More than two dozen people have been arrested in a $2.3 million luxury car theft ring that shipped vehicles out of the country to overseas buyers. The Pennsylvania Attorney General and State Police say the 26 suspects from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New York were responsible for the thefts of at least 57 vehicles in […]
Patrick Murphy grew up in a law enforcement family in Philadelphia, and joined the Army at the age of 19. “Most of the time I was a military prosecutor, prosecuting serious criminals in New York and North Carolina,” Murphy says of his military career. He twice deployed overseas, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A 2006 […]
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Pennsylvania’s latest set of redistricting maps is now available for public comment. The redrawn House and Senate maps put more emphasis on reducing municipal splits, and less emphasis on population deviation, per the direction of the state Supreme Court. The high court threw out the Legislative Reapportionment Commission’s first attempt early this year. The House […]
Former Pennsylvania U. S. Senator Rick Santorum has suspended his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in the same state where he started it last June. Santorum announced on Tuesday in Gettysburg that he would suspend his race for the White House. Santorum won 11 primaries, but front runner Mitt Romney had won the largest […]
The state started black fly suppression spraying operations in several counties on April 9th. Spraying usually begins in late April or early May, but it has started earlier this year. Amanda Witman, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, says surveillance detected the flies a few weeks earlier, but that does not mean they’re […]
David Christian’s background is the first thing that sets him apart from the other five Republicans running for US Senate. At the age of 17, he convinced his mother to let him join the Army. He was one of the youngest most highly-decorated officers in the Vietnam War. After returning home and rehabilitating his battlefield […]
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