Pa. Treasurer Rob McCord Running For Governor
State Treasurer Rob McCord confirmed Tuesday that he will join the already crowded Democratic field for governor and try to challenge an expected re-election bid by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett next year.
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State Treasurer Rob McCord confirmed Tuesday that he will join the already crowded Democratic field for governor and try to challenge an expected re-election bid by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett next year.
You may recognize the name from the popular beer produced at its upstate Pennsylvania brewery.
Across the street from the convention center, demonstrators collect bottled water and donations to help families whose drinking water, they say, has been contaminated by fracking along the Marcellus Shale in central and western Pennsylvania.
Inadequate funding for Pennsylvania's largest school district could damage the futures of its students and the state's economy, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said Monday after he lobbied Gov. Tom Corbett for more aid.
Even though he doesn't support it, House majority leader Mike Turzai says he's angling for a vote this fall on a state Senate-passed bill to increase transportation spending by $2½ billion per year.
Police are investigating a tip a missing prosecutor connected to former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse case was killed and dumped in a mine shaft.
A northeastern Pennsylvania priest is facing charges after police say he was caught having sex with a 15-year-old boy in a parked car.
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate rose last month for the first time since January, while employer payrolls rose modestly.
Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.) said, in a statement, that the measure "improves our country's fiscal health by cutting our out-of-control spending."
A winning Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 ticket worth $1 million from the Thursday, September 19th drawing was sold at Glenside News & Sweets, 114 S. Easton Road, Glenside in Montgomery County.
Officials in a small town said Thursday they intend to fire a police chief suspended after he posted online videos of himself shooting automatic weapons and going on profanity-laced tirades about liberals and the Second Amendment.
Overall, the region is doing better than the rest of the country, according to the Census Bureau.
Former judge Robert Mulgrew, 56, admitted stealing state grand funds that he claimed would be used to help beautify his Dickinson Square neighborhood in South Philadelphia.
A winning Pennsylvania Powerball Lottery Ticket worth $1 million for the September 18th drawing was sold by a retailer in Philadelphia.
Education officials unveiled a new grading system for Pennsylvania's public schools on Wednesday that they described as a tool for parents, administrators and the public to monitor and improve student achievement.
