Not long after the Ohio train derailment, pro-Russian voices on Twitter began spreading anti-U.S. propaganda about the incident.

An eastern Pennsylvania man accused of having used a homemade high-pressure air gun to kill a neighbor with whom he had had an affair has been convicted of first-degree murder.

An Ohio judge has sentenced a man to life in prison without parole after rejecting his insanity defense in the shooting deaths of two of his girlfriend’s three young sons and the wounding of the third.

Authorities say a Pennsylvania woman died after she was attacked by a neighbor’s dogs she had gone over to feed while their owner was away.

A retrial is scheduled to begin Tuesday in western Pennsylvania in the death of an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer shot and killed in a street confrontation more than 3 1/2 years ago.

The bright lights of Philadelphia’s famous Boathouse Row are going dark, at least for now.

Legal advice from state attorneys general sought by other government officials often has been treated as a public record — but not in every state.

Trial has begun in western Pennsylvania in the death of an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer shot and killed in a street confrontation more than 3 1/2 years ago.

Ohio State University is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider questions about the law known as Title IX in a case stemming from lawsuits over decades-old sexual abuse by the late team doctor Richard Strauss.

While visiting the derailment site Monday, he continued to hear concern from residents on how long the cleanup process of hazardous materials is taking.

An Ohio judge is set to decide this week on the validity of the insanity defense submitted by a man charged with fatally shooting two of his girlfriend’s three young sons and wounding the third.

An autopsy has concluded that the death of one of two Ohio twin boys who became the center of an AMBER Alert last year was due to “sudden unexplained infant death” that involved an “unsafe sleep environment.”.

Ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former state Republican chair Matt Borges have been convicted in a $60 million bribery scheme that federal prosecutors have called the largest corruption case in state history.

Lawyers for the districts that won a landmark school funding court case in Pennsylvania say that Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal falls short of the money commitments that are needed to help the state’s poorest districts.

Prosecutors have announced new charges of unlawful conduct against 11 current or former officers in the troubled police department in East Cleveland, one of Ohio's poorest cities.

Two freshwater mussel species are getting federal protection.

The self-described “master thief” and New England Patriots fan convicted of stealing New York Giants Super Bowl rings in 2008 is back behind bars after a judge determined he had violated the terms of his probation.

The best bourbons are buttery, smooth and oaky, and a growing cult of aficionados is willing to pay an astonishing sum to score even a shot of these premium spirits.

Some community members in attendance at Tuesday's vigil took a moment of peace before they head to Washington D.C. to attend Norfolk Southern's Senate hearing on the train derailment.

Authorities say a train and a dump truck collided at a railroad crossing in Ohio, killing the train conductor as he stood on the outside of a car.

A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to 12 to 24 years in prison in the death of a firefighter struck along with two other firefighters and a state trooper as they were responding to a crash on Interstate 76 in suburban Philadelphia.

"We just kind of cover everything that tells the parent what to be looking for when their kid has a cell phone," said Jolene Calderone, Trumbull County Supervisor of Diversion Services. 

Law enforcement officials seized dark clothing, medical gloves, a flashlight and other items from a Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death.

A white supremacist who killed a woman when he rammed his car into a crowd at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville has been fined for threatening a correctional officer and brandishing a weapon at the prison where he is serving a life sentence.

Representatives from the U.S. EPA, Ohio EPA, FEMA, CDC, Pennsylvania Department of Health, and the Federal Railroad Administration attended the conference.

Senate Republicans' campaign operation is taking steps to avoid a repeat of their party's disastrous showing in last year's midterms.

A former neighbor has been sentenced to decades in prison in the slayings of a couple during an attempted robbery at the victims’ home.

Authorities say a western Pennsylvania police officer and a suspect were both taken to hospitals after being wounded in an exchange of gunfire.

Authorities say a man was shot and wounded by a suburban Philadelphia police officer after ramming a police vehicle during a chase and threatening to shoot officers, although he turned out to be unarmed.

Striking Temple University graduate student teaching and research assistants have overwhelmingly rejected a proposed new contract that would have brought their three-week-long walkout to an end.