PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Since Pennsylvania lawmakers decided a decade ago to give motorcyclists the choice of whether to wear helmets or not, the number of deaths in motorcycle crashes has... READ MORE »

BRADDOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Police in western Pennsylvania say a teenager has been charged and a second suspect is being sought in the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl at a Pittsburgh-area... READ MORE »

WEST CHESTER (AP) -- Police say a suburban Philadelphia high school student was cited and suspended after a classmate was shot with a BB gun in homeroom. Investigators in Chester County... READ MORE »

STAR CITY, W.Va. (AP) -- For nearly nine months, the people of this small West Virginia town saw the face of missing 16-year-old honors student Skylar Neese everywhere -- beaming at them... READ MORE »

BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (AP) -- Police in one western Pennsylvania community are searching for Bigfoot -- but this quest has a better chance of success than most. That's because the Bigfoot... READ MORE »

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pittsburgh officials says pothole-filled Warrington Avenue will be repaved by midsummer. But one motorist fed up with potholes -- and the damage he says they've done to... READ MORE »

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- Church officials say a Roman Catholic priest has been relieved of his duties in northeastern Pennsylvania after being charged with open lewdness. Court documents... READ MORE »

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- An eastern Pennsylvania woman who fatally stabbed her fiance on their wedding day -- and then apparently could not comprehend that he had died -- was convicted of... READ MORE »

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- Police in central Pennsylvania say a woman lied when she called 911 from inside a car trunk to say she had been abducted by two men. Lancaster City Police said... READ MORE »

GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders -- a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture... READ MORE »