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Government watchdogs have long criticized Philadelphia’s law governing gifts to city employees as too lax. Now, legislators are aim ...

Conrad Erb started singing when he was 5 years old in the Mennonite church where he grew up. He continued singing through college. Then h ...

Fred & Friends is recalling 200,000 pacifiers because of a risk that a baby using one could choke. No injuries have been repor ...

A New Jersey Senate committee has advanced a measure that would allow voters to cast their ballots at designated polling places up to 15 ...

New Jersey lawmakers are trying again to establish a commission to look into the affordability of attending college. The state Sen ...

A political action committee associated with Philadelphia’s powerful electricians union violated campaign finance regulations and h ...

Gov. Tom Corbett plans to ask Pennsylvania lawmakers for a $10 million increase for early education grants in his budget address next wee ...

A coalition of Pennsylvania Senate Democrats gathered at Philadelphia School District headquarters Thursday to propose ...

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has spent the week listening to the pitches from five groups competing to open Philadelphia’s ...

The Justice Department is asking lawyers around the country to help some prisoners prepare petitions for clemency. It’s a dr ...

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to delay planned increases in flood insurance rates that many homeowners believe would price them out of t ...

Most nights of the year, Philadelphia’ s homeless people are unnoticed, hidden beneath the city’s surface in underground conc ...

First-time office-seeker and physician Valerie Arkoosh leads the four-candidate field of Democrats competing for Pennsylvania’s 13 ...

Penn State police say they’re adding uniformed officers to patrol the campus at night after a female student reported she was force ...

Federal prosecutors are seeking a hearing to determine whether a developer at the center of one of the biggest judicial scandals in U.S. ...