Senate Education Committee chairman John Eichelberger reportedly said during a town hall meeting that he blames failing urban school systems for minority students dropping out of college and that money would be better spent training them for vocational programs.
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According to police officials, there were 27 shootings that left 12 individuals dead and 48 others wounded.
The 11-term lawmaker immediately relinquished his post as the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department after his indictment last July.
Police investigators are searching for two shooters who opened fire at a backyard party late Wednesday in Pennsylvania, killing five people and wounding three others, according to NBC News.
A terminally ill Pennsylvania boy with just over a year left to live was granted a final wish over the weekend.
The alleged sexual assault case against entertainer Bill Cosby will move forward after a judge on Wednesday rejected his defense's pleas to drop the case and allowed previous comments made about the attack usable by the prosecution in court.
The future police chief of a town in Pennsylvania has issued an apology for using the n-word in an email.
The confederate flag has been a source of controversy in recent times in the south, but an incident on Monday in a southeastern Pennsylvania town…
Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal is in intensive care for treatment of diabetes and is “not doing well,” his family said Tuesday,…
A Pennsylvania police officer who shot an unarmed man she stopped over an expired inspection sticker was charged with criminal homicide on Tuesday, the Washington…
A Bloomsburg University baseball player has been dismissed from the team for calling Little League World Series star Mo’ne Davis, “a slut,” reports the Associated…
