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Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Money

Pa. will have trouble making payments beyond September

As Pennsylvania lawmakers fight over the details of a long-overdue budget funding plan, the commonwealth is having trouble covering short ...

8 years ago

Harrisburg Police Officer Josh Hammer, Mayor Eric Papenfuse and Capt. Deric Moody address reporters during a press conference about the city's body cameras pilot program. (Emily Previti)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Harrisburg launches pilot program for police body cameras

The capital city joins a small group of Pennsylvania municipalities that have tested or permanently integrated the equipment. ...

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Department of Education Secretary Pedro Rivera (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Ideological debate over low-performing schools underlies Pa. plan to comply with new federal education law

Every state in the U.S. was required to submit a proposal to the federal government by last week on how it will comply with the new feder ...

8 years ago

Courts & Law

Pa. jail faces class-action lawsuit for posting mugshots online

A lawyer for a man who sued a Pennsylvania county jail for posting his mug shot online says nearly 70,000 former inmates could have claim ...

8 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads
Lifestyle

Alt-right flyers posted throughout three Pennsylvania college campuses

More college campuses in Pennsylvania recently got a visit from a group identified as a white nationalist hate group by the Southern Pove ...

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Centre. (AP file photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. Senate hits restart on budget negotiations

The GOP-controlled Pennsylvania Senate has formally rejected a conservative budget plan passed by the House — essentially resetting neg ...

8 years ago

Lee Kaplan is led to a preliminary hearing last year outside Bucks County Magisterial District Judge John I. Waltman's courtroom in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. Kaplan was sentenced Wednesday to decades in prison for sexually abusing six young sisters.(AP Photo/Megan Trimble)
Courts & Law

Bucks man convicted in sex assault of 6 young sisters gets 30 to 87 years

A cultlike figure whose spiritual and financial hold over a formerly Amish couple enabled him to have sexual relationships with six of th ...

8 years ago

An elementary school teacher instructs students to put their hands over their heads. (AP File Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Report on ‘chronic teacher absenteeism’ in Pa. highlights union’s role, spurs further questions

A new report finds that teachers in traditional public schools are almost three times as likely to be chronically absent as teachers in c ...

8 years ago

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has decided to let the school code bill become law without his signature. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania takes credit ratings hit amid budget fight

Pennsylvania’s credit rating took its latest hit Wednesday, another black eye in a nearly three-month budget stalemate that has pit ...

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, flanked by people whose loved ones have been addicted to opioids, announces new details of a 41-state investigation into the role of pharmaceutical companies in the opioid epidemic. (Laura Banshoff/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Shapiro details massive, multistate probe into drug companies’ role in opioid crisis

Standing on the turf of Upper Dublin High School’s football field, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro drew the connection b ...

8 years ago

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An easement where Sunoco Pipeline is preparing for construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline. A homeowners group is asking a court to halt construction in that location until Sunoco comes up with a plan to mitigate contaminated soil on the site. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Delco homeowners ask court to halt Mariner East 2 pipeline construction

8 years ago

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Politics & Policy

Pa. Senate won’t concur on conservative House plan

Pennsylvania state Senators are trying to figure out how to move forward on the stalled state budget. They’re planning to fo ...

8 years ago

 Erie public school advocates rally in the state capitol in 2016 when Jay Badams (center) was superintendent. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Fair funding advocates decry Pa. leaders for playing politics with specialty school money

For years in Pennsylvania, school funding coming from state government was criticized as being irrational, unpredictable, and too-tied to ...

8 years ago

 Members of Service Employees International Union march near City Hall in Philadelphia. (AP File Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Collective bargaining bills would apply public records, open meetings laws to contract negotiations

Some state lawmakers are pushing a package of bills that they say would make contract negotiations between government agencies and public ...

8 years ago

Pa. Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania delays payments as general fund balance nears zero

Pennsylvania is putting off paying over a billion dollars to insurers who administer Medicaid benefits, because its main bank account is ...

8 years ago

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