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Top GOP senator orders change in election plan

HARRISBURG (AP) — The top Republican in Pennsylvania’s Senate said Friday that he is putting a different senator in charge of an “election integrity” undertaking and removed a senator who had made waves by aiming to carry out an Arizona-style “forensic investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election. Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman said he had had “many frustrations” with state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who has helped spread former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him in Pennsylvania and other ...

Police exchange fire, kill armed man

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An armed man suspected of shooting someone in an apartment led police on a vehicle chase that ended with an exchange of gunfire on a Philadelphia street and police fatally shooting him. Police officers responded to a report of a domestic disturbance involving an armed man at an apartment complex around 2 p.m. Wednesday in Middletown, a suburb of Philadelphia, authorities said. An officer spotted Terrence Bey, 29, of Philadelphia, who fit the suspect’s description. The officer walked toward Bey and called out to him, but Bey ran to the back of a building in ...

Deposition raises questions in Pittsburgh police shooting

By Associated Press When Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala issued his conclusion that the 2018 fatal police shooting of Mark Daniels was a “justified use of force,” his written analysis repeatedly cited a ShotSpotter report he said had “determined that Daniels fired the initial two shots” at the officers. But a recently filed exhibit in a federal civil lawsuit brought by Daniels’ family shows the report did not include that information. Paul C. Greene, a senior forensic engineer with ShotSpotter — an acoustic gunshot detection and location system — ...

GOP senator’s plan to issue election subpoenas ‘stopped’

HARRISBURG (AP) — A backer of former President Donald Trump’s effort to carry out an Arizona-style “forensic investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election suggested Thursday that fellow Republicans in the state Senate are blocking his efforts. In a video posted Thursday on Facebook, state Sen. Doug Mastriano did not name names, but blamed “the powers that be” for preventing him from holding a meeting of the committee he chairs to vote on issuing subpoenas to counties. Mastriano, who has helped spread Trump’s baseless claims that the election was stolen ...

Judge rules Columbus statue in Philadelphia can remain

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A statue of Christopher Columbus can remain in south Philadelphia, a judge ruled, reversing the city’s decision to remove it after the explorer became a focus of protesters amid nationwide demonstrations against racial injustice after the police killing of George Floyd. Last year’s decision to remove the now-boarded-up statue from Marconi Plaza was unsupported by law and based on insufficient evidence, Common Pleas Court Judge Paula Patrick said. “It is baffling to this court as to how the city of Philadelphia wants to remove the statue without any legal ...

Crowning achievement

JOHNSTOWN — Sydney Robertson, of Williamsport, was crowned this year’s Miss Pennsylvania USA in the annual competition that took place on July 30 and 31 at the Richland Performing Arts Center in Johnstown. She was also awarded Miss Congeniality and Miss Photogenic. “Really, it’s an ...