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The family of Amber Vinson, one of two Dallas nurses infected with Ebola, said on Wednesday that tests by medical officials were no longer able to detect the virus in her body.

A man jumped the White House fence on Wednesday and was attacked by Secret Service dogs before being arrested, a Secret Service spokesman said.

The bullet was removed from Angel Figueroa after he was paralyzed in a chaotic shootout outside a Bethlehem Puerto Rican social club, his body falling in the street next to a 23-year-old woman who was killed.

Police lifted safety blockades in downtown Ottawa Wednesday evening, saying there is no longer a threat to the public.  

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has told Justice Seamus P. McCaffery to turn over computers and other court-issued equipment, and moved swiftly Tuesday to cancel the Internet service it provides at McCaffery's Northeast Philadelphia home.

The two women killed Tuesday evening in a head-on collision in the New Tripoli area of western Lehigh County have been identified by state police.

An 84-year-old Lower Macungie woman died Wednesday afternoon after she was hit by a vehicle in a Trexlertown parking lot, authorities said.

Pennsylvania is one of six states that will begin stepped-up monitoring of people entering the United States from the three countries at the center of West Africa's Ebola epidemic.

Bethlehem City Council on Tuesday approved a financing deal expected to erase at nearly $3.5 million of a $5.9 million deficit projected for next year.

Offers of help are pouring in for James Tully, the carless Canadensis man who says he's been mistaken for alleged cop killer Eric Frein more than 20 times, leading to some scary encounters in the Pocono woods.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Pennsylvania pastor who was defrocked after officiating at his son's same-sex wedding ceremony, and later reinstated, made an appeal to hang onto his ordination before a Methodist judicial council on Wednesday.

State lawmakers will now have some say in how Pennsylvania meets new federal clean air regulations limiting carbon emissions from power plants.

WASHINGTON A trash truck driver talking on a hands-free mobile device caused a 2013 Maryland train collision that led to a 15-car derailment and explosion, U.S. investigators said on Wednesday.

Some 200 warehouse workers at a Northampton County pet supply company will vote Thursday to join the Teamsters, a union and government official said today.

Noting that she stole from "the poorest of the poor in the community," a Lehigh County judge on Wednesday sentenced a former employee of the Lehigh County Conference of Churches to 18 months to three years in a state prison and ordered her to pay more than $415,000 in restitution.

When a vehicle crashed into a Northampton house on Tuesday night, the driver jumped out and fled toward the Allen Union Cemetery, according to police radio reports.

A pickup truck driver fired a gun at a tractor-trailer Tuesday night at a Route 100 ramp to Route 22 in Upper Macungie Township, according to police radio reports.

On questions ranging from U.S. treatment of the Ebola outbreak to immigration reform, the two candidates vying to represent the 17th Congressional District squared off during a debate Tuesday before an audience of Lehigh Valley voters.

New Jersey school officials voted on Tuesday to suspend five high school coaches in a locker-room hazing scandal that has led to criminal sex abuse charges against teen football players.