Standard & Poor’s won a ruling on Thursday that moves 15 lawsuits in which it and its parent company, McGraw-Hill Financial, were accused of fraudulently inflating credit ratings to one federal court. ... Read more
Standard & Poor’s won a ruling on Thursday that moves 15 lawsuits in which it and its parent company, McGraw-Hill Financial, were accused of fraudulently inflating credit ratings to one federal court. ... Read more
George M. Leader, the son of a chicken farmer who was elected governor of Pennsylvania before he turned 40, scoring an upset victory in 1954 largely on the strength of something relatively new in American ... Read more
HUNTINGDON, Pa. — The unmistakable wail of a locomotive horn and screeching steel wheels signal the arrival of the evening Amtrak train in this central Pennsylvania town just over an hour west of ... Read more
Bob Edgar, a Methodist minister who pushed for liberal reforms as a six-term Pennsylvania congressman, a leader of American churches and president of the lobbying group Common Cause, died Tuesday at his home in ... Read more
The federal government and states across the country have spent billions of dollars in recent years on sprawling, privately run halfway houses, which are supposed to save money and rehabilitate inmates more ... Read more
Michael Krancer, the state environment secretary, will step down next month to return to private law practice, Gov. Tom Corbett said Friday. Since taking office in January 2011, Mr. Krancer, 55, has been ... Read more
Four former Pennsylvania governors called for eliminating elections for senior judges in favor of appointing them. Judges seeking campaign donations are open to corruption, the governors argued. ... Read more
HARRISBURG, Pa. — First it was a criminal case. Then it enveloped a university athletic program. Now the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal has infiltrated the realm of politics. ... Read more
The Public Utility Commission voted Thursday to fine the UGI Corporation, Pennsylvania’s largest gas utility, $500,000 for a 2011 natural gas explosion that killed five people in Allentown and ... Read more