Pennsylvania category, Page 53
Pa. innovation is focused in Pittsburgh, State College, Philadelphia as other areas miss out
(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania could become a national leader in innovation — if the support is there and state leaders embrace reform. “Innovation matters so much to economic performance, yet the state’s innovation drift is resulting in a broader economic drift,” Brookings Metro Senior Fellow Mark Muro told legislators...
9 juveniles who escaped from a detention center in Pennsylvania are in custody
MORGANTOWN — Nine teenagers who escaped from a detention center in Pennsylvania after overpowering staff and crawling under a fence were captured less than 12 hours later, state police said Monday. “It probably was planned, but poorly planned,” said Pennsylvania State Police Trooper David Beohm. Beohm said the first four...
Pa. high school football player dies after collapsing on field, family says
Jersey Shore senior football player Max Engle has died, according to a heartbreaking statement from his family that was shared on the school district’s Facebook page Saturday. The news comes just more than a week after Engle collapsed on the field during his team’s game against Selinsgrove. In its statement...
Republican David McCormick plans to run for U.S. Senate again in Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG — Republican David McCormick is expected to announce his second bid for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, according to people familiar with his plans, taking on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey after narrowly losing an expensive and bruising GOP primary last year to a Donald Trump-endorsed rival. McCormick, 58, has strong...
DA asks judge to revoke Philly Officer Mark Dial’s bail in the fatal shooting of Eddie Irizarry
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday asked a judge to revoke the bail of Police Officer Mark Dial, who was charged with murder last week in the fatal shooting of Eddie Irizarry. Dial, a five-year veteran of the force, is accused of first-degree murder, aggravated assault and...
Pa. lawmakers look to thwart ‘grinch bots’ from price gouging concert tickets
HARRISBURG — Buying tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour proved a fiasco for the pop star’s legion of fans, largely blamed on computer software leveraged by scalpers to circumvent purchasing limits, snatch up tickets at face value and resell them online at an enormous markup. Tickets originally priced from $49...
Escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante captured after 2 weeks on the run
POTTSTOWN — A murderer who brazenly escaped from a Pennsylvania jail was captured Wednesday in the woods by a team of tactical officers, bringing an end to an intense search that terrified residents as the fugitive broke into homes for food, changed his appearance, and stole a van and rifle...
Democratic Philadelphia state lawmaker joins race for Pennsylvania attorney general
HARRISBURG — Democratic state lawmaker Jared Solomon said Tuesday that he will run in next year’s election for Pennsylvania attorney general, an office that has played a big role in fighting drug trafficking, suing opioid makers and defending the battleground state’s 2020 presidential election. Solomon, who is from Philadelphia, is...
Study: Pennsylvania public schools underfunded by $6.2 billion
Pennsylvania needs to increase its investment in public schools by $6.2 billion to help students meet graduation rate goals and proficiency on state exams, according to a school finance expert. Penn State assistant professor Matthew Kelly told a panel of policymakers the figure was his conservative estimate of what was...
Escaped Pennsylvania inmate still believed to be within specific perimeter, police sayVideo
POTTSTOWN — Escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante is still believed to be within a search perimeter in a rural stretch of southeastern Pennsylvania hours after he stole a rifle from a garage and fled a homeowner’s gunfire, authorities said Tuesday. Heavily armed police descended on the South Coventry Township area...
Pennsylvania removes email database of public employees
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds the powerful to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania officials have removed a searchable, online database of state employee emails, narrowing the ways the public can reach the people who...
Escaped murderer still at large slips out of search area, changes appearance, tries to contact ex-co-workers
PHOENIXVILLE — Authorities searched Monday for an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a half ago after they said over the weekend he slipped out of the search area, changed his appearance, stole a dairy delivery van and tried...
Police announce 2 more confirmed sightings of escaped murderer on the run in Pennsylvania
WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Police on Saturday reported two more confirmed sightings of an escaped murderer on the run for more than a week in southeast Pennsylvania amid a search by hundreds of law enforcement officers. Danelo Souza Cavalcante, 34, escaped from the Chester County Prison while awaiting transfer to...
Latest sighting of fugitive killer in Pennsylvania spurs closure of popular botanical garden
WEST CHESTER, Pa. — One of the country’s top botanical gardens has been closed indefinitely after reports that an escaped murderer on the run in southeast Pennsylvania may have once again been spotted on the property. When Longwood Gardens closed Thursday night, people who remained on the property were told...
Penn State to consider asking state for millions more next year while awaiting this year’s funding
Penn State has yet to receive any state funding to support the university’s operating budget this year but its trustees are poised to ask for millions of dollars more for next year. A university trustees’ committee on Thursday voted to recommend the full board consider requesting $368.1 million from the...
Pa. election 2023: A complete guide to the candidates for state Supreme Court
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds the powerful to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — During Pennsylvania’s general election on Nov. 7, voters will select the newest state Supreme Court justice. The winner of the election —...
Search for escaped Pennsylvania murderer enters 8th day
WEST CHESTER — As the hunt for an elusive murderer stretches into a second week, residents of suburban southeast Pennsylvania say they’re unsettled and perhaps frustrated — but not panicked — as hundreds of heavily armed searchers scoured roads, neighborhoods and dense woodlands. Danilo Souza Cavalcante, a 34-year-old from Brazil,...
Ron DeSantis returned to the campaign trail with 2 fundraisers in Pennsylvania this week
PHILADELPHIA — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raised about $400,000 in a fundraising swing through Pennsylvania Tuesday, his campaign told The Inquirer. The trip marked DeSantis’ return to the campaign trail after a week hiatus overseeing recovery efforts in Florida following Hurricane Idalia. He met with donors at a luncheon in...
Pennsylvania inmate escaped by climbing up a wall and over razor wire, prison official saysVideo
WEST CHESTER — A murderer on the loose in suburban Philadelphia was able to escape from a jail yard by climbing up a wall and over razor wire last week, prison officials said Wednesday. A security video of the escape shows Danelo Cavalcante, 34, standing in a passageway before bracing...
Gov. Shapiro opens door wider for small businesses to compete for state contracts
Small businesses may now have a better chance at landing a state government contract as a result of an executive order Gov. Josh Shapiro signed on Tuesday. The order expands increases the amount of money the commonwealth spends on contracts with small diverse businesses, building on former Gov. Tom Wolf’s...
Authorities expand search area for killer who escaped Pennsylvania prison after latest sighting
WEST CHESTER — Authorities have moved and expanded the search area for a convicted murderer who escaped from a suburban Philadelphia prison last week, after he was spotted on a trail camera at one of the nation’s premier botanical gardens. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, has been spotted five time since he...
Pa. high school football player battling for life has taken ‘positive step’
A day after saying they needed a miracle and asking people to pray, the family of a Pennsylvania high school football player who collapsed on the field Friday provided a positive update Monday. In a social media post shared to the Karns City Football page, senior quarterback Mason Martin’s mother,...
‘We need a miracle’: Prayers requested for Pa. high school football player who collapsed on field
The family of the Pennsylvania high school football player who collapsed on the field during Friday night’s game has updated his status and has asked for continued prayers, according to a post on the Karns City football team’s social media account. Mason Martin, a senior quarterback for the team, collapsed...
Killer who escaped suburban Philadelphia prison is spotted on surveillance cameras
WEST CHESTER — A recently convicted murderer who’s been on the run for days after escaping a suburban Philadelphia prison was spotted shortly after midnight Saturday by residential security cameras in an area not far from the prison, authorities said. Authorities haven’t disclosed the circumstances of how Danelo Cavalcante, 34,...
Spotlight PA fights to unseal lobbyist communications with the legislature
This story first appeared in The Investigator, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA featuring the best investigative and accountability journalism from across Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — Deep within Pennsylvania’s 36-page Right-to-Know Law, a clause says that correspondence between a state lawmaker and a person seeking their help is off-limits to the...
