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The Wilkinsburg-Penn Joint Water Authority, which serves 40,000 customers in Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs, will resume shut-offs for nonpayment next month. -
The non-profit American Rivers will use the federal funds to take down small, obsolete dams in the Ohio and Susquehanna rivers watersheds. -
The ongoing consolidation between DuBois and Sandy Township is only the second one in Pennsylvania after lawmakers standardized the process. It has shown the limits of state law. -
A federal court decision that protects the constitutional rights of homeless Pottstown residents could be overruled by the high court this summer. -
The student protest movement over the war in Gaza is roiling Senate contests in an election year when control of the chamber is at stake in November. Democrats are treading cautiously over an internal divide about the campus demonstrations while Republicans are playing up their rivals' disagreements. -
The secrecy leaves taxpayers in the dark about who underwrites the outings and what interests they may have in state government policy.
Film scholar Adam Hart's new book "Raising The Dead" draws on George Romero's archives to shed new light on the zombie-film auteur.
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Sean Feucht promotes Christian dominionism, which teaches that Christians are mandated by God to take control of all aspects of government and culture. -
A small Ohio River community that is home to a hazardous waste facility is wondering what will happen now that the company that ran the facility has failed to comply with a court order to clean up excess toxic oil and gas drilling waste. -
A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients has pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges and been sentenced to life in prison. -
Nippon Steel delays closing of acquisition of U.S. Steel until late this year after U.S. DOJ requestNippon Steel says it has postponed the expected closing of its $14.1 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by three months after the U.S. Department of Justice requested more documentation related to the deal. -
Last year, EPA investigators found nearly two dozen violations at the Max Environmental Technologies hazardous waste landfill in Yukon, Westmoreland County.
