HARRISBURG, Pa. - Three defendants accused of a criminal scheme to have Pennsylvania taxpayers underwrite political campaigns were brought in handcuffs Friday for arraignment by a Harrisburg district judge.

WASHINGTON, Pa. - The Washington County coroner says a western Pennsylvania mother and her two children died of asphyxiation.

GREENSBURG, Pa. - A 14-year-old neighbor's apparent suicide with a state senator's gun was a tragedy, but shouldn't require the senator to be punished criminally, his attorney told jurors in his closing argument Friday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A high-ranking official in Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has been named the agency's acting secretary.

DANVILLE, Pa. - A gospel singer critically injured in a Pennsylvania highway crash has not been told of his wife's death.

A statement from state Sen. Robert Regola III his acquittal Friday:

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Tuition is going up again at Penn State.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A day after political corruption charges were filed against 12 people connected to the state House's Democratic caucus, the political establishment on Friday began readying for the aftershocks to reverberate through the state Capitol.

PITTSBURGH - A federal judge has approved a liquidation plan for the bankrupt bottled drinks maker Le-Nature's Inc.

TRENTON, N.J. - Former presidential candidate John Edwards says raising the minimum wage is a key component to cutting poverty in America by 50 percent within a decade.

TRENTON, N.J. - The national union investigation of ousted state worker union chief Carla Katz found "a clear and ongoing pattern" of misusing union money for her personal interests.

TRENTON, N.J. - Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday in the midday New Jersey State Lottery drawing:

John McCain and Barack Obama both gave speeches at the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Washington, and...

The shares advisor must now pay £16,000, following an investigation from the financial regulator.

Ministers have unveiled their long-term plans to work with the insurance industry on flood protection.

Some lenders have taken the initiative and reduced rates, after the Bank failed to implement its own reduction to the base rate of interest.

Private schools now cost parents 40 per cent more than they would in 2003, it has been claimed.

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