Michael Rubinkam | Associated Press
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Federal safety officials are investigating the role of a natural gas pipeline in a fatal blast at the R.M. Palmer Co. in West Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Authorities say determining the explosion's cause will be complicated because heavy equipment was used to pick apart the wreckage during the search for victims and survivors.
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A preliminary federal report says the crew operating the freight train that derailed in East Palestine didn’t get much warning before dozens of cars went off the tracks.
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Federal environmental regulators have taken charge of the cleanup from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and chemical burn and ordered Norfolk Southern to foot the bill.
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Under court order, the FBI has released a trove of photos, videos, maps and other documents involving its secretive search for Civil War-era gold in Dents Run, Pennsylvania. The government says the dig came up empty, but a treasure hunter believes otherwise
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A Lackawanna County judge on Monday acquitted former Attorney General Kathleen Kane of drunken driving and careless driving after a one-day bench trial in Scranton. The 56-year—old former attorney general was charged by Scranton police after she got into a minor car crash on March 12.
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The state Department of Environmental Protection has quietly lifted its long moratorium on gas production in Dimock, a small village in northeastern Pennsylvania that gained national notoriety when residents were filmed lighting their tap water on fire.
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Workers from 14 Pennsylvania nursing homes went on strike Friday after marathon contract negotiations failed to produce a deal. About 700 unionized workers walked off the job in a dispute over pay, benefits and staffing levels.
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Pennsylvania may not keep a cache of weapons seized from the parents of a g unman who killed one state trooper and permanently disabled another eight years ago, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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A Commonwealth Court judge has ordered Berks, Fayette and Lancaster counties to add about 800 contested mail-in ballots to the results of the May election, ruling in a legal dispute that stalled statewide certification of the primary results for governor and U.S. Senate.