Pennsylvania bakers sending thousands of cookies
Volunteer baker Alicia Calabrace’s chocolate crinkle cookies are among more than 1,000 dozen cookies slated to be distributed Sunday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde. The cookies, which will be accompanied by cards, books, and stuffed animals, are from the Wedding Cookie Table Community based in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. A group with ties to Monongahela,
uvaldeleadernews.comJustices allow counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania
The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time. Last week, Alito had imposed a temporary hold on counting the ballots to give the justices more time to consider the matter. At the time, former hedge fund CEO David McCormick was locked in a tight contest with celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination.
news.yahoo.comCritics say Mastriano’s pledge to make Pennsylvania citizens reregister to vote is aimed squarely at Black Americans
Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor, wants every voter in the state to re-register to vote. Critics believe the move is intended to keep minority communities from voting.
news.yahoo.comSheriff: SpaceX trespasser made it to fifth floor of bay tower
A 21-year-old Pennsylvania woman remains jailed in a Cameron County facility after she was accused of trespassing at the SpaceX facility at Boca Chica Beach. Nivea Rose Parker told authorities she was a SpaceX employee and was on the fifth floor of High Bay No.1 because she wanted to meet with Elon Musk, Cameron County Sheriff Eric Garza stated in a media release. Garza said his deputies went to the SpaceX facility after receiving a call that a trespasser had been found at the location. Parker was found roaming the fifth floor of High Bay No. According to the media release from the sheriff’s office, surveillance video showed that on Wednesday Parker entered SpaceX at about 5:30 p.m.
myrgv.comSupreme Court order could affect Pennsylvania Senate count
The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the counting of some mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, an order that could affect the tight Republican Senate primary between former hedge fund CEO David McCormick and celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. An order from Justice Samuel Alito paused a lower-court ruling in a lawsuit over a disputed 2021 local court election that would have allowed the counting of mail-in ballots that lacked a handwritten date. Based on that ruling, the state had advised counties to count those ballots in the race between McCormick and Oz.
news.yahoo.comCourt battles go down to count deadline in Pa. Senate race
Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick is going to Pennsylvania’s highest court in an eleventh-hour bid to help him close the gap in votes with celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s neck-and-neck Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
McCormick sues over counting mail ballots in Pa. Senate race
David McCormick’s campaign is suing in a Pennsylvania court over his neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. McCormick is trying to ensure counties obey a brand-new federal appeals court decision.
McCormick sues over counting mail ballots in Pa. Senate race
The campaign of David McCormick, who is in a neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, sued in a Pennsylvania court Monday to try to ensure counties obey a brand-new federal appeals court decision that could help him make up ground. McCormick's lawsuit, filed after hours, asks the state's Commonwealth Court to require counties to promptly count mail-in ballots that lack a required handwritten date on the return envelope.
news.yahoo.comCrude oil is selling for over $100 per barrel, but 200 years ago it was a plentiful resource used in medicine and cosmetics. Here are 15 surprising facts about the history of oil and gas.
Before it became the lifeblood of the global economy, crude oil was just a gooey substance with almost no market value.
news.yahoo.comLee wins Democratic primary in historic bid for Congress
Summer Lee has won a five-way Democratic primary for a Pittsburgh-based U.S. House seat, making her the favorite in the heavily Democratic district to win the fall general election and become the first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania. Lee, a second-term state House member, lawyer and former labor organizer, comes from the party's progressive wing. Lee beat out second-place Steve Irwin, who was endorsed by the Allegheny County Democratic Party and backed by prominent Democrats from the county.
news.yahoo.comAs Trump falsely assails another election, Pa. officials gird for November
Election officials in Pennsylvania are girding for similar complaints in November, but fear there are few ways to combat deliberate misinformation and rising political toxicity. “It’s concerning because it’s statements like that that lead to threats against election officials. Under state law, county officials are not allowed to start processing ballots submitted by mail until Election Day. But changing the law to allow mail-in ballots to be processed sooner could ease a lot of the suspicion, experts say. Election officials are also eagerly awaiting a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that could dramatically reshape mail-in balloting in November.
washingtonpost.comRepublican Panic Grows After Mastriano Wins
The aftershocks of Tuesday’s big primaries are still rumbling across Pennsylvania, but one impact is already clear: Republican voters’ choice of Doug Mastriano in the governor’s race is giving the GOP fits. Conversations with Republican strategists, donors and lobbyists in and outside of Pennsylvania in recent days reveal a party seething with anxiety, dissension and score-settling over Mastriano’s nomination. In the run-up to Tuesday night, Republicans openly used words and phrases such as “sui
news.yahoo.comEXPLAINER: How mailed ballots slow results in Pennsylvania
Counting of mailed ballots in Pennsylvania is drawing renewed scrutiny amid a too-close-to-call U.S. Senate primary between Republicans David McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Former President Donald Trump blasted the state’s elections procedures on social media, even though there are no indications of any wrongdoing with those ballots other than a printing error that was slowing the tally in one county.