Victim of Competition, Atlantic Club Casino Will Close Down January 13th
The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City says it will close on January 13th, reducing the number of casinos in the struggling gambling resort to eleven.
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The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City says it will close on January 13th, reducing the number of casinos in the struggling gambling resort to eleven.
The group Penn Environment says the decision will give local government more power over where fracking can -- and cannot -- occur in their communities.
Carolyn Dumaresq, Pennsylvania's acting secretary of education, says some of the money will be used to create 50 "Local Early Childhood Education Innovation Zones" to serve the lowest performing elementary schools in the state.
Church officials have defrocked a United Methodist pastor from Pennsylvania who officiated his son's gay wedding in Massachusetts.
It's the age of the Mountain Cam!
Charles Zogby says one big area of growth is teacher and state employee pension increases of more than $600 million. And he says Gov. Corbett is still hopeful for pension reform.
State representative Brian Simms applauds the governor's announcement -- even if it appears to be a move to gain support for reëlection.
One of those bills, considered by many to be the centerpiece of the package, clarifies the definition of child abuse, which sponsor Scott Petri (R-Bucks) says has heretofore been weak.
Word is, the US attorney in Philadelphia is taking a long look into past DRPA spending, particularly on economic development projects.
US senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) says he wants to make sure the proposed rule, now on a back burner, is never implemented.
An investigation is underway into the murder of a mother of three in the Lehigh Valley.
Check the community cancellations received by CBS Philly for Tuesday evening, December 17, 2013.
Judge Todd Hoover shut down the hearing after a few minutes, hearing no witnesses, instead entering into the record documents pertaining to former Penn State chief counsel Cynthia Baldwin.
Police say 24-year-old Daniel Preziosi somehow slipped out of his handcuffs and leg shackles and fled after attending a preliminary hearing in Nazareth on Monday.
Some portions of Pennsylvania's Megan's Law have run afoul of the state Supreme Court.
