Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives went to federal court to maintain an opening prayer that invokes a higher power and it came at a high cost to taxpayers.

Language within this year’s school code bill allows districts to withhold hot meals from students who accrue more than $50 in lunch debt.

A section of the creek will be moved out of a concrete pipe to clean it and slow it down, reducing flooding and improving water quality downstream.

Law enforcement officials announced charges against 22 defendants, all of whom, they say, belong to a pair of Chester-based drug gangs.

The bills are in their early days, but they’ve already gotten early rebukes from staff for one of two pension systems.

Counties would get back 60 percent of election system upgrade costs under SB421.

Would a Marsy’s Law amendment on victims’ rights infringe on bedrock rights of the accused? The last-minute legal fight over a question on the Pa. ballot.

State lawmakers are on track to send a voting reform bill to Gov. Tom Wolf after negotiations over election security funding provisions went late Monday.

The controversial Berks Family Residential Center is one of three facilities in the US that detains undocumented parents and children together.

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission will decide whether the Neshaminy School District can continue calling some of its sports teams “The Redskins.”

Union leaders interpreted Corrections Secretary John Wetzel’s quiet aside at a prison closure hearing as dismissive.

The teenager was pronounced dead at the scene south of Swarthmore Station on the Center City- bound side of the Media/Elwyn Line. SEPTA has ruled out foul play.

A ruling expected Monday by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission could end a long-simmering local debate that’s made national headlines.

Campaign accounts must be used for “influencing the outcome of an election.” But what qualifies is largely open to interpretation.

At issue is whether the state should have reduced funds to employers who hire people with intellectual disabilities.