Pennsylvania category, Page 209
Pennsylvania expanding tax to more out-of-state corporations
Pennsylvania will start collecting corporate income taxes from companies that don’t have offices, employees or property in the state, making it one of the last states to target such companies. Pennsylvania announced the change starting in the 2020 tax year through a tax bulletin published Sept. 30. It cites a...
Is your food safe? New app shows you Pa. restaurant inspections
Want to know whether the restaurant you’re visiting has had any recent inspection violations? There’s an app for that. The EatSafePA mobile app recently launched by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture allows restaurant patrons to access inspection reports by restaurant name, nearby establishments or ZIP code. The free app, available...
Philadelphia Police: Woman killed 2 children, man then shot herself
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police say a woman shot and killed her two girls and their father before turning the gun on herself. Police found the man dead with a gunshot wound to the head in a rowhome in the city’s Tacony section just before 10 p.m. Monday. The girls were...
Landscaper killed when mower slides into Pa. creek, overturns
Authorities say the co-owner of a landscaping company died when his mower slid into a creek and overturned while he was working at a retirement community in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Cornwall police say 66-year-old Ralph Schreiber was cutting grass with a zero-turn mower when the accident occurred Saturday at the...
6 victims at hospital as a result of shooting in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — Police say six people ranging in ages from 14 to 27 have been hit by gunfire in a shooting in north Philadelphia. A Philadelphia police news release says six victims were taken to Temple University Hospital after 911 calls of a shooting came in at about 5:24 p.m....
Mack Truck workers in Pa., 2 other states to strike
MACUNGIE — The union representing thousands of workers at Mack Truck plants in Pennsylvania and elsewhere has announced plans to go on strike this weekend. The United Automobile Workers Union Local 677 said on its website that the Mack Truck council voted Thursday night to begin a walkout at 11:59...
Pennsylvania hospitals struggle under demand for mental health beds
More than 300 Pennsylvanians a day were hospitalized for mental illness in 2018, leaving mental health professionals in many instances struggling to find beds for them in a system plagued by limited resources. The numbers, detailed in a new report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, found the...
Federal agency underwrites grants to struggling coal communities
Pennsylvania communities harmed by downturns in the coal industry will reap $8 million in grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission to bump up local economic initiatives. The grants from the federal agency will go toward projects in 10 counties, including four in Western Pennsylvania. “These projects will enable affected regions...
Study: Climate change could make dozens of bird species extinct in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s state bird, the ruffed grouse, could go extinct in the state along with dozens of other bird species because of climate change, according to a National Audubon Society study released Thursday. It’s more bad bird news. Last month, the journal Science reported the loss of 3 billion birds since...
ACLU, League of Women Voters challenge Marsy’s Law question
Opponents of the Marsy’s Law amendment filed a last-minute lawsuit in Commonwealth Court on Thursday challenging the constitutionality of the question on the November ballot which asks voters to approve or reject amending the state constitution to include a crime victims rights amendment. The question would establish more than a...
U.S. Navy to build ship named for Harrisburg
HARRISBURG — Trump administration officials say the U.S. Navy will name a ship that has yet to be built after the city of Harrisburg. The naming of the future USS Harrisburg was announced Thursday in the Capitol Rotunda, at an event that included federal, state and local officials. The $800...
Police: Drexel student raped in off-campus apartment
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police are searching for a suspect who they say raped a Drexel University student in an off-campus apartment. Police say the attack took place just before 1 p.m. Wednesday in the apartment on Winter Street. Authorities have not said how the man got into the apartment. Students...
Sen. Iovino wants to restore arrest rights to sworn school police
A new law that stripped school police officers of the authority to make arrests and issue detention and citation orders may be on its way out the door. The law, intended to enhance school security, passed earlier this year and accidentally stripped school police officers of powers they have had...
Enrollment declines continue at Pennsylvania State System universities
Enrollment at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities continued an overall slide this fall for the ninth consecutive year. A new census taken on the 15th day of class at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities showed an enrollment decline of 2.6% between 2018 and 2019. Overall, enrollment has fallen...
U.S. Supreme Court again rejects former Pa. judge’s appeal
WILKES-BARRE — The U.S. Supreme Court has once again declined to take up the case of a former northeastern Pennsylvania judge convicted in what prosecutors said were juveniles wrongly sent to a detention center. The denial Monday by the nation’s highest court was the second for 69-year-old former Luzerne County...
Crawford County man charged with killing stepmother, brother
MEADVILLE — A man has been charged with criminal homicide in the shooting deaths of his stepmother and his brother in northwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty-one-year-old Jack Turner, who was arraigned Monday in Crawford County, also faces charges in the alleged theft of the adult victim’s car and the robbery of a...
Pa. hospital: 3 infants dead after bacterial infection
DANVILLE — A Pennsylvania hospital says it is transferring some infants following a bacterial infection in its neonatal intensive care unit that affected eight newborns, three of whom have died. Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, about 70 miles north of Harrisburg, said Monday that four of the babies have recovered...
Report: Amount of Marcellus, Utica natural gas higher than in 2011
The amount of recoverable natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in the Appalachian Basin is significantly greater than previously thought, according to a new estimate by the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS said in its latest assessment that the shale formations, both of which cover Western Pennsylvania,...
Shippensburg Univeristy cancels classes as police seek students suspected in fatal shooting
SHIPPENSBURG — Shippensburg University, saying it was acting out of “an abundance of caution,” canceled classes beginning at 2 p.m. Monday after police said they were looking for two university students in connection with a fatal shooting Sunday night. State police identified Quentin Eric Furlow, 20, and Steve Wilson, 20,...
Governor signs new restrictions on robocalls in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania law is ending a requirement that telephone customers who want to remain on the state’s do-not-call registry have had to renew their listing every five years. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday signed changes to the Telemarketer Registration Act that also allow business phone customers to sign up...
Pennsylvania reports vaping death, investigating injuries
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Health Department says one person in the state has died from lung injuries associated with vaping and it’s investigating dozens of other suspected or confirmed cases. The state’s health secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, announced the death Friday and said Pennsylvania has also reported nine confirmed cases...
Despite complaints, Penn State sticks with its traffic, parking plan
As more than 100,000 fans make plans to head to Penn State’s homecoming game in time for the kickoff at noon Saturday, university officials say they’re ready to give their new game-day parking and traffic system another try. Before this year, football fans could use any route through campus to...
On National Voter Registration Day, 16,000 Pennsylvanians got on the rolls
Initial estimates show that 16,000 Pennsylvanians registered to vote on National Voter Registration Day, which was Sept. 24. Nationwide, roughly 400,000 people registered, a number touted by organizers as unprecedented for an off year, when there is neither a presidential nor midterm election. More than 800,000 voters were registered nationally...
Gov. Tom Wolf looks to set price, caps on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf is taking a big step in his effort to fight climate change in the nation’s fourth-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Wolf, a Democrat, on Thursday ordered his administration to start working on regulations to bring Pennsylvania into a nine-state consortium that sets a price and...
Pennsylvania to move forward on power plant emission caps
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration will start working to bring Pennsylvania into a regional consortium that sets a price and caps on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, part of the Democrat’s agenda to fight climate change. Wolf will make a formal announcement Thursday that he is ordering a...
