Police have broken up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Michigan less than a week after demonstrators showed up at the home of a school official and placed fake body bags on her lawn.
The progressive district attorney in Portland, Oregon, took office during the social justice movement of 2020, but now he's being challenged by a more centrist candidate vowing to be tough on crime.
The family of a Black teenager wrongly convicted and executed in Pennsylvania in 1931 is suing the county that prosecuted him.
New federal certification rules have been finalized for train dispatchers and signal repairmen will set minimum standards for those jobs to counteract the investor pressure on railroads to continually cut costs while making sure those employees have the skills they need to operate all the high-tech systems on today's trains.
A Pennsylvania woman will serve four to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting a county prosecutor after a confrontation about a property transfer he handled as a private lawyer.
An ailing prison inmate serving a life sentence in Pennsylvania for killing a man during a 1975 robbery has won a compassionate release order, hours after he was put on life support.
Philadelphia has mandated that all city employees return to working full-time in their offices as of July 15.
The Environmental Protection Agency warns that cyberattacks against water utilities around the U.S. are becoming more frequent and more severe.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have ignored a request by Drexel University’s president to disband their encampment as arrests linked to campus demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war approach the 3,000 mark nationwide.
A top U.S. pediatricians’ group is making a sharp policy change about breastfeeding by people with HIV.
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an attempted occupation of a school building at the neighboring University of Pennsylvania campus.
A Pennsylvania man whose father is a prominent conservative activist has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol.
A Pennsylvania school district’s decision to remove a song from a recent student choral concert has divided the community and spurred a review by a civil rights group.
The Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley had always loved the Black Church, and developed an ambition in his youth to become a pastor even as he realized he was gay.
A federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in Pennsylvania's coal region is unfairly shutting Latino voters out of power.
At rallies and in social media posts, former President Donald Trump has been trying to assure Republican voters that casting ballots by mail and other forms of early voting are “all good options.”.
Five Americans are facing prison sentences of up to 12 years in the Turks and Caicos Islands on charges they illegally carried ammunition while in the popular, upscale tourist destination about 600 miles southeast of Miami.
New federal estimates show Philadelphia remains the nation’s sixth-most-populous city, despite a decline in population throughout the pandemic.
A coal miner has died while working at a southern West Virginia mine.
A man has been arrested and charged with killing a 78-year-old woman in her eastern Pennsylvania home more than 35 years ago.
National political themes will lead off the campaign for Pennsylvania’s next attorney general.
An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers.
An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers.
As the U.S. prepares to host its first cricket World Cup next month, a temporary stadium is rising in the New York City suburbs.
Authorities say a police pursuit that went through two states and involved two separate shootouts with law enforcement officers and several crashes ended with the death of the woman being sought.
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia.
Natural gas producer CNX Resources says it plans to build a $1.5 billion facility at Pittsburgh’s airport to make hydrogen-based fuels.
American sought after ‘So I raped you’ Facebook message detained in France on 2021 warrant.
An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search.
The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that the EPA brags is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster.
