WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not grant a quick, pre-election review to a new Republican appeal to exclude absentee ballots received after Election Day in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, although it remained unclear whether those ballots …

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The police commissioner in Philadelphia said at a briefing Wednesday that her department will release 911 tapes and footage from police body cameras “in the near future” in the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr.

The lights have been flipped off for the annual drive-thru light show in Cascade Park.

Voters who go to the polls on Election Day should see shorter lines than normal for a presidential election, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said Wednesday.

New Castle city police arrested a man Tuesday in reference to two robberies.

Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic created a “team of heroes’’ at UPMC Horizon and UPMC Jameson, Robert Jackson, president of both hospital systems, said Tuesday.

Two candidates vying for Rep. Aaron Bernstine’s seat in the state House of Representatives spoke to voters Tuesday during a voter forum about some of the most pressing issues in the 10th Legislative District.

Less than a week before New Castle Area School District students make their return to brick-and-mortar classrooms, state health officials are warning Lawrence County superintendents about rising COVID-19 cases. 

The Laurel Elementary School is closed for the next week after four students showed COVID-19 symptoms. 

Lawrence County added 16 new confirmed positive cases Tuesday as Pennsylvania set a single-day record for new COVID-19 cases. 

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania House Democrats' campaign committee has nearly doubled its Republican counterpart's spending in the last four months, with majority control of the legislative chamber on the line.

HARRISBURG -- More than one-third of the 3 million mail-jn ballots obtained by voters ahead of the Nov. 3 election have not yet been returned to election offices, state officials said Tuesday.

Butler County Community College said Tuesday it placed a part-time instructor arrested last week on four sex-crime felonies on a leave of absence. 

This year's recipients are the Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County, the Jewish Cemetery and Burial Association of Greater Pittsburgh, the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and the Jewish Community Legacy Project.

Lawrence County voters will see three different ballots at the polls Nov. 3. 

WILKES-BARRE — Paulino Gonzalez, a retired janitor from Wilkes-Barre, supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election and he plans to vote for Trump again next month.

COOLSPRING TOWNSHIP – Around 50 students attending the Mercer County Career Center are in quarantine after two students at the vocational school tested positive for COVID-19.

Three candidates running for Pennsylvania’s 9th Legislative District in the state House appealed to voters Monday during forum on a multitude of district issues.

President Donald Trump's rally Monday at Altoona-Blair County Airport in Martinsburg was his third stop in the region in two months.

The professional staff at Pennsylvania American Water's New Castle Water Treatment Plant received a Directors Award from the Partnership for Safe Water for 20 consecutive years of water quality excellence.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In a late gambit to win the battleground state of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump and his GOP allies have intensified attacks on Joe Biden over fracking, hoping to drive a wedge between the former vice president and the white, working-class voters tied to the stat…

A North Beaver Township man who was killed in an all-terrain vehicle accident Saturday in Mahoning Township has been identified as 52-year-old Daniel Abersold.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to advance Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett toward final confirmation despite Democratic objections, just over a week before the presidential election.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat.

An employee of the Lawrence County commissioners office has tested positive for COVID-19, commissioner Morgan Boyd said Sunday. 

Neshannock Township junior and senior high school students will learn virtually from home this week after two students and a staff member all tested positive for COVID-19.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus has reached into the heart of the White House once more, less than a week before Election Day, as it scorches the nation and the president's top aide says "we're not going to control the pandemic.”

BY JOHN FINNERTY

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of question-and-answer columns addressing questions from readers about voting and the many changes in the works leading up to the November election.

The state Supreme Court on Friday sided with the Department of State and ruled that mail-in ballots should not be rejected based on questions about whether voters’ signatures match those on file.

The Lawrence County Board of Elections is reminding voters that none of the election counts will be final on election night.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday on a key concern surrounding an avalanche of mailed ballots, prohibiting counties from rejecting them if the voter's signature on it does not resemble the signature on the voter's registration form.

Employees at the Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County recently completed two significant teaching exercises. 

A Mohawk Area School District staff member has tested positive for COVID-19.