A state official is vowing an overhaul of the database on Pennsylvania amusement park and carnival ride inspections and says the information will be posted online in a user-friendly system before next year’s carnival season. Michael Pechart, executive deputy secretary …
Complaints are mounting over Pennsylvania’s new, online system for filing appeals in workers’ compensation cases, with critics saying it often cannot upload documents and sometimes makes paperwork disappear. A state Department of Labor and Industry spokeswoman said Monday the agency …
A suburban Pittsburgh girl, whose parents sued Target after a wicker storage trunk lid fell on her neck and left her disabled, has died. Martin Lazzaro, a family friend an attorney for Eric and Laura Surman, tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review …
Pennsylvania is among the nation’s leaders in bridges that both lack backup protection against collapse in case a single, vital component fails and are designated by highway officials as being in need of repair, an Associated Press review of national …
New studies from Cambridge-based Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) says the average price paid for physician-dispensed Vicodin, a commonly dispensed narcotic pain medication in Maryland and Pennsylvania, was three times more than the price paid for the same drug dispensed …
The owner of the passenger van involved in a fatal crash in February in northeastern Pennsylvania operated vehicles that all passed inspection, although some record and maintenance issues were cited, a newspaper said. The Pocono Record said March public records …
The dramatic rescue of a pair of trapped Pennsylvania coal miners who survived 14 days underground riveted the public’s attention in August 1963. The Standard-Speaker of Hazleton reports that 50 years later, the Sheppton Mine Disaster is being commemorated with …
A man who allegedly struck and killed a Philadelphia woman and her three sons while drag racing in Philadelphia had been out on bail this year in a $3.6 million ambulance fraud case. Khusen Akhmedov, 23, had also racked up …
GEICO is planning two job fairs in Pennsylvania for auto damage adjusters: Tuesday, July 16: Double Tree Hotel in Green Tree, located at 500 Mansfield Ave. in Pittsburgh between 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Thursday, July 18: Embassy Suites – …
A statue of a Union soldier swinging his rifle like a club at the Gettysburg, Pa., battlefield was damaged by heavy winds Tuesday, on the eve of the 150th anniversary of the pivotal American Civil War battle. The statue has …