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Pennsylvania ranked among 10 worst states for job seekers
Pittsburgh may well be among the nation’s top cities for new college grads. A study last month by personal finance tech site SmartAsset put the city among the top 10 in the nation for grads looking to market their new degrees. But another study released Thursday — by WalletHub, a...
Pennsylvania abortion law unlikely to budge
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has vowed to veto any anti-choice bill that crosses his desk as a wave of new laws limiting abortions floods the country, but his pledge is not stopping state Republicans from working to pass stricter laws. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill this month...
Finance experts call for charter school funding reforms
Echoing complaints of school superintendents across Western Pennsylvania, public school finance experts Wednesday warned that charter school costs are reaching a breaking point for many of Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts. Finance experts with the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials (PASBO) said lawmakers must change the way charter costs are...
Pa. State Police count 9 deaths in holiday weekend crashes
The Pennsylvania State Police investigated eight fatal crashes over the holiday weekend that killed nine people. While fatalities for the 2019 Memorial Day Holiday were three times higher than the same period in 2018, the actual number of crashes state police investigated declined from 787 last year to 755 this...
Pa. man pleads guilty in blowtorch break-ins, Apple thefts at Target stores
BOSTON — A Pennsylvania man authorities say used a blowtorch to break into Target stores in multiple states and steal nearly $200,000 worth of electronics has pleaded guilty to related charges. The U.S. attorney for Massachusetts says 36-year-old Elijah Aiken pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges including transporting stolen goods across...
Teens may face charges after cake thrown at Pa. State Police cruiser near Conneaut Lake
SUMMIT TOWNSHIP — A cake in the face was no laughing matter over the weekend when the face in question was the windshield of a state police cruiser traveling near the northern tip of Conneaut Lake. No one was injured in the incident that occurred at 11:39 p.m. Saturday on...
Woman’s body found wrapped in plastic in Philadelphia trash can
PHILADELPHIA — Police say a woman’s body was found wrapped in plastic in a trash can in Philadelphia. A garbage company worker made the discovery on Leiper Street on Wednesday morning. Police say the victim is an unidentified black female. There is no word on the cause of death. No...
GOP counters Gov. Tom Wolf’s capital plan with drilling, not taxes
HARRISBURG — Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Senate are preparing an alternative to Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposal for a multibillion-dollar capital plan, funding it by allowing more natural gas drilling in state-owned forests rather than by taxing natural gas production. A sponsor, Sen. Pat Stefano of Fayette County, said Tuesday he...
Supreme Court declines to review Pennsylvania policy supporting transgender students
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a Pennsylvania school district’s policy letting transgender students use restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identities. Without comment, the court declined to review an opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit that upheld the...
3 people die in Pennsylvania ATV wrecks over holiday weekend
ALLENTOWN — Three people died in accidents involving all-terrain vehicles over the Memorial Day weekend in Pennsylvania. A 45-year-old North Wales man died early Monday when his ATV overturned on a road in Foster Township, Luzerne County. On Sunday, a 54-year-old man and a 52-year-old man died in Triumph Township,...
Report: Pennsylvania must do more to help Chesapeake Bay
NORFOLK, Va. — A nonprofit that tracks pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is once again lambasting Pennsylvania for not doing enough to protect the nation’s largest estuary. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation released a report Tuesday that says Pennsylvania’s plan to reduce pollution is “woefully inadequate.” States are tasked with keeping...
City Hall for sale? Scranton might sell municipal building
SCRANTON— Everyone complains that City Hall is for sale but it might soon be the case in a Pennsylvania city. City Hall in Scranton needs a renovation, and the mayor’s administration is considering putting the 130-year-old structure up for sale rather than footing the nearly $11 million bill to fix...
Police: Gun accidentally fires, bullet hits girl taking bath
HAZLETON — Police say a bullet from a gun that accidentally discharged in a northeastern Pennsylvania home went through a wall and struck a 13-year-old girl who was taking a bath. Hazleton’s police chief says the bullet went through furniture and a wall before hitting the girl at about 1...
Pa. lawmakers report $83K in travel on annual ethics disclosures
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania state lawmakers’ newly filed ethics forms show they accepted more than $83,000 in free trips last year and collected a variety of gifts, booze and free meals. That’s just the value that lawmakers reported, and they are not required to disclose everything they accept in a state...
ATV hits deer on Pennsylvania road, killing 2 men
WARREN — State police say an all-terrain vehicle hit a deer in northwestern Pennsylvania over the weekend, killing two men. Police say the crash occurred at about 7:20 a.m. Sunday in Triumph Township in southwestern Warren County. Police say the ATV was heading west on Campbell Hill Road when it...
Boy, 13, falls from observation level on Gettysburg monument
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Authorities say a 13-year-old boy from Indiana was flown to a hospital after plummeting about 40 feet from a monument at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Acting park information officer Jason Martz says the Fort Wayne youth was visiting the park on a school field trip...
Pennsylvania has already seen yearly average of tornadoes
Weather officials say Pennsylvania has already recorded the average number of tornados for a year. Meteorologist Sarah Johnson of the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, New Jersey says 16 tornadoes that have had preliminary confirmation in the commonwealth so far this year. Severe weather is more common in...
More legal wrangling ahead over flow of gasoline in Laurel Pipeline
The Texas-based owner of a petroleum pipeline that serves Western Pennsylvania is trying once again to move refined product in an easterly direction — to the continued chagrin of Giant Eagle, GetGo, Sheetz and other gasoline retailers. Houston-based Buckeye Partners LP and its subsidiary, Laurel Pipe Line Co., which operates...
Bill would assist grandparents raising children in the wake of opioid epidemic
A coalition of Midwestern and Northeastern senators from some of the states hardest hit by the opioid epidemic want to open additional resources to grandparents and other relatives who have taken on child rearing duties in the wake of the addiction crisis. Citing the needs of more than 100,000 children...
Police: Allentown student brought loaded gun, knife to middle school
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Police in Pennsylvania say a middle school student brought a loaded gun and a knife to school. The Allentown School District said in a Facebook post Friday that it received a report that a Harrison Morton Middle School student had weapons. Officials identified and searched the student...
Altoona’s Lakemont Park, with world’s oldest roller coaster, is back open for rides
No doubt, Pennsylvania’s got some amazing things. But the world’s oldest wooden roller coaster? Yep, we got that — it’s Leap the Dips at Lakemont Park in Altoona, which reopens to the public after more than two years of renovations. In March 2017, Lakemont announced it was closing for renovations....
Trump merchandise seller charged with assault, robbery at president’s Pa. rally
A traveling Trump merchandise seller in a camouflage “Make America Great Again” hat was charged with assaulting and robbing another vendor shortly after the president’s visit to Lycoming County on Monday. According to the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, Willie Edward Singleton, 29, of South Carolina, is accused of stealing cash —around $500...
Gov. Wolf: Early stats point to drop in 2018 overdose deaths
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf says preliminary statistics are pointing to a decrease in overdose deaths in Pennsylvania last year, as his administration suggests the opioid crisis might be starting to wane in some parts of the state. Wolf spoke Wednesday as he participated in a training session on how...
No license required: Sunday is Fish-For-Free Day in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will offer its first of two Fish-For-Free Days on Sunday, when anyone can fish, even without a state fishing license. The second free fishing day will be July 4. The commission is offering the free days to open up fishing opportunities for the public,...
GOP’s Fred Keller wins Pennsylvania’s special U.S. House election
HARRISBURG — Republican Fred Keller, a conservative state lawmaker, won the special election for Congress on Tuesday in a heavily Republican district that sprawls across areas of central and northern Pennsylvania that are a stronghold for President Trump. Keller, of Snyder County, will replace Republican Tom Marino, who resigned in...
