Philadelphia (Vocus) — Dan Onorato would make Pennsylvania public schools a top priority, and has earned the votes of public education supporters, according to the political action committee of Pennsylvania’s largest school employee union. Jim read more..

It was a tale of two seasons for the Quakers in 2009-10. The first was a disaster, while the second merely a big disappointment. read more..

Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania ended 2009 with a surplus of $251 million, according to a recent filing with the state Insurance Department. The total is down 26 percent from its $339 million surplus ending 2008 and is 46 percent lower than its $ read more..

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Education Realty Trust Inc. , one of the nation’s largest developers, owners and managers of quality university housing properties, today announced that the Mansfield Auxiliary Corporation , a 501 corporation that supports Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, has selected Allen & O’Hara Development Co., LLC , a wholly owned subsidiary of EDR, to design and develop on-campus … read more..

HARRISBURG, Pa., March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As temperatures in Pennsylvania begin to rise, acting Secretary of Public Welfare Harriet Dichter today reminded low-income families there is still time to apply for heating assistance. read more..

A camp that served area Girl Scouts for more than half a century will no longer be used by the Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania. Camp El Wa Ho east of Chambersburg is one of five camps “whose use will be discontinued indefinitely,” according to the chapter, which encompasses 30 counties in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. read more..

Mayors of small and medium-sized Pennsylvania cities say the Legislature must allow them to raise new tax revenue to prevent more of them from falling into financial crisis. read more..

VALLEJO — The suspect in a Vallejo homicide who was arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday has been extradited back to the Bay Area and will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Solano County Superior Court. read more..

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Education Realty Trust, Inc. today provided an update on a previously announced agreement the Company’s development subsidiary, Allen & O’Hara Development Co., LLC , signed to provide Indiana University of Pennsylvania third party development and construction oversight services for a new hotel to be located on the IUP campus. read more..

WASHINGTON, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — There are currently 279 American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA)-financed highway construction projects underway or completed in Pennsylvania involving $898.1 million in funds, according to data released today by the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The projects underway or completed have … read more..

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania Democrats have chosen former congressional aide Mark Critz as the nominee for a special election to fill the U.S. House seat once held by late Rep. John Murtha. read more..

The jobless may not be getting much help from President Obama’s loan modification program, but those in Pennsylvania have another place to turn. read more..

PHILADELPHIA—-The State of Pennsylvania notified Aetna that it has awarded a Medicaid managed care contract to Aetna Better Health,SM Aetna’s Medicaid business. read more..

The Vallejo Police Department has extradited Ellis Ross from Pennsylvania so he can be booked on murder charges, police said Sunday.Ross was captured outside Pittsburg, Pa., early Saturday after a traffic stop, according to the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office. read more..

Pennsylvania plans to launch a tax amnesty program on April 26. read more..

Over 400 vendors have set up shop in the Farm Show Complex’s Expo Hall this week for the 2010 edition of the Pennsylvania Home Show . Most of those exhibitors are contractors, from companies that specialize in custom built new homes to more specialized services such as swimming pool installers, landscape contractors and firms that concentrate on windows and doors. read more..

Tyler Smith worked harder than he ever had to have a successful season on the ski slopes this winter. His hours on the mountains paid off, as the North Pocono senior dominated the slalom and giant slalom, capturing the Governor’s Cup as the Pennsylvania read more..

With the precision one might expect from a retired engineer, there is an “X” in a circle on the map of Iwo Jima. That is the spot on Charlie Dog Ridge where 18-year-old Marine Jack Gartenberg was wounded by shrapnel on March 4, 1945. He had been on read more..

NORRISTOWN — With his eldest son and wife’s relatives looking on, a Conshohocken man claimed to a judge on Friday that he was mentally ill when he beat and stomped his wife to death during an argument in their home. Joseph Vincent Giongo, 46 read more..

Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will restart this week under almost ideal circumstances for the Palestinians. Dozens were hurt on both sides Friday in disturbances at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, clashes which soon spread into the Old read more..

The company that is expected to create 440 jobs in Jackson by year’s end will hire more hourly employees in April. Carlisle Tire and Wheel will begin producing tires for the nation’s agricultural industry inside the former Whirlpool-Jackson read more..

CHRIS KNIGHT, The Patriot-News We’re no. 1 Pennsylvania ranks No. 1 among the nation’s largest states for its speed in starting and completing transportation projects funded by the federal stimulus money. read more..

Jack Eggleston scored a career-high 25 points and had 11 rebounds to lead Pennsylvania to a 78-68 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday night. read more..

VALLEJO, Calif. — A 24-year-old Vallejo man has been arrested in western Pennsylvania in connection with a homicide in Vallejo on Feb. 6. read more..

Jack Eggleston scored a career-high 25 points and had 11 rebounds to lead Pennsylvania to a 78-68 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday night. Zack Rosen added 18 points and six assists and the Quakers (6-21, 5-8 Ivy League) shot 52.1 percent from the field (25 of 48) to win for the second time in nine games. read more..

PHILADELPHIA — Jack Eggleston scored a career-high 25 points and had 11 rebounds to lead Pennsylvania to a 78-68 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday night.Zack Rosen added 18 points and six assists a… read more..

Pennsylvania is among the 15 states and the District of Columbia to advance as finalists for phase one of the Race to the Top competition, according to the U.S. Department of Education. read more..

CHAMBERSBURG — The Pennsylvania Bar Association presented three County Bar Recognition Awards to the Franklin County Bar Association during the 44th Annual Seminar of the Conference of County Bar Leaders in Lancaster. read more..

HARRISBURG, Pa., March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Historical and Museum Commission will honor Pennsylvania’s 329th birthday by displaying the original Penn Charter from March 12-19 at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. read more..

Local filmmaker Lucas McNelly hopes to make Dormont a destination for prestigious festivals and for Pittsburghers wanting to see locally made movies. McNelly’s Indies for Indies film series launches tomorrow at the Hollywood Theatre, a Potomac Avenue read more..

PAUL CHAPLIN, The Patriot-News Joe Skelly of Lower Allen Twp. watches television while using a fitness machine at the East Shore YMCA in Harrisburg. Comcast has come to the rescue of Harrisburg East Shore YMCA exercisers who have been missing their read more..

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Ben Roethlisberger’s agent says the Steelers quarterback has spoken to police about an allegation made after the player and his friends “mingled” with a group of women. The statement is short on details but Roethlisberger was read more..

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - President Barack Obama is coming to the Philadelphia area as part of his pitch for health care reform. The White House on Friday announced Obama will speak at Arcadia University in Glenside on Monday morning. The president has read more..

Arnold Schwarzenegger and reform supporters who lobbied to change state law so California would have a better shot at the funding. Other states with large populations, including New York, Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois, were among 16 that made read more..

LOS ANGELES - One hundred sheriff’s deputies and 400 part-time deputies were laid off. SWAT officers were ordered back to the streets. Narcotics and gang units were disbanded. Helicopters were grounded. K-9 survived. To absorb more than $30 million read more..

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is done putting on its case in the theft, conspiracy and conflict-of-interest trial of a former state representative and three former legislative aides. Prosecution testimony wrapped up read more..