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Animals
Lucky searches a tree for spotted lanternfly eggs. The insects often lay them in hard-to-reach places.
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Pennsylvania Turns To Man's Best Friend To Sniff Out Spotted Lanternfly Infestation

Dec 11, 2020
Spotted lanternflies are beautiful but can exact a huge toll on agriculture. To help reduce their numbers, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture started a canine lanternfly-tracking program.
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Elections
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Where Presidential Election Votes Are Still Being Counted

Nov 05, 2020
After notching narrow victories in Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, Joe Biden holds a lead in the march to 270. All eyes are on four key states: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada and North Carolina.
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2020 Election: Secure Your Vote
John Hansberry with the Philadelphia City Commissioners Office runs a sorting machine at the city's mail-in ballot sorting and counting center on Oct. 26.
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Philadelphia Gears Up For Unprecedented Attention To Its Vote Count

Nov 02, 2020
President Trump has claimed, with little evidence, the city's election system is corrupt. His critics say the president is trying to suppress turnout. But voters have registered in record numbers.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, pictured at a news conference in March, criticized Republicans on Tuesday for celebrating a federal judge's ruling that called some of the state's pandemic response measures unconstitutional.
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Pennsylvania Officials Stand By Pandemic Response After Judge Rules Against Orders

Sep 15, 2020
The governor and health secretary want residents to guard against the virus as a federal judge calls stay-at-home and business closure orders — since lifted — unconstitutional.
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2020 Election: Secure Your Vote
A voter casts a mail-in ballot at a drop box in West Chester, Pa., prior to the June 2 primary election. Statewide, Pennsylvania saw a nearly 18-fold increase in mail-in voting in the primary compared with 2016.
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'Swing County, USA' Prepares For Unprecedented Influx Of Ballots By Mail

Jul 21, 2020
Voting by mail is easier now across the U.S. Officials in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, a swing region in a critical state, are making changes to manage the time-consuming process of counting ballots.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Immigrants seeking asylum hold hands as they leave a cafeteria at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center. Independent inspectors told the judge that COVID-19 tests at the centers and the infection rates in the counties where the Texas facilities a
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Judge Orders ICE To Free Detained Immigrant Children Because Of COVID-19

Jun 26, 2020
The scathing order issued Friday said the Trump administration had failed to provide even the most basic health protections for children and their families.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Dozens have died of COVID-19 at the Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Brighton Township, Pa., pictured on May 12. Pennsylvania's health secretary defended the state's plan to test every resident and staffer at every nursing home.
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Pennsylvania Health Secretary Defends 'Universal' Nursing Home Testing Plan

May 19, 2020
Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine responded to critics who say there are holes in the state's plan to test all residents and staff at nursing homes: "The plan is an evolution."
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced the "Commonwealth Civilian Coronavirus Corps" this week. He said it would ideally be a broad program to train workers to test for COVID-19 and conduct contact tracing to monitor infection rates.
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Civilian Coronavirus Corps Aims To Get Pennsylvania Back To Work

May 08, 2020
Gov. Tom Wolf hopes a New Deal-inspired plan will help get the state's more than 1.7 million unemployed residents working again.
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Faces Of The Coronavirus Recession
Jose de los Rios works at a Procter & Gamble plant in Mehoopany, Pa., that makes Charmin toilet paper and other products. The factory has been running nonstop in recent weeks.
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Everyone Wants What He Makes At The Always Busy Charmin Toilet Paper Factory

May 06, 2020
The plant in Mehoopany, Pa., which makes Charmin toilet paper and Bounty paper towels, is the biggest Procter & Gamble factory in the world and has been running nonstop in recent weeks.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Protesters demonstrate at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, demanding that Gov. Tom Wolf reopen Pennsylvania's economy even as new social-distancing mandates took effect at stores and other commercial buildings.
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Anti-Quarantine Protest Draws Crowd In Harrisburg, Pa., But Gov. Keeps Stay-Home Plan

Apr 20, 2020
Gov. Tom Wolf announced the business shutdowns would be extended until until May 8. They were due to lift on April 30. He did ease the limits a bit, including on the construction industry.
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Co-owners Vamsi Yaramaka (left) and Raj Alturu stand inside Eat Spice on Oct. 24, in the truck stop on Route 534 off I-80 in White Haven, Pa. The restaurant caters to members of the Sikh community. For them, Indian and Mediterranean dishes can be hard to
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Truck Stop Caters To Growing Number Of Immigrant Drivers

Jan 05, 2020
The number of long-haul truckers in the U.S. has reached an all-time high, and many are immigrants. Some truck stops are adapting to provide drivers a taste of home while on the road.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, center, signs legislation overhauling the state's child sex abuse laws.
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Pennsylvania Reforms Childhood Sex Abuse Laws In Response To Clergy Scandal

Nov 26, 2019
After a grand jury implicated more than 300 priests in a statewide sex scandal, nearly every case was too old to be prosecuted. Legislators say that problem inspired these new laws.
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John Quinn, 67, first came forward two decades ago with allegations of sexual assault by a Philadelphia priest and said he considered waiting to sue.
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Clergy Abuse Reparations Are Closure For Some Victims, Resurface Trauma For Others

Nov 22, 2019
Hundreds of victims of priest sexual abuse have received reparations from the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. A new legal maneuver allows people to sue the church over old sexual abuse claims.
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Law
Mike Folmer was arrested on Tuesday on child pornography charges filed by the state Attorney General's Office. According to charging documents, Folmer told police he had been "dealing with some personal problems."
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Pennsylvania State Senator Resigns After Arrest On Child Porn Charges

Sep 18, 2019
Mike Folmer, 63, was arrested at his home on Tuesday. According to court documents, he told police that he "had been dealing with some personal problems."
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Pennsylvania Casinos Rolling Out Online Gambling

Jul 16, 2019

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is joining the short list of states where online casino-style gambling is available.

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Shots - Health News
Drug agents last fall worked with a Minneapolis police SWAT team to seize just under 171 pounds of methamphetamine. Many U.S. states say they face an escalating problem with meth and drugs other than opioids.
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Federal Grants Restricted To Fighting Opioids Miss The Mark, States Say

Jun 13, 2019
The U.S. government has doled out at least $2.4 billion in state grants since 2017, specifically targeting the opioid epidemic. Yet drug abuse problems seldom involve only one substance.
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Analysis
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Philadelphia Saturday.
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Biden Eschews Anger, Hoping 'Unity' Can Lift Him To The Presidency

May 19, 2019
The former vice president, who saw Barack Obama win twice on a unifying message, is betting that will win out over anger. Will that be enough for Democrats, who feel they have good reason to be angry?
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Environment
Rod Williams, a Purdue University associate professor, holds a hellbender that he and a team of students collected in southern Indiana's Blue River in 2014. The Eastern hellbender salamander is set to be Pennsylvania's official state amphibian.
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Snot Otter Emerges Victorious In Vote For Pennsylvania's Official Amphibian

Apr 18, 2019
The Eastern hellbender salamander may not be a looker. But its sensitivity to pollution and changing water conditions makes the creature a useful indicator for water quality in rivers and streams.
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National
Volunteers at the St. James Chapel Church food bank in Reading, Pennsylvania, hand out food and help the older and disabled.
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For People Who Need Assistance, The Lingering Shutdown Could Mean A Food Crisis

Jan 24, 2019
Food assistance in the form of SNAP benefits came early this month due to the shutdown. But in Pennsylvania, recipients are spending the benefits quickly, and there may be no new funds for February.
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Politics
President John F. Kennedy and members of the Civil Rights Commission pose during a White House conference in Washington in 1961. Wofford is seated to Kennedy's left.
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Harris Wofford, Former Senator, Civil Rights Activist, Dies At 92

Jan 22, 2019
In a long public career, Wofford played a key role in JFK's election, marched alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and led AmeriCorps.
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Shots - Health News
"People have to be alive to get the help that they need," said Brittney Webster, who got free naloxone at a health center in Carlisle, Pa.
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In Pennsylvania, People Lined Up For Free Naloxone

Dec 14, 2018
Across the state, volunteers in Pennsylvania distributed naloxone on Thursday. The drug reverses the effects of opioid overdose. The giveaway was part of a state plan to combat the opioid epidemic.
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Religion
St. Paul Cathedral, the mother church of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania was rocked by revelations of abuse by priests this August.
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Feds Launch Sex Abuse Probe Of Pennsylvania's Roman Catholic Church

Oct 18, 2018
NPR has learned that the Justice Department issued subpoenas to at least six of the state's eight dioceses seeking private files and records.
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Law
Pennsylvania on Wednesday ordered its 21 correctional facilities on lockdown amid a rash of drug-related illnesses among prison staff.
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Pennsylvania Prisons Locked Down After Staff Exposed To Suspected Tainted Drugs

Aug 29, 2018
The case follows similar incidents in Ohio and Arkansas in which prison staff and inmates have been sickened or died, possibly from the opioid fentanyl or the synthetic marijuana K2.
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Religion
Ronald Gainer, the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., discusses child sexual abuse by clergy during a press conference on Wednesday in Harrisburg, Pa. A partially redacted, roughly 900-page grand jury report about abuse by priests i
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In Pennsylvania, Shadow Of Secrecy Lifting From Decades Of Abuse By Priests

Aug 02, 2018
Accused predators have been named. Confidentiality agreements with abuse survivors have been waived. And soon Pennsylvania courts will release a redacted report on more than 300 "predator priests."
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The Salt
Abner Stolztfus owns Cedar Dream dairy farm in Peach Bottom, Pa. Last year, Stolztfus decided to invest almost $200,000 in equipment and learned how to make yogurt from scratch.
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Struggling Farmers Turn Excess Milk Into Cheese And Yogurt For The Hungry

Jul 02, 2018
Dairies are dumping millions of gallons of surplus milk every year. In Philadelphia, food banks are working with farmers to use that milk to make food that goes to pantries and shelters.

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