Erie police say they’re rounding up 10 suspects who allegedly participated in a fraud ring that staged car accidents to collect insurance money. Lt. John McCall tells the Erie Times-News that police are not releasing details because arrests were ongoing …
Two brothers have been charged with stealing a western Pennsylvania bridge and selling the 15 1/2 tons of scrap metal for more than $5,000. Police say 24-year-old Benjamin Arthur Jones and 25-year-old Alexander Williams Jones of New Castle used a …
A restaurant housed in a historic western Pennsylvania building suffered $200,000 damage in a kitchen fire, but no workers or customers were hurt. The fire at The Kaufman House in Zelienople started about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and started in a …
State police say they’ve charged a Plum police officer with burglary, bribery and other crimes. According to a release, 29-year-old James Scuffle filed a false insurance claim for the theft of his car, and during that investigation more information linked …
Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say an accidental fire in a blast furnace at the former Bethlehem Steel site caused a lot of smoke but no injuries. Deputy fire marshal Robert Novatnack says workers with the Sands Casino Resort were using …
A judge says Wal-Mart must pay up for overpricing sausages by two cents. Consumer activist Mary Bach was awarded $100 in damages and $80 in court costs Thursday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. Bach, of Murrysville, says sausages she purchased last …
A woman who broke her skull and collarbone when a member of the band Fishbone dived from a Philadelphia stage will soon have her day in court. A federal judge has upheld a negligence lawsuit filed by Kimberly Myers. The …
Federal authorities say an eastern Pennsylvania company is recalling about 5,550 pounds of pureed pork products that may contain foreign materials. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Monday that the recall by K. Heeps Inc. …
Pennsylvania’s municipal pension funds are in line for a one-time windfall thanks to a change in how out-of-state insurers submit taxes on their casualty and fire insurance premiums. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Friday that the money comes from changing the …
A passenger in the car that fatally struck a Pennsylvania woman pushing a stroller says the victim was able to push her two young children out of the path of the sport-utility vehicle that killed her. Carl Denig says he …