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A prosecutor on Monday described state Rep. Bill DeWeese as a "common thief" as the once-powerful Democrat became the first sitting Pennsylvania legislator to go on trial as part of a public corruption probe that started five years ago.
A former aide to a high-ranking Pennsylvania state representative has been sentenced to at least nine months in jail for her role in a corruption case involving the misuse of tax dollars and state employees for campaign purposes.
A once-powerful former Pennsylvania Republican lawmaker was convicted Tuesday in a corruption case focusing on the illegal use of millions of taxpayer dollars and state employees for political campaign work.
A former chief of staff to the onetime speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has entered a surprise guilty plea in a corruption case that centers on the misuse of public money for campaign work.
Driven by a hunger to expand their power base, top Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives illegally used millions of dollars in taxpayers' money, employees and equipment to compile massive databases of information about state voters to boost the potency of GOP campaigns, the lead prosecutor said Monday as the corruption trial of three former officials opened.
In a fledgling nation hungry for men to fight in the American Revolution, conscientious objectors were frequently greeted with scorn and their loyalty was questioned.
The onetime speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives pleaded guilty Wednesday to eight criminal charges stemming from a public corruption investigation, making him the highest-ranking state politician to be convicted in the four-and-a-half-year inquiry.
A Berks County judge says a Pennsylvania state senator who allegedly displayed a handgun while driving on Interstate 78 is guilty of a summary charge of disorderly conduct.
Pennsylvania's new Republican governor is under fire for proposing the nation's biggest cuts in higher education — more than 50 percent for some universities — while refusing to tax the gas drilling that is fast becoming one of the state's largest industries.
Republican Tom Corbett has defeated Democrat Dan Onorato (ah-nuh-RAH'-toh) in the race for Pennsylvania governor.
Democratic nominee Dan Onorato won the final debate of Pennsylvania's gubernatorial campaign on technical points, but he failed to weaken Republican rival Tom Corbett's status as front-runner or shatter the monotony of the race, political observers said Tuesday.
A combative Dan Onorato accused Republican front-runner Tom Corbett of political double-talk on taxes in Monday's final gubernatorial debate, while Corbett said electing the Democrat as Pennsylvania's chief executive would prevent the "tough decisions" necessary to rein in state spending.
Republican gubernatorial front-runner Tom Corbett broadened his no-new-taxes pledge Saturday during a televised debate with Democratic rival Dan Onorato, saying it also rules out increases in fees — such as motor-vehicle levies — or employee contributions to the state unemployment trust fund.
One of two new TV ads from Democrat Dan Onorato in the Pennsylvania governor's race is criticizing Republican front-runner Tom Corbett's comments that some unemployed Pennsylvanians don't want to look for work.
Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican who has broken ranks in the past with the GOP, gave Democrat Joe Sestak his second major endorsement from moderates in a week in his bid for a hotly contested Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania's open-records agency has ordered the state police to release records of moonlighting by its employees.
A former trucker already facing decades in prison for random knife attacks on women in New Jersey and Massachusetts was sentenced Monday to spend the rest of his life behind bars for a pair of similar attacks in Pennsylvania.
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.
Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.
Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering from complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., with his family at his bedside, the hospital said.
Rep. John Murtha, who said the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq was based on "flawed policy wrapped in illusion" and called for a withdrawal of U.S. troops there, is being remembered as an advocate on Capitol Hill for those serving in military uniform.
Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., spokesman Matthew Mazonkey said.
Two forces influenced Pennsylvania politics in the first decade of the 21st century more than anything else — the Legislature's ill-fated, midnight pay grab and the irrepressible Ed Rendell.
A health care company told Pennsylvania's highest court Tuesday the company should not be bound by the state's minimum-wage and overtime laws in compensating employees who provide companionship and other non-medical services to elderly and other homebound people.
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