Listen to Senator Hughes interview with Roland Martin above. Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Hughes is known by Philadelphians as a hands-on legislator with an active…

The showdown between voting rights advocates and the state of Pennsylvania took a new turn Friday, after a judge struck down a requirement that voters…

(CNN) — A Greyhound bus accident along Interstate 80 in central Pennsylvania early Wednesday killed one person and injuring most of the others, state police…

  Abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder for severing the spinal cords of infants born during abortions at his West Philadelphia clinic. The trial now moves into a sentencing phase to decide whether Gosnell should receive the death penalty or face life in prison. The verdicts were announced hours after […]

Although the fight for voting rights was a staple of the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and through the 1960s, protests over the…

Three Pennsylvania teens were involved with shooting and killing a woman last night after they asked her boyfriend for a cigarette and she told them to “get a job.” Global Grind Reports: Police have charged 14-year-olds Todavia Cleckley and Marcus Velasquez and Kyle Goosby Jr., 13, with criminal homicide and other charges in Saturday’s shooting of […]

Surveillance video of an Allentown, Pennsylvania, police officer firing a Taser at a 14-year-old girl has been released as part of evidence for a federal lawsuit filed against the officer and the city. SEE ALSO: If Obama Loses, What Will He Do Next?

Wayne, PA — A mother and her one-year-old son were allegedly robbed at gunpoint outside a Starbucks just before 10 a.m. Thursday morning. After fleeing on foot, the thief allegedly spent more than $900 — mostly in gift cards — on the woman’s credit card at a nearby Target. Both mother and child were unharmed. […]

PHILADELPHIA-Christopher Abreu a student at the Ivy League School, University Of Pennsylvania has written an article urging minorities not to attend his school after a racist incident. The Pennsylvania caller reports: “I’m looking for fried chicken,” he continued. “You look like someone who knows where you can get fried chicken.” I needed to remove myself […]

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Fire officials say three people died and two remain missing after a natural gas explosion rocked a downtown neighborhood in eastern Pennsylvania last night.

PHILADELPHIA — Two mothers filed a free-speech lawsuit Monday against a Pennsylvania school district that suspended their daughters for wearing the popular “I (heart) boobies!” bracelets.

Police say a new father faces drug charges because he lit up a marijuana joint, instead of a cigar, to celebrate his child’s birth at a western Pennsylvania hospital.