HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An internal review of Pennsylvania’s parole system spurred by five parolees getting charged in quick succession with homicide is, in theory, acknowledging a long-standing complaint of parole agents over a long-term policy shift designed to help more parolees succeed on the outside.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — National Coming Out Day festivities were tempered this year by anxiety that some LGBT folk may have to go back into the closet so they can make a living, depending on what the Supreme Court decides about workplace discrimination law.

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Some of Bucks County’s covered bridges will be getting a makeover due to a $2.5 million refurbishment project. The project will include all seven county-owned spans.

CORNWALL, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say the co-owner of a landscaping company died when his mower slid into a creek and overturned while he was working at a retirement community in Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Office of Public-Private Partnerships (P3) announced that it is accepting unsolicited proposals for transportation projects from the private sector through Oct. 31.

LANDENBERG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a struggle between a man and woman ended in a murder-suicide in southeastern Pennsylvania. State police in Chester County say troopers were sent to a home in London Britain Township on Thursday to check on someone who hadn’t been seen over the weekend.

MACUNGIE, Pa. (AP) — Thousands of Mack Truck workers were on strike Sunday at plants in three states, the first such walkout in decades.

MCKEESPORT, Pa. (AP) — More than 16,000 customers in four western Pennsylvania communities are waiting to learn if a boil water advisory has been lifted.

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge has declined to bar consideration of the death penalty in the case of a man charged with having killed a toddler last year.

HARRISBURG — The clash of religion and politics in Pennsylvania has legislative leaders of both parties in a quandary with no easy resolution.

Pennsylvania State Treasurer Joe Torsella recently announced expanded capabilities of the Treasury Transparency Portal by launching Phase 6. The portal now houses the Contracts e-Library and includes a total contract count for each agency by fiscal year. Users can also track Treasury Department payments at the check level using the new Treasury Checkbook.

A legal organization that represents public sector union workers fighting to leave or recover funds from their unions is crediting those lawsuits with a change in union behavior in Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania appeals court overturned a jury verdict Friday against the Philadelphia Eagles, saying the football team should not have been held liable for injuries suffered by a fan wearing a Troy Aikman jersey who was jumped in a stadium bathroom.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Chinese man who authorities say helped smuggle nearly 80 endangered box turtles out of the U.S. while attending a Pennsylvania college has been sentenced to a year in prison.

CAMP HILL, Pa. (AP) — Officials say an inmate at a Pennsylvania state prison injured two guards in an attack, including one guard whose fingertip was bitten off.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say two men opened fire on a group of gamblers playing a dice game in the courtyard of a Philadelphia apartment complex, leaving five people wounded.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police serving a warrant at a Philadelphia home unexpectedly found more than three dozen roosters that authorities believe were used for cockfighting.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A young Henry Heinz got his business start in Sharpsburg, hawking horseradish to local grocers before the Civil War. By the time the United States entered World War I, he was leading a Pittsburgh-based, multimillion-dollar international company.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday criticized a judge’s ruling barring his agency from relying solely on databases that have at times led to the wrongful detention of American citizens.

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Investigators are blaming an electrical extension cord for a fire that killed five small children two months ago in Pennsylvania.

WARRINGTON, Pa. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting his father inside their southern Pennsylvania home earlier this year will stand trial on homicide charges.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A bicycle deliveryman accused in the stabbing death of a real estate developer during a traffic confrontation in Philadelphia last year has pleaded not guilty.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is easing restrictions imposed on banks following the 2008 financial crisis, giving a victory to the banking industry and President Donald Trump.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Trump administration officials say the U.S. Navy will name a ship that has yet to be built after the city of Harrisburg.

PALMER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities allege that a man baked cookies and took them to the home of a 97-year-old bedridden woman before killing her and her adult son and setting fire to their Pennsylvania home three days into the new year.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman who allegedly tried to carjack four vehicles in a Pittsburgh neighborhood — including two owned by law enforcement officers — was captured after police pursuit that ended in a crash.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are searching for a suspect who they say raped a Drexel University student in an off-campus apartment.

Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced Monday the release of a preliminary report gleaned from results of an extensive two-year survey seeking public input on the future of Pennsylvania’s state parks.

Acting Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar recently announced that at least 76 percent of counties have taken official action toward selecting new voting systems with advanced security to ensure the integrity of Pennsylvania’s elections.

Legislators and panelists at a meeting last week said fire and emergency services in Pennsylvania communities need to change, and they need to change now to avoid service issues.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has once again declined to take up the case of a former northeastern Pennsylvania judge convicted in what prosecutors said were juveniles wrongly sent to a detention center.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The University of Pittsburgh is moving to block a new election seeking to unionize graduate student workers that has been proposed by a state labor board official.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House declared it will halt any and all cooperation with what it termed the “illegitimate” impeachment probe by House Democrats, sharpening the constitutional clash between President Donald Trump and Congress.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three medical marijuana patients on Tuesday challenged a Pennsylvania county’s policy that people on probation and other forms of court supervision may not use the drug, even if they are in the state registry.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday awarded $8 billion in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson and one if its subsidiaries over a drug the companies made that the plaintiff’s attorneys say is linked to the abnormal growth of female breast tissue in boys.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Appalachian Regional Commission has announced $44.4 million for 54 projects affecting coal-impacted communities in Appalachian states.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators urged President Donald Trump on Tuesday to warn the public about efforts by foreign governments to interfere in U.S. elections, a subject he has largely avoided, and take steps to thwart attempts by hostile nations to use social media to meddle in the 2020 presidential contest.

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a Pennsylvania homeowner who heard someone singing inside his home found a naked man drinking milk in his kitchen.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In a year, construction industry employers in Pennsylvania will be required to verify an employee’s legal status to work in the United States through a federal database called E-Verify.

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A southern Pennsylvania university has canceled classes as state police search for two students following a shooting near the campus that left a Philadelphia man dead and another critically wounded.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say one man was killed and another male critically wounded in a shooting in Philadelphia that prompted lockdown of a nearby elementary school.

MEADVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A man has been charged with criminal homicide in the shooting deaths of his stepmother and his brother in northwestern Pennsylvania.