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Sep 8 2025 // An attorney advocated for allowing opioid settlement money to be spent on public defenders.A prevention expert talked about effective strategies for deterring substance misuse in the first place, cautioning against...
Nov 24 2025 // The Trump administration has threatened to withhold nearly $75 million in funding if Pennsylvania does not immediately revoke what the administration claims are illegally issued commercial driver’s licenses to...
Aug 21 2025 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday recently announced a $200 million transfer of funds from the Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) into the state’s general fund.The transfer was the...
Sep 4 2025 // A Pennsylvania man has been charged with tricking people into investing money he claimed would be used to buy thousands of automated teller machines, causing more than $400 million of investor losses, U.S. authorities said...
Oct 8 2025 // There are no $1 million giveaways to voters, cheesehead hats or even candidate debates. Elon Musk is nowhere to be found.Yet the stakes in the Pennsylvania election this fall are very much the same as they were in...
Sep 30 2025 // (The Center Square) – Neither naturally occurring landslides nor sinkholes are new phenomena in Pennsylvania. Receiving help when they destroy homes and businesses, however, would be a welcome development for those...
Nov 6 2025 // All three of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection Tuesday will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep their majority on the presidential battleground state’s highest court — one...
Dec 24 2025 // An explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home that caused the building to collapse and took the lives of two people and injured about 20 others is under investigation.The explosion occurred at Bristol Health & Rehab...
Jun 24 2025 // While cyclists on Pennsylvania roads must make “reasonable efforts” to not impede the flow of traffic, the law does not mandate that they always and immediately pull off the road to let faster traffic pass, the...
Apr 7 2025 // Twenty staffers at a suburban Philadelphia charter school are facing charges related to the alleged physical abuse of students using painful, unapproved techniques to restrain and punish youths in a program meant to help...
Feb 25 2025 // A man who took hostages in a Pennsylvania hospital during a shooting that killed a police officer and wounded five other people highlights the rising violence against U.S. healthcare workers and the challenge of protecting...
Nov 14 2025 // Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro signed into law a bill to exit a regional market meant to cut greenhouse gas emissions, just over three years after the state joined the initiative to flight climate change.Both...
Aug 8 2025 // Pennsylvania law enforcement officials have charged 13 people in a scheme of reselling luxury autos stolen from Florida.Attorney General Dave Sunday said the central Pennsylvania-based criminal enterprise involved...
Mar 11 2025 // Two public school districts and several parents have sued Pennsylvania in a bid to undo antidiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people, saying the state’s two-year-old regulation is illegal because it...
May 8 2025 // A barrier described as an “anti-climb fence” is in the works for the Pennsylvania governor’s official residence, the state police chief said Tuesday, less than a month after a late-night intruder jumped...
Jun 10 2025 // Proposals that would let survivors of childhood sexual abuse file lawsuits in Pennsylvania beyond the state’s current statute of limitations passed the state House on Monday, the latest development in a yearslong...
May 1 2025 // Officials and first responders in Pennsylvanians are assessing and cleaning up the damage caused after severe storms swept across western and central parts of the state Tuesday..Officials reported four deaths linked to the...
Jul 17 2025 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) reported that its actuaries denied $210.1 million in requested property/casualty (P/C) insurance premium increases in the first six months of 2025, which is more than was saved...
Jan 14 2025 // A sinkhole where a Pennsylvania woman fell to her death last month is now being filled with hundreds of cubic yards of grout in a bid to stabilize the site.The work in the village of Marguerite, about 40 miles (64...
Apr 4 2025 // A Pennsylvania woman who sold part of her barn for use in a barn-rebuilding TV reality show now faces charges after investigators said she filed a fraudulent wind claim on the structure.Tracey Jeffreys, 63, of the Milton...