Dana Barnhart’s father was asleep in the basement. The older man was in Milesburg visiting for the night and this subterranean siesta on an air mattress was the closest that he was ever going to get to the honeymoon suite — he did not, however, request the 3 a.m. wake up call.

The fall season in Pennsylvania not only brings with it changing foliage and apple cider, but also the increased chances that drivers are more likely to encounter deer.

“I live my life to cheat insurance companies. My high every day is to cheat insurance companies.” So went the mantra of body-shop owner and reputed Philadelphia mob associate Ron Galati.

Julia Calipo has been found guilty on all eight charges for setting her east Erie home on fire in 2015 to collect insurance money. The judge also revoked Calipo’s bond and issued a warrant for her arrest.

When Pittsburgh wakes up on Wednesday morning, some residents will have the choice of going about their day in an Uber that drives itself. The launch of Uber’s self-driving pilot program marks the public unveiling of the company’s secretive work in autonomous vehicles and the first time self-driving cars have been so freely available to the U.S. public.

The former owner of a Darby Borough auto body shop was sentenced to 23 months of intermediate punishment Thursday after pleading guilty to insurance fraud and receiving stolen property.

Thousands of Pittsburghers will be going back to work Tuesday morning following the long Labor Day weekend, but they’ll be coming into city without the benefit of the Liberty Bridge. The span has been closed since a fire last Friday.

A 6-year-old boy died in a crash after his mom says she swerved to miss a deer but hit a tree instead. The accident happened in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County, around 8 a.m. Thursday.

A state of emergency has been declared and a nightly curfew instituted in Connellsville, where severe flooding from Sunday night’s storms has caused widespread damage to homes, vehicles and streets.

Philadelphia firefighters battled flames shooting through the front door and roof at a four-alarm Philadelphia church fire Monday morning.

There are few things worse than having your relatively new car stall on you without warning. That’s why Ford is recalling nearly 90,000 vehicles with a defect that could leave your car dead — and unable to restart — in the middle of the road.

Uber passengers in Pittsburgh will be able to summon rides in self-driving cars with the touch of a smartphone button in the next several weeks. The high-tech ride-hailing company said Thursday that an unspecified number of autonomous Ford Fusions with human backup drivers will pick up passengers just like normal Uber vehicles.

It was like the scene out of a movie, an out of control bus slams into cars, houses, a church and a dumpster before coming to rest on a porch, with it all unfolding in real life in Lebanon late Wednesday night.

Lebanon City Councilman Tony Matula said he plans to resign from office after being charged on Monday with falsifying an accident report by the Office of the Lebanon County District Attorney.

HEI Hotels & Resorts provided a list of hotels—20 hotels in 10 states and the District of Columbia—that suffered a “security incident,” in which payment card data of customers may have been affected. “HEI was recently alerted to a potential security incident by its card processor,” HEI said in a statement released Friday.