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The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of John E. Hoffman of Johnstown, who was convicted 26 months ago of murdering a 74-year-old man during a robbery in the victim’s Geistown home. A Cambria County jury convicted Hoffman, 56, of using a club or pipe to kill Anthony Profaizer on Nov. […]

ERIE – After a federal judge recently decided that undated mail-in ballots must be accepted as valid votes by all county boards of election in Pennsylvania – a decision to have tremendous import in next year’s presidential election, which will once again likely see the Keystone State as a battleground – the Republican Party’s state and national wings have appealed that decision.

ERIE – A federal judge recently decided that per the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act, undated mail-in ballots must be accepted as valid votes by all county boards of election in Pennsylvania – a decision to have tremendous import in next year’s presidential election, which will once again likely see the Keystone State as a battleground.

A panel of Superior Court judges on Wednesday upheld the 21- to 42-year prison sentence imposed on a former Bellwood-Antis Middle School wrestling coach convicted of sexual offenses against two student-athletes. Blair County Judge Daniel J. MiIliron, now retired, sentenced the former coach, Ryan L. Blazier, 22 months ago after a jury found him guilty […]

So-called off-year elections matter more than many people realize.

“i think we need people that are going to have the backbone and the spine to stand up for the rule of law and to ignore political pressure and make the right de

"There's a reason for the three branches of government and I understand where I fit in that hierarchy," Carluccio said during her stop in Honesdale.

When the Supreme Court struck down the federal right to abortion, it effectively sent the issue back to the states. A year later, many are moving to enshrine either protections or bans into state law via the ballot box.

Democratic Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Daniel D. McCaffery and Montgomery County Judge Carolyn T. Carluccio, a Republican, will face each other in the November election for the single vacant seat on the state's Supreme Court, according to preliminary returns from the primary race posted Tuesday night.

Cherelle Parker won the Democratic primary and will face Republican David Oh, who ran unopposed, in November's general election.