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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s 253 state lawmakers are almost guaranteed to score their largest automatic pay raise in history later this year, an increase that will push their base salary above

A battle over the leadership of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County has prompted legal action from one of the region’s highest-profile public officials: the county’s own communications director.

Some mysterious disappearances and deaths seem to draw in all manner of oddities and strange clues. In September of 1996, fifty-year-old Judy Smith, born Judith “Judy” Eldridge, was the happiest she’d been in a long time. After two unhappy, failed marriages, one which had left her divorced, without a job, and with two small children... Read more »

Capital-Star photo by Stephen Caruso House Speaker Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster) Among the youngest people to oversee the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the next two years will be Speaker Bryan Cutler’s first first full session as the Republican-controlled chamber’s presiding officer. The 45-year old Lancaster Republican’s role is to modera...

Although both Republican and Democratic House leaders called for his resignation when the videos became public, Bernstine ignored them and won re-election in November with 51.5% of the vote in a three-way race. In a Tuesday letter to current House Speaker Bryan Cutler, Bernstine recounted that former Speakers John Perzel, a Republican; Bill DeWeese, a Democrat; and the late Herbert Fineman, a Democrat, were convicted of public corruption charges. “Sadly, Pennsylvania has a deep history of bip...