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Highmark and UPMC Health Plan will charge a lot more in 2017 for the insurance plans they offer through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Target will stop selling clown masks amid a rash of reported clown attacks that have terrorized the United States in recent months.

A jury has been selected in the homicide trial against an Erie man accused of fatally shooting Justin Wiley in July 2015.

An agreement reached betweenErie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper and Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott on Monday could signal the end of a prolonged dispute over the future of the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority.

County and city officials reached an agreement Monday morning to resolve a prolonged dispute over the future of the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority. Approval by both Erie City Council and Erie County Council would bring an end to more than a year's worth of failed negotiations and attempts at a compromise to form a new EMTA charter.

An Erie woman is scheduled to appear in court in December to face charges in an October 2015 traffic crash on West 12th Street that injured a motorcyclist.

One man was jailed Monday morning and another man is wanted by police in a spate of weekend shootings in Erie that wounded two people.

One person is in police custody facing attempted homicide and other charges in a shooting that wounded a man on Erie's east side on Sunday night.

Talks continued through the weekend but with no resolution to the citycounty dispute over a new charter for the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority.

The Post-Gazette learned Sunday night that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has a torn meniscus in his left knee and will have surgery Monday morning. There is no timetable for his return to the team.