Pennsylvania category, Page 82

Polls in Pennsylvania closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday night, but the counting continues. • State Rep. Emily Kinkead, D-Brighton Heights, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s 20th State House District, according to unofficial results. • State Rep. Jessica Benham, D-South Side, trounced her opponent in Tuesday’s Democratic primary race in...

Lt. Governor and U.S. Senate primary candidate John Fetterman underwent successful surgery Tuesday to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator, his spokesman said. The procedure came four days after Fetterman’s campaign announced the former Braddock mayor had suffered a stroke. “John Fetterman just completed a successful procedure to implant a...

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Attorney General Joshua Shapiro, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, announced that he has tested positive for covid-19. He tweeted that Monday night, before heading to Johnstown and Pittsburgh, he took a precautionary covid test. “I’m experiencing some mild symptoms and will continue serving the people of Pennsylvania as I...

The first electoral aftershocks from legislative redistricting earlier this year will be felt Tuesday, when Pennsylvania voters pick primary candidates for Congress, 203 state House seats and 25 Senate districts. Many voters will not notice a thing — they will be at a familiar polling place and cast votes for...

Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday condemned deadly mass shootings that happened over the weekend in Buffalo and Orange County, Calif. Ten people were killed and three others injured at a shooting inside a grocery store in Buffalo on Saturday, while one person was killed and five others injured in the...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s 2022 primary is just one day away. To make sure you’re ready to vote on May 17, Spotlight...

Primary election day in Pennsylvania is Tuesday, May 17. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and anyone in line at 8 p.m. will be allowed to vote. The state has an online tool to let voters find their polling place by entering their address. For more information...

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge accepted the 2022 William Oliver Baker Award from the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. The dinner and ceremony took place on Saturday evening at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. He spoke for around 20 minutes in what was his first public event in...

Pennsylvania’s Republican primary races for governor and U.S. Senate have been rugged affairs, with infighting among the crowded fields of GOP candidates and millions of dollars pouring in to fund a barrage of attack ads. On the Democratic side, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has built a sizable lead in polls...

HARRISBURG — Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for governor, siding with a far-right candidate who was outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection and has worked with determination to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Mastriano was already leading a...

Melissa Hart, the only woman in Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial primary race, announced Friday she has decided to bow out of the contest and throw her support to Lou Barletta. Her decision comes on the heels of Jake Corman’s exit from the race Thursday. He too is endorsing Barletta to be...

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There are balls. Then there are lottery balls. And a set of those balls doesn’t come cheap. The Department of Revenue recently purchased 30 sets of lottery balls totaling 516 in all for $41,280 - or $80 a ball. While it sounds costly, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Lottery says...

PHILADELPHIA — Amid a wave of challenges nationally to books in school libraries, Pennsylvania experienced more book-banning activity from the second half of last year through this spring than almost any other state, according to a group supporting free expression in literature. A report released last month by PEN America...

PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump jumped back into Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary, warning that the surging underdog Kathy Barnette “will never be able to win the General Election against the Radical Left Democrats.” Yet in the same statement, Trump, who has endorsed Mehmet Oz for Senate, said Barnette could...

Traffic crashes in the U.S. are increasing at a record pace, according to the latest data estimates from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. NHTSA estimates of the first nine months of 2021 project that more than 31,700 people died in vehicle crashes from January to September 2021. That’s an...

HARRISBURG — Jake Corman, Pennsylvania’s ranking state senator and a Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor said Thursday that he was ending his campaign and endorsing rival Lou Barletta, a move that comes as GOP leaders warn that leading candidate Doug Mastriano is too far right to win in a general...

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HANOVER TOWNSHIP — Standing before a wall-sized American flag at an American Legion hall here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, David McCormick talked up his background in the Army, called himself a “happy warrior,” and ticked through the reasons he wants to be Pennsylvania’s next senator: Inflation, the border, the “humiliation” of...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, long seen as a pro-life Democrat, on Tuesday said that he supports congressional efforts to codify abortion rights into federal law. In a statement, Casey said he chose to support the congressional efforts because of the leaked ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that, if enacted,...

State Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward is endorsing Republican candidate Dave White for governor a week before the May 17 primary election. In a Facebook post, the Hempfield Republican suggested that White could sway Pennsylvania swing voters and ultimately defeat his Democratic opponent in the general election. “The goal isn’t...

PHILADELPHIA — Maybe money really can’t buy everything. Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette now appears to be running neck-and-neck with the two big-spending front-runners, Mehmet Oz and David McCormick, just days before the May 17 primary, according to a new poll. Barnette, a conservative commentator who has run a...

PHILADELPHIA — The founder of a Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant and one of his sons have pleaded guilty in a federal tax fraud case alleging the hiding of nearly $8 million in sales over the course of a decade. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 83-year-old Anthony Lucidonio Sr. and 55-year-old Nicholas...