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Pennsylvania reelects Supreme Court justices, extending a Democratic majority on its highest court
Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht won new terms, with support from the Democratic Party and allies including Planned Parenthood, labor unions, trial lawyers and a constellation of progressive groups.
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Everything there is to know about Bushkill Falls, the ‘Niagara of Pennsylvania’
Learn about—and plan a visit to—the eight waterfalls of northeastern Pennsylvania’s Bushkill Falls.
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PA small businesses face rising health care costs if tax credits expire
Unless Congress acts, enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits will expire at year’s end, leaving small businesses in Pennsylvania and across the country bracing for higher health care costs.
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Davis seeks $1 million to fill SNAP funding gap in Erie County during government shutdown
Erie County Executive Brenton Davis has announced an emergency proposal to allocate $1 million in county funds to help offset the loss of food assistance caused by the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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York County organizations launch fund to aid residents hit by SNAP loss during shutdown
Two York County organizations have teamed up to help individuals, seniors and families affected by the loss of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits during the federal government shutdown.
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The Fortune 500 reason Reading’s CRIZ started modestly while Erie’s rocketed to life
Each has already picked 130 acres to include in a City Revitalization and Improvement Zone (known as a CRIZ), where certain types of local and state tax dollars will be returned for investment in special projects.
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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.
