Pennsylvania Turnpike

Bus carrying Pennsylvania's Seton Hill lacrosse team crashes; 2 dead

2013-03-16 11:36:00

A bus carrying the Seton Hill University women’s lacrosse team crashed Saturday morning, killing two people and sending several others to the hospital.�� The bus was traveling along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in central Pennsylvania when it...

Pregnant lacrosse coach at Seton Hill killed in bus crash

2013-03-16 15:53:00

The Seton Hill University community in Greensburg, Pa., was in mourning Saturday after a bus carrying the women’s lacrosse team crashed, killing a pregnant coach and the bus driver. The team was on its way to an afternoon match at a school about...

Pennsylvania House debates mass transit funding, which one lawmaker likens to 'welfare'

2013-06-17 20:38:27

HARRISBURG — In the last 16 years, the number of people riding a LANTA bus has risen 60 percent to 6 million. That number is expected to keep going up if the Lehigh Valley's population climbs more than 10 percent over the next seven years as...

Police briefs - June 17

2013-06-16 20:40:00

Woman, children treated following I-81 crash A woman and two children were treated at Meritus Medical Center and released Sunday after a single-vehicle accident in the area of the ramp from eastbound U.S. 40 to northbound Interstate 81, west of...

Latest Pennsylvania news, sports, business and entertainment

2013-05-28 20:56:16

TORNADO-PENNSYLVANIA Tornado in NW Pa. damages buildings, no injuries ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a tornado touched down in northwestern Pennsylvania, where no injuries were immediately reported but some buildings were damaged and at least...

5 things to know for Tuesday for news reports across Pennsylvania

2013-05-28 05:11:44

NEW YORK (AP) — Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. PA. WOMAN LEAVING PURPLE TOILETS ON LAWNS AS PART OF 'FLUSH OUT CANCER' FUNDRAISING EFFORT The Express-Times...

Here is the latest Pennsylvania news from The Associated Press

2013-05-28 06:25:15

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man who gained Internet fame as "Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker" will be returning to New Jersey to face a murder charge in the death of a lawyer. Caleb "Kai" McGillivary waived extradition yesterday in a brief hearing in...

Restaurant notes: Lobster rolls in Rittenhouse; new Chinatown choices

2013-05-20 01:54:03

Luke's Lobster, a quick-growing quick-serve founded by 28-year-old Maine lobsterman Luke Holden, has opened its first Philadelphia shop in the subterranean space that was Bonte waffles at 130 S. 17th St. (215-564-1415). The look is Down East: wood-...

Casino license competitors have strengths, weaknesses

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Although Maryland has handed out five casino operating licenses, the state is entering uncharted territory with the allocation of its sixth. For the first time, there's real competition. Three serious operators submitted bids to run a casino in Prince...

Should call boxes be kept on the turnpike?

2013-05-13 15:08:00

No With all due respect to smoke signals, Morse code and the telegraph — well, society forges on. Call boxes along the Pennsylvania Turnpike are an expensive, unnecessary and seldom-used taxpayer liability that should be struck from the...

National TV commercial highlights county businesses

2013-05-10 19:23:00

Somerset County officials hope a national television advertising campaign will be a catalyst for local business growth. During the past two weeks, film crews from Mineral Point-based Wix Pix Productions have been traveling the county shooting scenes...

Man killed in accident identified

2013-05-09 11:18:00

A man with Somerset County ties died in a motorcycle accident at 1:45 a.m. Thursday in Westmoreland County. Leonard John Rhominski, 24, McKees Rocks, was killed, according to Westmoreland County Chief Deputy Coroner Paul Cycak. His father, Leonard...

Police are pursuing a maroon Buick Regal on the Pennsylvania Turnpike whose occupants are wanted in connection with a robbery at Verizon Wireless in Somerset.

2013-04-08 17:24:00

Authorities investigate a bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

2013-03-16 00:00:00

Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a fatal tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday morning at mile marker 227.

2013-03-16 00:00:00