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When Perkasie started replacing its Christmas decorations, borough officials were left with a puzzling question: what to do with the old castoffs?

Borough Manager Dan Olpere said he just want to pay to have them thrown away. But 40 sets of used decorations are hardly the stuff of consumer excitement, he said.

As an experiment, Perkasie advertised the items on an eBay-like Web site specializing in online municipal auctions.

The result was a $100 bid from the tiny borough of Elkland, Tioga County.

This adventure, based on the classic Jules Verne novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth," centers around a science professor whose untraditional hypotheses have made him the laughing stock of the academic ...

A compromise state budget apparently rescues $5 million in state funding for six hospital burn centers across Pennsylvania, including the regional burn center at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest.

The money, left out of the $28.3 billion budget Gov. Ed Rendell proposed in February, was reinserted during weekend negotiations between his administration and legislative leaders.

According to House Republicans, the burn center money was a third of the $15 million restored for hospitals in the Department of Public Welfare's budget.

WELLSBORO -- Bruce and Lucy Henry of Montgomery, Pa., have been Laurel Festival Arts and Crafts Fair regulars for decades, occupying a shady spot on the Green and entertaining what's usually a huge crowd by ...

Coffee, NERF balls, diet sodas and plenty of blankets and pillows -- that's how state lawmakers and their staff survive the 24/7 days of budget negotiations.

In the two months since Pennsylvania's April 22 primary, Democrats have added more voters than Republicans in all but five of the state's 67 counties and increased their statewide lead by 40,566 voters by the ...

Pennsylvania's massive public-sector pension funds and the state treasurer would be forced to unload investments in foreign companies tied to Iran and Sudan under legislation that passed a key vote in the state ...

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A diverse coalition of organizations and businesses, joined by a bipartisan group of state legislators, is urging the state to restrict development in a 100-foot-wide buffer along streams and rivers to reduce ...

Gov. Ed Rendell displays signed smoking ban bill yesterday. HARRISBURG -- When state Rep.

State and local officials from Pennsylvania and New Jersey met at Lafayette College on Thursday to discuss the possibility of providing train service from Easton to New York City.

Officials who attended the meeting were quick to describe the plans as ''preliminary'' and ''informal.'' But they said such train service is much more plausible today thanks to high gas prices driving up demand for public transportation, along with New Jersey Transit's plans to build a new tunnel into Manhattan that would double the number of trains going in and out of the city.

Pennsylvania's newly signed smoking ban may apply only to indoor spaces such as restaurants and other workplaces, but spots around the Lehigh Valley are tackling similar bans for such open-air locations as ...

The idea was still in its infancy in 1993 when Sen. Stewart Greenleaf first introduced a bill in the Pennsylvania Senate to ban smoking in most public spaces and workplaces statewide.

Gov. Ed Rendell on Friday signed into law a statewide smoking ban that will forbid people from lighting up in most bars, restaurants, workplaces and other public areas.

The former head of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board will be paid a total of $120,000 over the next four months even though she no longer works for the agency.

Nearly 70,000 customers were without power this morning in Southeastern Pennsylvania as a result of thunderstorms that hit the area last night, and some customers might remain in the dark until tomorrow or ...

The State Senate today voted down a long-awaited smoking-ban bill, clouding the future of legislation agreed upon by a bipartisan committee yesterday.

Pennsylvania is finally on the verge of passing a law to ban smoking in most public places and workplaces, even though it's not 100 percent of what any legislator wanted.

A homeless man accused of duping 13 women he met on an Internet dating service is scheduled to make his first appearance in a Montgomery County courtroom.

Paul Krueger was arrested last week in Atlantic City, N.J. He has waived extradition and agreed to return to Pennsylvania to face theft charges. He is to be arraigned in Souderton on Wednesday afternoon.

Prosecutors say Krueger stole more than $100,000 from the 13 women after convincing them he was a Grammy-nominated record mogul who needed investors for a new business venture.

At least one of seven area Uni-Mart convenience stores is expected to close following the announcement Friday that Uni-Mart, LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.