By KATIE KNOL/WITF
Time is running out for Pennsylvanians to request a mail ballot and submit it to vote in the Nov. 5 general election.
With the deadline to request a ballot 5 p.m. on Tuesday, elections officials recommend acting as soon as possible. Voters can request a ballot at their ...
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman was sentenced Friday to 53 years to life in prison in the death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and exposed to drugs before his 19-pound body was found buried in a Massachusetts park in ...
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The driver who struck and killed a famous grizzly bear south of Grand Teton National Park earlier this week was not speeding and the bear's death was an accident, law enforcement officers said Friday.
The death of grizzly No. 399 on Tuesday night in the Snake River ...
By ERIC TUCKER, ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese hackers engaged in a broader espionage operation targeted cellphones used by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, his running mate, JD Vance, and people associated with the Democratic ...
Time is running out for Pennsylvanians to request a mail ballot and submit it to vote in the Nov. 5 general election.
With the deadline to request a ballot 5 p.m. on Tuesday, elections officials recommend acting as soon as possible. Voters can request a ballot at their county elections office ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A criminal investigation is underway in the crucial presidential battleground of Pennsylvania after election workers in one county flagged about 2,500 voter registration forms for potential fraud. Two other counties were alerted to look for similar problems.
The forms ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97.
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a long-time friend, announced Davidson's death in a statement, calling her "a model public ...
BOARDMAN, Ohio (AP) — For years, the sign had been sitting in a corner of the Republican Party headquarters in Mahoning County, Ohio, gathering dust.
"Welcome future Speaker of House Jim Jordan," it said.
Donald Skowron, a retired Youngstown police officer who had stenciled the sign back in ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The two historic churches are less than a mile apart in Philadelphia. Christ Church is where some of the Founding Fathers worshipped, and where colonial America made its break with the Church of England. Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is located on the ...
By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court on Wednesday said people whose mail ballots are rejected for not following technical procedures in state law can cast provisional ballots, a decision sure to affect some of the thousands ...
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The catastrophic flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina likely caused at least a record $53 billion in damages and recovery needs, Gov. Roy Cooper's administration said Wednesday.
The state ...
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Legal Affairs Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed an Ivy League researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black, for decades. Now, survivors of the ...
By JAIMIE DING Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man is facing new federal charges after being arrested in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people last month, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Nathaniel McGuire, 20, has been charged with using a weapon of mass ...
By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is at risk of misallocating nearly $1 billion in lead pipe replacement funding to the wrong states because it didn't verify inaccurate data provided by Texas and Florida, an agency watchdog ...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press
A former Democratic prosecutor in St. Louis admitted she shouldn't have used thousands of dollars in public funds to pay herself back after getting fined for mistakes while prosecuting a Republican governor, federal authorities announced ...
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service has reopened all of its mail processing centers in areas of Florida and North Carolina hit by recent hurricanes, a top official said Wednesday in a briefing meant to reassure voters and election officials that the ...
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Walmart has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by California officials that alleged the retail giant illegally dumped batteries, aerosol cans of insect killer, toxic cleaning supplies, electronic waste, latex ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in September to the weakest annual pace in nearly 14 years even as mortgage rates eased and the supply of properties on the market continued to climb.
Existing home sales fell 1% last month, from August, to a seasonally ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — More than 1,600 Virginians have had their voter registrations canceled since August under a state program that the Justice Department and advocacy groups contend is illegal.
The scope of the removals was revealed for the first time this week after a federal magistrate ...
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — More than 97,000 people in Wisconsin cast absentee ballots in person on the first day they could, leading to long waits at some polling sites that were made worse by an overwhelmed computer system that clerks use to process ...