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State Rep. Camille "Bud" George, D-74 of Houtzdale, today joined members of the state House of Representatives in commemorating Dec.

Drunken driving fatality rates have fallen in 40 states and the District of Columbia, an encouraging sign that crackdowns are improving highway safety.

New federal data suggests that all but 10 states are showing improvement when it comes to drunken driving deaths.

An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to molesting a North Apollo teen he met on the Internet.

When CBS 21 News rolled into Williams Grove Speedway on May 25, 1989, a young driver named Stevie Smith had already won four races.

Final plans have been drawn up for a new district magistrate's office in northern Westmoreland County.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Pennsylvania's plan to contract with other states to hold our inmates in their prisons could prove to be a cost-effective short-term solution for overcrowded prisons.

More change is yet to come for Oklahoma Borough. Borough public works employee Rich Dickey and coworker John Staller voted Wednesday to join the United Steelworkers of America.

Early next year, for the first time in its history, Pennsylvania plans to contract with another state or states to board as many as 2,000 convicted criminals.

By Jessica Turnbull , VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Thursday, November 19, 2009 Last updated: 8:42 am Some Kiski Area High School students say the boring videos in driver education class made them fall asleep, not learn safe driving.

Is the federal government engaged in a massive fraud in reporting where economic "stimulus" dollars are being spent? Or is it, as officials contend, a matter of simple human error? The Web site of the board created to track such spending lists millions of dollars having been spent in congressional districts that do not exist in their respective ...

Native American songs and dances welcomed a sacred white buffalo to his new home at a sanctuary established at a southwestern Pennsylvania resort following the closure of the zoo where he was born.

The Pat Tillman Foundation awarded $642,000 to more than 50 veterans who wish to pursue educational goals.

Excavations along Penns Creek have revealed cooking and flint-napping sites, as well as flints, pottery, triangle points and paleo-scrapers, indicating the area was inhabited at least 13,000 years ago and into the Colonial period.

Relatives of famed American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe plan to go to court to win the return of his body from a Pennsylvania town that changed its name to provide him a final resting place - even though he never set foot there.

If the U.S. dollar strengthens and the global economy weakens as government stimulus runs dry, oil could plummet in a massive "head-fake" to $20/barrel. Any discussion of the price of oil must factor in the relative value of the petro-dollar, a.k.a. the U.S. dollar.

William DiMascio is executive director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, a private, nonprofit that has advocated for prison reform since 1787.

A three-dimensional map of the Marcellus Shale underneath eastern Westmoreland County, including Keystone State Park, will be produced in the coming months to help two drilling companies locate the best spots for gas wells.

How would you like to visit other parts of the country for free? It probably sounds too good to be true.

When Shirley Mae Jones was growing up in Smithton, she had no idea what life had in store for her -- a theatrical career that would bring international renown.