All the headlines from our Pennsylvania Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2023 // One person was found dead after an early morning explosion and fire at a hotel in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish-related tourism area, authorities said Monday.State police in Lancaster County said the blast was...
Dec 20 2023 // A storm barreled up the East Coast on Monday, flooding roads and downing trees in the Northeast, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, and forcing flight cancelations and school closures.More than 5 inches (13...
Dec 18 2023 // One person was injured and a house was severely damaged Friday by an early morning explosion at a home about 10 miles northwest of Reading, Pennsylvania.A male was hospitalized after the blast just before 7 a.m. in...
Dec 14 2023 // New Jersey`s attorney general sued three firearms dealers Tuesday, alleging one illegally stored firearms that were visible from outside a store and that the two others tried to sell “ghost guns.” The suits...
Dec 7 2023 // Pennsylvania has established a task force to recommend policies to make flood insurance more affordable.The Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force will examine potential programs that provide premium discounts,...
Dec 4 2023 // Insurance broker World Insurance Associates has purchased the personal and commercial insurance agency Exchange Underwriters, Inc. from CB Financial Services, Inc., the holding company for Pennsylvania-based Community...
Dec 4 2023 // A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made,...
Dec 4 2023 // Frederick Mutual, which is exiting the personal lines market and focusing strictly on commercial lines in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions, has reached a renewal rights agreement with another insurer for the bulk of...
Dec 1 2023 // Hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and sewage-treatment utilities, potentially threatening water supplies, the top U.S. cyberdefense agency said after a Pennsylvania water authority was...
Nov 20 2023 // “As long as there is money flowing to ransomware criminals, this is a problem that will continue to grow.” — Anne Neuberger, U.S. deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, told...
Nov 17 2023 // Eight months after it ruled that medical marijuana is covered under workers’ compensation, a Pennsylvania appeals court has concluded that an injured worker’s cost of CBD oil is also reimbursable.A Commonwealth...
Nov 15 2023 // The race for an open seat on Pennsylvania`s highest court initially resembled the sleepy contests that had played out for decades: low turnout, little media coverage and just enough spending to afford some biographical TV...
Nov 9 2023 // Democrat Dan McCaffery won an open seat on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court in Tuesday’s general election, preserving a strong Democratic majority on a panel that has produced several critical election-related...
Nov 8 2023 // Frederick Mutual, which is exiting the personal lines market and focusing strictly on commercial lines in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions, has reached a renewal rights agreement with another insurer for the bulk of...
Nov 3 2023 // An effort supporters say will boost transparency in several leading Pennsylvania universities passed the House of Representatives on Monday, while the universities’ annual state subsidies remain snarled in the...
Nov 2 2023 // Millions more dollars are flowing into Pennsylvania`s race for an open state Supreme Court seat, as labor unions, trial lawyers and billionaires are spending heavily in the campaign to influence a court that has been...
Oct 25 2023 // A Collegeville, Pennsylvania restaurant and its owners must pay $268,660 in back wages, liquidated damages and punitive damages to satisfy a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation...
Oct 16 2023 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced a settlement with York-based convenience store chain, Rutter’s, regarding cybersecurity attacks that exposed information from more than a million customer...
Oct 10 2023 // A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion that killed seven people.R.M. Palmer Co. did not heed...
Oct 3 2023 // An $11 million settlement has been reached in federal lawsuits over police gunfire outside a high school football game near Philadelphia in 2021 that killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded others, an attorney for the girl`s...