Farmers, truckers and economists say a move to cut taxes on diesel will provide little relief from record-high fuel prices ...

A private jet operated by two pilots crashed in an empty field shortly after takeoff Wednesday morning from the Bedford ...

Victor Mesa Jr. hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer off Max Fried in the sixth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees 4-3 on Wednesday night with the help of a fan interference call for ...

A former Altoona man serving two life terms for the murders and robbery of an elderly Altoona couple in 2002 has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court asking that his convictions and sentences be ...

Cambria County once powered Pennsylvania. In the 1910s and 1920s, its mines produced more than 16 million tons of coal a year, fueling Johnstown’s steel mills and much of the industrial Northeast.

A group of lawmakers are planning a last-minute play to extend the Supreme Court’s Oct. 13 deadline concerning so-called “skill games” and they are doing it in court, rather than in the lawmaking ...

The Blair County Retirement Board is recommending commissioners budget nearly $304,000 more in 2027 toward supporting the county’s underfunded pension plan. The recommendation means the county’s ...

A Blair County judge denied and dismissed the petition for post-conviction relief filed by the Duncansville woman serving life without parole for her role in the “savage and gruesome” 2001 killing of ...

Iraq devalued its currency Wednesday, changing the official exchange rate from around 1,300 Iraqi dinars to the dollar to 1,500 dinars to the dollar. The country’s central bank said in a statement ...

Most Federal Reserve officials expect that another interest rate increase will likely be needed this year to combat inflation, according to minutes released Wednesday from the central bank’s most ...

The U.S. stock market has never been higher, even as the list of challenges chipping away at it keeps growing.The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% Tuesday to a record after t ...

A former music pastor in Ohio who appeared briefly on " American Idol " was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, after a jury convicted him last week of murdering his ...