State News

Pennsylvania regulators have given the green light to PPL Electric Utilities to begin charging customers a new fee to fund system improvements.

The Boy Scouts of America could change their long-standing ban on openly gay Boy Scouts Thursday. Video

Spanier is asking a county judge to throw out criminal charges accusing him of helping to cover up abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

Dozens of employees of the Pennsylvania auditor general's office are in line to be laid off because of budget cuts.

The Allegheny County medical examiner's office has been working to identify a 19-month-old boy fatally shot during a backyard picnic in Pittsburgh, along with two young women who were wounded.

A lawyer for the family of a 5-year-old girl abducted from her Philadelphia elementary school says the family is planning to sue the district.

Police and wildlife officers are trying to track down a black bear that's been spotted wandering around several residential areas in suburban Philadelphia for days.

Authorities say a police officer's bullet killed a New York college student during the response to a home invasion at an off-campus home.

A move to toughen academic achievement standards and tie them to graduation tests for public school students is facing a groundswell of criticism. Video

State police are looking for whoever stole 13 snakes from a central Pennsylvania family's home.