A Philadelphia judge's role in a cheesesteak shop owned by his wife has prompted a panel to allege he's violated the state's ethics rules. The Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board on Tuesday filed a complaint against Common Pleas Judge Scott DiClaudio over Shay's Steaks, a high-end cheesesteak ...
YORK, Pa. (AP) — A police officer killed while responding to a Pennsylvania hospital siege was struck by a shotgun blast fired by another officer that also hit the attacker as he held a hospital worker hostage with a gun to her head, a prosecutor disclosed Wednesday. The attacker and West ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio may enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for minors while an appeal proceeds, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The law also bans transgender women and girls from participating in female sports. The high court's 4-3 decision reverses a lower court ...
Norfolk Southern began making promises to East Palestine, Ohio, soon after its train derailed and caught fire in February 2023. The railroad said it would "make it right" after five tank cars of vinyl chloride were intentionally burned, sending up a huge black plume of smoke that spread more ...
PHOENIX (AP) — As a first-generation college student, Austin Kissinger was looking forward to celebrating graduation with others of similar backgrounds who helped each other find their way at the University of Kentucky. Typically, Kentucky students who are the first in their family to ...
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Many days over the past two weeks, no one answered the phone at any of U.S. Rep. Scott Perry's four offices. Perry's team did not share details about the Republican congressman's public appearances until they were over. Even supporters who live in Perry's central ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday that the University of Pennsylvania violated laws guaranteeing women equal opportunities in athletics by letting a transgender swimmer compete on the school's women's team and into team facilities. The administration's statement ...
DENVER (AP) — The letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley to the person now in charge of steadying the U.S. Center for SafeSport laid bare his views of festering problems at an agency he portrayed as having lost its way. Among the concerns the Iowa Republican outlined in that March 31 letter to the ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Vietnam War greatly impacted U.S. society from the passage of the War Powers Resolution that restricts the president's ability to send troops into extended combat without congressional approval to the cementing of college campuses as centers of student ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry. Trump issued executive orders this month to allow mining on federal land. He has used his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired ...
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains of coal tipples and processing plants coming back to life. Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Four Americans have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in federal court in Utah after authorities said they conspired to stage a violent coup in Congo that failed. Three of the defendants were charged this month following their return to the United States from ...
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Many days over the past two weeks, no one answered the phone at any of U.S. Rep. Scott Perry's four offices. Perry's team did not share details about the Republican congressman's public appearances until they were over. Even supporters who live in Perry's central ...
Texas has more than 600 known cases of measles on Tuesday as the outbreak in the western part of the state approaches the three-month mark. The U.S. was up to 800 cases of measles nationwide on Friday. Two unvaccinated elementary school-aged children died from measles-related illnesses in the ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The district attorney prosecuting a man accused of setting fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's official residence said Friday that investigators are assessing whether religious or political bias could explain why he expressed "hatred" for the Democratic ...
By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. district judge in San Francisco on Friday ordered the Trump administration to provide probationary workers fired en masse a written statement saying they were not terminated for performance reasons, but as part of a ...
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The district attorney prosecuting a man accused of setting fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's official residence said Friday that investigators are assessing whether religious or political bias could explain why he expressed ...
By HANNAH FINGERHUT AND TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press AmeriCorps placed most staff members on administrative leave with pay this week, effective immediately, according to a staff member and an internal memo shared with The Associated Press. The memo from AmeriCorps' interim director ...
By BEN FINLEY, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — In the summer of 2023, New York Attorney General Letitia James helped her niece buy a modest house in Norfolk, Virginia, by becoming a co-borrower on the mortgage loan. A top housing official in the ...
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that she's not in a rush to resume executions after signing legislation allowing the use of nitrogen gas to put inmates to death. Sanders made the comments during a ...