Associated Press
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The legislation passed the House 104-97, with almost all Democrats and three Republicans voting in favor of it.
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The Pennsylvania House speaker wants to let qualified residents register at polling places on the day of elections and to permit two weeks of advance voting. Democratic Speaker Joanna McClinton said Monday that she also wants to establish early voting centers for all legally registered voters to use.
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Authorities in Pennsylvania say a woman was seriously injured in a bear attack when she let her dog outside. State game commission workers then killed the mother bear and tranquilized her three yearling cubs so they can be moved into the wilderness.
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The derailment in eastern Pennsylvania left some railroad cars along a riverbank and at least one partially in the river but caused no reported injuries or hazardous materials concerns.
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The Pennsylvania state courts agency says some of its online systems are disabled after its website was hit by a cyberattack, although officials say it didn't appear to compromise any data.
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State courts in Pennsylvania must allow people on probation to continue to take medication for opioid withdrawal as part of a Justice Department settlement announced Thursday.
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Michael Burham, 35, was sentenced Friday in Warren County Court after pleading guilty in November to charges in the July escape and the earlier kidnapping of a Pennsylvania couple. He apologized to the victims and "everyone in Warren" and also to Erie County correctional officers whom he said he had "treated poorly."
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U.S. Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having "dark conversations" about harming himself before he hit "the emergency brake" and sought treatment for depression. In an interview with NBC's `"Meet the Press," the Braddock Democrat described his thoughts at that time as, "I can't be a blueprint for my children. I can't let them be left alone or not to understand why he would have done that."
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Residents in a western Pennsylvania county are calling for the resignation of an official who is facing felony animal cruelty charges after authorities say her dog starved to death.
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The change would let schools complete the academic year in either a minimum of 180 days or 900 hours at the elementary level and 990 at the secondary level.