World & Nation
A Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania General Assembly said today she has been barred from running the nursery at her Roman Catholic parish because of her advocacy of abortion rights.
April 9, 1990
A proposal that would grant generous Pennsylvania state income tax credits for donors to certain charities has heightened the debate over how government provides for those who cannot provide for themselves.
March 28, 1998
Politics
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday struck down the state’s congressional map, which was drawn to give Republicans a 13-5 majority, a ruling that could shift two or three seats to Democrats this fall.
Jan. 22, 2018
California
An Assembly committee Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation requiring all colleges in California to disclose campus crime statistics to prospective students and their parents.
Aug. 31, 1989
The Rev. H.
Jan. 6, 1990
California’s governor, state legislators and other top officials Thursday got hefty pay raises ranging from 26% to 34%, prompting outrage from critics who note that 134,000 state employees have had no raise since 1995.
March 27, 1998
Teen-agers would be prohibited from driving between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. in an effort to reduce the number of drunk-driving traffic deaths and injuries under legislation proposed by a Southern California assemblyman.
April 3, 1993
Assembly Democrats are finally responding in the statewide debate on welfare expense initiated by Gov.
March 11, 1992
Marie Mabel Landers of Oxnard, an aerospace worker who helped assemble the Atlas and Centaur missiles, has died.
March 26, 1997
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Oct. 6, 2011