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The New Jersey Senate voted Thursday to roll back a planned toll increase. The measure directs the New Jersey Turnpike Authority t ...

Pennsylvania House Speaker Sam Smith is drafting a bill to shrink that legislative chamber. The measure would reduce the state Ho ...

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams has tapped a former congressional candidate to head his gun violence task force. Last year ...

Looks like John Dougherty, head of Philadelphia’s most politically powerful trade union, is inching toward supporting Mayor Nutter ...

New Jersey is one of four states granted a waiver by the federal government to allow insurance companies to continue to offer low-benefit ...

Proponents and critics of natural gas drilling will face off during a set of public hearings this week in upstate Pennsylvania. Th ...

A man walking his dog early Thursday morning got a shock when he discovered the body of an unidentified woman floating in the bay in Atla ...

One of Philadelphia’s longtime housing activists is running for sheriff, saying she will halt all evictions based in foreclosures. ...

Tom Knox says he’ll decide in the next few days whether he’ll run for mayor in the Democratic primary or as an “indepen ...

Thousands of protesters are storming Wisconsin’s state Capitol in response to a bill eliminating union rights and slashing public e ...

His book inspired a cable network series and the series inspired a degree. Nelson Johnson will receive an honorary doctorate from Richard ...

For Penn State football fans, it’s about more than wins. It’s about what coach Joe Paterno wears during the wins. The necktie ...

John Wheeler, the New Castle man whose body was found in Wilmington’s Cherry Island landfill on New Year’s Eve 2010 will be b ...

Someone who goes by “Lautha” really hates the Keswick Theater. The Montgomery County theater’s website has been hacked. ...

Things in Abington are getting a little hairy. Police officers and townships residents are two weeks into the CopStache challenge. The fu ...