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Former Rep. Bud Shuster of Pennsylvania, a congressional power broker whose mastery of earmarked spending and highway projects in the 1990s earned him the sobriquet “King of Asphalt,” died Wednesday at age 91.

Shuster used his House Transportation gavel to win major highway and aviation bills while steering millions to his Pennsylvania district.

As the newly Republican-controlled House of Representatives readies to push back against recent federal investigations, one GOP lawmaker says he won’t sit things out in spite of a potential conflict of interest.

Newfoundland and Labrador made history in September as the first Canadian province to implement a sugar-sweetened beverage tax. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes also exist outside of Canada, including in Mexico, Philadelphia, Penn. and the United Kingdom. In Newfoundland and Labrador the tax amounts to 20 cents per litre of sugar-sweetened beverage.

Morning Edition spoke to more than 40 voters in two key districts in Ohio and Pennsylvania and found many aren't necessarily approaching issues as their parties would prefer. Here are four takeaways.

Jamie Wentworth from Penn in Buckinghamshire was out in his back garden on Monday when he spotted a strange object in the sky 'letting off sparkles'

PHILADELPHIA — With "Nope" now in theaters, it looks like director Jordan Peele has yet another hit on his hands, following the massive success of "Get Out" and "Us." While we expected Peele's latest directorial effort to be good, we didn't expect to find a Philadelphia connection to the movie.

The FBI says it recovered nothing of value at the site in Pennsylvania. But treasure hunters who led agents there think the FBI found tons of gold and cut them out of a finder's fee.

Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (OTCQX: TCNNF) (CSE:TRUL) will host a grand opening of a new Trulieve-branded medical marijuana dispensary under the Permit Harvest of SouthEast PA, LLC. in Coatesville, Penn.

READING, Penn. — Wearing a bright red big-league batting helmet atop a black minor league uniform, Mickey Moniak looked more like a plot device than a rehabbing center fielder as he dug into the batter’s box on Tuesday morning. The sky was gray and the stands were filled with field-tripping…

A divorced Pennsylvania couple could not agree on whether to vaccinate their children — and ended up in court. Since the vaccine was approved for kids, cases like these have skyrocketed in the state.