Dauphin News

A volleyball coach at Central Dauphin High School has been removed from his job and is facing theft charges.

The leadership of the Pennsylvania Senate's Education Committee yesterday introduced promised legislation to overhaul the state's 12-year-old charter-school law and provide greater scrutiny of charters.

Lower Dauphin Middle School seventh-grader Maddison O'Neill reacts to getting a swine flu shot.

Pennsylvania's schoolchildren have improved in academics the last five years, but their classrooms are no safer, state education officials said yesterday.

Dauphin County is bailing out the capital city once again. The Harrisburg Authority has yet to make a payment on its massive source of debt this year: the trouble-plagued trash incinerator.

Jury selection has begun today in the trial for former Rep. Sean Ramaley, who is accused of holding a "ghost job" at taxpayers' expense while he campaigned for the state House in 2004.

Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology has been selected as one of six sites in Pennsylvania that will provide state-certified weatherization training.

Gov. Edward G. Rendell announced that 87 men and women joined the ranks of the Pennsylvania State Police following their graduation Friday from the State Police Academy in Hershey.

Much like the Friday rush hour, there's just no getting around it -- we Americans love our motor vehicles.

For some, "it was a way to get an edge in sports competitions." For others, it was a way to help pay for "the cost of competing in body-building contests." But for most of the 10 people arrested on Tuesday, prosecutors said, selling steroids to others was how they financed their own personal use of the drug.

Staring into the camera, his muscles rippling in bright light, George Koufalis boasts he's been steroid -free for a year.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett has announced the arrests of 10 people accused of using, distributing and manufacturing steroids in the Dauphin, Cumberland, Lehigh and Northampton County areas.

Alaina McNaughton is a typical 16 year old at Central Dauphin H.S. She goes to class, studies hard, and dreams of one day becoming a Rockette.

The Department of Health will conduct statewide clinics from Nov. 20-22 to administer free H1N1 vaccine to individuals in the recommended target groups that have not had previous access to the vaccine.

Central Dauphin school bus drivers are convinced Friday's court decision will allow them to keep working, at least through the holidays.

An effort to encourage carpooling in south central Pennsylvania got a warm reception Wednesday from the county transportation planning committee.

People in the recommended target category for swine flu shots can make appointments to receive free shots Friday through Sunday at clinics in Harrisburg and Chambersburg.

Carbon County commissioners may be forced to raise real estate taxes to keep Weatherwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Home in Weatherly afloat.

The state Department of Health has announced it will conduct statewide clinics to administer the swine flu vaccine.

Former state House Speaker John Perzel and nine Republican co-defendants, sounding a generally defiant tone, appeared for their arraignments today on public corruption charges filed against them yesterday.