The Latest Breaking News from Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Al Schmidt, a Republican former Philadelphia elections official who challenged election denialism in 2020 and testified before the Jan. 6 congressional committee, is officially Pennsylvania’s secretary of state.

State supreme courts issued 392 opinions from June 12-25. The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia led the field with 82 opinions issued, followed by Kentucky with 31 and Texas (supreme court) with 20. The last two weeks’ 392 opinions account for 12% of the year-to-date total of 3,408.…

The flier advertising the Florida nursing school came in the mailbox of Ramatu Ali’s Delaware home. It promised a “bridge” program for lower-level nurses to become higher-skill, better-paid registered nurses.

A man convicted of driving into a fundraiser crowd in Pennsylvania last summer, killing one and injuring 19 others, and later killing his mother has been sentenced to two life terms

Two blocked climate bills show the oil and gas industry, related unions can still sway the new Democratic House majority.

Over the July Fourth long weekend, people will pour into the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the 160th anniversary of one of the deadliest battles in U.S. history.

Speculation and rumour have swirled in the months following Bryan Kohberger’s arrest, as conspiracists and armchair detectives paint all manner of pictures of the accused killer. But who really is the former PhD student? Sheila Flynn reports

PITTSBURGH — About half of Allegheny County Parks field programs on fireflies are booked up and the 11th Pennsylvania Firefly Festival Nights in Forest County Kellettville is sold out again.

PHILADELPHIA — The law that created mail voting in Pennsylvania has withstood another Republican legal challenge.