With Rick Santorum as the campaign's newest lightning rod, the Republican presidential candidates traded sharp criticisms Wednesday night on earmarks, bailouts and the government's role in health care and contraception. (Today)

HARRISBURG -- New state legislative maps, which were planned for a vote today, are still being negotiated, according to top lawmakers who held a brief meeting this afternoon. (Yesterday)

Gov. Tom Corbett's budget proposal would eliminate the Public Employee Retirement Commission, the watchdog agency that last year allowed Pittsburgh to keep control of its pension fund. (Yesterday)

The campaign of U.S. Rep. Mark Critz, D-Johnstown, claims almost 950 nominating signatures filed by U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire, D-McCandless, are faulty and his Democratic rival should be kept off the April 24 primary ballot. (Yesterday)

Testimony resumed on Tuesday in the trial of former Democratic state Rep. (Yesterday)