Police say an armed robber gave back everything he stole from a homeless man after learning he lives at a shelter.

The Pittsburgh Gazzette is reporting on a case of a An Allegheny County judge who rejected a plea deal from a defendant and the District Attorney, given that he saw it as racially biased. Common Pleas Judge Joseph K. Williams, who is black, rejected a deal to allow a white defendant — Jeffery McGowan, 24, […]

Police said a district judge from Intercourse, Pa., hid condoms inside acorns and handed them out to women in the state Capitol complex last week.

A Pennsylvania couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their 18-year-old daughter in the basement of their home and are now suing, saying he got her pregnant.

The New York Times is reporting that judges Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan have plead guilty to charges that they took money to provide a privately owned youth jail with prisoners.

Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. (1905 – 1987) 1898 – Born on the 9th of August in Orangeburg, South Carolina. 1921 – He graduated from Lincoln University (Pennsylvania). 1932 – He became active in the Democratic Party as a committeeman. 1934 – He became a special assistant deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania. 1958 – He […]

PITTSBURGH — As a scholar, poet and abolitionist, George B. Vashon broke barriers in the 1800s: he was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first black lawyer in New York state and the first black professor at Howard University.