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U.S. Postal Service investigators found no evidence of any backdated presidential election ballots in Erie, Pennsylvania

While U.S. Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the country’s mail ballots in time to be counted this year, it also appears that tens of thousands were disenfranchised by postal delays.

Investigators are blaming an electrical extension cord for a fire that killed five small children two months ago in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania regulators are acting to increase safety at child care facilities, about a month after five children died in a fire at an Erie day care center.

The father of a 7-year-old boy who was killed after falling between two moving SEPTA subway cars last year has been charged in connection to his death.

A Pennsylvania home child care center where a fire killed five kids did not have enough working smoke detectors, the fire chief said Tuesday.

Some lawmakers are pushing for a bill to require the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services look for working smoke detectors during their annual inspections of day care centers. This comes after five children died in a fire at an Erie day care that lacked enough working smoke detectors.

Investigators are searching for the cause of a tragic fire that took five young lives early Sunday morning at a day care center in a converted Erie, Pennsylvania, home.

A morning fire in Pennsylvania killed five children and sent another person to the hospital, authorities said.

A deadly fire at a hoe day care center has claimed the lives of five children between the ages of 8 months and 7 years. Three of the children killed in the the overnight blaze in Erie, Pennsylvania, were the children of a volunteer firefighter.

Five young children were killed in a fire at a day care in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Authorities say a dispute at a North Philadelphia chicken restaurant ended with two men being shot, including a bystander who wasn’t involved in the argument.

The priest took the victims to his primitive, secluded hunting camp in Jefferson County about a decade ago, where they watched horror movies on a laptop and he abused them, prosecutors said.

Congress is heading toward a postelection showdown over President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, as GOP leaders signal they’re willing to engage in hardball tactics that could spark a partial government shutdown and the president revs up midterm crowds for the wall, a centerpiece of his 2016 campaign and a top White House priority. Trump is promising voters...

After the release of a grand jury report detailing some of the alleged sexual abuse of children by members of Pennsylvania’s Catholic clergy, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro joined advocates for victims of clergy abuse and other elected officials to call change for an end to the statute of limitations for child sex abuse.

President Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton — without evidence — of engaging in a conspiracy with Russia to affect the 2016 election during a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Wednesday night, NBC News reported. “There was collusion between Hillary, the Democrats and Russia,” Trump said, just after his supporters had chanted “lock her up” about Clinton. “There was a lot...

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an incident in which a 7-year-old boy who was selling candy on a train fell between two moving SEPTA subway cars and died in North Philadelphia.

A 7-year-old boy was struck and killed by a subway train in North Philadelphia.

More than a month after releasing a grand jury report detailing some of the alleged sexual abuse of children by members of Pennsylvania’s Catholic clergy, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro held a roundtable discussion with victims of clergy abuse and lawmakers looking to change the rules.

Pope Francis denounced on Thursday the horrible findings of a years-long grand jury report into 70 years of sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials in six Pennsylvania dioceses.