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06:34, 22 Feb 2019

Anna Wintour has paid tribute to Karl Lagerfeld's generosity and sense of humor as she presented a new fashion exhibition.The American Vogue editor-in-chief said Friday in Milan that Lagerfeld, who died this week, "would have ...

14:29, 21 Feb 2019

A freak accident involving a dropped thermos might have caused a bus crash that killed three people in New York City, federal safety investigators said Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board said a thermal bottle could ...

20:35, 20 Feb 2019

Police say an enraged driver plowed his car into a family of eight, including a baby and five children, outside a store in suburban New York, killing a 32-year-old woman and injuring several others.It happened ...

16:03, 20 Feb 2019

A sprawling storm closed schools, snarled travel and threatened homeless people Wednesday with snow and cold stretching from the Midwest to the East Coast and with heavy rain in the South. Snow fell in New York ...

15:28, 20 Feb 2019

The not-so-secret baby shower for the Duchess of Sussex has apparently occurred, with Gayle King and Amal Clooney among an intimate group of friends gathered at a swanky hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The smiling ...

01:07, 20 Feb 2019

A New York City police detective killed by friendly fire last week in Queens is being laid to rest.Det. Brian Simonsen's funeral Wednesday at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Rosalie in Hampton Bays is ...

18:01, 19 Feb 2019

A federal housing official's monthlong tour of New York City public housing complexes hit a speed bump when she got stuck in an elevator Tuesday. Lynne Patton and 10 other people including reporters and photographers were ...

15:24, 19 Feb 2019

Staring contests, shouting matches, some shoving. Even a near mix-up with some members of the audience.All part of the pregame show, if you will, when heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and challenger Jarrell Miller shared a ...

10:12, 19 Feb 2019

From early Tupperware containers to Chemex coffee makers to sleek midcentury modern furniture, a new show at the Museum of Modern Art explores the democratizing and uplifting potential of design in everyday life."The Value of ...

17:12, 18 Feb 2019

A climate scientist who popularized the term "global warming" has died. Wallace Smith Broecker was 87.Columbia University said the longtime professor and researcher died Monday at a New York City hospital. A spokesman for the ...

10:48, 18 Feb 2019

Police say someone attacked a statue of Sean "Diddy" Combs at Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York, shoving the rap impresario's likeness so forcefully it lost its head.Investigators were continuing Monday to look for ...

16:12, 17 Feb 2019

Drums, dragons and dancers paraded through New York's Chinatown on Sunday to usher in the Year of the Pig in the metropolis with the biggest population of Chinese descent of any city outside Asia.Confetti and ...

13:41, 17 Feb 2019

Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison in Massachusetts.The New York Democrat, a once-rising star who also ran for mayor, was convicted of having illicit online contact with a 15-year-old North ...

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 ...

10:48, 22 Feb 2019

The Latest on wintry weather (all times local): 8:45 a.m. Lingering cold air is keeping Southern California frigid following a storm that dropped snow at elevations rarely seen in the Los Angeles region. Morgan Baggs shovels the driveway ...

10:44, 22 Feb 2019

Lingering cold air is keeping Southern California frigid following a storm that dropped snow at elevations rarely seen in the Los Angeles region.The National Weather Service says snow showers were reported Thursday in Thousand Oaks, ...

04:55, 22 Feb 2019

First quake early warning system in U.S., will eventually cover the West Coast

23:58, 21 Feb 2019

A federal judge in California ruled Thursday that a twin son of a gay married couple has been an American citizen since birth, handing a defeat to the U.S. government, which had only granted the ...

23:31, 21 Feb 2019

A preliminary federal report says the pilot whose plane broke up and crashed into a Southern California home was warned before takeoff that he was heading into bad weather.The two-page National Transportation Safety Board report ...

22:26, 21 Feb 2019

The Latest on a cold-case arrest in the killing of a girl in California (all times local):7:20 p.m.California authorities have released a decades-old photo of a suspect in the 1973 killing of an 11-year-old girl ...

19:03, 21 Feb 2019

Winter storms in the U.S. Southwest brought rare snowfall Thursday to the Las Vegas Strip, dusting casino marquees and prompting revelers to erect a snowman near the famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign. The National ...

18:53, 21 Feb 2019

A Colorado man arrested after DNA tied him to the 1973 killing of an 11-year-old California girl has yet to decide if he will fight extradition. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports 72-year-old James Neal, of Monument, ...

18:17, 21 Feb 2019

Google said Thursday it will no longer require that its workers settle disputes with the company through arbitration, responding to months of pressure from employees.The change will take effect March 21 and will apply to ...

17:52, 21 Feb 2019

Snow fell at low levels in Southern California on Thursday with the arrival of a very cold storm that added even more precipitation in a wet winter that has almost eliminated drought conditions statewide.Snow fell ...

13:22, 21 Feb 2019

The Trump administration broke off vehicle mileage standards talks with California on Thursday, moving the two closer to a possible court battle that threatens to unsettle the auto industry. The White House said in a statement ...

11:24, 21 Feb 2019

Teachers in Oakland, California, went on strike Thursday in the country's latest walkout by educators over classroom conditions and pay. The city's 3,000 teachers are demanding a 12 percent retroactive raise covering 2017 to 2020 to ...

10:21, 21 Feb 2019

Zebra stripes are dazzling — particularly to flies.That's the conclusion of scientists from the University of Bristol and the University of California at Davis who dressed horses in black-and-white striped coats to help determine why ...

10:17, 21 Feb 2019

The Latest on a teachers strike in Oakland, California (all times local):7 a.m.Teachers are picketing in Oakland, California ahead of the country's latest strike by educators over classroom conditions and pay.About 40 teachers are walking ...

20:02, 20 Feb 2019

The Latest on cold-case arrests in the separate killings of a boy and girl in California (all times local):5 p.m.Authorities say a man charged with killing an 11-year-old Inglewood boy in 1990 didn't act alone.At ...

19:57, 20 Feb 2019

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Investigators searched for decades for the killer of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared while walking home from summer school in a case that gripped a California seaside community. A photo of ...

19:32, 20 Feb 2019

The Latest on Oakland teachers strike (all times local):4:30 p.m.Teachers in Oakland, California, say they will start striking Thursday morning, after rejecting the district's latest offer to avoid a walkout.Union President Keith Brown says the ...

17:45, 20 Feb 2019

State lawmakers are trying again to discourage the consumption of sugary beverages, on Wednesday proposing a tax, warning labels, and a ban on soda displays near checkout lines among other measures. The five bills address what ...

16:21, 20 Feb 2019

A Northern California college freshman is facing felony charges for allegedly creating an iPhone app he dubbed the Banana Plug to sell illicit drugs.Collin Howard on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges in ...

15:36, 20 Feb 2019

Authorities said Wednesday that they solved two decades-old cold cases that stunned Southern California, arresting suspects in the separate killings of a boy and a girl who disappeared while walking home from school. Linda O'Keefe was ...

12:04, 22 Feb 2019

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it's installing coils of razor wire at Texas ports of entry across from Juarez, Mexico, where large groups of migrants wait to seek asylum.The agency released photos of long ...

17:30, 21 Feb 2019

Opposition intensified Thursday against Texas' new election chief as a key lawmaker said he won't back Gov. Greg Abbott's nominee, who called into question the U.S. citizenship of 95,000 voters using faulty data. A Senate committee ...

12:52, 21 Feb 2019

ORANGE, Texas (AP) — A Southeast Texas man accused of bludgeoning his 2-year-old daughter to death with a hammer was naked and blood-stained when he told police officers he had killed the toddler, according to ...

04:27, 21 Feb 2019

A young Texas boy, Benton Stevens, faced both praise and ridicule from adults after he opened a hot chocolate stand to raise money for President Donald Trumps’ border wall. Benton Stevens — a seven-year-old from Austin, Texas ...

04:06, 21 Feb 2019

PHARR, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Pharr International Bridge hit the drug-smuggling organizations hard last weekend with a substantial interception of hard narcotics, seizing $12,700,000 worth of methamphetamine. “This ...

01:03, 21 Feb 2019

Advocates and members of Congress are questioning the treatment of children who cross the U.S.-Mexico border with relatives other than their parents. The Texas Civil Rights Project released a report Thursday that counts 272 separations at ...

19:44, 20 Feb 2019

Prosecutors say they will review more than 1,400 criminal cases that involved a Houston officer who the police chief says lied in an affidavit justifying a drug raid on a home in which officers shot ...

17:58, 20 Feb 2019

Two of Formula One's three races in North America are facing financial issues that are raising concern about their future.Organizers of the U.S. Grand Prix won't get at least $20 million from the state of ...

13:29, 20 Feb 2019

A fire at an Austin warehouse wiped out one-fifth of the city's pedicabs just weeks before the annual South by Southwest festival, one of the busiest times for bicycle rickshaw operators, city officials said.Two companies, ...

19:38, 19 Feb 2019

Officials in the northern Mexico border state of Coahuila said Tuesday they have closed a shelter in the border city of Piedras Negras where about 1,600 Central American migrants had been confined during the past ...

17:05, 19 Feb 2019

The wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says a bill she filed that would change state securities law "has literally nothing to do" with her husband's criminal case on charges of defrauding investors.Republican state ...

16:31, 19 Feb 2019

Organizers say the first 19 Kemp's ridley sea turtle statues in Galveston's Turtles About Town project are completed and being set up. The Galveston County Daily News reports the sea turtle statue project aims to raise ...

11:22, 19 Feb 2019

HOUSTON (AP) — A long legal fight over whether a Texas death row inmate could be executed ended Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the 59-year-old man is intellectually disabled and thus cannot be ...

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 ...

01:15, 22 Feb 2019

Actor Jussie Smollett was arrested in Chicago early Thursday, one day after prosecutors charged him with filing a false police report for what he claimed was a racist and homophobic attack last month. Smollett has been ...

01:07, 22 Feb 2019

Police tapped into Chicago's vast network of surveillance cameras — and even some homeowners' doorbell cameras — to track down two brothers who later claimed they were paid by "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett to stage ...

20:01, 21 Feb 2019

Two brothers who told police that Jussie Smollett paid them $3,500 to help stage an attack on himself were linked to the actor through the "Empire" television series, and court documents filed Thursday allege one ...

16:22, 21 Feb 2019

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson took it personally when detectives determined that "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett allegedly lied about being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack . Speaking Thursday at a news conference, Johnson ...

22:00, 20 Feb 2019

A small funeral home was packed with hundreds of mourners for a 21-year-old college student who was killed on the first day of his internship when a worker opened fire inside an Illinois manufacturing facility.Trevor ...

16:28, 19 Feb 2019

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Tuesday gave the green light to a lawsuit filed by a parks-advocacy group that aims to stop for good the delayed construction of former President Barack Obama’s $500 million ...

12:27, 18 Feb 2019

An Illinois man who has delivered more than 26,000 white crosses to sites around the U.S., largely to remember victims of gun violence, now finds himself doing the same in his hometown.Greg Zanis made crosses ...

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 ...

12:41, 21 Feb 2019

Israel aims to land on the moon after hitching a ride with SpaceX.The Falcon rocket is scheduled to blast off Thursday night from Cape Canaveral, Florida.A communications satellite for Indonesia is the main cargo. But ...

01:04, 21 Feb 2019

Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz is due back in court for a status hearing on his death penalty case.The hearing is set Thursday afternoon in Broward County Circuit Court. A number of matters could ...

11:55, 18 Feb 2019

A man with a banner and an American flag climbed a construction crane near a Florida campus where President Donald Trump was scheduled to speak Monday. The Miami Herald reports the man spent about two hours ...

22:02, 17 Feb 2019

Ross Chastain always has watermelons around victory lane, a nod to his roots in the family fruit farming business.He may not spend much time on the Florida farm these days, but with good reason — ...

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 ...

17:44, 20 Feb 2019

Pretty much anyone who shops at the Walmart in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, knows store greeter Adam Catlin, who's been welcoming customers with a huge smile and a hearty hello for more than a decade. But Catlin, who ...

18:28, 19 Feb 2019

A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the rape, murder and dismemberment of a 14-year-old girl, and the victim's adoptive mother has agreed to plead guilty and serve a life sentence. Jacob Sullivan, 46, pleaded ...

17:52, 19 Feb 2019

A Pennsylvania college trustee apologized and announced his resignation Tuesday after a student found a 1980 yearbook photo in which the trustee wore a Nazi uniform costume. Gettysburg College President Janet Morgan Riggs said in an ...

13:41, 18 Feb 2019

The new owners of Cincinnati's historic Showboat Majestic plan to continue using the double-decker riverboat as an entertainment venue on the Ohio River.Adams County real estate agent Joe Brumley and his wife, Cortnee, bought the ...

11:42, 18 Feb 2019

Similar program in Vancouver, Canada, has saved hundreds of drug addicts' lives over the past 16 years

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 ...