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Pennsylvanians lost 7,300 nonfarm jobs in October, according to state figures released Thursday, leaving payrolls at the lowest level in 20 months.

A long-term plan for gas well drilling water disposal may be one outcome of this fall's water quality problem on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania.

Government forecasters are predicting a warmer-than-average winter for the much of the nation's midsection and a dry one for the Southeast.

Republicans have controlled the Pennsylvania Senate for most of the last three decades, and now they have new bragging rights: The Senate is the last state legislative chamber in the Northeast in GOP hands.

The party's success could provide a template for fellow Republicans looking to win back majorities not just in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, where they lost the New York Senate and Delaware House on Nov. 4, but across the country.

'The Republicans in the state Senate are smart cookies and know how to win,' said Bob Asher, the party's national committeeman in Pennsylvania. 'Maybe there ought to be a campaign school in Harrisburg and you could send people to it.'

Pennsylvania's state agencies are being asked to pinch pennies even tighter because of falling tax revenue, and Gov.

We welcome efforts of the State Board of Education's higher education council to focus on a serious and escalating issue facing college graduates: Hefty debt.

For nearly a week, as a judge weighed legal arguments surrounding a plan to bring a national veterans cemetery to Bucks County , Fran Dembowski sat in the gallery wearing a T-shirt bearing a picture of her son, ...

Authorities say 42-year-old Michelle Lamaze of Whitehall Township was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash Tuesday.

Executives of drilling companies exploring a huge untapped reserve of natural gas say the economic windfall expected from the Marcellus shale may not come to pass if Pennsylvania doesn't get its regulatory ...

President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Also Included In: Public Health Article Date: 18 Nov 2008 - 10:00 PST President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have begun to frame their ...

November 17, 2008 - " Ascent Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the completion of its senior management team with the appointment of Frederick Jones, M.D. as President and Chief Executive Officer and Stephen ...

Regional ties are not the only factor deciding votes in today's closed-door election to pick the next House majority leader.

Most people say it's wrong to drive under the influence, even if you're sure you can drive safely, according to a recent poll of York County residents.

Sen. Bob Casey says he knows a great place to stay for anyone going to Barack Obama 's presidential swearing-in: Pennsylvania.

A former Ivy League professor has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in federal court in Philadelphia.

Cold, wintry winds from the north was to push across the warm waters of the Great Lakes on Monday, triggering lake-effect snowfall across areas of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. The heaviest amounts of snowfall was expected to occur over northern Ohio, southwestern Michigan, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Afternoon temperatures across the Great Lakes were expected to remain cold and range from the 20s to 40s.

Lake-effect snowfall was also to reach into portions of the Northeast, and areas of New York and Pennsylvania were expecting significant amounts of snow showers throughout the day.

Radiologist Robert Pyatt and his partners will lose a colleague to retirement in 2011.

Though Pennsylvanians won't choose their next governor for two years, the early jockeying for the big race is already under way.

A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece that claimed Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's "Cover All Pennsylvanians" plan would increase health care costs and drive physicians out of the state is "flat out wrong," ...