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HARRISBURG - Once again, a coalition of faith-based groups is holding its vigil at the Capitol before the governor's annual budget address.

HARRISBURG - A controversial former welfare adviser who left Gov. Corbett's administration says the governor "buckled" to media and special interests in his case.

As I type, jurors deliberate the fate of State Rep. Bill DeWeese, the former House speaker who will go down in history as a modern legislator who spoke primarily in 19th-century verse.

When Bob Keares proposed building Pennsylvania's largest solar farm in the heart of Chester County, he expected a warm reception, certainly from environmentalists.

Hundreds of laws and military orders create a world of oppression for Palestinians in Israel, Susan Abulhawa, a pro-Palestinian author and activist, told an audience Saturday.

The Philadelphia Water Department plans to seek a 28.5 percent rate increase, starting in October and spreading across a little less than three years.

Starting next week, the Philadelphia School District will cancel all weekend programs and shut school buildings an hour early during the week to save $2.8 million.

WASHINGTON - Here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress voted on major issues last week: House Federal aviation budget. Voting 248-169, the House on Thursday sent the Senate a measure (H.R. 658) to authorize federal aviation programs through Sept. 30, 2015, at a cost of $63.3 billion, including $13.4 billion for airport improvements and tens of bi

State Rep. Mark Cohen hasn't racked up 40 years in the Pennsylvania legislature by taking his political opponents lightly. When he heard that Numa St. Louis, 31, an Olney educator, was planning a run against him this spring, Cohen discovered they were both Facebook devotees - St. Louis with more than 700 friends, Cohen with more than 5,000.

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.