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Pa. is prepared for ‘incredibly important’ municipal elections, Secretary of State Al Schmidt says
Nearly 75% of 1.1 million mail-in ballots have been returned in election for judges, local officials.
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Pennsylvania could keep its Democratic high court majority or get partisan deadlock on the bench
Pennsylvania voters will decide whether to keep a Democratic majority on the state’s highest court — the center of pivotal fights over voting rights, redistricting and elections — or potentially plunge the court into a partisan deadlock in a premier presidential battleground.
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Mass murderer George Banks, spared from death penalty, dies in prison 43 years after Wilkes-Barre rampage
Banks, 83, died Sunday afternoon at Phoenix state prison in Pennsylvania, the state Department of Corrections said. Banks died of complications from renal neoplasm, or kidney cancer.
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Courts order ICE not to deport former State College man who spent 43 years in prison before murder case overturned
Two separate courts have ordered immigration officials not to deport a Pennsylvania man who spent four decades in prison before his murder conviction was overturned.
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Bucks County man charged with ethnic intimidation of Hanover church after Auschwitz float controversy
Joseph William Gilleo II, 28, of Morrisville in Bucks County, was charged with felony counts of ethnic intimidation and terroristic threats to cause serious public inconvenience, as well as misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and harassment.
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Faith leaders condemn a central Pennsylvania Halloween parade float with an Auschwitz sign
Jewish and Catholic faith leaders condemned a Halloween parade float that carried a replica of the gate to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz as the designer behind it apologized, saying he made it “with no ill intent.”
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HACC professors strike after years of anti-union pushback
HACC staff have been organizing for over five years. Now, they’re on strike.
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10 Guinness World Records set in Pennsylvania
From the feats of pogo stick athletes to tens of thousands of cookies, here are 10 Guinness World Records that were broken in Pennsylvania.
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Pa. attorney general lists drug charges against 14 from Somerset, Cambria counties
Law enforcement seized significant quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and other controlled substances and illegal firearms in the investigation, which took place this year, mainly in Somerset County, and included surveillance, controlled buys and search warrants.
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Shapiro sends millions to Pa. food banks as Trump ordered to tap emergency funds for SNAP
Gov. Josh Shapiro announced he had signed an emergency declaration that will direct $5 million to the state’s 13 food banks to help feed Pennsylvanians affected by the government shutdown.
