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For everyone who works in a voter registration office in Pennsylvania, today is a brew-an-extra-pot-of-coffee day.

The partnership that offered $12.8 billion to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike for 75 years said Tuesday it was walking away from the deal, citing inaction by the state Legislature.

GOP Rep. Phil English was left standing two years ago when two longtime political allies from western Pennsylvania lost.

Two Pennsylvania residents were killed in a crash on Interstate 80 in western Nebraska.

U.S. Magistrate Amy Reynolds Hay ordered the extradition of Sadik Begic, 38 who had been living in Whitehall but was arrested Sept.

As you may recall from social studies, when millions of Americans vote in the presidential election, they are not actually voting for a candidate -- directly.

Sue Nace thought election volunteers were joking when they told her she would have to remove her T-shirt to vote in the presidential primary last spring.

But it was no laughing matter to the poll workers-turned-fashion police, who said Nace's Obama shirt was inappropriate electioneering _ and made her cover the writing before casting a ballot.

Now, a political fight over what voters can wear to the polls is headed to court in Pennsylvania _ with the Republican Party favoring a dress code and Democrats opposed.

The campus smoking ban at Shippensburg and other state-owned universities will be discussed at a meeting of employee unions and system officials.

A top state environmental official says Pennsylvania will need to do more to handle the huge influx of interest in drilling on the Marcellus Shale gas formation.

A record amount of flu vaccine is available this year, and state health officials are urging Pennsylvanians to get a flu shot before the winter flu season.

Pennsylvania state government is facing its biggest first-quarter shortfall in at least two decades, which could force Gov.

Stakeholders in Pennsylvania's Long Term Care System Work for More and Better Home Care Options.

With just over a month remaining of campaign rhetoric and robo-calls, another more important deadline is looming for citizens of Pennsylvania.

State police crack-down on drunk drivers. Acting State Police Commissioner Frank Pawlowski announced earlier today that, starting this weekend, his agency will begin a year-long program aimed at cracking down ...

U.S. troops in Iraq were encouraged to vote in November's presidential election during a visit this week by a group of officials from several states.

At least 56 dogs and cats have been removed for immediate medical care from an eastern Pennsylvania kennel where officials say hundreds of animals are crowded together in unsanitary and foul-smelling ...

A western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the deaths of two Brooklyn residents during a 2006 kidnapping and robbery.

Pennsylvania Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey Jr. and New Jersey Sens. Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenbeg All four senators from New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Wednesday night voted in favor of the $700 ...

A municipal bus driver in northwestern Pennsylvania who was fired for striking and killing a surgeon three years ago has now hit another pedestrian, his third since 2000.

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey said today he plans to vote in favor of a $700 billion plan aimed at rescuing the ailing financial industry.