WILKINSBURG, Pa. A woman suspected years ago of plotting to steal an infant has been charged with child endangerment after arriving at a hospital with a baby she falsely claimed as her own, police said.

Centre Region Parks and Recreation will hold a "hot night swim” tonight, meaning that both the William L. Welch Pool and Park Forest Pool will stay open until 10 p.m.

IT'S A LITTLE less expensive to fill up your gas tank than it was a few days ago.

A search for a missing Worth Township woman who has Alzheimer's disease ended after the woman was found with a relative in Bedford County, state police at Philipsburg reported this morning.

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. Officials say a man is in critical condition with head injuries after he was hit by a deer while riding his bicycle in Hopewell Township.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Pennsylvania state police say rather than used small airplanes, think of them as pieces of law-enforcement history.

SCRANTON, Pa. District Attorney Andy Jarbola said Friday he has not determined whether to seek the death penalty against a 25-year-old man charged with shooting three Scranton residents.

A woman climbed safely out of her car after a tree fell on it during a thunderstorm Thursday afternoon, Patton Township police said.

WASHINGTON The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that overturned Washington's 32-year-old handgun ban was the first to arrive Thursday as the city began registering firearms.

NEW VOTING MACHINES will be coming to Centre County.

BELLEFONTE — Centre County voters will cast their ballots using pens and papers — not the current touch-screen machines — in the November election.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Tuition will increase 3.5 percent at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities for the 2008-09 school year.

CAMP HILL, Pa. Rite Aid Corp., the nation's third-largest drugstore chain, is laying off 44 corporate employees as it works to absorb 1,850 stores it acquired last year.

State police at Rockview report they detained seven people who are illegal immigrants from Mexico after they stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation on Interstate 80 in Snow Shoe Township at about 12:55 p.m. Wednesday.

An Alexandria man is dead after police said he apparently tried to "beat" a train through a railroad crossing at Barree Road in Porter Township, Huntingdon County.

PITTSBURGH A Pittsburgh man faces a preliminary hearing on charges he pumped nearly $44,000 in gasoline using a stolen charge card from his former employer.

PITTSBURGH A Tennessee woman tried to poison her hospitalized infant son by repeatedly injecting salt water into his feeding tube in what she claimed were attempts to hasten the death of a sick and suffering child, police said.

Two men were caught burglarizing a fraternity in the early morning hours Tuesday, but managed to steal only a root beer before being arrested by State College police, according to court documents.

State police at Rockview are trying to return a number of bicycles to their owners.

Given all the information on voting machines, a new poll debuts today on CentreDaily.com asking what readers think should happen.