YORK, Pa. (AP) — A man armed with a pistol and carrying zip ties entered a Pennsylvania hospital's intensive care unit Saturday and took staff members hostage before he was killed by police in a shootout that also left an officer dead, authorities said. Three workers at UPMC Memorial ...
PINE GROVE, Pa. (AP) — The buffet line inside the fire hall in rural Pennsylvania was a familiar sight last weekend as a crowd of about 150 people heaped dinner onto their plates before sitting down to eat, hear a little live music and wait for the raffle. Aside from a couple of vegetable ...
The historic, aging ocean liner that a Florida county plans to turn into the world's largest artificial reef departed from south Philadelphia's Delaware River waterfront on Wednesday, marking the opening segment of its final voyage. The SS United States, a 1,000-foot vessel that shattered the ...
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Tommy Pham can earn an additional $250,000 in performance bonuses as part of his one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates that guarantees $4,025,000. An outfielder who turns 37 on March 8, Pham would get $125,000 each for 475 and 525 plate appearances as part of ...
Footage of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement van on fire in Philadelphia on Tuesday morning led many on social media to blame the blaze on left-wing extremists. Here's a closer look at the facts. CLAIM: An ICE van in Philadelphia seen ablaze in a video spreading online was intentionally ...
JENKINTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Schools were closed and residents were ordered to shelter-in-place Tuesday after a large fire broke out at an aerospace manufacturer's facility in a town north of Philadelphia, officials said. The fire broke out at SPS Technologies in Jenkintown around 9:30 p.m. ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia was awash in green on Valentine's Day to celebrate its Super Bowl champions. Swooning fans screamed and cheered Friday as MVP quarterback Jalen Hurts and Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie took turns hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the start of the team's ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration is recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp, both in central Pennsylvania, amid longer-term national trends of shrinking prison populations. The administration said on Monday it expects to save more ...
Amazon-owned Whole Foods is asking the National Labor Relations Board to set aside the results of a union election in which the first group of the company's employees voted in favor of collective bargaining. In a filing submitted to the agency this week, attorneys for Whole Foods Market argued ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old boy has been making a "miraculous" recovery after protecting his younger sister from the flying debris of a medical transport plane that crashed in Philadelphia last week, his family said. "Daddy, did I save my sister?" was one of the first things Trey ...
ANTRIM TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — The heist of 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer in Pennsylvania has become a whodunit that police have yet to crack. Four days after the theft that law enforcement say could be tied to the sky-high cost of eggs, no leads have come in, Trooper First Class ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will seek more money for underfunded public schools and public transit in his budget proposal unveiled Tuesday, while he is also hoping to win support for legalizing marijuana and introducing taxes on skill games viewed as competitors to ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The impact area where a medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia was notably "expansive," U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday after viewing the site with investigators and city officials. Duffy said he was struck by "how expansive it was. And ...
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Sunday and predicted six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced to a raucus, record-sized crowd at Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania. Phil was ...
Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, but celebrating the midpoint between the shortest and darkest day of the year and the spring equinox has ancient roots in European agricultural life. Punxsutawney Phil is far from the only ...
A medical transport jet carrying a child patient, her mother and four others slammed into a Philadelphia neighborhood and exploded in flames. The child had been treated in Philadelphia for a life-threatening condition and was being transported home to Mexico, according to Jet Rescue Air ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A person in a car was the seventh fatal victim of the fiery crash of an air ambulance onto a busy Philadelphia street, authorities said Saturday, as investigators sifted through burned cars, damaged homes and charred debris for clues to determine why the aircraft plummeted ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MATT ROURKE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several ...
By MICHAEL SISAK and MATT ROURKE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A medical transport jet with a child patient and five others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes. Jet Rescue Air ...
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — County elections officials in Pennsylvania rejected more than 11,000 mail-in ballots for technical reasons in the November election, including thousands that were determined to violate the much litigated requirement that voters ...