2 hrs ago | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Voting information: Polls open at 7 a.m. today
All county offices, with the exception of the Elections Division and Elections Court, will be closed.
6 hrs ago | EurekAlert!
Decisions to forgo life support may depend heavily on the ICU where patients are treated
Study to be presented during 2013 ATS Special Session: 'Care at the End of Life: Room for Improvement, Ideas for Change' PHILADELPHIA-The decision to limit life support in patients in the intensive care unit appears to be significantly influenced by physician practices and/or the culture of the hospital, suggests new findings from researchers at ... (more)
10 hrs ago | PennLive.com
traffic update: foggy, but accident free commute in Harrisburg area
Other than the occasional patch of fog, the morning commute around the Harrisburg area is running smoothly as of 6:30 a.m., according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
14 hrs ago | Philly.com
His ordeal has a happy ending, but what an ordeal it's been: A near fatal encounter with a deadly flower; renal failure; four weeks of kidney dialysis and, finally, a $15,000 kidney transplant at the University of Pennsylvania.
15 hrs ago | Keystonepolitics.com
Philly Expands LGBT Rights, PA House/Senate Might
The struggle for equal human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Pennsylvania has seen significant developments this month.
Corbett asks for 'modifications' to Pa.'s proposed regulations on school standards
Gov. Tom Corbett is recommending changes to a set of education regulations that have been criticized by both Democrats and conservatives.
Nanoantennas improve infrared sensing
The research was conducted by assistant professor Ertugrul Cubukcu and postdoctoral researcher Fei Yi, along with graduate students Hai Zhu and Jason C. Reed, all of the Department of Material Science and Engineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
PA American Water marks completion of $101M Pittsburgh water treatment project
Pennsylvania American Water officials today hosted the Department of Community and Economic Development Senior Advisor Mike Cortez, Public Utility Commissioner Wayne Gardner, Department of Environmental Protection Deputy Secretary Kelly Heffner, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and other dignitaries to mark the completion of major ... (more)
Ex-caseworker gets prison for shooting at Pa. cops
A former Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare caseworker will spend five to 10 years in state police for firing 17 shots at state troopers who surrounded his house after he allegedly refused to come out when they responded to a drunken domestic dispute in October.
National Immigration Rates On The Rise While Births Are On The Decline
Recent Census Bureau projections show that immigration rates are up in the Unites States, while the number of births have declined.
Open records case produced untracked drilling documents
Scattered records kept by the state Department of Environmental Protection offer one answer to a key question in a new age of fossil fuel extraction in Pennsylvania: How many water supplies have been damaged by drilling? The Times-Tribune requested the letters and enforcement orders that might best account for the number of drilling-disrupted water ... (more)
Paper: Drilling damage in 161 Pa. water supplies
Oil and gas development damaged the water supplies of at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to state records obtained by a newspaper.
Sunday Times review of DEP drilling records reveals water damage, murky testing methods
State environmental regulators determined that oil and gas development damaged the water supplies for at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to a cache of nearly 1,000 letters and enforcement orders written by Department of Environmental Protection officials and obtained by The ... (more)
Therapy programs patients' own cells to fight cancer
It is vanishingly rare for an experimental treatment to wipe out advanced, recurrent cancer, then keep the disease from coming back.
Motorcycle safety stressed at press conference outside PNC Park
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Greater Pittsburgh Motorcycle Safety Council held a press conference on Sunday outside PNC Park to stress the importance of sharing the road with motorcycles.
Pennsylvanian misses home's fresh fare
A Pennsylvania native, Kathy Strunk says spring has her craving rhubarb and asparagus, which are bountiful this time of year in Pennsylvania.
Hats off to all who did great work after tanker fire on I-81: PennLive letters
Three cheers for the emergency first responders, PennDOT, its engineers, draftsmen, work crews and the many construction workers who reacted almost immediately to the I-81 bridge catastrophe in Susquehanna Township.
This week in the war on voting: North Carolina 'ground zero' in voter suppression fight
The EAC was created in the aftermath of the disastrous elections of 2000 as part of the Help America Vote Act.
This time, Pennsylvania's unemployment rate goes lower for the right reasons
More Pennsylvanians went to work in April, swelling the ranks of the state's employed to over 6 million workers.
Pennsylvania education standards running into resistance
After years of development, a new set of educational standards for Pennsylvania has run into late-in-the-game opposition along unusual political lines.