Services Held For Slain Pennsylvania Officer
A Pennsylvania police officer killed in the line of duty last week is being remembered as a great cop and devoted father.
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A Pennsylvania police officer killed in the line of duty last week is being remembered as a great cop and devoted father.
A homeless man is jailed on charges he raped a woman while both were volunteering for Habitat for Humanity in southwestern Pennsylvania.
This past week Philadelphia schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman was notably missing from a School Reform Commission meeting leading to speculation that she is on her way out.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is ordering flags in the Capitol complex and in Northampton County to be flown at half-staff to honor a slain police officer.
"You're talking about tens of millions of dollars that are being misspent that could be properly applied to people who truly need this program," Auditor General Jack Wagner said. "This is a $257-million program. It serves over 400,000 Pennsylvania families and we need to get it right."
A police officer in a small eastern Pennsylvania borough was shot and killed while investigating a report of a disturbance Thursday evening and authorities said a suspect was in custody.
A drought watch is the first and least severe level of Pennsylvania's drought classifications, asking residents to voluntarily conserve water.
The Pennsylvania Health Department says one person from Philadelphia has been hospitalized with salmonella as part of the national recall of contaminated ground turkey.
A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in connection with the deaths of five newborns whose skeletal remains were found at her home.
A drug task force detective says two people openly sold marijuana pipes and bongs at a southwestern Pennsylvania county fair.
His transportation funding commission has recommended an increase in gas taxes and vehicle fees to raise new money for roads, bridges and mass transit, but Governor Corbett is hinting that he may have other ideas.
Chris discusses a scandal that my be brewing for Congressman Chaka Fattah, the controversy surrounding "Truck Nuts" and former New Jersey Governor John Corzine being a possible replacement for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
Police in western Pennsylvania are investigating two kittens who were found burned in an alley, with a can of lighter fluid laid on top of their carcasses, by a woman who had taken in the kittens' mother as a stray.
A blaze at a recycling plant Tuesday sent massive clouds of black smoke high into the air in eastern Pennsylvania.
Chris discusses the latest in the negotiations over the debt ceiling. He talks to Chris Butler about what default would mean, Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick about how close a deal is and to CBS 3's Beasley Reece about the Eagles trade of Kevin Kolb.
"A lot of talk was about, 'should we have the film tax credit?' There was never a doubt in my mind that we need to have the film tax credit," Corbett said. "And I would like to see, at some point in time, that we be able to grow the film tax credit."
"We've got to move into the 21st century and you've got to modernize," Majority Leader Mike Turzai says. "And we're trying to do the best we can, in our proposal, in balancing competing interests."
"I don't care if it's the liquor business or selling my own business – before you sell a business, you get the best bottom line you can. And I'm not so sure that we in Pennsylvania have yet got the best bottom line out of our liquor system that we can," Joe Scarnati said.
A western Pennsylvania police officer will remain suspended without pay for 60 days because the police dog he handled died from heat stroke from being left in a hot squad car for nearly four hours.
Michael Sklar, an attorney representing The Rivers, says the problem of underage gambling will continue unless the minors themselves are punished. "It's like a bar: the kids are gonna try."
Pennsylvania is one of two states topping the list in a new study on toxic air levels.
The Hershey Co. is selling off part of its original chocolate plant at the sweet price of nearly $58 million.
A ramp to connecting a well-traveled Philadelphia-area bridge to Interstate 95 is closed while workers repair damage apparently caused by blistering high temperatures.
Pennsylvania's secretary of education is ordering more than three dozen school districts to conduct internal investigations of suspicious scores on state standardized tests.
Chris continues to analyze the debate over the debt ceiling and voices his support for a bill that would privatize liquor sales in Pennsylvania. He also talks to CBS 3's Chris May about his interview with President Obama later today.
