By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail. Luigi Mangione ...
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A Pennsylvania jail retaliated against inmates suspected of smoking synthetic marijuana by punishing entire cell blocks — confiscating legal paperwork, withholding necessities like toilet paper, soap and warm clothing, and cutting power and heat, ...
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this Pennsylvania city after the biblical birthplace of Jesus. Nearly 300 years later, Moravians continue celebrating their Christmas season traditions in Bethlehem. They ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Security guards at the federal courthouse in Harrisburg shot and wounded a knife-wielding man who attempted to attack one of them on Monday, authorities said. Few details of Monday's shooting were immediately available, and authorities said the FBI was leading the ...
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 ...