By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The new year will usher in the bitcoin-friendly administration of President-elect Donald Trump and an expanding lobbying effort in statehouses that, together, could push states to become more open to crypto and for public pension funds ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge.
Luigi Mangione will be represented by ...
A judge who helped orchestrate one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S.history — a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks — was among the 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden this week.
Biden's decision to commute the 17-year ...
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press
A judge who helped orchestrate one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S.history — a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks — was among the 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden this ...
By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — More than 400 tips were called into the New York Police Department's Crime Stoppers tip line during the five-day search for a masked gunman who ambushed and fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week.
NYPD officials ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The gun found on the man charged with killing United Healthcare's CEO matched shell casings found at the site of the shooting, New York City's police commissioner said Wednesday as authorities scrutinized evidence ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors were beginning to take steps Tuesday to bring the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO back to New York to face a murder charge while new details emerged about his life and how he was ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, MARK SCOLFORO and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — A man suspected in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO was arrested and charged with murder Monday after a quick-thinking McDonald's customer in Pennsylvania recognized him from ...
By SEAN MURPHY and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press
Police arrested a 26-year-old man on Monday in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO after they say a Pennsylvania McDonald's worker alerted authorities to a customer who resembled the suspected gunman.
The suspect, identified ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO was likely carried out with a ghost gun, one of the nearly untraceable weapons that can be made a home, police said Monday.
A ghost gun is a firearm without a serial number, and police ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — After days of searching through security footage, following up on a deluge of tips and even sending scuba divers to the bottom of a lake, police on Monday announced the arrest of a suspect in the killing of ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Couples who look awkward on skates — and on dates — had a chance to celebrate their cute clumsiness in a Rocky and Adrian look-alike contest at Philadelphia's RockyFest on Friday.
The evening event at the University of Pennsylvania's 1923 Ice Rink was meant to echo ...
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
The remains of a woman who fell into a sinkhole were recovered Friday, four days after she went missing while searching for her cat, a state police spokesperson said.
Trooper Steve Limani said the body of 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard was sent to the ...
Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property.
That's what searchers in Westmoreland County, just southeast of Pittsburgh, fear led to the disappearance of 64-year-old ...
Authorities fear a grandmother who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed up by a sinkhole that recently opened up in a western Pennsylvania village.
Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole in Marguerite on Tuesday morning but detected ...
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rocky Balboa fans are ready to go the distance — by bus, by ice skates, by 72 steps — to honor Philly's favorite fictional fighter almost 50 years after the first movie launched the enduring series of an underdog boxer persevering ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The drubbing Democrats took in Pennsylvania in this year's election has prompted predictable vows to rebound, but it has also sowed doubts about whether Pennsylvania might be leaving the ranks of up-for-grabs swing states for a ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro said Friday that he will divert more than $150 million in federal highway funding to provide a one-time injection of cash to help Philadelphia's mass transit system avoid near-term service cutbacks and fare ...
LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — A girl's remains found under brush and a plastic tarp in the Pennsylvania woods 51 years ago were identified by state police Thursday as 14-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Brenneman, who was last seen leaving for school in fall 1973.
State police said genetic genealogy helped ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Penn State has won a closely watched trademark fight over an online retailer's use of its vintage sports logos and images.
A Pennsylvania jury awarded Penn State $28,000 in damages on Wednesday over products made and sold by Vintage Brand and Sportswear Inc., two firms ...