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A Senate Republican leader charged Thursday that Gov. Ed Rendell "would like" the budget impasse to last until July 17 - the last day many state employees will collect a paycheck - in hopes it will help build political support for the governor's proposed income tax increase.

Unknown Source: PR Newswire US Wordcount: Three of the bills were part of the Governor's 'Prescription for Pennsylvania' CAMP HILL, Pa., July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today ceremonially signed three health care measures that were part of his landmark Prescription for Pennsylvania health care reform plan and a fourth ...

A partisan deadlock over Pennsylvania's budget stretched into the new fiscal year Wednesday, as the state lost legal authority to pay most of its bills and warned vendors that they may not be paid on time.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency Wednesday to address California's deficit and ordered state offices closed three days a month to save cash.

Pennsylvania's latest application for federal stimulus money doesn't include Penn State or the other state-related universities, a move President Graham Spanier wants the U.S. Department of Education to examine.

Those who remember Pennsylvania's 1991 budget showdown can't help but see the parallels.

Pennsylvania is on the way to yet another late state budget. The governor and lawmakers have not agreed on a spending plan yet.

Pennsylvania's new fiscal year began today July 1, without a state budget. Gov. Ed Rendell and Republican leaders have each signaled no breakthrough is in sight.

Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak stands on the precipice of not only taking on U.S. Sen.

Lawmakers around the nation spent Tuesday in grueling, around-the-clock budget sessions as they struggled to avoid government shutdowns and other painful cuts, with the most dramatic negotiations unfolding in California amid a historic $24.3 billion deficit.

Ten Pennsylvania banks and credit unions will offer assistance to 69,000 commonwealth employees whose paychecks may be delayed in the event of a prolonged budget impasse, Governor Ed Rendell announced today.

Jun 29, 2009 10:31 pm US/Eastern MARC LEVY, Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG, Pa.

Wesley A. Snyder was able to keep his $29 million mortgage brokering scam hush-hush, for a time, by withholding crucial information - namely account statements - from his clients.

A new initiative has been launched to assist Pennsylvania residents in need of legal and financial assistance.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 12:13 am BREAKING NEWS Routine cleaning to cut Squirrel Hill Tunnel traffic to 1 lane Traffic in the Squirrel Hill Tunnel will be reduced to a single lane three nights this week for routine cleaning, a Department of Transportation official said.

There are more than 10,000 correctional officers guarding more than 50,000 prisoners in the state of Pennsylvania.

In a decision that offers a sliver of hope for thousands of older life inmates in Pennsylvania, a federal judge has ruled that lifers whose crimes occurred before 1997 may apply for a commutation under the slightly more liberal rules that were once in place.

Pennsylvania is poised to end its fiscal year Tuesday night without a state budget, beginning a scenario that will be felt most acutely by state workers and some of the private companies that do business with the state.

Gov. Ed Rendell and legislators in Harrisburg, currently wrangling over a budget that could result in hefty cuts to libraries, are about to hear from a lot of upset Lancaster countians.

Table games are on the table in the Pennsylvania Legislature. With state lawmakers facing the biggest deficit they've ever seen, many who previously discounted the notion of legalizing table games this soon are now looking to poker and craps as a source of cash to help plug the state's massive shortfall.