Butler County

A judge deciding if three Pennsylvania counties have to certify May primary vote counts including ballots lacking dates on their return envelopes learned this week that a fourth county is in the same situation — and there may be more. The legal dispute is holding up certification of primary results for governor and U.S. Senate.

The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time. The unsigned order Thursday applies to a Lehigh County judicial election from 2021.

Officials say the crash was “likely” due to the storm caused by Tropical Depression Claudette.

Eight children in a van from a youth ranch for abused or neglected children were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on a wet interstate over the weekend — the most devastating blow from a tropical depression that claimed a total of 13 lives in Alabama

U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican representing western Pennsylvania, said he’s “a person of color” because he’s white in an exchange with a reporter while discussing President Trump’s tweet tirade against four congresswomen.

Joel Embiid outscored Anthony Davis and the Pelicans by himself in the first quarter and never let off the gas in the Sixers’ 100-82 win. By Jessica Camerato

Tree services and residents have just about cleared the downed trees and other debris left behind by a weak tornado in western Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania lawmakers are hearing from hundreds of gun rights activists in what’s become an annual Harrisburg event.

Police say they’ve charged 20 people from one western Pennsylvania county in a shoplifting ring that targeted Lowe’s home improvement stores in five counties.

Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a suspect was shot and wounded by state troopers after allegedly aiming a rifle at them.

Counselors were being brought in to a Pennsylvania school district where a 16-year-old boy was killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash.

State police have been searching for a suspect who cut the manes and tails from three horses at a western Pennsylvania horse complex.

A western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to a year’s probation for crimes his defense attorney said the man can’t recall since a brain injury suffered in a car accident.

A federal prosecutor and experts from the FBI and Secret Service are meeting to school banks and businesses on tactics they can use to avoid identity theft.

Woman raising grandkids gets months in prison over pot sales.

State police say a western Pennsylvania man who befriended a woman at a harness racing track two years ago has since conned her out of $15,000 by pretending he had cancer.

Police have been trying to determine whether a western Pennsylvania woman shot with her 5-month-old child nearby may have been targeted because the baby’s father is jailed on charges he fatally shot one man and wounded others belonging to a Pittsburgh motorcycle gang.

A 65-year-old Pennsylvania woman has admitted selling hundreds of pounds of marijuana from her home but says she needed the money to raise several grandchildren after her daughter died.

Authorities say a resident of a Pennsylvania care home died after being pulled from a lake at a state park.

Authorities say they are investigating the deaths of a man and woman found shot in a western Pennsylvania home as a possible murder-suicide.