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A top Harrisburg Republican said Friday that the legislature might consider moving back the April 24 primary election to make time for a commission to create new maps for all 203 state House seats and 50 Senate seats.

The City of Philadelphia wants to hire an efficiency expert. Believe it or not, this may be a first for the city government.

Police are searching for a North Philadelphia man who they said shot and wounded a woman and her 13-year-old daughter in Nicetown this week.

WILKES-BARRE - The long-delayed homicide trial of a Northeastern Pennsylvania man whose property contained multiple sets of human remains has been pushed back again.

HARRISBURG - The jury in the corruption trial of State Rep. Bill DeWeese deliberated for a second full day Friday without reaching a verdict.

Expressing regret and quoting Shakespeare, a Chester County Court judge declared a mistrial in a murder case Friday after three full days of testimony.

The Philadelphia School District eliminated 91 school police jobs Friday in a cost-cutting move that brought the number of city schools without officers to 100.

Under a judge's lengthy questioning Friday, Parth Ingle, charged along with his mother in the bludgeoning and stabbing death of his father, repeatedly insisted that he didn't want to dump his lawyer.

The couple evidently had a troubled and volatile relationship and, according to Montgomery County investigators, it ended in homicide. Officials on Friday said they had identified a suspect in the killing of Alicia Schmidt, 31, a mother of two, whose body was found Thursday morning at the bottom of the basement steps of her Pottstown home.

Detectives are investigating a report that a 21-year-old woman was sexually assaulted early Friday behind a Center City nightclub. About 1 a.m., the woman was at G Lounge, below Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse at 17th Street and Stock Exchange Place, police said.

We've heard it for years - a violent culture begets violence. Conventional wisdom says, if you want to understand the not-so-subliminal reasons for incivility, you don't have to look any further than the movies, the music, and the video games - the elements of pop culture we so readily identify with and glorify.

With a $61 million shortfall to bridge by the end of June, the Philadelphia School District will let go about 90 school police officers Friday, according to a source familiar with the plan.

SEPTA opened a new "accessible travel center" in Suburban Station on Thursday to make it easier for commuters with handicaps to learn to use buses, subways, and trains.

With Washington deadlocked over funding for the nation's highways and transit systems, several transportation experts warned Thursday at a forum in Philadelphia that continued wrangling could jeopardize the nation's recovering economy.

The wife of a former Delaware County judge has been criminally charged with lying to conceal his molestations of a young girl.

The widow of a Delaware County man beaten and stabbed to death in 2008 was arrested Thursday and faces charges that she and her son killed her husband, authorities said.

One of the better-financed Republicans in the race to try to unseat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) halted his campaign Thursday, citing his failure to capture the party's endorsement.

Two cases of pertussis, popularly known as whooping cough, have been reported at Hillsdale Elementary School in West Chester, prompting officials to bar any students or staff who have not been vaccinated against the disease from entering the building.

At the urging of a federal judge, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Ron Tomalis will meet with Chester Upland School District stakeholders to determine how to keep the schools open until June.

Whether Texas street preacher Eddie Ray Wright is a victim, like the four people found captive in a Tacony basement - or is part of the alleged conspiracy to steal their government benefits - is a question a Philadelphia jury will decide.