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Pennsylvania School Mask Mandate Upheld After Republicans Sought Review
An obscure state panel voted 7-4 that Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam’s Aug. 31 mask order for K-12 schools and child care facilities did not have to be enacted as a regulation.
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Rape Count Dropped, Sexual Assault Added Against Somerset County District Attorney
Jeffrey Lynn Thomas is accused of grabbing a woman by the neck and striking her during an alleged sexual assault last month.
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Pennsylvania Nun Imprisoned Over Peace Activism, Megan Rice, Dies at 91
“I had to do it,” Rice said of her decision to break into a uranium facility in 2012. “My guilt is that I waited 70 years to be able to speak what I knew in my conscience.”
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Sean Parnell Has Trump’s Endorsement, but His US Senate Rivals Have Cash
Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Camp Hill resident Carla Sands, loaned her campaign $3 million, while Montgomery County real estate investor Jeff Bartos, could see significant help from a super PAC supporting him.
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US Senate Candidate Parnell Loses Bid to Seal Child Custody Case
The Trump-endorsed candidate sought to seal records after details of his contentious divorce emerged and a rival ran ads calling him “unelectable.”
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Former Luzerne County Child Welfare Head Pleads Guilty in Backlog Case
The case involves reports of children who came to school hungry, a child burned in the face when their mother threw a cigarette out a car window, an adult telling children to kill themselves, and a 100-pound child still using a diaper.
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Hockey History in NEPA: First Female AHL Referee
Katie Guay will become the first woman to referee an AHL game on Saturday when the Lehigh Valley Phantoms visit the Wilkes Barre-Scranton Penguins.
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Shapiro Declares Candidacy for Governor, Blasts Republicans
In a campaign kickoff speech in Pittsburgh, Shapiro said Republican candidates are “peddling the Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump and are “doing real damage to our democracy.”
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Shapiro Gets Set to Jump Into ’22 Governor’s Race
The worst-kept secret in Pennsylvania is almost out of the bag. Josh Shapiro will formally announce his candidacy for governor on Wednesday.
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COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations Rise Among Vaccinated in PA
Over the last month, vaccinated people represented 26% of more than 135,000 new infections and nearly 5,000 hospital admissions across the state.
