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Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters . Gail Stallworth was trying to win the lottery. At least, that’s what it felt like. In...

Police discovered the woman’s body around 5 a.m. Sunday inside a truck, which a neighbor says she “made her home,” on Fifth and West Luzerne streets in Huntington Park.

A sneak peek inside of the long-awaited $75 million Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University on Wednesday was well worth the wait. After almost 20 years from concept and design to swinging doors open, it was hard to not think about walking into the grand hall of Jurassic Park.

PennDOT announced that approximately $20.4 million in Automated Red-Light Enforcement (ARLE) funding will be distributed to 25 municipalities for 31 safety projects, including Penndel Borough. This investment supports the Shapiro Administration’s commitment to safer, more connected communities and brings the total...

A Beechcraft Bonanza crashed in Pennsylvania on Sunday afternoon with five people aboard, according to the Federal Aviation Authority. The small aircraft went down near a retirement village south of Lancaster Airport, the Manheim Borough Police Department told ABC News. The plane had just departed from the airport...

A New Jersey prison inmate is suing the state Department of Corrections for more than $500,000 after he says he was injured in a prison van accident and was denied safe transportation for follow-up medical appointments. Sharob Abdul-Aziz, 52, an inmate at East Jersey State Prison in Middlesex County, claims...

Shaurn Thomas, who was paid $4.1 million by the city of Philadelphia after serving 24 years in prison for a murder he said he didn’t commit, was sentenced on Friday to effectively spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing a man over a $1,200 drug debt.

There are currently only 300 drive-in movie sites showing films in the United States, a drastic decrease from their heyday in the 1950s, when there were a grand total of 4,000. So it's no small feat that Shankweiler's Drive-In Theatre in Orefield, Pennsylvania, is still standing after almost 100 years since its...

A big restaurant chain with four locations in New Jersey (it was five just a few days ago) and two in Pennsylvania has now filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This news comes as seemingly countless businesses, big and small, struggle in 2025. Some examples include the following:. On The...

Stock's Bakery has been a staple in Philadelphia since 1924, and, according to The Keystone, is one of the best bakeries in Pennsylvania. Whether you are looking for somewhere to buy delicious cookies or cupcakes, Pennsylvania isn’t short on great bakeries. The Keystone has compiled a list of the...