Brian X. McCrone

The giant serpent had wrapped itself so tightly around the Upper Macungie resident that the man was in cardiac arrest as emergency responders arrived Wednesday afternoon, police said. Police did not immediately identify the type of snake.

The Pennsylvania secretary of state announced Wednesday that all 67 counties must recount the ballots cast in the May 17 primary involving Dave McCormick and Mehmet Oz because the election results show the two are separated by less than 0.1% of the more than 1.3 million votes cast.

Kathy Barnette, a Republican from Montgomery County who is among the frontrunners in the Pennsylvania primary for U.S. Senate, can be seen marching during the day of protests in 2021, NBC News has confirmed.

The federal government auctioned off 762 square miles of Atlantic Ocean real estate last week for future offshore wind farms. Most of the businesses willing to pay very high prices are based in Europe, continuing a dominance by foreign energy giants. One American bidder said he hopes the U.S. government changes the way the auctions are conducted.

Five months after an 8-year-old girl was shot dead in a town just south of Philadelphia by what investigators believe was police gunfire, the local district attorney announced manslaughter charges against three local officers.

A medical helicopter went down right next to a Delaware County, Pennsylvania, church Tuesday afternoon.