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Trump defied gravity; now falls back to earth, future TBD
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, who defied political gravity with his extraordinary rise from reality star and businessman to the presidency, has fallen back to earth. In the end, his flurry of raucous rallies, an unprecedented turnout operation and sheer force of will could not overcome the reality of his enduring...
Pennsylvania has back-to-back record-high coronavirus cases
Pennsylvania on Saturday reported 4,035 new coronavirus cases — a whopping 651 case jump from the previous record set just the day before. The state also reported 40 new deaths. The total number of covid-19 deaths in Pennsylvania is 9,015. The new data bring the total cases to 227,985. Officials...
Trump isn’t conceding to President-elect BidenVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is not conceding to President-elect Joe Biden, promising unspecified legal challenges seeking to overturn the outcome of the race for the White House. Trump said in a statement that, “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why...
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb retains 17th House District seat
Three days after he declared victory, U.S. Rep Conor Lamb appears to have won re-election in Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District in a tight race with his Republican challenger. The Associated Press called the race Saturday morning in Lamb’s favor over Sean Parnell. Around noon, Lamb expressed gratitude on his Twitter...
Kamala Harris becomes first Black woman, South Asian elected vice presidentVideo
Kamala Harris made history Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them white — entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries. The 56-year-old California senator, also the...
Allegheny County reports highest single-day total of coronavirus cases since July
Allegheny County on Saturday recorded 288 new coronavirus cases, one of the highest totals since this summer. The county reported a single-day high of 331 cases July 14; however, it noted that total was because of a backlog of cases. Saturday would be the highest total not counting the numbers...
Biden wins White House, will become 46th president of U.S., vows new direction for divided country
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania catapulted its native son, Democrat Joe Biden, to victory and the White House on Saturday after a long, hard-fought and expensive campaign in which Democrats wrested the battleground state’s 20 electoral votes back from President Donald Trump after the Republican’s surprise victory in 2016. Biden also carried...
Officials: Clerk error in small Michigan county behind results favoring Biden
BELLAIRE, Mich. — A clerk’s error in a small Republican-leaning northern Michigan county earlier this week led to the reporting of unofficial voting results that favored Democrat Joe Biden, state officials said. Questions were raised after Antrim County, northeast of Traverse City, first reported a local landslide for Biden in...
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital offers new drug for postpartum depression
Having babies brought Emily Washburn joy. The experience of motherhood also crippled her with sadness. Washburn, 25, of Carlisle, was diagnosed with postpartum depression – in September 2017 after the birth of her first child, Wyatt, a boy. As she is about to deliver her third baby, she remembers her...
Biden increases lead on Trump in Allegheny County with 7,200 more ballots scanned Saturday
The vote counting for about 7,000 ballots remaining from a batch of 29,000, part of an October printing mishap, has been halted and will resume on Monday at 9 a.m. According to Allegheny County communications director Amie Downs, additional administrative work needs to be done on those remaining ballots in...
Pa. proves pivotal, propelling Joe Biden to White House
The Keystone State proved to be the key for Joe Biden after all. The Associated Press called the race in Pennsylvania for Biden shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday, propelling the former vice president to the White House as the 46th president of the United States. Biden has received 3,345,906 votes...
Fact check: Trump’s errant assault on election integrity
WASHINGTON — The most direct attempt to undermine the integrity of the U.S. election with bad information came not from overseas sources or online liars but from a president standing behind the presidential seal at the White House and facing defeat. President Donald Trump spoke of “horror stories” in voting...
Trump chief of staff Meadows diagnosed with covid-19
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows has been diagnosed with the coronavirus as the nation sets daily records for confirmed cases for the pandemic. Two senior administration officials confirmed Friday that Meadows had tested positive for the virus, which has killed more than 236,000 Americans so...
WPIAL football playoff semifinal scores for Nov. 6, 2020
TribLIVE’s sports reporters have you covered from Friday’s WPIAL high school football playoff action. ALLEGHENY/REGION • 6A (Championship Game): No. 3 CENTRAL CATHOLIC 38, No. 1 NORTH ALLEGHENY 24 @ Martorelli Stadium • 5A: No. 3 PETERS TOWNSHIP 20, No. 2 GATEWAY 19 • 3A: No. 1 CENTRAL VALLEY 70,...
Incendiary texts traced to outfit run by top Trump aide
BOSTON — A texting company run by one of President Donald Trump’s top campaign officials sent out thousands of targeted, anonymous text messages urging supporters to rally where votes were being counted in Philadelphia on Thursday, falsely claiming Democrats were trying to steal the presidential election. The messages directed Trump...
U.S. Supreme Court justice orders Pa. counties to separate, but keep counting, late-arriving mail ballots
PHILADELPHIA — In a move that could signal the U.S. Supreme Court is one step closer to intervening in a fight over Pennsylvania’s grace-period for late-arriving mail ballots, Justice Samuel Alito on Friday ordered all counties to keep separate any ballots that came in after Nov. 3 and instructed state...
Protesters crying foul over vote counts stir safety concerns
Pro-Trump protesters — some of them openly carrying rifles and handguns — rallied outside vote-tabulation centers in a few cities around the country Friday, responding to groundless accusations from President Donald Trump that the Democrats were trying to steal the White House. Elections officials in several states where Democrat Joe...
Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has repeatedly said there’s one place he wants to determine the outcome of the presidential election: the U.S. Supreme Court. But he may have a difficult time ever getting there. Over the last two days, Trump has leaned in to the idea that the high...
Frazer’s proposed budget calls for 76% real estate tax increase
After not raising property taxes for at least 25 years, Frazer supervisors are proposing to raise the township’s tax rate by 76%. Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed a $1.3 million preliminary budget for 2021 that includes a 1.08-mill real estate tax increase. The increase could generate an additional $133,000 next...
Legal experts say Trump’s legal challenges in Pa. are ‘Hail Marys’
Experts say five legal challenges playing out in Pennsylvania likely will have no impact on the outcome of the presidential race. Instead, they suggested attorneys for President Trump are trying to sow doubt in the public over the integrity of the election against Joe Biden. “They’re Hail Marys,” said constitutional...
Postal Service finds 1,700 ballots in sweep of Pennsylvania post offices
Postal inspectors found more than 1,700 ballots in sweeps of Pennsylvania post office facilities, according to a court filing by the agency Friday. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, ordered the U.S. Postal Service to make sweeps of postal sorting and delivery centers across the country and report...
Pennsylvania vote counters’ work to extend into next week
HARRISBURG — Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow but growing margin in the presidential race drew him closer to winning Pennsylvania’s cache of 20 electoral votes Friday as county-by-county teams of ballot counters continued to toil. The canvassing that in a normal year would be wrapping up on Friday will carry into...
AP declares Josh Shapiro winner in reelection bid for Pa. attorney general
The Associated Press on Friday declared Attorney General Josh Shapiro the winner in his bid for reelection over Allegheny County Republican Heather Heidelbaugh. Shapiro, 47, a Democrat from Montgomery County, took the lead in the race Thursday morning. At the time the race was called, Shapiro had won 50.5% of...
Trump vows to fight: ‘This is about the integrity of our entire election process’
President Donald Trump said Friday he “will never give up fighting for you and our nation” as he is on the cusp of losing his bid for reelection. Trump is spending Friday at the White House tweeting, watching results come in and continuing to cast unfounded doubt over the integrity...
Police accuse Latrobe man of raping woman hours after prison release
A Latrobe man who completed a jail sentence for a drug-related conviction and parole violations Tuesday is accused of raping a Hempfield woman hours after his release. Zackery D. Kimmick, 30, is back in the Westmoreland County Prison on $250,000 bond. He was arraigned Thursday on charges of rape, indecent...
