Autopsy results, including the names of the victims, have become increasingly difficult to obtain from the Luzerne County ...

A death certificate is needed for family members to take care of a deceased loved one’s estate, claim life insurance benefits, and apply for permits for burial or cremation. In the U.S., death ...

The time to end the death penalty in Pennsylvania is at hand [opinion] One family's example points to the need for a different attitude toward capital punishment.

More than seven million Pennsylvania death records now are available online.

Pennsylvania officials disclosed on Friday that they recently had to shut down the state's online system for requesting birth and death records for about a week after someone with apparent inside ...

Pennsylvania House Bill 118 of 2021 would fine women who have a miscarriage, or force them to pay for a fetal death certificate.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health is now offering more veterans eligible for free birth and death certificates.

Pennsylvania’s death penalty has cost taxpayers more than $350 million for a dysfunctional system that has sentenced hundreds but hasn’t executed anyone in 15 years, a Reading Eagle analysis ...

PA Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration is being pushed by Republican lawmakers to more thoroughly investigate the deaths of people 65 and older who have been the subject of abuse or neglect complaints.

Our work is out in the field – be it at a hospital, a residence, a roadway.” Death investigations conducted by coroners can range from a review of medical records to a full autopsy and report.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from the family of a Philadelphia woman whose 2011 stabbing death was initially ruled a homicide before the medical examiner switched it ...

Lawmakers raised questions since Pennsylvania recorded a more than tenfold increase in the deaths of older adults following an abuse or neglect complaint, from 120 in 2017 to 1,288 last year.