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On May 27, 2010 New York congressman Anthony Weiner destroyed his career with a single tweet. Weiner, who married high-ranking political official Huma Abedin the year before, accidentally posted a lewd photo of himself - that was meant for a 21-year-old college student.

Jerry Sandusky wanted to take the stand, but was overruled by his attorneys.

As a massive heatwave rolls through the northeast, electricity companies recommend turning off unused appliances and lights to make sure the power keeps flowing.

People with severe psoriasis were 46 percent more likely to get a diabetes diagnosis than people without the condition, after weight and other health measures were taken into account, according to a new study.

Joe Amendola's All My Children comment is being widely criticized as most inappropriate considering that he is representing a man facing 51 charges of child sex abuse. And while the trial of the former Penn State assistant football coach is now in its sixth day, Sandusky has continued to deny the allegations against him.

The nation's largest public-sector employee union this week selects its first new leader in a generation, and its more than 3,500 delegates, representing about 1.4 million members, must decide which of two candidates is most likely to halt declining membership and shrinking benefits: the one focused on national politics or the one focused on localized activism?

Here's what you should know about Dottie Sandusky, who finds herself near the center of the media circus surrounding the trial of her infamous husband, alleged child molester and former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Was Mitt Romney out of touch when his Wawa moment lit up the Internet yesterday, or was he the victim of selective editing?

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was blown away by the sandwiches at WaWas, repeatedly mispronouncing the Pennsylvania-based supermarket chain's name as he recounted his first time visiting a WaWa during a campaign stop in Cornwall, Pa. Is the former Massachusetts governor out of touch?

The Father's Day Doylestown shooting ended peacefully.

June 14 marks the celebration of Flag Day in the United States. The annual holiday commemorates the adoption of the flag of the Unites States in 1777. The Second Continental Congress adoped the American continental army after reaching a consensus position in the Committee of the Whole on June 14, 1775.

The Phillie Phanatic has been a staple to one of Pennsylvania's popular baseball team, the Phillies, since it was first introduced in 1978. However, now the large, green creature will find himself in the courtroom after Suzanne Peirce, of Abington, Pennsylvania, filed paperwork to sue the mascot after he tossed her into a pool.

The U.S. natural gas industry will create 1.5 million jobs by 2015, in large part because of the surge in production from unconventional shale beds that require hydraulic fracturing, according to an IHS study released Wednesday.

According to a panel of medical experts, the active chemical in used in spray-on tans -- dihydroxyacetone (DHA) -- can potentially damage one's DNA and cause genetic alterations. The experts reviewed 10 of the most current, agreeing that while more studies need to be done, what they already know is enough to warrant a warning.

Dozens of prison inmates at Virginia?s Red Onion super-max prison resorted to hunger striking in order to call attention to inhumane confinement conditions.

A Pennsylvania woman, who allegedly attacked a man with a stun-gun after she hit two pedestrians and fled the scene, was arrested after witnesses were able to report her easily recognizable vanity license plate, which said ZOMBIE, to police.

Pennsylvania prosecutors are considering criminal charges against former top Penn State University officials for allegedly concealing what they knew about the conduct of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, law enforcement sources said Monday.

This year's rapid-fire news cycle appears to never run short of gaffes, most recently President Obama's statement that the private sector is doing fine and the sound bite in which Mitt Romney seems to say he wishes there were less firefighters, teachers and police officers protecting and serving our country.

Opening statements in the Jerry Sandusky trial got under way on Monday. The former Penn State assistant football coach who is being charged with 52 counts of child sex abuse, was reportedly described to jurors as a serial predator and a predatory pedophile, who used fear and shame to keep his victims silent.

Veterinary medicine researchers from University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University have produced the first set of evidence-based guidelines for reviving dogs and cats with stopped hearts.

Mitt Romney?s experience as governor of Massachusetts helped him best a large GOP field in a wild 2012 nomination process to become the Republican Party?s presidential nominee-designate. But is he too old to serve in the most demanding elected office in the world?