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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle zoo says North America’s oldest orangutan born in a zoo has died after struggling with respiratory problems. The 48-year-old primate…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the bombings in Brussels that killed 31 people: Belgian prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for a new suspect…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City siblings are among the dead in the attacks in Brussels, their family said Friday. Alexander and Sascha…

HARRISBURG (AP) – Pennsylvania’s judicial ethics court fined a former state Supreme Court justice $50,000 on Thursday, one week after he resigned because of his…

NEW YORK (AP) – Turns out there’s a shadowy global industry devoted to breaking into smartphones and extracting their information. But you’ve probably never heard…

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man charged with fatally shooting a police officer who responded to a domestic dispute could face the death…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – A day after bombs ripped through Brussels, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that fighting the Islamic State is his “No….

PITTSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — A rare bird described as a “flying rainbow” that normally doesn’t fly north of the Carolinas on the East Coast has…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf, in accordance with a presidential proclamation, has ordered all U.S. and Commonwealth flags at the Capitol complex and…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Eaglet number two has emerged in Pittsburgh. The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania says the second eaglet of the season from three…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities searched Wednesday for a man pictured at the Brussels airport with two apparent suicide bombers, amid growing suggestions that the…

PITTSBURGH (AP) – A mental health manager who tackled a gunman who killed his caseworker and wounded a psychiatrist at an eastern Pennsylvania hospital complex…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the explosions Tuesday at Brussels airport and a subway station (all times local): 11:30 p.m. A Belgian security official…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Bombs exploded Tuesday at the Brussels airport and in the city’s subway, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens, as a…

The Associated Press MONTREAL — Rob Ford, the controversial former mayor of Toronto who made international headlines with his admission that he smoked crack cocaine while…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Explosions, at least one likely caused by a suicide bomber, rocked the Brussels airport and subway system Tuesday, prompting a lockdown of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) – In a stunning disclosure, federal authorities said Monday that they may have found a way to unlock an iPhone used by…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s pursuit of a major election-year tax increase has decades of precedent against it: No such tax increase…

NEW YORK (AP) — The lights atop the Empire State Building in New York have been dimmed for Earth Hour, a global movement aimed at…

This undated image provided by lepidopterist Andrew Warren shows the newly discovered Tanana Arctic butterfly. Research by Warren suggests that the newly discovered species evolved…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Dubai airliner with 62 people on board nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball early Saturday while trying to land in…

BRUSSELS (AP) — After an intense four-month manhunt across Europe and beyond, police on Friday captured the top fugitive in the Paris attacks in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Earth got so hot last month that federal scientists struggled to find words, describing temperatures as “astronomical,” “staggering” and “strange.” They warned…

HARRISBURG (AP) – A bill to let Pennsylvania patients who suffer from a list of ailments obtain marijuana for therapeutic purposes easily passed the state…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The first donor breast milk bank in the western Pennsylvania region is opening in Pittsburgh and will be the only one supplying…

ERIE (AP) – A 14-year-old reticulated giraffe has died at a northwestern Pennsylvania zoo. Erie Zoo officials tell the Erie Times-News that a veterinarian euthanized…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Mother Teresa will be made a saint on Sept. 4. Pope Francis set the canonization date Tuesday, paving the way for…

HARRISBURG (AP) – The governor of Pennsylvania has ordered all United States and commonwealth flags in the state Capitol complex and at all commonwealth facilities…

  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A proposal to allow marijuana to be prescribed for a list of medical conditions is heading to the Pennsylvania House…

The Associated Press (Editor’s note: This is one of several stories by The Associated Press, McClatchy and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel marking Sunshine Week, an…

NEW YORK (AP) — As an all-out search for two tugboat crew members stretched into hours following a deadly crash on the Hudson River, New…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The Louisiana black bear, the animal behind the “teddy’s bear” inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt, has rebounded enough to pull it…

DETROIT (AP) – It’s a first for police cars: Doors that can protect against armor-piercing bullets. Ford will soon be offering the doors on its…

In this Aug. 17, 2015, file photo, a lobsterman motors through a channel between islands as he leaves Cape Porpoise Harbor at sunrise in Kennebunkport,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Newly released video shows the moment a Google self-driving car learned the hard way not to tussle with a public bus….

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — More than 45,000 Pennsylvania workers at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club are getting a pay raise. Wal-Mart says all associates hired before Jan….

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A man wanted by Idaho authorities in an attack that left a church pastor seriously wounded has been arrested by…

From staff reports HARRISBURG – Legislation that would authorize Pennsylvania’s first hunting-license fee increase in more than 17 years was introduced Friday in the state…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — It’s called “passing the trash”: A school suspects a teacher of sexual misconduct and forces the teacher out to protect the…

HARRISBURG (AP) – Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf was expected to sign an executive order Monday ensuring a minimum wage of $10.15 an hour for all…

By SEAN SAUROThe Altoona Mirror ALTOONA (AP) – Juniata College has taken ownership of more than 300 acres in Bedford County after a farm was…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former first lady Nancy Reagan has died at 94 in Bel-Air, California. Assistant Allison Borio says Mrs. Reagan died Sunday at…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first West Coast waves of a week of powerful storms arrived to provide strong evidence March will not be as…

SHANKSVILLE (AP) – Crayon drawings, stuffed animals and other mementos left by children at the Flight 93 memorial in western Pennsylvania will go on display…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Not so tricky. More straightforward. Guessing allowed. The newly redesigned SAT college entrance exam that debuts nationally Saturday is getting good reviews…

PITTSBURGH (AP) – “I had one of those.” That’s likely to be the most common phrase uttered by visitors to the new “Toys” exhibit at…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The nation’s top law officer called for dialogue with the tech industry, but also turned up the heat on Apple for…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration says police officers in Pennsylvania reversed more than 600 heroin and opioid overdoses in a little over…