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President Joe Biden will travel to Scranton on Wednesday as the Democrat works to rally support in Congress for a social services and climate change package that had been a 10-year, $3.5 trillion proposal.

There is a lot of talk about President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion economic plan known as the Build Back Better Agenda, but do you know what’s actually included in the bill? Here are five things you should know about Biden’s Build Back Better proposal.

Imagine lunch being interrupted by a what looked like a bobcat and having to leave school. That’s what happened to students at one school in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Animal control later realized, however, that the blurry animal caught on camera was merely a house cat. The curious feline is now back with its owners.

Joe Biden grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. On the verge Biden’s inauguration, former Scranton Mayor Jimmy Connors talks with pride about Biden’s Pennsylvania roots.

The former mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison on charges that he shook down businesses for bribes and campaign contributions

The former superintendent of a Pennsylvania school district and two other officials have been charged with felony child endangerment over allegations they knew about lead and asbestos contamination in the schools but failed to do anything about it

As his “Nana” battled COVID-19, endurance athlete Corey Cappelloni ran 218 miles from Washington, D

President Donald Trump is making his first visit this year to the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, in a town hall-style event hosted by Fox News.

Hometown roots paid off for presidential candidates with ties to the Philadelphia region in the first half of the year. Here’s a look at how the candidates raised cash in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

When post offices close Monday, the last victim compensation funds at Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses will also close, hours before lawmakers plunge back into a years-old fight over whether to let long-ago victims of child sexual abuse sue perpetrators and institutions that may have covered it up.New chapter opens in Pennsylvania in fight over suing church

A man accused of entering a Pennsylvania elementary school, stripping naked and spilling Murphy Oil Soap on the gym floor is in custody.

Luna the springer spaniel is learning to sniff out a troublesome golf course fungus in return for a tennis ball while helping her handler fetch a new breed of bachelor’s degree. The four-year program in “canine training and management” officially launches this fall at the State University of New York at Cobleskill amid a surge in demand for specially trained...

His party may be enraged by Donald Trump’s presidency, but Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden insisted Saturday that Democrats will not defeat the Republican president if they pick an angry nominee. Facing thousands of voters in his native Pennsylvania for the second time as a 2020 contender, the former vice president offered a call for bipartisan unity that seemed far...

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s success this week in getting his child-endangerment conviction overturned capped a seven-year fight to save his reputation and stay out of jail, a period during which he has been richly compensated by the university he once ran.

A federal judge has thrown out former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s child-endangerment conviction, less than a day before he was due to turn himself in to jail.

Former Vice President and official 2020 candidate Joe Biden is paying special attention to his native Pennsylvania, a state that swung to Trump in 2016 after voting for Democratic presidential candidates for decades.

As Danielle Bayard Jackson was putting together her birthing team, she made sure to include a doula, all the details she wanted taken care of during delivery and how bright the lights should be for ambiance. She passed on the makeup artist. “I even looked up various prices, but something about that felt frivolous,” said Jackson, who lives in Tampa,…

Leaders and residents in the Philadelphia region responded with grief, resilience and heightened security after a pair of deadly mosque shootings left dozens dead in New Zealand.