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2 Pa. teens charged after trying to re-enter prom
Police say two suburban Philadelphia teenagers were arrested following an altercation after one of them tried to re-enter their high school prom. It happened at the all-night Pennsbury High School prom on Saturday. Authorities say 18-year-old Ryan Adams was seen going back into the gym after leaving the prom, which ...
Man convicted of murder in Pa. musician's slaying
A man said by prosecutors to have been the "mastermind" of the slaying of a musician in his Philadelphia-area home three days after Christmas in 2011 has been convicted of second-degree murder. Jurors deliberated for nearly eight hours before convicting Jermaine M. Jackson, 20, of Trenton, N.J. on Monday, The ...
Primary hopefuls put in final day of campaigning
Candidates for public offices, including a seat on a state appellate court and mayoralties in several cities, made their final pitches for support Monday — the last full day before the Pennsylvania primary. The most closely watched races include contested mayoral nominations in Pittsburgh, Scranton, Harrisburg and York; the statewide ...
Bernard Waber, children's author, dies at age 91
Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died. Waber died May 16 at his Long Island home after a long illness, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Monday. He was 91. Waber's "warmth, energy, artfulness, elegance, and abiding ...
NY cigarette tax probes called weak, sloppy
Sting operations aimed at black market cigarettes in New York had such weak investigative protocols and financial controls that money went missing and prosecutions were dismissed, the state inspector general reported Monday. In one case, the Department of Taxation and Finance couldn't account for $160,000 of lost cash from covert ...
Man gets 14 months to 4 years in Pa. child's death
A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 14 months to four years in prison in last year's death of a 5-month-old child. Twenty-two-year-old Matthew Clark pleaded guilty in Erie County to endangering the welfare of a child in the death of Jasper Holmes. The child was found unresponsive in ...
More companies in Pa. trying fracking with gas
Another natural gas exploration company says it's experimenting with the gas to power huge pump engines that drive the hydraulic fracturing process. Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. said Monday that it successfully tested an engine last month in northern Pennsylvania's Susquehanna County with gas from other wells it had already ...
3 charged in Philly-area home invasion, slaying
Authorities have charged three men in the slaying of a teenager found shot in the back on the side of a road shortly after he was abducted from his Philadelphia-area home following what investigators say was a home invasion robbery. Twenty-five-year-old Andre Collier and 21-year-old Rasheed Teel of Philadelphia and ...
Pa. priest removed in 2009 faces new porn charge
A Roman Catholic priest who was removed from public ministry in 2009 after an allegation of past child sex abuse later deemed "credible" by his bishop has now been indicted on a federal charge of possessing child pornography. The indictment announced by federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh doesn't specify how much ...
Housekeeper gets 6 years in Pa. 'Ben' bust theft
A housekeeper has been sentenced to six years in federal prison in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust stolen in suburban Philadelphia and reportedly worth $3 million. Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Ala., was living in Philadelphia when the bust was taken Aug. 24 from a home where she ...
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