"You can't begin to appreciate the scale of this undertaking, just how much dirt they're moving, and just the size of this operation until you stood here on ground zero," Roegner said.

A hard-right Pennsylvania state lawmaker says he will not challenge Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.

A Pennsylvania doctor who pleaded guilty in a pain pill prescription scheme in West Virginia has been sentenced to six months in prison.

A new study suggests dozens of U.S. cities are at risk for mpox outbreaks this summer.

A former school dance instructor in Cleveland faces up to life prison after being convicted Thursday of raping six teenage students and sexually abusing two others.

Authorities say a 15-year-old student was charged with homicide in the fatal shooting of his 15-year-old schoolmate just outside a Pittsburgh school.

An Indiana board is set to hear allegations that an Indianapolis doctor should face disciplinary action after she spoke publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio.

Thousands of United Methodist congregations have been voting on whether to stay or quit one of the nation’s largest denominations amid intractable debates over theology and the role of LGBTQ people.

Planned Parenthood is shifting funding to its state affiliates and cutting national office staff.

A prominent Ohio farmer whose image was used in a popular social media meme touting the value of “hard work” has died after he was injured in a crash in Illinois.

The drivers of the youth mental health crisis for Black children begin early and persist through a lifetime.

The independent bookselling community continues to grow, with membership in the American Booksellers Association reaching its highest levels in more than 20 years.

A new trial has been ordered for a man who spent more than a decade and a half on Ohio’s death row in the 2006 death of the 3-year-old son of his former live-in girlfriend.

A Philadelphia judge dismissed all charges against a former police officer accused of assaulting a woman who accidentally drove a sport utility vehicle into a 2020 protest with her young son in the vehicle — but prosecutors quickly refiled the case.

A grand jury has indicted a man who was already charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, allowing prosecutors to skip a planned week-long preliminary hearing that was set for late June.

Two dozen 19th century medals earned by brothers who were world-class rifle shots have been returned to the National Park Service site they were stolen from decades ago.

The second of two inmates who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison earlier this month has been captured.

A man accused of hiding in a woman’s attic in New Hampshire and secretly photographing her while she slept has been convicted of burglary, criminal trespass and invasion of privacy.

A Gerber infant formula was recalled earlier this year over potential contamination of Cronobacter sakazakii, a bacteria that could cause life-threatening infections in infants.

Joe Biden took a break from being president on Monday to focus on just being “pop” at his granddaughter Maisy Biden's graduation from the University of Pennsylvania.

A Michigan prison inmate who was transported to an Ohio court has been missing for nearly two months after being mistakenly released from a jail there.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has experienced the most significant disruption to its operations in 27 years due to what the newspaper calls a cyberattack.

A man has been charged in the death of a woman gunned down while walking her dog in a city park on the west side of Cleveland more than four years ago.

A federal jury has convicted a Roman Catholic priest of five sex-trafficking counts in the alleged molestation of three boys he met at a Toledo preschool.

A mistrial has been declared in the case of a former Philadelphia police officer seen on video lowering the face covering of at least one protester before dousing a group with pepper spray as they knelt on a city interstate during a 2020 summer demonstration.

As schools across the country struggle to find teachers to hire, more governors are pushing for pay increases and bonuses for the beleaguered profession.

Democrats are clinging to a one-seat Pennsylvania House majority but that could change when voters fill a suburban Philadelphia vacancy next week.

The idea of later school start times, pushed by many over the years as a way to help adolescents get more sleep, is getting a new look as a way to address the mental health crisis affecting teens across the U.S. Nationally, at least nine states are considering legislation related to school start times, up from four the previous year, according to the National Conference on State Legislatures.

An independent investigation released Friday determined that the sudden resignation last month of Ohio’s lottery director came after he inappropriately touched two employees and sent texts “expressing inappropriate fondness and innuendo.”.

The Navy has commissioned the USS Cooperstown, named for the New York state village where the Baseball Hall of Fame is located and honoring the 70 members who served in the military during wartime.