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Pennsylvania’s Electoral College members have made November’s election results official by casting their votes for Barack Oba ...

New Jersey legislators are offering their five cents on a plan to charge shoppers a fee for a paper or plastic bag. A measure unde ...

I’m old enough to remember the 1978 Jonestown tragedy, when 900 people committed mass suicide, and the unimaginable horror that sho ...

The 20- to 30-year contract that Gov. Tom Corbett is currently considering with a private company to manage the Pennsylvania Lottery coul ...

Perhaps this mass shooting really is different.  If it is, one reason is because the smoke-filled rooms have been ripped open ...

A Pennsylvania rabbi has won an out-of-court settlement allowing him to bury members of his congregation without assistance from a funera ...

Wilmington’s new “Ban the Box” plan has some holes in it. For instance the city will no longer do a criminal backg ...

Every generation has a defining epidemic. For my mother’s generation, it was polio. For those of us who grew up in the 1980s, it wa ...

Although the state of Delaware is hundreds of miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. concern over school safety is ver ...

A Pittsburgh rabbi is victorious in his challenge of Pennsylvania’s funeral laws. Rabbi Daniel Wasserman sued the state over ...

Community leaders from Philadelphia’s most violent neighborhoods met Monday for a symposium they called “Rebuilding the Villa ...

Though deemed a formality, as President Barack Obama was re-elected on Nov. 6, Pennsylvania’s 57th Electoral College convened in Ha ...