MaryClaire Dale | Associated Press

Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta — ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are not chosen by chance — did not immediately give a reason for the ruling.

The ruling is a loss for the world's richest man and his political action committee.

Democratic Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed suit over the America PAC sweepstakes, alleging they are an illegal lottery under Pennsylvania law.

Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed a University of Pennsylvania researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black.

Hundreds of people gathered at a Pennsylvania church to honor a former fire chief who was shot and killed at a rally for former President Donald Trump. After Corey Compatore’s funeral on Friday, mourners fell silent as his former colleagues loaded his flag-draped casket onto a fire truck draped in black bunting.

More colleges around the country have been closing as they cope with steep declines in enrollment, leaving tens of thousands of students in limbo — and at increased risk of never finishing their degrees at all.

A federal district judge ruled in November that even without the proper dates written on the envelope, mail-in ballots should be counted if they are received in time.

The panel found in a ruling Thursday that the nation's founders intended 18- to 20-year-olds to enjoy the same Second Amendment rights as other citizens.

Escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante was captured Wednesday after eluding hundreds of searchers for two weeks in rural southeastern Pennsylvania.

Authorities have reiterated that escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante is believed to be within a perimeter in a rural stretch of southeastern Pennsylvania after he stole a rifle from a garage and fled a homeowner’s gunfire.