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New Jersey officials filed legal documents on Wednesday seeking to suspend the medical license of abortion doctor Steven C. Brigham, whose main regional clinic, American Women's Services, is in Voorhees.

Gov. Rendell said Wednesday that he doubted he and state lawmakers would meet their Oct. 1 deadline to pass a tax on natural-gas drillers - which could pour hundreds of millions of dollars into state and local governments' recession-ravaged coffers.

'Oh, yeah, that's my man," someone shouted Wednesday from the cheering throng gathered as Ryan Howard stepped up to home plate amid the scorched grass, dusty infield, and rotting bleachers of the Hunting Park baseball field.

New Jersey's attorney general has started a review of the consulting firm that was paid more than $500,000 to help prepare the state's two unsuccessful applications for $400 million in federal Race to the Top educational grants.

Months before the current scandal broke and the two powerful men squared off, Philadelphia Housing Authority chief Carl R. Greene hired private detectives to conduct surveillance on an aide to PHA Board Chairman John F. Street.

Former Mayor John F. Street leveled the strongest charge to date against the executive director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, accusing him Wednesday of conducting a "full-blown cover-up" to keep sexual harassment settlements from the board.

FLEMINGTON, N.J. - Gov. Christie announced a series of proposals at a town-hall meeting Wednesday that would expand legislators' financial-disclosure requirements, crack down on conflicts of interest, and close loopholes in campaign-finance laws.

For 104 years, the bell at St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in hilly, blue-collar Manayunk has joyfully summoned the faithful to prayer, celebrated marriages, and marked the ends of wars.

With the economy still in shambles and voters still in an angry mood, no one running for office this year wants to be seen as a political insider.

An appellate judge will temporarily fill the New Jersey Supreme Court vacancy created by the controversial removal of Justice John E. Wallace in May.

Atop a sealed mound of industrial waste on a historically toxic swath of Gloucester County, Bill Geary sees a sunny future.

It's still the economy, stupid. The political bromide, popularized in 1992 by Democratic strategist James Carville, may have never been more true than in this year's congressional races.

With dryness spreading like brushfire across the region, New Jersey officially is asking residents to make peace with their browning lawns, ease up on the faucets, and cram those plates into their dishwashers.

The daughter of the late reggae icon Bob Marley does not trumpet her famous father, but she shares some of his beliefs - ones that have landed her in trouble, her attorney said Wednesday.

A Chester County Court judge sympathized Wednesday with the "tough, tough childhood" of a Coatesville woman accused of assaulting her boyfriend during an argument.

A teacher at South Philadelphia High School has filed a lawsuit claiming administrators retaliated against him for warning that Asian students were in danger - a warning that proved prophetic on Dec. 3.

The numbers are distressing. One in five adults in Philadelphia is not able to read a book or a newspaper properly.

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams and cable executive Brigitte F. Daniel on Wednesday received prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship awards to travel and study abroad.

As it prepares to build a large temple in Center City, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has agreed to donate $300,000 to the city's prisoner-reentry program.

HARRISBURG - Public Welfare Secretary Harriet Dichter is leaving the Rendell administration to launch the Washington office of a nonprofit organization devoted to influencing federal policy on early education.