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President Joe Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, about a year after a Norfolk Southern train derailed there and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals.
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The Pennsylvania state courts agency says some of its online systems are disabled after its website was hit by a cyberattack, although officials say it didn't appear to compromise any data.
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Smith replaces Matt Canada, who was dismissed just before Thanksgiving with the Steelers offense languishing near the bottom of the league in points and yards.
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Punxsutawney Phil is forecasting an early spring from the largest and best known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States at Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania.
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State courts in Pennsylvania must allow people on probation to continue to take medication for opioid withdrawal as part of a Justice Department settlement announced Thursday.
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The slide in the Sonoma Ridge development in Moon Township closed part of a road two weeks ago, and since then another road has also been affected, officials said.
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Mason Rudolph’s unlikely renaissance will continue into the playoffs. Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin says he is sticking with the former third-string quarterback ahead of a trip to AFC East champion Buffalo.
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Pittsburgh clinched a wild-card spot when Tennessee upset Jacksonville, giving the Steelers a playoff berth that seemed unlikely following a three-game skid that included losses to lowly Arizona and New England.
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Michael Burham, 35, was sentenced Friday in Warren County Court after pleading guilty in November to charges in the July escape and the earlier kidnapping of a Pennsylvania couple. He apologized to the victims and "everyone in Warren" and also to Erie County correctional officers whom he said he had "treated poorly."
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U.S. Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having "dark conversations" about harming himself before he hit "the emergency brake" and sought treatment for depression. In an interview with NBC's `"Meet the Press," the Braddock Democrat described his thoughts at that time as, "I can't be a blueprint for my children. I can't let them be left alone or not to understand why he would have done that."