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Pa. Liquor Control Board adding seasonal employees at stores
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) says it is looking for more than the usual number of people to fill seasonal jobs at its stores during the holiday season. “This year because of covid-19 and the added sanitation requirement, and just the extra work that’s involved, we want to make...
Pa. health secretary Levine says covid can be contained through masking and other efforts
The Pennsylvania Secretary of Health on Monday had a pointed response to a political declaration that “we’re not going to control the pandemic” as Pennsylvania and most other states see surges in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. “Despite what has been reported in the last day or so, we can control...
Pennsylvania adds over 3,000 covid cases in past 2 days
Pennsylvania has seen more than 3,000 new cases of the coronavirus in the past two days, according to a report from the state Department of Health. In the report released Monday, health officials said 1,407 new cases were added Monday and 1,666 cases on Sunday. Among Monday’s cases, 1,310 were...
Proposed bill would provide relief for theaters, music venues
John Pergal is in a difficult situation. Pergal owns the Thunderbird Cafe & Music Hall in Lawrenceville, and is part of the ownership group for the Roxian Theater in McKees Rocks. Both buildings are usually filled with the sounds of music and the sight of dancing crowds enjoying their favorite...
Inconsistencies in state covid data cause confusion
Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, journalists, health officials and the public have been inundated with data counting infections, deaths, hospitalizations and more. Often the figures come from multiple sources, including databases maintained by state and local agencies — and often, those numbers do not match. “It’s expected that during the middle...
Pa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro seeks second term in race against Republican Heather Heidelbaugh
Attorney General Josh Shapiro calls himself “the people’s lawyer.” Heather Heidelbaugh, his Republican challenger in the Nov. 3 election, refers to herself as “a lawyer’s lawyer.” While Shapiro has garnered national headlines for his impassioned challenges against the Trump administration, Heidelbaugh says the office is one that should focus on...
GOP asks Supreme Court again to block Pa. ballot extension
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Republican Party is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to speedily take up its case to block counties in the presidential battleground state from counting mailed-in ballots received up to three days after the Nov. 3 election. The Republican Party’s late Friday filing came four days after...
Pennsylvania reports 3rd consecutive day of more than 2,000 coronavirus cases; 29 new deaths
Pennsylvania on Saturday reported 2,043 new coronavirus cases — a dip from yesterday’s record-setting 2,219 — but still the third consecutive day the state has posted more than 2,000 cases. The state Department of Health reported 29 new deaths attributed to the coronavirus after posting 33 Friday, which matched the...
Plan to waive liquor license fees could take revenue from Pennsylvania municipalities
Municipal leaders weighed in Friday on a lifeline Gov. Tom Wolf proposed for the bar and restaurant industry a day prior, with some saying it might help businesses but also could take away from revenue at a time when every little bit helps. “Losing any money right now is big,”...
Pa. ballots can’t be tossed out over voter signature, court says
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday on a key concern surrounding an avalanche of mail-in ballots in the presidential battleground state, prohibiting counties from rejecting ballots because the voter’s signature on it may not resemble their signature on their registration form. Two Republican justices joined five Democratic justices in the...
Pennsylvania reports record 2,219 new covid-19 cases for a single day
Pennsylvania on Friday reported a record-high 2,219 coronavirus cases in a single day. It is the second consecutive day with new reported cases above 2,000. The state’s 7-day average has risen to a high of 1,642 cases with a 7-day total of 11,493. With 18,008 test results, the daily positivity...
Gov. Wolf wants to waive liquor license fees for bars, restaurants as pandemic reliefVideo
Gov. Tom Wolf has asked the state Liquor Control Board to waive all licensing fees for bars, restaurants, clubs and hotels next year in an effort to bring some financial relief to an industry slammed by the covid-19 pandemic. “This disease thrives when people get together, and it hits at...
New lawsuit targets Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot deadline
HARRISBURG — A new lawsuit filed Thursday is challenging Pennsylvania’s court-ordered deadline to count mail-in ballots that are received up to three days after the Nov. 3 election in the presidential battleground state. Plaintiffs include a Republican congressional candidate and four registered voters from Somerset County. The lawsuit comes 12...
Pennsylvania reports over 2,000 new coronavirus cases
With 2,063 new cases, Pennsylvania on Thursday reported its highest number of single-day cases of coronavirus since the pandemic started in March. The state also reported 30 new deaths attributed to the coronavirus. The new cases bring the total number of cases in Pennsylvania to 188,360. October has seen all...
Feds arrest 15 foreign students for work-status fraud in ‘Operation OPTical Illusion’
Federal immigration authorities have arrested 15 nonimmigrant students for alleged education-related fraud, authorities said Wednesday. The arrests took place in a number of cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Boston, Houston and more, the federal authorities said. The 15 arrested allegedly claimed they worked for companies that did not exist. “Nonimmigrant” status...
Record 9 million people register to vote in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania has eclipsed 9 million registered voters for the first time and is expecting record turnout as voters cast ballots by mail or drop box and in person at county elections offices before the election and at the polls on Nov. 3. As of Wednesday, the state had processed 9,050,870...
Pennsylvania adds 1,425 coronavirus cases, 48 hospitalizations
Pennsylvania reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases for the 16th straight day Wednesday. The Pennsylvania Department of Health added 1,425 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total to 186,297. For comparison, in the past 16 days, there have been 22,090 new covid-19 cases, while in the 16 days prior to...
Longtime Pennsylvania courts clerk in Schuylkill County gets 27 months for fraud
SCRANTON — A longtime Pennsylvania clerk of courts has been sentenced to 27 months in prison on federal charges that he stole public money and then tried to hide his tracks by forging records. Former Schuylkill County Clerk of Courts Stephen Lukach Jr., was sentenced Tuesday in Scranton after pleading...
Police: Pet cat shot with crossbow in Dauphin County
Pennsylvania State Police are looking for the person who shot a pet cat in the head with a crossbow over the last week in Dauphin County. Two South Hanover Township residents, of the 7200 block of Union Deposit Road, told state police their black cat was missing for about a...
Bill Cosby, now 83, grins in newly released prison mug shot
A newly released prison mug shot shows Bill Cosby smiling with a disposable mask hanging off his face. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections recently updated Cosby’s mug shot, something routinely done to document changes to inmates’ appearance as they age. Cosby’s new photo was taken Sept. 4. Cosby, 83, was...
First covid-19 positive cat reported in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania on Tuesday reported its first incident involving a cat contracting covid-19. State Veterinarian Dr. Kevin Brightbill announced Pennsylvania’s first confirmed covid-19 positive cat in a joint release from the state Departments of Agriculture and Health. The 16-year-old Cumberland County cat lived in a home with multiple people who had...
Pa. Supreme Court hears arguments on statute of limitations in priest sex abuse cases
Renee Rice said she was abused by a priest in the Altoona-Johnstown diocese from the mid-1970s until 1980. She filed a complaint with the diocese in 2006 and received a letter from them in July of that year inviting her to participate in an ongoing investigation. Rice declined because she...
Edgar Allan Poe’s letter pleading for $40 from a Philadelphia editor sells 173 years later for $125,000
Once upon a year so dreary, while Poe lay dead and the living weary Appeared a quaint and curious letter of forgotten lore. In the middle of a pandemic and a vote, suddenly there came a note Of a long ago anecdote, between Poe and a Philadelphia man of yore....
Pennsylvania reports 1,557 new covid-19 cases, 33 additional deaths
Pennsylvania reported 1,557 new covid-19 cases Tuesday, according to the state Department of Health. In addition, 33 new coronavirus-related deaths were reported, the second-most reported in October. All of the reported new deaths are from October. Total cases and total deaths in the state now stand at 184,872 and 8,533,...
Innocent bystander killed by stray bullet in Pennsylvania
CHESTER — Police in an eastern Pennsylvania city on Tuesday were seeking a suspect after an innocent bystander was struck and killed by a stray bullet. Gunfire erupted as Diana Davis, 62, was driving on 9th Street and Central Avenue on Monday afternoon. Bullets struck her vehicle and Davis was...
