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Paper: drilling waste setting off radiation alarms
May 15, 2013 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gas drilling waste is setting off more radiation alarms at Pennsylvania landfills.The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit. more »»
Officials looking for nuclear gauge lost in WV
May 15, 2013 HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — State and federal officials are looking for a gauge containing radioactive material that fell off the back of a truck in West Virginia. more »»
Former W. Pa. officer convicted on some charges
May 15, 2013 PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former Pittsburgh police officer who allegedly ran a prostitution service has been cleared of that charge but convicted of numerous other crimes. more »»
Man charged in 2002 murder of eastern Pa. woman
May 15, 2013 SHOEMAKERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in the murder of a woman killed in her eastern Pennsylvania bedroom before her apartment was set on fire more than a decade ago. more »»
W. Pa. union member charged with embezzlement
May 15, 2013 PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a western Pennsylvania man on a charge of union embezzlement. more »»
NJ man charged in brother's Pa. 2011 hit-run death
May 15, 2013 STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania have charged a New Jersey man in the hit-and-run death of his brother on the day of the St. Patrick's Day parade in 201. more »»
Pa. ambulance firm owner gets 7¾-year sentence
May 15, 2013 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to health care fraud and conspiracy has been sentenced to 7¾ years in prison in what federal authorities said was a $5.4 million Medicare scam.U.S. more »»
Police: Man reported dead in Pa. shooting lives
May 15, 2013 HILLSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — State police say a western Pennsylvania man earlier reported killed in a Lawrence County shooting stemming from a domestic dispute is alive but in critical condition. more »»
No smoke detectors found after Pa. fire kills 6
May 15, 2013 POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Code enforcement officials in Pottsville say they had recommended smoke detectors for a home where two adults and four children were killed in a Mother's Day fire. more »»
Eastern Pa. school sets friendship bracelet record
May 15, 2013 SWEET VALLEY, Pa. (AP) — Students and staff at a northeastern Pennsylvania elementary school are heading into the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest chain of friendship bracelets. more »»
Pa. chief chided for using fire truck as prom limo
May 15, 2013 WEST NEWTON, Pa. (AP) — A southwestern Pennsylvania volunteer fire chief is being criticized by borough officials for driving his son and the boy's date to their high school prom in a fire truck. more »»
Stolen tri-axle truck found in western Pa. lake
May 15, 2013 SHELOCTA, Pa. (AP) — State police and environmental officials are investigating after a stolen tri-axle truck was found submerged in a western Pennsylvania lake. more »»
Pittsburgh mayor gives home docs to fed grand jury
May 15, 2013 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has turned over a $12,000 check and a contract he has for home improvements to a federal grand jury. more »»
Pa. woman to trial in DUI crash that killed friend
May 15, 2013 SMETHPORT, Pa. (AP) — A northwestern Pennsylvania woman must stand trial in a crash off a bridge that killed her friend after both had been drinking at a bar. more »»
Pa. judge combines suits in kids-for-cash scandal
May 15, 2013 SCRANTON, Pa. more »»
Welfare worker suspended in sex-for-benefits case
May 14, 2013 PITTSBURGH (AP) — A state welfare caseworker has been suspended while the Department of Public Welfare cooperates with prosecutors who charge the man tried to swap benefits for sex with female... more »»
Thieves hit Pa. family who had house bombed
May 14, 2013 EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania family says thieves stole belongings from a garage after a bomber destroyed their house. more »»
No homicide charges in Philly-area boy's death
May 14, 2013 MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors in suburban Philadelphia say no homicide charges will be filed in the death of a teenager weeks after a brief altercation at school. more »»
Homicide charge dismissed in Pa. toddler's death
May 14, 2013 INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania judge has dismissed a homicide charge against a woman in the accidental drowning of her 13-month-old son in a bathtub. more »»
Man gets 27½ to 55 years in eastern Pa. slaying
May 14, 2013 READING, Pa. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 27½ to 55 years in prison in the shooting death of a man whose body was found in the parking lot of an eastern Pennsylvania arts center a year ago. more »» |
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