Former Pennsylvania county judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced to 28 years in prison after being convicted of accepting a million dollars in bribe from a builder of juvenile detention centers.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, a staunch conservative with a Washington outsider's resume, will seek the 2012 Republican nomination for U.S. president, his spokesman said on Thursday, adding a top contender to the party's field of hopefuls.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, a staunch conservative with a Washington outsider's resume, will seek the 2012 Republican nomination for U.S. president, his spokesman said on Thursday, adding a top contender to the party's field of hopefuls.
Cinemax is raising the barn: The cable network announced a new Amish drama from "True Blood" creator Alan Ball.
Singer Gavin DeGraw will return to performing on August 24, after an assault in New York that left him with concussion and a broken nose, his spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Sarah Palin announced that the One Nation bus tour will be back on the road and headed to the Iowa State Fair before the GOP presidential straw poll.
Dale Ostrander could have permanent brain damage
A new treatment for leukemia has shown promising results, says a study from the University of Pennsylvania published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine.
Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) claims all is going well with its landline operations, though has filed injunctions against striking employees for destruction of property.
Mark Ciavarella, Jr. gets 28 years for taking bribes to jail kids.
As the Verizon strike turns nasty, management is seeking injunctions to limit the number of strikers at company sites.
Resounding success in the early stages of an experimental technique to treat leukemia has researchers talking about a breakthrough in combatting cancer not with radiation or drugs, but with cells drawn from patients' immune systems.
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have made strides in treating leukemia patients with a new technique that engineers blood cells to attack the cancer, according to studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine.
Nine-year old boy from Philadelphia, Ryan White, who became the victim of a hit-and-run incident last week in downtown San Francisco, is recovering and is out of danger, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Scientists used gene therapy to successfully destroy cancer tumors in patients with advanced disease. University of Pennsylvania researchers engineered patient's own T-cells in order to target a molecule on the surface of leukemia cells.
A quick look at the GOP members chosen to help tackle the country?s financial problems.
Pregnant women can now know the sex of their baby as early as seven weeks into a pregnancy with a simple blood test. This new technology allows expectant mothers to know whether they are having a boy or girl months earlier than usual.
Blood Tests will Not Lead to more Abortions
Smokers who light up within half an hour of rising are considerably more likely to develop lung, head and neck cancers.
Stink bugs did not get their names for no reason - they emit an unbearable smell similar to that of rotting garbage when squashed. And now these stink bugs, which caused $37 million worth of damage last year, are returning with a mission to invade, after waking up from hibernation.
A majority of states do not approve of President Barack Obama's performance and his national approval rating is hovering just below 50 percent, according to a new Gallup Poll.
Thousands of striking Verizon workers are joining picket lines and rallies at locations from New York to Massachusetts to Virginia.
