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Allentown Mayor Edwin Pawlowski walks from the federal building in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 27, 2017.
Courts & Law

Prosecutor: Pennsylvania mayor ‘sold his office’ to donors

Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Wzorek told jurors in Allentown that Pawlowski rigged city contracts in favor of law firms and businesses that gave him money for campaigns.

8 years ago

Roy Christman (left) and William Kellner protested plans to build the PennEast natural gas pipeline at a FERC ‘listening session’ near Jim Thorpe, Pa. in 2016. FERC has now approved the project. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pa.)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

FERC approves PennEast, saying it would supply needed natural gas

8 years ago

 Three Mile Island's Unit 1 reactor is still operational and provides enough power for 800,000 homes. Unit 2 partially melted down in 1979. (Joanne Cassaro/WITF)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

TMI’s future, federal policy in spotlight on Smart Talk program

8 years ago

The Delaware River flows along the Pennsylvania side at the Delaware Water Gap.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Hearings for proposed ban on fracking in the Delaware basin start this week

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale has decided against a run for Congress in the newly constituted 10th District. (File photo)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Pa. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale / Rep. Dent on gov’t shutdown

Guests: Eugene DePasquale, Charlie Dent Today we’re joins by Pennsylvania Auditor General, ...

Air Date: January 22, 2018

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The main hallway of the SafeStart program, an early head start program on the campus of Allentown State Hospital in Allentown, Pa, is a play area for kids. (Jessica Kourkounis/for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Allentown Headstart program focuses on kids dealing with trauma

It's the only early Headstart program in the nation to enroll students directly from local county welfare offices.

8 years ago

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U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan
Politics & Policy

Meehan denies misconduct claim; House Speaker orders ethics investigation

House Speaker Paul Ryan ordered an Ethics Committee investigation Saturday.

8 years ago

Treated oil and gas wastewater flows into a western Pennsylvania stream. (Avner Vengosh/Duke)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Study: Conventional drilling waste responsible for radioactivity spike in rivers

Treatment plants that handle conventional oil and gas waste water are causing a buildup of radioactive materials at the bottom of three Western Pennsylvania waterways.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania State Rep. Tom Caltagirone, D-Berks, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, listens to testimony during a House Judiciary Committee public hearing in Harrisburg, Pa.
Politics & Policy

Caltagirone will run again, but without some of his usual supporters

The allegations that he repeatedly sexually harassed a staffer is causing a prominent union to rescind its support.

8 years ago

Polen Run in Ryerson Station State Park, Greene County. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Settlement: No longwall mining beneath state park stream in Greene County

8 years ago

Protesters blocked pipeline construction equipment on the property of The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an order of Catholic nuns, in Lancaster County in October. On Friday, the nuns asked an appeals court to allow them to make their religious objections to the pipeline in a lower court.  (MARIE CUSICK / STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Nuns want court to hear their religious objections to Atlantic Sunrise pipeline

8 years ago

Farmland on the road the runs between the Titusville and Corry School Districts (Kevin McCorry/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Take Note: Rural schools deal with shifting funding models, opioid crisis

Keystone Crossroads’ Kevin McCorry recently visited Northwestern Pennsylvania to report on the issues that rural school districts face.

8 years ago

Map of the state of Pennsylvania showing county boundaries and names, county seats and rivers from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. counties call on state government to better support local public services

Pa.'s 67 counties signed on to a list of priorities they hope to achieve in 2018. But the local leaders say they cannot achieve their goals alone.

8 years ago

Students in Elaine Carboni's 8th grade class at Saint Gabriel School take a vocabulary test. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Feds approve Pa. education plan that deemphasizes standardized testing

Now that US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has approved Pennsylvania’s 13-year education-improvement plan, state officials are working on rolling out some changes.

8 years ago

During the winter months, giraffes at the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown view movies in their barn.
Arts & Entertainment

Necking at the movies: Norristown zoo keeps giraffes entertained with flicks

During the cold snap, the giraffes have been coping by watching some of their favorite flicks — Harry Potter movies and "March of the Penguins."

8 years ago

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