By Michael Winter, USA TODAY
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board yanked an online ad intended to warn of the link between heavy drinking and rape after critics said it appeared to blame women for the crime, the Associated Pressreports.
“She didn’t …
By Dave Boyer-The Washington Times
The White House is billing President Obama’s trip Wednesday to Scranton, Pa., as an opportunity to talk about tax cuts, but the location just happens to be crucial to his re-election chances next year.
“It’s a must-win state …
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nearly 50 members of Occupy Philadelphia are sitting, idling and arms linked, as a deadline to leave the site of their protest set by the city passed without any immediate action.
Mayor Michael Nutter set the deadline for …
By Dave Warner
(Reuters) – Two employees of a Philadelphia abortion clinic where live, viable babies were allegedly killed and a patient died after being given on overdose of painkillers pleaded guilty on Thursday to murder.
Guilty pleas to third-degree murder were …
Moneynews.com
Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, filed for a rare municipal bankruptcy on Wednesday in a desperate bid to resolve its debt crisis, but it now faces a showdown with the state over control of the city.
Harrisburg becomes one of the most-high profile …
By Dave Boyer-The Washington Times
PHILADELPHIA — When President Obama attended a fundraiser here in June, the city’s Democratic chairman bragged that Philadelphia’s voters are the key to a presidential candidate winning Pennsylvania’s electoral votes.
“However Philadelphia goes, that’s how the rest …
By Dave Boyer-The Washington Times
PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Michael A. Nutter, telling marauding black youths “you have damaged your own race,” imposed a tougher curfew Monday in response to the latest “flash mob” – spontaneous groups of teens who attack people …
By Shira Toeplitz, Roll Call
Veteran Manan Trivedi might have some company in his quest for the Democratic nod to challenge Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) next year.
Doug Pike, who came within 714 votes of defeating Trivedi last year, told Roll Call …
By MARY KLAUS, The Patriot-News
HARRISBURG — To help Harrisburg out of its financial crisis, area Christian, Jewish and Muslimleaders have called for three days of fasting and praying for a more cooperative spirit among Harrisburg government leaders, the …
PETER JACKSON, Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — About once a month on average since the beginning of the year, Republican-controlled states have approved laws requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls.
Kansas, South Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin, Tennessee — all have …
