LEWISTOWN — A 63-year-old woman pleaded no-contest to a misdemeanor count before President Judge David Barron Tuesday and was sentenced to probation. Vickie L. Grove, of McVeytown, pleaded no contest to recklessly endangering another person. Grove was charged in January with one felony ...
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate stayed the same in December, at close to a two-decade low, although payrolls still jumped to a new record high. The state Department of Labor and Industry said Friday that Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was 4.2 percent last ...
HARRISBURG — The bicameral, bipartisan Legislative Audit Advisory Commission , chaired by state Rep. Mark Keller, R-Perry/Cumberland, today voted to accept the audit report of the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s finances for the 2017-18 fiscal year as conducted by an independent certified ...
HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania state lawmaker leading a push to give victims of child sexual abuse a way around time limits that prevent them from suing on Friday angrily rejected an alternative approach recently circulated by the top-ranking Senate Republican. Rep. Mark Rozzi said he ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For nearly 70 years, Dominic Ragucci believed his brother Emil’s body had been swept out to sea during a World War II battle on a Pacific atoll. But on Monday, Dominic, 86, and his brother Victor, 91, stood on a tarmac in Philadelphia to greet Emil’s remains as he ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Democratic majority threw out the Republican-drawn map of congressional districts as an unconstitutional gerrymander, Republicans raised talk of impeaching Democratic justices. Calls for impeachment even came from senior ...
ERIE (AP) — It’s official — this is the snowiest winter season on record for the city of Erie. A National Weather Service meteorologist tells The Erie Times-News that as of 1 p.m. Wednesday the seasonal snowfall at Erie International Airport totals 152.1 inches. That smashes the ...
GETTYSBURG (AP) — A Pennsylvania doctor is accused of treating patients while high on cocaine and other drugs and letting her office manager prescribe highly addictive opioids to patients she hadn’t examined. The state attorney general’s office filed criminal charges against Dr. Rita ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A firefighter killed in a house collapse was remembered at his funeral Mass on Friday for his sense of humor and passion for his job. Lt. Matthew LeTourneau had a goofy sense of humor and a fierce love of his nieces and nephews, his brother told mourners at the Cathedral ...
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania regulators said Friday they will no longer make a new medical marijuana registry available on the state’s computer system for law enforcement, making it less likely someone’s participation will be flagged during federal gun-purchase background checks. The ...