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WASHINGTON (AP) — David McCormick had a clear explanation for why his fellow Republican, Dr. Mehmet Oz, lost a critical Pennsylvania Senate seat last year: Voters viewed the daytime television celebrity as an interloper from New Jersey with limited ties to the state he hoped to represent.
 

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled western Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance of severe asthma reactions, researchers said in reports released Tuesday evening.

SEPTA officials are implementing safety training for some 9,000 workers in the wake of a half dozen crashes involving their vehicles.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Monday threw out a trial court’s judgment allowing a woman to collect stacked uninsured motorist coverage despite her husband having waived stacking benefits.

HARRISBURG — More than a month after the state missed its June 30 deadline, Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed Pennsylvania’s main budget bill into law, allowing tens of billions of dollars to flow to school districts, counties, and nonprofits.

HARRISBURG — More than a month after the state missed its June 30 deadline, Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed Pennsylvania’s main budget bill into law, allowing tens of billions of dollars to flow to school districts, counties, and nonprofits.

Diagnostic errors — that is, overlooking a disease, or diagnosing it erroneously or late — are a known occurrence in health care, and one that can have tragic effects. Yet so far there have been few attempts to quantify misdiagnoses in terms of deaths and permanent disability, and the full scale of their impact has been underestimated by the medical community, according to a 2015 report by the National Academy of Medicine.

'Sky's the Limit': Pa. Justices' Punitive Damages Ruling Creates Uncertainty for Defendants

How Pennsylvania’s budget impasse has affected tuition rates at state-related universities

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case that could invalidate the regular use exclusion in uninsured and underinsured coverage policies.