Amy McGrath’s journey from Marine combat pilot to the Democratic nominee for a House race combines biography, risk taking and the virtues of the digital age.
The teenagers were all charged with first-degree murder. One of them told detectives that he ran over the officer, Amy Caprio, who was responding to a burglary.
The invasive insects turned up in Pennsylvania in 2014. Now the state has placed 3,000 square miles under quarantine, and scientists worry the pest will spread.
Younger voters typically do not cast ballots in midterm elections. But after the Parkland, Fla., shooting, registration among younger voters is accelerating.
Weeks after two black men were arrested at a cafe in Philadelphia, the company said people can sit down or use the restroom without making a purchase.
Pennsylvania has had an all-male congressional delegation since 2015. After victories by several women this week, that may change in November.
Fifty years ago this month, Catholic activists dragged draft files into a Maryland parking lot and incinerated them.
Concerns about sex trafficking and forced marriages are behind moves to raise minimum ages to wed, but they may run up against religious objections.
Republican leaders stripped a state House member of committee assignments after finding that he had retaliated against an accuser by sharing explicit pictures of her.
Riding along that old campaign trail.
David Sadler, a State Senate candidate in Alabama, wants people with a criminal record — like him and millions of other Americans — to have a voice in American politics.
Key evidence was withheld during the trial of Dontia Patterson, the district attorney said, in “an egregious example of police and prosecutorial misconduct.”
In Pennsylvania, the Democrats rallied around women, and the Republicans went for candidates in the Trump mold.
Buoyed by a new congressional map and grass-roots anger at President Trump, Democrats are poised to flip several Republican-held districts in a state Mr. Trump narrowly won in 2016.
A 1916 colonnaded home in Kansas City, a midcentury-modern house in Atlanta and a riverfront home in New Hope.
A 1916 colonnaded home in Kansas City, Mo.; a midcentury-modern house in Atlanta; and a riverfront home in New Hope, Pa.
See full results and maps from the Pennsylvania primaries.
Darryl De Sousa lasted just four months before being suspended over unfiled tax returns, leaving the city to search anew for a leader to tame its violent crime and policing problems.
Despite big challenges, the residents of Mount Vernon, a historic area with buildings more than 100 years old, embarked on a determined comeback.
Voters on Tuesday cast ballots for primaries in four states: Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon and Pennsylvania.
The state has a brand-new voting map, which analysts predict may help Democrats eventually gain up to six seats in the House of Representatives this fall.
In Pizza Huts, Panera Breads, living rooms and libraries, women are plotting political strategy to help Democrats wrest back power.
The Arts Innovation and Management Program will invest $43 million in Atlanta; Austin, Tex.; Baltimore; Denver; New Orleans; Pittsburgh; and Washington.
In Pennsylvania, a female House member has a protective order against a male colleague she accuses of sexual abuse. Party leaders have made no move to expel him.
Salaries for artificial intelligence researchers at big tech companies are skyrocketing, luring many professors.
The city will spend $200,000 on a program that helps high school students who dream of being entrepreneurs. The men will each receive $1. Starbucks also announced a financial settlement.
Lise-Lotte Lublin was one of several women who spoke in court about their experiences with Mr. Cosby, helping prosecutors convict him of sexual assault.
Representative Patrick Meehan, who had already announced he would retire, said he would pay $39,000 to reimburse the cost of a settlement paid with taxpayer funds.
Mr. Cosby has not said much about the sexual assault allegations against him, but on Thursday he erupted with a vulgarity aimed at the prosecutor.
A jury in Pennsylvania voted to convict Mr. Cosby of sexually assaulting a former Temple University staff member who had looked up to him as a mentor.
More than 15 years after he met the woman who would accuse him of sexual assault, Mr. Cosby again finds his fate in the hands of a Pennsylvania jury.
A confrontation caught on video at a Pennsylvania golf course echoed other recent racially charged incidents involving businesses, black customers and the police.
Prosecutors had said the rapper’s conviction should be vacated because of questions about the credibility of the arresting officer.