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Shooting in Lebanon kills 3, including 2 children, wounds 4th person

LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — A shooting outside an eastern Pennsylvania home killed three people, two of them children aged 8 and 9, and wounded another person, authorities said. Chief Bret Fisher of the Lebanon police department said officers responded to a city residence shortly after 10 p.m. ...

Shooting in Lebanon kills 3, including 2 children, wounds 4th person

    LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — A shooting outside an eastern Pennsylvania home killed three people, two of them children aged 8 and 9, and wounded another person, authorities said. Chief Bret Fisher of the Lebanon police department said officers responded to a city residence shortly after ...

EMS workers say problems “kicked down the road” caused crisis

  (The Center Square) — Pennsylvania’s emergency services face a serious financial crisis — and a dire situation to recruit first responders and ensure their health. The state’s inaction, combined with mounting demands, leaves firefighters frustrated. Emergency workers scale back ...

Trial opens for accused gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

    PITTSBURGH (AP) — The federal jury trial of the suspect in the nation's deadliest antisemitic attack got underway Tuesday morning, four and a half years after the shooting deaths of 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Twelve jurors and six alternates — chosen Thursday ...

Remains of 5 more Native American children to be disinterred in Pennsylvania

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — The remains of five more Native American children who died at a notorious government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania over a century ago will be disinterred from a small Army cemetery and returned to descendants, authorities said Thursday. The remains are buried on ...

Teen charged in shooting death of schoolmate outside Pittsburgh school

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 15-year-old student was charged with homicide in the fatal shooting of his 15-year-old schoolmate just outside a school in Pittsburgh shortly before classes were due to start Wednesday morning, police said. Officers found Derrick Harris just before 7:30 a.m. with gunshot ...

Democrats advance gun-control bills in Pennsylvania House

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities could temporarily seize firearms and background checks would be expanded for gun buyers, under two bills passed Monday in the Pennsylvania House, where Democrats are using their razor-thin majority ...

10K bridges similar to Pittsburgh one that collapsed should be checked

Investigators looking into the collapse of a Pittsburgh bridge want transportation officials nationwide to examine more than 10,000 other bridges with similar construction to ensure they don't have the same kind of corrosion that was found on the bridge that collapsed. The National ...