Pennsylvania

Three Philadelphia police officers were ambushed by gunfire while responding to a shooting Wednesday night in Northeast Philadelphia, authorities said. 

Temple University acting president JoAnne A. Epps died Tuesday shortly after becoming ill on stage during a memorial service, officials said, describing her loss as a gut punch and struggling through emotion as they recalled her nearly four decades of service.

Nine juveniles are back in custody after police say they broke out of a detention center in Berks County over the weekend.

The frantic manhunt for an escaped killer that sent hundreds of law enforcement agents swarming through terrified communities has come to an end after the fugitive was taken into custody two weeks later.

Authorities have moved their search for escaped killer Danelo Cavalcante after he was spotted near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania overnight. A van he is believed to have stolen was later recovered.

Looks like “The Boss" is calling out sick. Bruce Springsteen has postponed his tour stop with the E-Street Band in Philadelphia.

Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania are adding to a body of evidence suggesting links between the natural gas industry and certain health problems.

The owners of a home that exploded in western Pennsylvania last weekend were having issues with their hot water tank, authorities said.

Upon arriving at the scene, the Junction Fire Company found one vehicle crashed into the second floor of a residence with the driver out of the vehicle.

A 9-month-old boy and his 2-year-old sister are still missing after devastating flash flooding claimed the lives of five people in Bucks County over this weekend.

Escaped inmate Michael Burham is a "self-taught survivalist with military training" and considered armed and dangerous.

Authorities have identified five people who were killed when they say a gunman opened fire through the streets of a Philadelphia neighborhood Monday evening. 

Neighbors in Kutztown, Pennsylvania were told not to approach a cow that had broken loose Monday night.

Robert Bowers was convicted on Friday in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Jurors must now decide whether he should be sent to death row or sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Family members have identified a man they say was driving a tanker truck at the center of the I-95 fire and collapse as a local father.

The brother of an inmate who escaped a Philadelphia correction facility with another prisoner and was arrested after a 10-day manhunt posted bail after being charged as an accomplice. 

The victim was an 11-year-old girl and was told by the alleged kidnapper that he would drive her wherever she wanted to go.

Seven people have been confirmed dead and all victims are presumed accounted for after an explosion rocked a historic chocolate factory in West Reading on Friday night.

Authorities say a dozen people were injured in the collapse of a second-story floor inside an apartment complex near a western Pennsylvania university over the weekend.