Harrisburg Metro News

When Poison first entered the glam-rock scene of the mid-'80s in Hollywood, many critics panned the four-man hair band as a silly, cheesy act that was destined to be short-lived. However, after 22 years -- ...

An unfolding political corruption scandal in Harrisburg prompted another House Democrat to call on Bill DeWeese to step down as majority leader Monday, saying DeWeese has lost the voters' trust and could hurt ...

Three out of four Pennsylvania voters are skeptical that state lawmakers will deliver on promises to stamp out corruption in the Legislature, according to a statewide poll released Tuesday.

Boscov's Inc. will close 10 of its 49 stores immediately after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday.

A second teenager charged in the July death of Mexican immigrant Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala in Shenandoah asked Schuylkill County Court on Monday to try him as a juvenile.

Two people are charged with the murder of a Forks Township man...and officials say a third arrest is pending.

"The cover up is worse than the crime" long ago became the hackneyed cliche of choice regarding allegations that someone accused of wrongdoing also tried to cover their tracks.

Allegations of corruption apparently produce a pretty good payday. At least for the lawyers.

In the year since Minneapolis' horrific bridge collapse, funding for bridges has been a pressing issue in Harrisburg, and more of this state's aging bridges will be repaired or replaced this year.

At left, in this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007 file photo, Adam Leroy Lane of Jonesville, N.C., left, appears for arraignment with his lawyer Daniel Callahan, right, in Middlesex Superior Court in Lowell, Mass., ...

State highway officials are delaying some paving projects due to the rising cost of asphalt, steel and other materials.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, JULY 30, 2008 .- The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is proposing Friday as a national day of prayer and fasting in the wake of the desecration of the Eucharist by a Minnesota ...

The Department of Environmental Protection and its regional air quality partnerships have forecast an air quality action day for Tuesday, July 29, in the Berks/Lehigh Valley, Liberty/Clairton, Susquehanna ...

The head of Pennsylvania's judicial system, Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald Castille, sees the state's constable system as a medieval remnant that could benefit from reform.

Leaders of two Pennsylvania consumer watchdog groups are questioning whether state Senate Minority Leader Robert Mellow's new seat on Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania's board competes with his duties ...

The search will resume for a teenager missing and believed to have drowned at Pine Grove Furnace State Park in south-central Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG &#8212 Valerie Hubbard was half asleep in her 11-year-old son's bedroom just before midnight &#8212 they had been watching "Ratatouille" on DVD &#8212 when three constables crashed through the locked ...

If ever there were a time for real reform in Pennsylvania state government, it is now.

It's not our wife, husband or boss that truly controls our lives here in Pennsylvania.

After a year long investigation, Pennsylvania State Police, Blooming Grove, have a Pike County murder suspect behind bars Monday night.