Reuters reports a Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to prison for helping her her teenage daughter end her pregnancy with pills she obtained online.

A group of Amish riding in a horse and buggy along a East Lampeter Township, Penn. road were robbed at gunpoint by a man in a mask. The robber apparently drove up to the horse and buggy in a white minivan, swerving into the buggy's lane to force it to stop, got out, and demanded the wallets of all three people inside.

The elderly security guard who took a knife to the chest while stopping a stabbing spree at a Pennsylvania high school has been fired by his employer, a private contractor. John Resetar, 70, says he was told he was too old to do his job.

Police in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania have returned a life-sized statue of Barack Obama to its owner after finding it chilling out in a park with a six-pack of Twisted Tea.

Apparently, Pennsylvania news station WNEP had its coverage of the Wayne County Fair hijacked by 5-year-old Noah Ritter, apparently of Wilkes-Barre. Apparently, Noah has never been on live TV before, if you can believe that, but apparently he gets to watch TV after his grandpa watches the powerball.

It wasn't until Kimberly Tutko noticed an odor coming from the third floor of her home that she says she learned of her 8-year-old son's death, the AP reports.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that police, firefighters, and ambulances responded to reports of a bomb in a vacant Philadelphia lot on Friday morning. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how much pride you have on the line) it was just a prop bomb from a local theater's production of We Are Bandits.

The quiet of a hospital in the Philadelphia-area suburbs was broken yesterday when an armed mental patient killed a caseworker and got into a gunfight with his armed psychiatrist.

William Walters seemed like a typical civic-minded resident of Tacony in Northeast Philadelphia. He'd served as a Republican committeeman for a decade and had been on the neighborhood watch for five years. Until neighbors found out about his enthusiasm for this other organization.

A very important clarification, from the political world: when Pennsylvania State Sen. Scott Wagner compared labor unions to Hitler and Vladimir Putin, he wasn't actually comparing them. Okay? Can we clear this up?

The editorial staff of the Intelligencer Journal in Lancaster, Pennsylvania was disappointed on Friday to learn that a witch profiled in the Intelligencer Journal's "Faith & Values" section one week prior was also an alleged prostitute.

Poor poor Rick Santorum. You try to keep America on the moral straight and narrow, and then it all blows up in your face. Like when you fight for the appointment of a tough-as-nails conservative judge who reverses your home state's ban on gay marriage.

This afternoon in Pennsylvania, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III overturned a 1996 ban on gay marriage, stating that "we are a better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history."

If Pennsylvania still had a poet laureate, it would be Duane Sedlock, the "Outdoorsman" columnist for the Allentown, PA Examiner.com site—a man unafraid to denounce the "low-income" "Orientals" who are destroying the ambiance of PA's historic casinos.

Did it sound a bit grand, a bit too ambitious, a bit too too when the 19-year-old mother now known as the Craigslist Killer claimed last weekend that she was a Satanic serial murderer with dozens of victims across North America? Yeah, that seems to be the emerging consensus....now.

What does Chevron owe the people of a small Pennsylvania town after two of the oil giant's fracking wells exploded and burned for five days? A free pizza and a two-liter bottle of soda, that's what. At least that's better than being immediately killed in the explosion.

The eastbound Pennsylvania Turnpike near Bensalem was shut down for a large portion of the day yesterday as over 100 cars piled up along the highway. After the first accident occurred at 8:30am, the collisions continued, causing 30 people to be taken into care for injuries. A foot of snow had fallen in the area only…

The head of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania's third largest county was forced to resign earlier this month after allegations surfaced that he had drugged and raped a female coworker.

A United Methodist pastor was convicted Monday of breaking church law for presiding over his son's 2007 same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. The jury will reconvene Tuesday morning in southeastern Pennsylvania for the penalty phase which could range from a reprimand to "losing his credentials."