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Higher tolls are set to begin Sunday for drivers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. For the third consecutive year, the toll hikes are ...

Pennsylvania casinos brought in more than $2.4 billion from slot machines in 2012, a 2.7 percent increase over 2011. A Philad ...

Here’s a look at what’s to come this week: 1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the face of the Civil Ri ...

Having lofted Chuck Hagel’s trial balloon for Secretary of Defense, and having taken political fire for it, President Obama needs t ...

A math teacher at an exclusive prep school in Philadelphia claims in a racial-discrimination suit that he was fired without cause after s ...

Federal environmental regulators say they’ll release preliminary results from water sampling at sites in Pennsylvania and across th ...

Have you ever heard of the Monongahela River? Some call it the Mon. It’s one of Pittsburgh’s ‘big three’ and it ...

One of two Chinese nationals charged in an international software piracy scheme has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in ...

A freight train carrying flammable gas has derailed in northwestern Pennsylvania, but authorities say no hazardous material has leaked. ...

Here’s a look at what you may have missed this week: 1. ...

A Mennonite-owned cabinet company is testing the Obama administration’s health-care reform law. The owners of Conestoga Wood ...

The 97th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show opens to the public Saturday, featuring attractions new and old, and plenty of good eats. ...

Congress has passed what some are calling a “down payment” on a $60 billion Sandy relief package. But for New Jersey lawmaker ...