Stories tagged: "Josh Shapiro"

State Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks, checks his phone after speaking with members of the media at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, March 22, 2021. Majority Republicans in the state Senate announced Monday they will not employ a rarely used emergency process to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to give victims of child sexual abuse a two-year window in which to file civil lawsuits. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
State PA Senate GOP Won’t Let Child Sex Abuse Lawsuit Amendment Move Through Special Process

The proposed amendment likely won't finally pass until 2023.

Associated Press Associated Press March 23, 2021 11:12 am EDT
Drugs A pile of discarded syringes
Drugs How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Enabling Opioid Addiction

State officials anticipate 2020 opioid overdose death totals will exceed those of each of the past three years, including 2017, a year many consider the height of the opioid crisis.

Ashley Adams Ashley Adams February 18, 2021 4:54 pm EST
National In this image from video, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., speaks as the House debates the objection to confirm the Electoral College vote from Pennsylvania, at the U.S. Capitol early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (House Television via AP)
National Democratic Leaders Call on US Rep. Perry to Resign Over Involvement in Trump Scheme

Gov. Tom Wolf called Perry's involvement a "disgrace."

Patrick Abdalla Patrick Abdalla January 25, 2021 5:44 pm EST
State Attorney General Josh Shapiro, speaking in front of Gov. Tom Wolf in 2019, was sworn in for his second term Tuesday. (Flickr/Office of Gov. Tom Wolf)
State Pennsylvania Statewide Row Officers Sworn for 4-Year Terms

In separate ceremonies at sites around Harrisburg, the attorney general, auditor general and treasurer took their oaths of office on Tuesday.

Associated Press Associated Press January 19, 2021 3:08 pm EST
Elections U.S. Capitol Police hold protesters on the floor at gun-point as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Elections Wolf, Fetterman, DePasquale, and Shapiro Speak Out Against Pro-Trump Terrorist Storming at Capitol in DC

Gov. Tom Wolf, and Pennsylvania's elected leadership, had strong reactions to the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol in Washington DC during an attempted coup Wednesday.

Patrick Abdalla Patrick Abdalla January 6, 2021 5:49 pm EST

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In this Nov. 5, 2020 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court will take up challenges to controversial Trump administration policies affecting family-planning clinics and immigrants, even though the Biden administration has announced it is reviewing them. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) LGBTQ Supreme Court to Rule Soon on Philadelphia Case About Gay Adoptions
In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, people line up outside a polling place in Springfield, Delaware County, to vote in the 2020 general election. A Republican proposal made public on Thursday, June 10, 2021, would revamp Pennsylvania election law to affect deadlines, early voting and mail-in ballots and require ID for all in-person voters. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) Elections Pennsylvania Republicans Push Election Legislation That Would Make Voting More Complicated
The Heller Dam in Lycoming County, seen in this September 2019 file photo, is almost 50 years old and is deemed a high hazard dam. It stores drinking water for over 50,000 people and more than 2,600 residents would be at risk if it ever failed. (Mark Nance/Sun-Gazette via AP) Infrastructure Dams Are Forgotten Infrastructure—Until They Fail
In this image from video, Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Senate Television via AP) LGBTQ See How Pennsylvania’s Congressional Members Have Voted on the Equality Act So Far
Elections Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia in May 2019. (AP File Photo/Matt Rourke)
Elections Pennsylvania Shreds Texas’ Bid to Overturn Biden’s Win: ‘No Basis in Law or Fact’

“The court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated," the lawyers wrote.

Associated Press Associated Press December 11, 2020 9:54 am EST
Elections In this Nov. 26, 2019, file photo, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks at Muhlenberg High School in Reading, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Elections Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro Wins Re-Election

Shapiro had garnered 3.3 million votes to his challenger's 3 million as of 2:45 p.m.

Patrick Abdalla Patrick Abdalla November 6, 2020 3:16 pm EST