Philadelphia's Poison Control Center Faces Severe Budget Cuts
With a proposed 93 percent drop in aid from the federal government and 100 percent dip in funds from the state
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With a proposed 93 percent drop in aid from the federal government and 100 percent dip in funds from the state
A central Pennsylvania man faces robbery and assault charges after he allegedly stuffed a bag of frozen shrimp down his pants and attacked a grocery store security guard.
Governor Corbett will form a task force to study ways of funding the state's roads, bridges, and mass transit. But, while the Governor does not favor simply imposing tolls on highways as they currently exist, tolls could be part of the solution.
The doors closed for good on Sunday at Our Lady of Angels Church in West Philadelphia.
The building housing the Churchville Inn has been a Southampton fixture since the 1800s. Now it stands in ruins.
Governor Corbett says he's willing to discuss ways to compensate local Pennsylvania communities affected by natural gas drilling, but he remains opposed to any state-level tax on gas extraction.
The war over whoopie pies between Pennsylvania and Maine has been taken to another level, after enthusiasts in Maine made one Saturday that weighed more than 1,000 pounds in an attempt to help cement the treat as the official state dessert. But, the war over whoopie pies will continue.
An elderly woman who thought she was turning into a hospital parking lot was captured on tape driving the wrong way for several miles on a crowded Bucks County highway.
State governments on both sides of the Delaware River are attempting to come to grips with a worsening problem: the need to maintain and even improve transportation infrastructure despite the lack of predictable funding to do it.
Officials say inmates at a Pennsylvania prison received drugs from the outside hidden beneath the postage stamps on their mail.
Police in northeastern Pennsylvania say they recovered more than 50 bags of heroin, cash and loose change from a woman following a cavity search.
Police say a man tried to open an account before robbing a central Pennsylvania bank, but only after he'd already handed over two forms of identification.
During a state Senate Appropriations hearing this past week, the heads of the four state-related universities – Temple, Lincoln, Pitt and Penn State – said that the governor's proposal to cut their funding by more than half would affect more than just tuition.
A 43-year-old man has been charged with car theft, drunken driving and other crimes because police say he went joyriding in an ambulance stolen from a southwestern Pennsylvania hospital.
The United Way of Pennsylvania is putting out some numbers on the effect of the bad economy on social service organizations and their clients.
Some areas of the region will be socked with several inches of rain, pushing the limits of some local creeks, streams, and rivers.
CBS Philly has received some community cancellations for Thursday, March 10th, 2011, due to the weather.
A western Pennsylvania couple is behind bars after police say the woman posted a picture of a stolen 3-carat diamond ring on Facebook.
Pennsylvania's population is now 12.7 million -- up 3.4 percent in the last decade. Philadelphia's population actually rose a little, reversing a 50-year trend.
Pennsylvania health officials say renewed inspections uncovered poor conditions at two Philadelphia-area abortion clinics in the months after a drug investigation revealed a "house of horrors" facility operating for years in the city.
Weather advisories and flood watches are posted for much of Pennsylvania with the approach of a storm expected to bring heavy rain to many areas and snow to some of them.
Seven children, including a 7-month-old girl, perished in a fast-moving fire in a Pennsylvania farmhouse while their mother milked cows and their father dozed in a milk truck down the road, police said Wednesday.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld the Gaming Control Board's decision to put a casino in Valley Forge.
Governor Corbett has replaced six Pennsylvania members of the Delaware River Port Authority, naming himself as one of the new members. Corbett's spokesman says the governor will seek to be chairman of the panel.
A push to privatize wine and liquor stores in Pennsylvania is getting no support from a panel of Democratic state lawmakers. The House Democratic Policy Committee is hearing testimony on Thursday in Philadelphia.
