Pennsylvania Politics News

EQT CEO Murry Gerber acted as honorary chair, mingling and browsing the ample silent auction tables. Justice Cynthia Baldwin and Lara Washington chaired the event, which honored Elsie Hillman with the Lifetime Achievement Award. She was joined by the other...

A Penn State student who participated in the 2008 “Mifflin Streak” claims he suffered serious injuries when “blind-sided” by a university police officer and then assaulted. Christopher Ferry, of West Chester, is seeking more than $150,000 in compensatory and punitive...

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "While rail transit remains a safe way to travel, the Obama administration believes it is time to take serious steps to make it even safer and ensure a standard level of safety across all systems." Mr....

After weeks of negotiations behind the scenes, the state House today will debate a gambling-expansion bill that would add two more resort hotel casino licenses and greatly increase the odds that Fayette County's Nemacolin Woodlands would get one of them....

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl says he will ask city council to again delay a vote on a first-of-its-kind 1 percent tax on college tuition. Ravenstahl met with university officials on Monday to discuss ways to fill a $15 million budget...

A $7.5 million advertising campaign will try to discourage drinking and driving during the holiday season. In Pennsylvania, the Operation Safe Holiday program is in effect this month, with state police and 600 municipal forces participating in an effort to...

A good place to start might be where they are adamant it is not going: in the owners' pockets or in any of controlling owner Bob Nutting's other business ventures. "What is critical for the Pirates' fans to know," team...