If you’ve got to break up hard ground — concrete, asphalt, hard-packed dirt, etc. — nothing does the job better than a pickaxe. It’s a straightforward tool, and at first glance looks much the same ...

A Berks County man who was 17 when he beat a man to death with a pickaxe handle more than two decades ago has seen his eighth bid to overturn his life prison sentence end in defeat. The state Superior ...

A builder’s labourer accused of murdering a man in the street with a pick axe handle told a jury he could not recall striking the fatal blows. Duane Bellamy said he was scared and in panic when he ...