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The state Supreme Court ruled that sections of Act 13 are unconstitutional because of a prohibition on "special laws" that benefit specific individuals, groups or industries.
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The state Supreme Court ruled that sections of Act 13 are unconstitutional because of a prohibition on "special laws" that benefit specific individuals, groups or industries.

High court strikes down Pa. law on shale gas

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional major provisions of Act 13, the state’s 2012 oil and gas drilling law.

The scene after a train crashed into the platform of the Hoboken, N.J. station this morning. The train came to a halt in a covered area between the station's indoor waiting area and the platform. A metal structure covering the area collapsed.

Train crashes into N.J. station; 3 dead, more than 100 hurt

More than 100 people have been injured, many critically, and multiple passengers trapped in a Hoboken, N.J. train crash.

Pa. Supreme Court says casino taxing method unconstitutional

The court gave the Legislature four months to fix the 2004 law that legalized casinos.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

New poll shows Clinton ahead in swing states

The survey also showed that voters believed that Hillary Clinton won Monday night’s debate with Donald Trump.

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    • A towboat prepares to lift a beam under the Liberty Bridge last week.

    PennDOT: Liberty Bridge weight restriction could be lifted today

    PennDOT says crews have been working around the clock on "steel strengthening" and "are making very good progress."

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    Jacks in place to support scorched chord for Liberty Bridge repairs

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    PennDOT officials hopeful latest Liberty Bridge repair effort will work

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    Relief greets reopening of Liberty Bridge

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    More than 200 bicyclists remember cyclist killed on West Carson

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    A rooster’s piercing calls have beset neighbors near Wylie Aveneue and Roberts Street in the Hill District for years. Above is a white domestic rooster -- not the one on Henry Gaston's property.

    Hill District man gets last call to trap noisy rooster once and for all -- or face a penalty

    District judge gives Henry Gaston 30 days to capture the bird, whose piercing calls have bothered neighbors for years.

    At least one person stabbed in Troy Hill

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    In five years, across Pennsylvania and seven other Appalachian states, 608 doctors were disciplined for overprescribing narcotics, a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation found. Read this special report and more:

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    Shane Pilster, graffiti artist, graphic designer, and urban arts coordinator for the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area. Some photos show the Rivers of Steel logo designed and spray painted by Mr. pilster on the crane wall at the Carrie Furnaces iron mill in Swissvale. Other photos show Pilster in frounr of the crane wall where a number of graffiti panels have been painted, or inside the "power house," one of the sites, along with the crane wall, where graffiti is permitted and encouraged. For national parks series running 6/23 online, 6/26 in Mag
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    Chemi Peres, son of former Israeli President Shimon, speaks during a press conference at the hospital in Tel Aviv, on Wednesday.

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    Members of a joint investigation team present the preliminary results of the criminal investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , in Nieuwegein, on Wednesday.

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