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When Mahala Muzopappa began taking classes at Westmoreland County Community College last year, she realized she was not ready for college-level math.

Chris Ramirez is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-380-5682 or via e-mail. The mailbox isn't the only place census officials will conduct America's headcount.

The plan to levy tolls on Interstate 80 to generate hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for road and bridge projects in Pennsylvania won't go forward unless Washington gives it a green light.

Some day it might be remembered as the Tea Party primary. The newly forming activist groups that identify heartily with calls for cutting taxes, deficits, red tape and government programs are organizing demonstrations, holding candidate forums and getting a boost from private conservative institutions in Pennsylvania.

Flood warnings have now spread to eastern Pennsylvania as steady rains and melting snow threaten to send rivers over their banks.

A GOP lawmaker says that the White House committed a "crime" if it offered Democratic Rep.

Fewer people died on Pennsylvania highways in 2009 than any year since the state started keeping track in 1928, when Model T's still ruled the road.

President Barack Obama's likely choice of Janet Yellen to become vice chairman of the Federal Reserve would favor a policy that stresses low interest rates to ease unemployment over higher rates to curb inflation.

Congressional incumbents win re-election at a ridiculous clip, better than 90 percent of the time.

Despite numerous news reports that Pakistan has arrested an American al-Qaida operative in the port city of Karachi , the U.S. government is unaware that anyone affiliated with the terrorist network, American or otherwise, has been captured in Pakistan recently, U.S. officials told McClatchy Newspapers Monday.

On the KD-PG Sunday Edition program that aired March 7 on KDKA-TV Auditor General Jack Wagner said that a constitutonal convention is a good idea.

Residents of a coal mining town in the state of Pennsylvania have long believed the government's demolition of it was part of a plot to swipe the mineral rights to anthracite coal worth hundreds of millions of dollars - and not, as officials said, the solution to an out-of-control underground mine fire that menaced the town with toxic gases.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - After 20 years as the face of organized labor in Pennsylvania and 50 years since the United Steelworkers issued his first union card, Bill George is stepping down as the state president of the AFL-CIO. George, who will turn 69 in August, said Thursday he'll retire sometime after his successor is elected at the labor federation's ...

Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system.

The dire financial situation many states find themselves is embodied by efforts the state of Pennsylvania has made to secure additional Medicaid assistance funding, recent news items suggest.

In a break from his usual composure, U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a fiery speech in front of a Pennsylvanian audience Monday, accusing health insurance company of arbitrarily raising premiums, as he tries to win popular support for the health insurance reform.

The U.S. Senate approved a $138 billion measure that would extend unemployment benefits and provide additional aid to states in lawmakersa second major effort this year to boost the economy.

The strategy is simple: cripple business with taxes and regulations so that it is unable to employ people, which will drive them into the arms of Big Government.

Authorities in Pennsylvania say a gas station patron died when static electricity ignited a fire as he filled up his tank.

Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.