's Day, scrapping plans to build a massive headquarters campus in Queens amid fierce opposition from politicians angry about nearly $3 billion in tax breaks and the company's anti-union ...
19:32, 14 Feb 2019
The police officer who was wounded in a shooting that led to the friendly fire death of a New York Police Department detective has returned home to Long Island.Sgt. Matthew Gorman emerged from a black ...
16:16, 14 Feb 2019
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo criticized politicians over Amazon's decision to abandon plans for a big new headquarters in New York. Cuomo said, opponents of the deal with the tech giant had "put their own narrow political interests ...
15:54, 14 Feb 2019
Adam Ottavino has a bagel on his back, supplanting Derek Jeter in one small area of New York Yankees history.The newly signed relief pitcher was playing catch at Steinbrenner Field during Thursday's opening workout of ...
14:27, 14 Feb 2019
Amazon abruptly abandoned plans Thursday for a big new headquarters in New York that would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city, reversing course after politicians and activists objected to the nearly $3 billion in ...
12:02, 14 Feb 2019
The Latest on the decision by Amazon to dump New York City as a location for a new headquarters (all times local):12 p.m.Amazon says it will not be building a new headquarters in New York, ...
02:08, 14 Feb 2019
A new exhibit at the state Capitol tells the story of New York's diverse people through images and objects reflecting 400-plus years of immigration and assimilation. The "People of New York" exhibit now open in the ...
17:41, 13 Feb 2019
The 18th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival will open with the premiere of a documentary about New York City's iconic Apollo Theater in Harlem.Festival organizers Wednesday announced that Roger Ross Williams' "The Apollo" will ...
16:36, 13 Feb 2019
Chuck Green was a witness to one of the 20th century's biggest stories — and first to report a key piece of it to the world.The former Associated Press correspondent and chief of bureau, who ...
16:19, 13 Feb 2019
A man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body in a suitcase in Connecticut is a citizen of Portugal who has been in the U.S. illegally for more than a year, federal authorities ...
12:10, 13 Feb 2019
The Latest on the fatal shooting of a New York Police Department detective (all times local):12:10 p.m.Records show the man suspected of a robbery that led to the death of a New York Police Department ...
11:54, 13 Feb 2019
Illegal immigrant Javier da Silva allegedly confessed to the murder of 24-year-old Valerie Reyes of Westchester County, New York, whose body was found in a suitcase. The ex-boyfriend of the New York woman whose body was ...
20:06, 15 Feb 2019
California is likely to sue President Donald Trump over his emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, the state attorney general said Friday. Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Gov. Gavin Newsom, both Democrats, ...
14:29, 15 Feb 2019
The new leader of the nation's largest sheriff's department on Friday will further limit when inmates in Los Angeles County jails can be transferred to U.S. authorities for deportation.The department will reduce the number of ...
11:13, 15 Feb 2019
The Latest on storms hitting the West (all times local): 8:10 a.m. Classes have been canceled in seven school districts in San Diego County following the intense storm that hit California. The county's Office of Education cites power ...
02:24, 15 Feb 2019
It's been 100 days since a wildfire nearly burned the town of Paradise off the map. The Nov. 8 blaze destroyed nearly 15,000 homes in the Northern California city of 27,000 residents. The long recovery ...
00:50, 15 Feb 2019
In the 100 days since a wildfire nearly burned the town of Paradise off the map, Joanie Ellison has made a tearful drive dozens of times to the ruins of her home, resisting the urge ...
23:12, 14 Feb 2019
Authorities warn that mudslides are still possible even after a damaging storm moved through California.April Newman, spokeswoman for Riverside County Fire Department, says crews will continue damage assessments Friday.The powerful system unleashed rain, snow and ...
21:27, 14 Feb 2019
When California voters legalized marijuana, they were promised that part of the tax revenue from pot sales and cultivation would be devoted to programs to teach youth how to avoid substance abuse. But more than a ...
20:55, 14 Feb 2019
Waves of heavy rain pounded California on Thursday, trapping people in floodwaters, washing away a mountain highway, triggering a mudslide that destroyed homes and forcing residents to flee communities scorched by wildfires last year. The powerful ...
19:16, 14 Feb 2019
The Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico while their cases wind through immigration courts illegally puts the migrants in danger and deprives them of the ability to prepare their cases, a lawsuit ...
17:26, 14 Feb 2019
Two statewide officials want California to take out insurance to help cover taxpayers' costs in bad wildfire seasons.Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Treasurer Fiona Ma said Thursday that California should follow the lead of Oregon ...
09:52, 14 Feb 2019
The Latest on storms hitting the West (all times local):6:30 a.m.A woman has been rescued from the wreckage of her Northern California home after it slid down a hill during a second day of heavy ...
19:37, 13 Feb 2019
Google plans to invest more than $13 billion this year on new and expanded data centers and offices across the U.S.CEO Sundar Pichai announced the news in a blog post Wednesday , emphasizing the company's ...
18:58, 13 Feb 2019
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state's consumers should get a piece of the billions of dollars that technology companies make off the personal data they collect.The new governor provided no details about the so-called ...
18:23, 13 Feb 2019
U.S. food regulators say they weren't able to identify a contamination source for a food poisoning outbreak that prompted them to warn people to avoid romaine lettuce this fall .The Food and Drug Administration says ...
17:03, 13 Feb 2019
The Latest on California storms (all times local):1:30 p.m.California's Mammoth Mountain says so much snow has fallen this winter that the slopes will be open to skiing and boarding through the Fourth of July, at ...
15:08, 13 Feb 2019
California Gov. Gavin Newsom devoted part of his first State of the State address to attacking President Donald Trump's positions on illegal immigration, declaring, "This border emergency is nothing more than a manufactured crisis and ...
09:44, 13 Feb 2019
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to finish the 119-mile stretch of high-speed rail in the Central Valley is expected to cost $10.6 billion, according to official estimates — or $89 million per mile. Newsom said ...
23:56, 12 Feb 2019
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named new leaders to top state posts in water, transportation and education policy. The appointments are among his latest moves to reshape state government in his first months in office. Newsom announced ...
22:29, 12 Feb 2019
Authorities have arrested two Southern California brothers on suspicion of killing a 16-year-old girl who vanished last month.Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said Tuesday that evidence dug out of the brothers' Hesperia backyard led investigators ...
20:19, 12 Feb 2019
Penguins made a love connection at a San Francisco aquarium.In what has become an annual Valentine's Day tradition, biologists handed out red felt hearts Tuesday to African penguins at the California Academy of Sciences.The birds ...
09:36, 17 Feb 2019
Construction on a $930 million project to replace a Corpus Christi bridge is behind schedule despite reaching a major milestone this month.The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports construction company Flatiron/Dragados recently acknowledged that the replacement of ...
18:13, 16 Feb 2019
An improvised shelter where hundreds of Central American migrants have been confined in the border city of Piedras Negras, across from Eagle Pass, Texas, will close next week, authorities said Saturday.Coahuila State Public Safety Secretary ...
09:46, 16 Feb 2019
A judge has sided with Texas landowners who don't want to sell their land for a proposed high-speed rail line connecting Houston and Dallas.The Houston Chronicle reports a judge ruled this month that Texas Central ...
18:56, 15 Feb 2019
A lead investigator lied in an affidavit justifying a drug raid on a Houston home in which two residents were killed and four undercover officers were shot and wounded during a gun battle, the city's ...
14:02, 15 Feb 2019
The U.S. government has suddenly stopped force-feeding a group of men on a hunger strike inside an El Paso immigration detention center, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.The dramatic reversal came Thursday as public pressure ...
12:43, 15 Feb 2019
A worker severely burned in a 2018 deadly explosion at a Central Texas hospital has sued a Dallas-based utility seeking more than $1 million.Matt Aaron of Oglesby alleges Atmos (AT'-muhs) Energy Corporation failed to maintain ...
23:01, 14 Feb 2019
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas says the state is in what he describes as a "historic fist fight" with Texas and the U.S. government over management of one of North America's longest rivers.Balderas made ...
18:54, 14 Feb 2019
Federal prosecutors secured an 8-year prison sentence Wednesday for Eric Gerard McGinnis, a Texas man who used a 3D printer to bypass a court order banning him from owning guns. McGinnis, 43, was barred from possessing ...
18:25, 14 Feb 2019
A Texas judge has determined a former nurse who prosecutors suspect of causing the deaths of as many as 60 children is competent to stand trial.Judge Andrew Carruthers made the ruling Thursday in the murder ...
17:22, 14 Feb 2019
Potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Friday for a meet and greet with students and faculty, a closely guarded event that will be the former Texas ...
14:21, 14 Feb 2019
Texas' election chief has apologized for releasing a botched list of 95,000 voters whose citizenship was called into question before being fully vetted. Texas Secretary of State David Whitley previously refused to acknowledge mistakes in the ...
18:54, 13 Feb 2019
Flights at two major airports in North Texas were temporarily halted Wednesday after air traffic controllers were forced to evacuate a building because of smoke, and the resulting flight delays were expected to continue for ...
17:57, 13 Feb 2019
A woman who called Houston's non-emergency dispatch line after discovering a tiger inside a cage at an abandoned home told the shocked dispatcher: "I'm not lying." The Houston Chronicle obtained a recording of the call after ...
15:38, 13 Feb 2019
A Houston-area county will work with educators to possibly buy school district land where remains believed to be about 95 African-American prisoners were found during construction.Fort Bend County commissioners voted Tuesday to authorize negotiations with ...
18:07, 12 Feb 2019
The Latest on four malnourished children found at a North Texas home, two locked in a dog cage (all times local):5 p.m.A North Texas couple is jailed without bond after four malnourished children were found ...
17:04, 12 Feb 2019
After their early years racing each other in karts, Marcus Ericsson and Felix Rosenqvist took very different paths chasing checkered flags around the globe before finally landing in the United States.Now they represent a "Swedish ...
15:44, 12 Feb 2019
The White House Correspondents' Association has condemned an attack on a television cameraman working at President Donald Trump's rally in El Paso, Texas. The association's president, Olivier Knox, said Tuesday the group is relieved that "this ...
09:59, 12 Feb 2019
President Donald Trump isn't hiding the fact that he isn't a dog person. He appeared impressed Monday night while describing the drug-detecting abilities of German shepherds that work for the U.S. Secret Service, but he also ...
22:56, 11 Feb 2019
Congressional negotiators reached agreement Monday night to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration enforcement issues that had threatened to scuttle the ...
14:51, 11 Feb 2019
IndyCar heads into 2019 with everything going in the right direction.The series has a new long-term sponsor in Japanese communications giant NTT. Firestone has extended its tire supplier deal for five more years. A new ...
19:29, 16 Feb 2019
The Latest on the mass shooting at a warehouse in Aurora, Illinois (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Authorities say a human resources manager, a plant manager and an intern were among the five people killed by a ...
18:04, 16 Feb 2019
The Latest on the mass shooting at a warehouse in Aurora, Illinois (all times local): ___ 2:15 p.m. One of the five people who were killed by a fired worker at a suburban Chicago industrial warehouse was a ...
16:36, 16 Feb 2019
Hundreds of officers swarmed the scene Friday after receiving reports that there was a man shooting people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing warehouse. Authorities on Saturday provided a detailed account of the harrowing events that unfolded ...
20:10, 15 Feb 2019
The Latest on a shooting at a business in Aurora, Illinois (all times local): 7:10 p.m. Police have taped off a suburban Chicago apartment unit where the suspect in the fatal shootings of six people in an ...
19:40, 15 Feb 2019
An employee of a manufacturing company opened fire at its suburban Chicago plant Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said. Aurora, Illinois, Police Chief Kristen Ziman told ...
02:31, 14 Feb 2019
Odds still favor the eventual construction of Barack Obama's $500 million presidential museum and library in a public park along Chicago's lakeshore. But it's no longer a sure thing in the face of a formidable ...
11:25, 11 Feb 2019
Illinois' attorney general is holding a news conference with the prosecutor who won a conviction against the white Chicago police officer who killed black teenager Laquan McDonald.Neither Attorney General Kwame Raoul nor Kane County State's ...
18:06, 07 Feb 2019
The Illinois Senate voted Thursday to hike the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour within six years, quickly advancing a top campaign promise of the newly elected Democratic governor in a major industrial state ...
15:29, 01 Feb 2019
The good Samaritans who triggered an effort that eventually housed over 100 homeless people in a Chicago hotel amid dangerously cold weather have been outed.Cindy Payne confirms she, her husband and a few friends went ...
14:11, 30 Jan 2019
An arctic cold snap has sent temperatures plunging across the Midwest , prompting officials to close schools, business and state government offices across the region.The U.S. Postal Service took the rare step of suspending mail ...
19:35, 24 Jan 2019
The Illinois attorney general's office has signaled it may be considering a rare sentencing-related appeal if it concludes a white Chicago police officer's less-than-seven-year prison sentence in the slaying of black teenager Laquan McDonald was ...
19:40, 23 Jan 2019
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has ordered that Illinois join a group of U.S. states committed to following the Paris Climate Agreement on reducing carbon emissions. The Democrat signed an executive order Wednesday to make Illinois the 18th ...
21:47, 21 Jan 2019
Authorities say a man was critically wounded in a shooting at a suburban Chicago mall, and the suspect remains at large.Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy tells WBBM-AM the 19-year-old man was shot in the ...
10:15, 19 Jan 2019
The Latest on a winter storm in the Midwest and New England (all times local):9:15 a.m.People throughout parts of the Midwest have awakened to a heavy and steady fall of snow that's forced the cancellation ...
00:06, 19 Jan 2019
After leaving slick roads and runways in the Midwest, a winter storm inched its way toward New England, where it was forecast to dump up to 2 feet (0.61 meters) of snow.The National Weather Service ...
18:36, 18 Jan 2019
The white Chicago police officer who gunned down a black teenager in 2014 was sentenced Friday to nearly seven years in prison, bringing an end to a historic case that centered on a shocking dashcam ...
01:04, 17 Jan 2019
A judge is set to announce a verdict for three Chicago police officers accused of lying in their reports to protect the officer who fatally shot black teenager Laquan McDonald.Cook County Judge Domenica Stephenson has ...
19:08, 16 Jan 2019
Three Chicago police officers will learn this week whether a judge thinks they lied about the 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald to protect another white officer who shot the black teenager 16 times. That officer, ...
15:10, 16 Jan 2019
An Illinois judge acquitted a man of murder Wednesday, more than two decades after jurors convicted him by relying on ballistics that proved to be wrong.Supporters of 53-year-old Patrick Pursley clapped in a Winnebago County ...
12:40, 16 Jan 2019
An Illinois father and stepmother will spend decades in prison in the starvation death of their 6-year-old son, who authorities say weighed just 17 pounds (8 kilograms) when he died. ...
19:13, 16 Feb 2019
Among those trying to win the Daytona 500 this year are a Florida watermelon farmer, a short-track champion from New England, a television analyst and a 22-year-old whose career nearly was derailed by a brain ...
12:23, 15 Feb 2019
Among those trying to win the Daytona 500 this year are a Florida watermelon farmer, a short-track champion from New England, a television analyst and a 22-year-old whose career nearly was derailed by a brain ...
19:12, 14 Feb 2019
More than a thousand people gathered at a South Florida park on the anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre to honor the 17 victims killed.
18:45, 14 Feb 2019
The Latest on the anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (all times local): 6:45 p.m. More than a thousand people gathered at a South Florida park on the anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman ...
16:59, 14 Feb 2019
A student journalism project has concluded that at least 1,149 children and teenagers died from a shooting in the year since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Around 200 teenage reporters from across the ...
11:22, 14 Feb 2019
The massacre that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School pushed students, parents, officials and others into the national limelight, something most never sought. A look at where some of the most prominent ...
10:00, 14 Feb 2019
February 14 marks one year since a mass shooting in Florida ignited a nationwide debate on gun safety
09:26, 14 Feb 2019
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre a year ago renewed the national debate on guns and school safety, turned some victims' parents and surviving students into political activists and at least temporarily ended the ...
20:04, 13 Feb 2019
Journalists were given a glimpse Wednesday of a newly expanded south-Florida detention facility where nearly 150 teenage migrants sleep in rows of bunk beds in a large windowless room and use portable toilets housed in ...
18:03, 13 Feb 2019
Saying that parents remain frustrated with school officials' responses to last year's Valentine's Day massacre, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday called for a statewide grand jury to investigate whether school districts are following laws ...
07:25, 13 Feb 2019
Kali, the 12-year-old rare Goeldi's monkey reported stolen from the Palm Beach Zoo, has been found safe and sound.West Palm Beach police said on Twitter Wednesday morning that "Kali is home!" and that they'll provide ...
20:02, 12 Feb 2019
Wrapping up a three-month investigation, Florida authorities said Tuesday that a 40-year-old man who killed two people and injured five others in a yoga studio was a "disturbed individual" with a "hatred towards women." Tallahassee police ...
18:27, 12 Feb 2019
Wildlife officials say sea turtles consistently nested on Florida beaches in 2018, despite lingering algae blooms that killed marine life and tropical storms that washed out habitat.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and ...
16:26, 12 Feb 2019
In the final weeks before the 2008 election, Barack Obama's campaign sent mailers to Florida voters reassuring them that he supported the Second Amendment. In the opening days of the 2020 Democratic primary, it's hard ...
18:02, 11 Feb 2019
An emergency alert rang through Davie Elementary, a wooden two-room schoolhouse built so long ago that it's now a museum. Ron Bergeron was in the first grade."There was a Florida panther on the school grounds," ...
12:33, 10 Feb 2019
Long before an ex-student opened fire on his former classmates in Parkland, Florida, many school districts conducted regular shooting drills — exercises that sometimes included simulated gunfire and blood and often happened with no warning ...
09:44, 10 Feb 2019
The massacre that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School pushed students, parents, officials and others into the national limelight, something most never sought. A look at where some of the most prominent ...
09:31, 09 Feb 2019
In the year since the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school, more and more states have passed laws making it easier to take guns away from people who may be suicidal or bent ...
08:32, 09 Feb 2019
Thirty years after his execution in an electric chair in Florida, serial killer Ted Bundy's deadly charm continues to captivate and perplex.A new Netflix documentary series and a movie that debuted at the Sundance Film ...
10:22, 07 Feb 2019
Last year's shooting at a Florida high school sparked a movement among a younger generation angered by gun violence and set the stage for a significant shift in America's gun politics.Thousands of student protesters took ...
19:24, 15 Feb 2019
With prime Peeps season about to get underway, the Pennsylvania city where they're "born" is honoring the man who brought marshmallow chicks to the masses.The (Allentown) Morning Call reports that Bethlehem Mayor Robert Donchez proclaimed ...
13:05, 15 Feb 2019
State officials say Pennsylvania's medical marijuana program provided the drug nearly 600,000 times during its first year of sales.The Wolf Administration said Friday that more than 83,000 people have purchased medical marijuana at the 45 ...
09:39, 09 Feb 2019
When Gov. Tom Wolf took office, he told lawmakers that he had a plan to fix Pennsylvania's system of school funding.Four years and a couple of budget fights later, public school advocates say huge gaps ...
15:47, 08 Feb 2019
Former professional cyclist Floyd Landis has announced plans to open a bicycle showroom and coffee shop that will sell hemp products in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.LNP reports Landis said Thursday he will open Floyd's of Lancaster Cafe ...
16:05, 07 Feb 2019
The Latest on the Pennsylvania attorney general going to court to extend consent decrees with health giants UPMC and Highmark (all times local):4 p.m.A lawsuit has been filed by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro in ...
15:09, 07 Feb 2019
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Thursday he was going to court to keep health giants UPMC and Highmark Health from ending their business relationship, in hopes of preventing higher costs from hitting about 70,000 ...
12:54, 06 Feb 2019
The top federal prosecutor in Philadelphia has filed suit to stop a nonprofit from opening the nation's first supervised drug injection site to address the city's opioid problem.The lawsuit pits U.S. Attorney William McSwain's stance ...
13:26, 05 Feb 2019
The Latest on Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's $34.1 billion budget proposal (all times local):1 p.m.Leaders of Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Legislature are reacting relatively warmly to Gov. Tom Wolf's new budget proposal, while applauding its lack of ...
11:38, 05 Feb 2019
Gov. Tom Wolf's new budget proposal requests hundreds of millions of dollars more for Pennsylvania's schools, as well as a sprinkling of money for new voting machines and new programs to improve worker training and ...
19:08, 04 Feb 2019
The Pennsylvania Senate renewed its push Monday to make a slimy and unsightly salamander the state's official amphibian in an effort to highlight the plight of a creature whose numbers researchers say are declining rapidly ...
16:39, 04 Feb 2019
A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to trafficking protected turtles.U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania says David Sommers on Monday admitted to sending a package to Canada in 2014 containing 11 diamondback ...
09:14, 03 Feb 2019
The rights of crime victims would be enshrined in the Pennsylvania Constitution under a proposed amendment that could go before the state's voters later this year, but opponents warn the change has the potential to ...
13:37, 02 Feb 2019
Luke Soboleski and two friends dragged their equipment-laden sled onto the Misery Bay ice on a recent sunny afternoon, joining about 25 other huts dotting the popular Presque Isle State Park ice-fishing spot.Soboleski, 19, of ...
09:06, 02 Feb 2019
It may be hard to believe as a large swath of the U.S. thaws out from a bitter polar vortex, but spring is coming early, according to handlers for some of the country's most famous ...
17:21, 01 Feb 2019
The parents of a Penn State sophomore who died two years ago after a night of drinking and hazing have sued 28 members of a shuttered fraternity and a security company hired to help enforce ...
16:59, 31 Jan 2019
A gas driller is escalating its campaign against a Pennsylvania homeowner who's long accused the company of polluting his water, demanding that he be thrown in jail over his failure to submit to questioning as ...
16:26, 29 Jan 2019
Gov. Tom Wolf is renewing his call for lawmakers to toughen Pennsylvania's gun laws, after a truck driver walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and fatally shot 11 people.The Democratic governor spoke Tuesday at an anti-gun ...
13:10, 26 Jan 2019
A Pennsylvania man says his emotional support alligator helps him deal with his depression.Joie Henney, 65, said his registered emotional support animal named Wally likes to snuggle and give hugs, despite being a 5-foot-long alligator. ...
17:45, 25 Jan 2019
It's the end of the line for the clickety-clacking departures board at Philadelphia's main train station.Democratic U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, who has been pushing to save the flipping board at 30th Street Station, announced it ...
16:44, 25 Jan 2019
A 9-year-old Pennsylvania girl with a green thumb is being rewarded with the other kind of green for growing an extraordinarily large cabbage.Lily Ries, a fourth-grader at Peebles Elementary School in Pittsburgh has won $1,000 ...
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