Official: Philly not liable for private demo work
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The city issues demolition permits, but it isn't responsible for the work done by contractors on private property, Philadelphia officials said Wednesday at the first public hearing on this month's fatal building collapse....
06/19/2013 04:44:07pm
Villanova locked down due to robbery suspect
VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) -- A Villanova University spokesman says the school has been locked down as police search for an armed robbery suspect near campus....
06/19/2013 04:37:18pm
Funding for key gas drilling health study stalled
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- An important study on possible health impacts of natural gas drilling is still looking for additional funding....
06/19/2013 04:16:40pm
Pa. doc faces trial in former partner's shooting
LIMA, Pa. (AP) -- A suburban Philadelphia pediatrician was held for trial on charges she shot her former domestic partner and narrowly missed their 11-year-old son....
06/19/2013 04:05:28pm
Corbett signals he'll try to help Philly schools
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Gov. Tom Corbett is signaling that he's engaged in efforts to help the financially troubled Philadelphia School District, which is in the midst of shedding 20 percent of its workforce....
06/19/2013 03:46:31pm
Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck
FAIRPORT, Mich. (AP) -- A wooden beam that has long been the focus of the search for a 17th century shipwreck in northern Lake Michigan was not attached to a buried vessel as searchers had suspected, but still may have come from the elusive Griffin or some other ship, archaeologists said Wednesday....
06/19/2013 03:45:45pm
AP Source: Flyers set to buy out Briere's contract
A person familiar with discussions confirms Danny Briere is set to become a free agent after the Philadelphia Flyers informed the veteran forward they intend to buy out the final two years of his contract....
06/19/2013 03:37:38pm
NY man gets 21 years in Pa. interstate sex cases
ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- A New York man has been sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for traveling to Pennsylvania intending to lure girls as young as 8 into having sex....
06/19/2013 03:27:58pm
Corbett signs bill to abolish Philly traffic court
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Gov. Tom Corbett signed a bill Wednesday that will begin the process of dismantling the scandal-ridden Philadelphia Traffic Court....
06/19/2013 03:19:12pm
NJ Gov. Christie is still a Dallas Cowboys fan
SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie surprised some schoolchildren when he told them his favorite football team is the Dallas Cowboys....
06/19/2013 02:51:17pm
Judges consider tossing $60M Penn St. fund lawsuit
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A panel of Pennsylvania judges will soon decide whether to side with the NCAA and throw out a lawsuit filed by a state senator and the state treasurer over the massive fine imposed on Penn State for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky scandal....
06/19/2013 02:47:12pm
Cops: Pa. woman, daughters starved disabled kin
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- A northeastern Pennsylvania woman and her two daughters have been charged with starving their 32-year-old son and brother, who had Down syndrome, to death....
06/19/2013 02:44:18pm
Pa. school can exclude morning-after pill coverage
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A Christian college can temporarily exclude coverage for birth control like the morning-after pill and the week-after pill when it offers a health insurance plan to its students, a federal judge has ruled....
06/19/2013 02:29:22pm
Father, son acquitted in NY of sex trafficking
NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge who heard prostitutes testify that a father-and-son pimp team made them feel like family cleared the two men of sex-trafficking charges Wednesday....
06/19/2013 02:12:19pm
Pa. guardsman sues Target over 'no show' firing
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard has sued Target Corp., saying he was wrongly fired from one of the chain's Pittsburgh-area stores for violating its "no-call, no-show" policy while he was on a two-week training assignment in Virginia....
06/19/2013 01:47:38pm
