Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania enacted legislation Tuesday to give future victims of child sexual abuse more time to file lawsuits and to end time limits for police to file criminal charges.

Members of a Pa. Supreme Court-appointed task force say grand jury reports raise “considerable due process concerns.”

At a speech to the commonwealth’s Press Club, John Fetterman brought special guests: two recently commuted people who were sentenced to life without parole.

Four years after it filed suit against the Neshaminy School District, a state commission has reached a decision regarding its use of a controversial Native American mascot.

Cheyney University will keep its accreditation, state leaders and university administrators announced in a letter to faculty, staff and students on Monday.

The families of prisoners say that they also suffer during the holidays, specifically because of the state’s tough visitation policies.

This month’s off-year election in Pennsylvania was fascinating mainly because of all the new parties and political faces that showed up on the ballot … and won!

As Pennsylvania state senators filed through the corridor that leads out of the Senate chamber this week, John Yudichak turned down to an equally tight staircase.

After more than a decade of investigations into sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church, last year's grand jury report still contained new revelations.

The research, he said, is meant to address “the concern that there is a relationship between hydraulic fracturing and childhood cancers.”

Sandusky again asserted his innocence, choked up twice in brief remarks to the judge and told his supporters he loves them.

Republican Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill's amendment responds to problems in York County, which she represents, but would have statewide benefits.

Cheyney University has run out of lifelines and delays over the status of its accreditation.

People from Adams and Philadelphia counties are hoping their shared views on the criminal justice system can make a difference.

A major advocacy group for Pennsylvania farmers says many have had to change the way they do business to stay afloat financially.