PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia police say the homeless man who lunged at officers with a knife before being fatally shot was repeatedly making hang-up calls from an emergency call box.
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PITTSBURGH High-wire walker Nik Wallenda has crossed the Allegheny River on a cable suspended 200 feet in the air.
PITTSBURGH A police officer in the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton has turned himself in to face charges in a hit-and-run accident in which a pedestrian was killed.
PHILADELPHIA A federal appeals court will not reconsider its ruling that overturned a murder conviction handed down by a jury in a New Jersey state court.
LANCASTER, Pa. A hazardous materials team has responded to the crash of a milk tanker in central Pennsylvania.
NEW YORK Norman Welton, whose 31-year career as a photo editor for The Associated Press included coverage of New York City, the United Nations and four Olympic Games, has died. He was 81.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a woman faces homicide and attempted homicide charges in a February crash that killed her boyfriend and injured her two children.
NEW YORK Authorities are looking into whether a newly discovered trove of letters to one of baseball's founding fathers contains documents that disappeared long ago from the New York Public Library.
NEW YORK A collection of letters by one of baseball's founding fathers has been pulled from auction while authorities look into whether the trove contains documents that vanished from New York.
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MANDAN, N.D. Authorities say a Mandan man is accused of making a telephone threat to Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.
The soldiers expressed their gratitude over and over to the NFL coaches who made the trip to Iraq.
NEW YORK Retired Associated Press photo editor Norman Welton has died at a medical center in Port Jervis, N.Y.
FISHKILL, N.Y. Ed Spaeth was researching his family tree when he discovered an 18th-century ancestor likely was buried in the woods just down the hill from his Hudson Valley home.
MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. References to television pitchman Bill Mays' trademark image were everywhere at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh.
HARRISBURG, Pa. Dozens of Pennsylvania lawmakers and staffers have received subpoenas in the public corruption trial centered on the use of taxpayer money for campaign purposes.
PHILADELPHIA Police officers fatally shot a homeless man near City Hall on Friday after he charged them with a knife, police said.
PHILADELPHIA A Philadelphia man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to boarding an airplane while carrying a concealed weapon.
PITTSBURGH The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board may have to intervene if the owners of Pittsburgh's new casino can't settle a dispute over when they must begin annual $7.5 million payments toward a new arena for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
PITTSBURGH An autopsy is set to determine whether a 79-year-old Pittsburgh man with dementia died of natural gas fumes in his apartment or from natural causes.
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