The Latest Breaking News from Pennsylvania

Heartland Express, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTLD) has acquired 100% of the equity of dry van truckload carrier Smith Transport, Inc. and related entities for ~$170 million. Smith Transport, founded in 1982, is an asset-based truckload carrier headquartered in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, with terminals in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Indiana. Smith primarily provides dry van transportation and…

A Delaware County, Pennsylvania, man who was turned in by his ex-girlfriend after he called her a ‘moron’ for not believing the 2020 presidential election was stolen has become the latest Pennsylvanian to plead guilty to charges tied to the Capitol riot.

In Pennsylvania, state-level candidates spent $489.37 million between Jan. 1, 2021, and May 6, 2022. Democratic candidates spent $40.99 million and Republican candidates spent $48.35 million. 

The case is Commonwealth v. Gadley, decided May 20 by Judge Mary Murray, joined by Judges Daniel McCaffery and James Gardner Colins of the Pennsylvania Superior Court; here's the trial court's summary of the facts: At the [June 15, 2021, preliminary] hearing, the Defendant's mother, Melody Blair … testified that…

In my kitchen, the arrival of Memorial Day often coincides with corn showing up at my neighborhood grocery store. It's not local — we have to wait until mid-July for our wonderful Pennsylvania sweet corn to arrive at farmers markets — but it's fine, a taste of all the summer…

PHILADELPHIA -- Black-and-white spotted lanternfly nymphs about a quarter-inch long are starting to hatch in the region, hopping across decks, patios, and trees before they morph over the summer into flying Technicolor adults.

In Uvalde, Texas, a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school, after picking up two powerful, AR-15-style rifles ordered through an online seller shortly after his 18th birthday — something that would have also been perfectly legal in Pennsylvania.

A scientific analysis commissioned by the FBI shortly before agents went digging for buried treasure suggests that a huge quantity of gold was below the surface of a rural site in western Pennsylvania

Investigators on Friday were canvassing the scene of an explosion the night before in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, that killed five people and injured two, officials said.