Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is demanding that the Obama administration rescind what he calls its "flawed and dangerous" decision requiring virtually all employers to offer employees health coverage that includes contraceptives and "abortion-inducing drugs."
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.
New Castle County Police arrested a couple and charged them with endangering the welfare of their two children after police discovered that they were living in a home that was unsafe and unhealthy.
Perhaps it was appropriate that Newt Gingrich campaigned on the eve of Saturday's Nevada caucuses at Stoney's Rockin' Country nightclub in Las Vegas, next to a mechanical bull, a contraption designed to shake-and-bake wannabe cowboys and fling them into the sawdust.
HARRISBURG - A controversial former welfare adviser who left Gov. Corbett's administration says the governor "buckled" to media and special interests in his case.
Three Philadelphia firefighters were injured, one critically, when they became trapped on a third floor while fighting a rowhouse fire early Sunday in North Philadelphia.
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.
A Philadelphia man was in custody on Sunday after police said he fatally stabbed his cousin during an argument Friday in the city's Wissinoming section near Tacomy.
Gov. Christie's proposal to merge Rutgers-Camden into Rowan University reminds me of . . . Admiral Wilson Boulevard.
Consider: A dozen years ago, a Republican governor named Christine Todd Whitman sought to transform South Jersey's notorious strip from sleazy to scenic.