A Pennsylvania ban on lighting up anywhere on university property is drawing strong opposition
Pennsylvania voters will finally get to weigh in on the Democratic presidential race Tuesday, the first contest on the primary calendar in six weeks.
Maria Wing is a lawyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She's 28 years old, single and in debt.
The Democratic presidential race is tightening in Pennsylvania ahead of its April 22 primary, according to a new CNN analysis of recent polls in the key campaign state.
Ten people were killed Thursday after fire swept through a house outside Brockway, Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Holly McCarthy, a press worker at Offset Paperback Manufacturers, lives from paycheck to paycheck. That's getting harder to do as she finds herself shelling out more for gas and groceries.
As Sen. Hillary Clinton's underdog campaign soldiers on through Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina, she has begun casting herself as a champion of democracy.
Obama is trying to unnerve Clinton by campaigning in working-class areas that are expected to give her a big victory
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are preparing for their face-off in Pennsylvania -- where the demographics appear to play in Clinton's favor and voters might be less receptive to Obama's message of "change."
Hillary Clinton expresses confidence in her chances and in the Democrats' ability to unite once the race is decided
A Pennsylvania ban on lighting up anywhere on university property is drawing strong opposition
Pennsylvania voters will finally get to weigh in on the Democratic presidential race Tuesday, the first contest on the primary calendar in six weeks.
Maria Wing is a lawyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She's 28 years old, single and in debt.
The Democratic presidential race is tightening in Pennsylvania ahead of its April 22 primary, according to a new CNN analysis of recent polls in the key campaign state.
Ten people were killed Thursday after fire swept through a house outside Brockway, Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Holly McCarthy, a press worker at Offset Paperback Manufacturers, lives from paycheck to paycheck. That's getting harder to do as she finds herself shelling out more for gas and groceries.
As Sen. Hillary Clinton's underdog campaign soldiers on through Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina, she has begun casting herself as a champion of democracy.
Obama is trying to unnerve Clinton by campaigning in working-class areas that are expected to give her a big victory
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are preparing for their face-off in Pennsylvania -- where the demographics appear to play in Clinton's favor and voters might be less receptive to Obama's message of "change."
Hillary Clinton expresses confidence in her chances and in the Democrats' ability to unite once the race is decided
Trailing in the polls in the next big primary state, the Democratic front-runner hopes a strong registration drive will help turn out new supporters
Police have taken into custody a 14-year-old boy who is suspected of planning a "Columbine" type event at a Pennsylvania high school, a police spokesman said.
It's a sweet time for honeybees in the rolling hills of eastern Pennsylvania, and the ones humming around Dennis vanEngelsdorp seem too preoccupied by the blooming knapweed nearby to sting him as he carefully lifts the top off their hive. VanEngelsdorp, Pennsylvania's state apiarist, spots signs of plenty within: honeycomb stocked with yellow pollen, neat rows of wax hexagons housing larval bees, and a fertile queen churning out eggs.
We already knew we had broken borders. And when Congress chickened out on immigration reform and showed that it's not equipped to tackle anything more challenging than pork or pay raises, we knew we had a broken branch. Now it's clear that we have a broken dialogue.
A federal court Thursday struck down ordinances passed by Hazleton, Pennsylvania, that were intended to limit where illegal immigrants could live and work.
As an oncoming nor'easter dumped heavy rains along the mid-Atlantic coast, Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged New Yorkers to use mass transit Monday and take other precautions.
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A Pennsylvania coal mine accident killed at least one worker Monday morning, the state Department of Environmental Protection said.
Sunoco ranks no. 65 on Fortune's 2006 list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies. The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based company saw profits rise at a rate of 86% and revenues grow 33% with a stock return of 57% on average annually over the past three years.
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Residents in northeast Pennsylvania and New York are breathing sighs of relief Friday after flood walls and levees held their own against flooding that has killed at least 14 people in four states.
Levees contained the swollen Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania, enabling thousands of evacuees to head back home Thursday, while the Delaware River threatened the southeastern part of the state.
At least 10 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the U.S. Northeast as major rivers and their tributaries overflowed their banks Wednesday.
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Universal Pictures and the online rental firm Lovefilm are launching what they say is the world's first download-to-own movie service in Britain next month.
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A New York musician has tested positive for anthrax that authorities say came from unprocessed animal skins used to make traditional African instruments.
A man who dressed as a suicide bomber during London protests against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed has been arrested, police said.
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Thousands of bags of stuffing are being recalled along the east coast after ingredient labels were found to omit wheat and dairy, items that could cause allergic reactions in some people.
Fed up with years of rapidly rising property taxes, homeowners are finally getting something back.
An 18-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of killing the parents of his 14-year-old girlfriend and fleeing with her to Indiana is being held without bail on charges of criminal homicide, kidnapping and reckless endangerment.
Pennsylvania ranks first among the top ten worst states for vehicle-deer collisions, according to an insurance survey published Thursday.
Development and storms have eroded much of the coastal wetlands that provide "speed bumps" for approaching storms. CNN.com asked readers whether steps should be taken to build them back. Here is a sampling of those responses, some of which have been edited:
A British computer scientist is developing a portable brain scanner that could help prevent people from suffering brain damage after they have a stroke.
Relatives and friends were continuing an agonizing search for the missing in the London bombings that killed at least 50 people.
Bus number 30 was full of commuters Friday morning, despite the previous day's bomb blast, which tore through a bus in the heart of London, traveling on the same route.
US Airways mistakenly sold round-trip flights for $1.86 to more than 1,000 customers over the weekend.
In what is still seen as a gratuitous snub of the approximately two out of five Democratic voters who, according to independent surveys, consider themselves to be "pro-life" on the abortion issue, Pennsylvania's pro-life Gov. Robert P. Casey was denied the chance to speak at the 1992 Democratic convention.
Talk about a growing business: Roofscapes installs rooftop gardens, which offer more insulation than traditional coverings. Green roofs cost more but last longer, claims Roofscapes founder and prin...
Nine jurors have begun reviewing proposals for a permanent memorial for the 40 passengers and crew aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked September 11, 2001, and crashed in a Pennsylvania field after a passenger uprising.
Authorities reopened Interstate 80 near Pennsylvania's border with Ohio on Sunday night, hours after an estimated 70 vehicles crashed in near-whiteout conditions.
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup telephone survey released Sunday indicates that voters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Iowa are pretty evenly split on who they want in the White House, the economy, and the war in Iraq.
False teeth could become a thing of the past thanks to stem cell technology, scientists at London University say.
A major winter storm is taking aim at central New York and Pennsylvania, according to the National Weather Service, and some mid-Atlantic states are bracing for another day of dangerous icy conditions Tuesday.
A 17-year-old cadet at an all-male military academy outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault on a fellow student and other forms of abuse on two others.
The case of a pilot with a preliminary blood-alcohol ratio of 0.13 is raising legal questions after his erratic, four-hour flight over Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Friday.
Powerball officials said there were two winners in the $221.5 million Powerball lottery jackpot drawing New Year's Eve -- the fifth-largest jackpot in the game's history.
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--1859 Col. Edwin Drake drills the first oil well, in Pennsylvania.
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