Spurred by multifamily construction, housing starts surged 8.2 percent nationally in April from March, the Commerce Department reported today.

Ernie Schuyler, curator emeritus of botany at the Academy of Natural Sciences, smells a variety of the autumn olive, one of the methods he uses to identify plants.

Authorities are investigating the theft of personal information from a computer in a Chester County school district.Downingtown Area School District officials said that a student gained access at Downingtown ...