Associated Press

The Pennsylvania attorney general's office launched an effort Thursday to improve the use of firearms databases, so law enforcement can better track guns used in crimes.

Wednesday night's announcement comes little more than a month after the company told the Coatesville facility's 465 employees the plant would close by the end of the year.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the ruling of a federal judge in Maryland who said the lawsuit could move forward.

Pennsylvania's colleges and universities have a year to develop online, anonymous reporting systems to receive complaints about sexual assault from students and employees.

Setting itself apart from other great American sports teams, the U.S. women's soccer team is embracing a front-line role in social justice causes.

Gradually raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would boost pay for as many as 27 million workers, but it could also cost as many as 1.3 million jobs by 2025.

U.S. Attorney William McSwain says Customs and Border Protection officials obtained a warrant Thursday and seized the MSC Gayane.

The public will get its chance to weigh in on New Jersey's business tax incentive drama that led to the program's expiration earlier this month.

Lawmakers are trying to set aside their irreconcilable differences over the Obama-era Affordable Care Act and work to reach an agreement on more immediate health care issues.

A company attorney said the failure to grant relief would impose "a corporate 'death penalty'" on the company by destroying its primary asset — two batteries of coke ovens.

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday apologized for recent comments about working with segregationist senators in his early days in the U.S. Senate.

There are no national standards on how to teach about slavery, although it is often recommended as a topic in curriculum at the state and local levels.