PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia region has welcomed major championships to five of its golf clubs, most notably Merion and this week's PGA Championship at Aronimink. Yet the area's greatest contribution to the game may have come a few miles away in West Philadelphia, where a rebirth is ...
HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Supreme Court justices are not "political actors," Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday, insisting unpopular court decisions are based solely on the law. "I think, at a very basic level, people think we're making policy decisions, we're saying we think this is how ...
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Every day, visitors from around the world make their way to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art — not necessarily for the galleries inside, but for a statue of a fictional boxer from Philadelphia. The bronze figure of ...
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) — Josh Shapiro may be heavily favored to win reelection as Pennsylvania governor, but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot on the line for him this year. Shapiro, who is just beginning to hit the campaign trail, wants voters to give Democrats control of the state ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The runway up to the NFL draft can feel endless for the young men who put themselves under its exacting process. Years of hard work followed by weeks of being poked and prodded, culminating in days of anxiety-inducing uncertainty while they wait for their name to be ...
MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — Judy Prichard McCleary believes her ancestors have gone to the afterlife, and that only their bodies are buried at the family mausoleum in a sprawling Philadelphia-area cemetery. Yet she remains rattled by the discovery that five of their nine crypts were disturbed — and ...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced Tuesday it had prevented an imminent shutdown because a nonprofit journalism operation had agreed to buy the struggling newspaper. It's the latest example of a news outlet turning to the nonprofit sector to avoid closing as advertising and circulation ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The parents of a toddler who suffered a minor injury at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after squeezing through a fence near a wolf enclosure and making contact with one of the animals have been charged with endangering the welfare of children, police said. Evidence ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's high court on Thursday overturned the use of automatic life sentences without parole for people convicted of second-degree murder, saying it violates the state's constitutional ban on cruel punishment when imposed without a closer look at the defendant's ...
By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's high court on Thursday overturned the use of automatic life sentences without parole for people convicted of second-degree murder, saying it violates the state's constitutional ban on cruel punishment ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion clinic doctor sentenced to life for killing three babies who had been delivered alive, died earlier this month at a Pennsylvania hospital, prison officials said Monday. Gosnell's grimy West Philadelphia clinic became known as the "house of ...
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will accept the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia on the eve of July 4 in a remote broadcast from Rome but won't travel to the U.S. during its 250th birthday celebrations this year. Leo, the first American pope, will ...
By MARK SCOLFORO and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power Saturday after high winds raked eastward from the Great Lakes region, leaving trees down and substantial property damage in their wake. Farther west, at ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The head priest and dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh is facing charges after being accused of stealing more than $1,000 in baseball cards from a Walmart. The Very Rev. Aidan Smith was arrested Feb. 27 by police just after leaving the Walmart in ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The head priest and dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh is facing charges after being accused of stealing more than $1,000 in baseball cards from a Walmart. The Very Rev. Aidan Smith was arrested Feb. 27 by police just after leaving the Walmart in ...
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The federal government's demand for information about the membership of Jewish groups from the University of Pennsylvania in an investigation into whether antisemitism has created a hostile environment for ...
By JAMESE PLATT/Pittsburgh's Public Source Two years into his English literature degree at the University of Pittsburgh, sophomore Luke Johnson has noticed something in his liberal arts courses: Students in his classes have gone quiet. As he sits in sociology or English writing classes, he ...
PAOLI, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed by a man he had pulled over in a traffic stop Sunday night, authorities said. Cpl. Tim O'Connor was killed as he approached the car when the driver fired from inside the vehicle, the state's acting police commissioner, ...
PAOLI, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed by a man whom he had pulled over in a traffic stop Sunday night, authorities said. Cpl. Tim O'Connor was killed as he approached the car when the driver fired from inside the vehicle, the state's acting police ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press SUGARLOAF, Pa. (AP) — For John Zola, the 40 acres were like a paradise: apple orchards tucked into northern Pennsylvania's rolling hills, a barn, meadows and more than enough land for four houses: one for himself and his wife and each of his three adult ...