Regional & State News
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Matt Slocum
Philadelphia ordered to remove box covering Columbus statue
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Matt Smith
Tom Wolf administration seeks to end the Pa. Senate GOP’s languishing 2020 election inquiry
Pennsylvania Senate Republicans requested partial Social Security and driver’s license numbers as part of a yearslong attempt to audit the 2020 election.By Carter Walker of Votebeat -
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Pennsylvania will have 36 new historical markers
The new markers add to more than 2,500 others throughout the state and will be installed in 18 counties, including Allegheny, Beaver, Berks, Cambria, Clinton, Delaware, Erie, Huntingdon, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lehigh, Lycoming, Monroe, Montgomery, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, Washington, and York.
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Paul Sancya
Rural Pennsylvania counties rank high in veteran suicides
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Ryan Gaylor
Bethlehem looks to expand program pairing social workers, police
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Nicole Leonard
Pennsylvania officials say school-based health centers are needed to bridge equity gaps
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Mason Heberling
Climate change is threatening North America’s wildflowers, Carnegie Museum research shows
Researchers with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History report warming temperatures caused by climate change are putting North American wildflowers, abundant in southwestern Pennsylvania, at risk.
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Gene J. Puskar
Young workers left Pennsylvania’s labor force at the highest rates after the pandemic began
Workforce participation has fallen across the board in Pennsylvania since the onset of the pandemic, but a new analysis shows the decline has been greatest among workers under age 35.
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Gregory Bull
Republicans reconsider mail-in ballots after midterm losses
The Pennsylvania House, controlled by Republicans, passed universal mail-in ballots in 2020 but had second thoughts once former President Donald Trump began to castigate mail-in ballots.
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Matt Rourke
Penn State rolls out new approach to budgeting it says is data-driven
The new model itself isn’t expected to balance the budget, but it will help the university get there by 2025.
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Matt Rourke
Philadelphia’s slain ‘Boy in Box’: 66 years later we know his name
Revealing the name to the public, authorities hope it will bring them a step closer to the boy’s killer and give the victim a measure of dignity.
