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Pennsylvania

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman gavels in a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate before Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year, Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. GOP: Fetterman’s presiding powers in the Senate can be revoked

Republicans sent a letter to Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman Tuesday saying if he violates the chamber's rules again, they plan to try to remove him from presiding.

7 years ago

Cheyney University needed to have a balanced budget by Sunday. (Abdul Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Education
The Philadelphia Tribune

Cheyney: A balanced budget and more money for scholarships

Cheyney University came out of the weekend with a pair of victories.

7 years ago

Susquehanna Township police Lt. Francia Done shows a Motorola body camera. May 15, 2019. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive)
Courts & Law
PA Post

Police body cameras can help officers and suspects, so why don’t more Pa. departments have them?

“You need to say if we do this, this is the commitment we would have to make financially."

7 years ago

The entrance to Erie Coke. (Amanda Gillooly/Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP))
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania environmental regulators move to shut down Erie Coke plant

State environmental regulators are moving to shut down Erie Coke, a foundry with a lengthy history of environmental violations.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale hosted a public hearing on how the state is responding to climate change on Penn State's University Park campus on March 14, 2019. It's the first of three hearings DePasquale plans. (Min Xian/WPSU)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is running for Congress, and here’s why

“I don’t think our country’s working right. And the challenge of trying to fix that is something I think I’m more up to now."

7 years ago

Sheriff Carolyn
Courts & Law

Chesco sheriff paid boyfriend $67K in ‘unmerited’ overtime, controller alleges

Chesco Sheriff Carolyn ‘Bunny’ Welsh authorized over $67,000 in overtime to her boyfriend, according to a report by the county controller’s office.

7 years ago

The Columbia County Sheriff's Department weapons storage facility is at 75 percent capacity of its weapons storage, according to Sheriff Timothy Chamberlain. Columbia and other rural counties tend to take multiple guns -- often dozens -- from defendants ordered to relinquish their weapons as part of protection from abuse orders. (Emily Previti/PA Post)
Courts & Law
PA Post

For Pa. sheriffs, new law means more guns in their hands. The question is where to put them all

Act 79 took effect in April – and already, some counties are noticing an impact on weapon storage capacity and/or manpower.

7 years ago

The Cutaiar family drinks only bottled water at their home in Sellersville, Pa. because the family's well was found to be contaminated with PFAS. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Residents with PFAS-contaminated private well water in limbo as DEP investigates cause

A dozen wells in Sellersville, Bucks County, are tainted with the toxic chemicals. Homeowners are getting water deliveries while the DEP finds a solution.

7 years ago

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Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale, speaks after he was sworn in for his second term at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017.
Politics & Policy

State auditor general Eugene DePasquale confirms that he’ll run for U.S. House

DePasquale made the announcement on social media Sunday. The Associated Press reported last week DePasquale had told Democratic Party figures that he planned to run.

7 years ago

Dr. Christian Macedonia led the military's Gray Team of doctors and scientists charged with finding the
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law
PA Post

Whistleblower: Lancaster General settlement with DOJ fails to address core problems

Penn Medicine has agreed to pay $275,000 to the Department of Justice to settle allegations that Lancaster General Hospital submitted false claims to Medicaid

7 years ago

In this July 27, 2011 photo, the sun shines over a Range Resources well site in Washington, Pa. In 2018, Range paid the highest impact fee of any driller in Pennsylvania. (Keith Srakocic / Associated Press)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Gas impact fee revenue rises to 7-year high, boosted by stripper wells

More than half of 2018 total will be paid to counties and municipalities to offset effects of gas drilling

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signs the main appropriations bill in a $34 billion budget package that passed the Legislature this week at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, June 28, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Money

After a week of ‘passions,’ Pennsylvania’s budget is finished

Governor Wolf has now committed to signing all the components immediately, except one.

7 years ago

Cheyney University President Dr. Aaron Walton speaks at the 2019 Philadelphia UNCF Mayor’s Masked Ball. (Ronald Gray/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Money
The Philadelphia Tribune

Cheyney, Lincoln universities receive awards from UNCF

The United Negro College Fund recently announced that it has awarded Cheyney University and Lincoln University, two of the nation’s oldest historically black universities.

7 years ago

Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. on the Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Money
PA Post

Winners and losers in Pa.’s $34 billion state budget package

Below is a look at who stands to win and lose from the budget package, if it gets back on track.

7 years ago

(NBC10)
Community
NBC10

Person shot at Delaware County courthouse

At least one person was shot at a Delaware County courthouse Friday morning, according to county officials.

7 years ago

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