HARRISBURG — Chief Executive Allegheny 1,259 of 1,319 precincts - 95 percent D. Raja, GOP 77,791 - 37 percent x-Rich Fitzgerald, Dem 130,588 - 63 percent Superior Court Judge 7,691 of 9,239 precincts - 83 percent Vic Stabile, GOP 653,702 - 44 percent x-David Wecht, Dem 839,415 - 56 percent Cmnwlth Ct Judge 7,691 of 9,239 precincts - 83 percent Anne Covey, GOP 759,776 - 52 percent Kathryn Boockvar, Dem 715,382 - 48 percent Mayor Philadelphia 1,595 of 1,687 precincts - 95 percent Karen Brown, GOP 38,457 - 22 percent x-Michael Nutter, Dem (i) 131,803 - 75 percent Wali Rahman, Ind 6,227 - 4 percent
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Corbett may need Democrats’ help
Democrats should be having a field day attacking the Corbett administration, if only anybody would listen. But for months, no one has paid any attention because all of the drama has been centered on Republican in-fighting over liquor privatization and transportation funding.
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Child abuse reports on rise, including in Crawford County
Reports of suspected child abuse rose 9 percent last year in Pennsylvania, reaching the highest number since the state began collecting such reports a decade ago. In 2012, ChildLine, Pennsylvania’s child abuse hotline, registered 26,664 reports of suspected abuse or neglect; an increase of 2,286 reports from the previous year.
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Lawmakers target payments to unions in proposed legislation
-Bills that would weaken unions — including the powerful public sector unions that represent 300,000 state workers — have been introduced by a Crawford County state representative and a fellow Republican from Union County.
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Dems push for background checks on all gun sales in Pa.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane and a group of Democratic state lawmakers have called for a House vote on a bill that would expand background checks to include all gun sales in the Keystone State.
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Abortion provider won’t testify, call witnesses
A Philadelphia abortion provider won’t testify or call witnesses at his capital murder trial, leaving jurors to weigh five weeks of prosecution evidence.
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Gun rights backers march at state Capital
David Knight helped organize three busloads of people who woke up in the middle of the night to make the long journey from Beaver County to Harrisburg in time for a 10 a.m. Second Amendment rally.
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Paterno family speaks at child abuse awareness event
On the night before he died, Joe Paterno scrawled a message that his wife, Sue, did not find until after the legendary Penn State coach had passed away.
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Routine Pa. stop nets $1 million in heroin
State police found much more than expected when an officer stopped a car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for driving 14 miles over the posted speed limit.
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State police, other Pa. workers making more than $100K just before retirement boost pension payments
Three state police troopers wracked up so much overtime last year that they were paid more than the head of the state police or the attorney general. One trooper picked up almost $100,000 in overtime, so he was paid more than the governor.
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No more school property tax? New state plan would get it done
The authors of legislation to eliminate school property taxes by increasing the state sales and income taxes argued that the time is finally right to eliminate an extremely unpopular tax, while pointing to an analysis completed by the state’s Independent Fiscal Office as evidence that their plan will work.
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