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By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER Penn National Gaming Inc. officials say nothing has changed since the Nov. 3 election, and they intend to have the company's Toledo-area casino operating on 44 acres along the Maumee River by the latter half of 2012. "All of the things we promised during the election are going to be fulfilled," Timothy J. Wilmott, Penn National president and chief operating ...
Veteran political analyst and best-selling author Dick Morris spoke at a fundraiser at the Duquesne Club Tuesday night for gubernatorial hopeful Tom Corbett, the state attorney general.
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More than 66,000 votes were cast online at phillies.com to select the final member of the 2010 Phillies ballgirl team. Kami Mattioli, a Temple University student and Wayne, Pa.
ATHENS BOROUGH — In Pennsylvania, the mayor of a borough can cast a vote in order to break a tie vote among the council.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today expressed his support for House Bill 1619, legislation that would establish a system of merit selection for state appellate judges. A House subcommittee held a public hearing on the bill today.
College sophomore Emma Ellman-Golan and Wharton junior Liz Celata will take the helm of Penn Democrats, hoping to increase excitement among students for the upcoming gubernatorial and senatorial elections. Ellman-Golan and Celata — who were elected on Tuesday as the group’s president and vice president, respectively — discussed their vision for Penn Dems with The Daily Pennsylvanian. Daily ...
A photo-finish among four candidates triggered Pennsylvania’s automatic recount law for the first time, and ballots had to be doublechecked in all 67 counties. Totals announced Tuesday by Secretary of State Pedro Cortes showed Lazarus beat her closest competitor by 2,087 votes.
On the heels of similar distributions throughout Pennsylvania and Michigan during the past two weeks, the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus in conjunction with three local Connecticut councils distributed approximately 250 coats to children in New Haven.
A statewide recount of ballots confirms that a county judge in Philadelphia is the winner of a hotly contested open seat on the state Superior Court.
A former Pennsylvania legislator is slated to be the first defendant to go on trial in an ongoing investigation of alleged corruption.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senator Robert Casey, Jr. and Senator Arlen Specter stood up for the working families of Pennsylvania by voting to break the Republican filibuster and begin formal debate on a solution to the health care problems that torment our state's working people daily.
HARRISBURG - There's nothing like a new round of criminal charges to get Pennsylvania's elected officials talking about governmental reform. The latest catalyst is the charges of theft and criminal conspiracy against former House Speaker John Perzel, R-
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania quarterback Trevor Harris is one of nine national finalists for the Harlon Hill Trophy, the NCAA Division II equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.
elections officials in all 67 counties will begin the recount today A statewide recount of ballots cast for
It will be about six months before Pennsylvania voters head to the polls, but the race for Governor is getting crowded. Two more candidates formally announced this week they are running for Governor of Pennsylvania. That makes a total of eight declared candidates in the race.
