Pennsylvania News

On the KD-PG Sunday Edition program that aired March 7 on KDKA-TV Auditor General Jack Wagner said that a constitutonal convention is a good idea.

Residents of a coal mining town in the state of Pennsylvania have long believed the government's demolition of it was part of a plot to swipe the mineral rights to anthracite coal worth hundreds of millions of dollars - and not, as officials said, the solution to an out-of-control underground mine fire that menaced the town with toxic gases.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - After 20 years as the face of organized labor in Pennsylvania and 50 years since the United Steelworkers issued his first union card, Bill George is stepping down as the state president of the AFL-CIO. George, who will turn 69 in August, said Thursday he'll retire sometime after his successor is elected at the labor federation's ...

Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system.

The dire financial situation many states find themselves is embodied by efforts the state of Pennsylvania has made to secure additional Medicaid assistance funding, recent news items suggest.

In a break from his usual composure, U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a fiery speech in front of a Pennsylvanian audience Monday, accusing health insurance company of arbitrarily raising premiums, as he tries to win popular support for the health insurance reform.

The U.S. Senate approved a $138 billion measure that would extend unemployment benefits and provide additional aid to states in lawmakersa second major effort this year to boost the economy.

The strategy is simple: cripple business with taxes and regulations so that it is unable to employ people, which will drive them into the arms of Big Government.

Authorities in Pennsylvania say a gas station patron died when static electricity ignited a fire as he filled up his tank.

Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.

An American woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Federal economic stimulus money soon will start providing rebates to Pennsylvanians on the purchase of new, Energy Star-rated hot-water heaters, furnaces and boilers.

The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a "massive fraud" is being perpetrated by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of anthracite coal.

A Fairfield Township man was sentenced last week to four to eight years in state prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a teenage girl in Pennsylvania, according to The Tribune-Democrat. The Western Pennsylvania newspaper reported Friday that 29-year-old Andrew Luko is currently in a four-year program for sex offenders at a treatment ...

A coal mining company is buying a small museum where artifacts are displayed from the 2002 rescue of nine western Pennsylvania miners who were trapped underground for more than 78 hours.

Mayors of small and medium-sized Pennsylvania cities say the Legislature must allow them to raise new tax revenue to prevent more of them from falling into financial crisis.

Centaur LLC, owner of Hoosier Park Racing & Casino, announced Sunday, March 7 that the company has filed for bankruptcy in an effort to restructure and emerge with less debt.

Pennsylvania soon may scrape the bottom of the federal pork barrel. The Feb. 8 death of U.S. Rep.

Pennsylvanians should prepare for some serious suffering regarding disposable income come 2012-2013 and the cause is going to be their additional contributions to pay for the pensions of retired public school employees,state workers, legislators, judges and others.

We're no. 1 Pennsylvania ranks No. 1 among the nation's largest states for its speed in starting and completing transportation projects funded by the federal stimulus money.