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The state moratorium calls for more study of regulating plastics. But many say the benefits are clear, and that it’s also a matter of local autonomy.

Christine Coulter, the city’s new interim top cop, was implicated in coverup of fatal 1990s police beating.

Former Commissioner Ross is accused of ignoring harassment claims as retribution for a fizzled love affair.

The stakes are particularly high following a recent Supreme Court ruling that decided federal courts have no business policing political boundary disputes in many cases.

Ross was named in a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging an old affair caused bad judgement on sexual harassment complaints.

This is where Earth's refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.

Union leaders had hoped to persuade Philadelphia Energy Solutions to keep some workers on past Aug. 25. “It’s a mismanaged mess,” said a USW official.

Enslaved Africans were present in the region well before William Penn planted England’s flag here in 1681.

A Republican polling firm says its latest survey found compelling evidence that a key bloc of swing voters want stricter gun control.

The owner of a popular Fairmount cafe and artisanal market has gotten permits to build a 55-foot-tall apartment complex on a vacant Poplar Street lot.

Pennsylvania did not increase funding for the operating budgets of community colleges this year. Advocates say the pressure on low-income students has grown unsustainable.

Lawyers for the nonprofit proposing a supervised injection site compared it to ERs, syringe exchanges. U.S. attorneys said the difference is they’re legal.

An attorney for the doctor who sued to stop New Jersey’s new aid-in-dying law said his client believes the law violates his oath as a practicing physician.

August Wilson’s drama has received 11 nominations for this year’s awards for excellence in professional theater, which were announced Monday.

Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis.