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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...
Election is over, but plenty of deadlines loom under Pa., U.S. lawVideo
The General Election was held Tuesday, Nov. 3, but the election process is far from over. There are a series of actions required by Pennsylvania and federal law in order to confirm the results and install a new president in January. Here are some important dates moving forward: Nov. 6...
Amid increased usage during pandemic, graffiti, trash plague Ohiopyle State Park
Graffiti is back again at Ohiopyle State Park. Volunteers and park staff spent Thursday cleaning up spray painted political messages, obscenities, drawings of genitalia and personal notes from bridge abutments in two parts of the park, said naturalist Barbara Wallace. Graffiti was found on a new abutment constructed this year...
Westmoreland County reports 82 new cases of coronavirus, 1 new death
Westmoreland County on Friday reported 82 new cases of covid-19. The 7-day average in the county is 71 cases. The county total is now 4,899 cases since March with 4,234 of those confirmed. There were 303 new tests reported and 43 confirmed cases so the daily test positive rate —...
Pennsylvania’s daily coronavirus cases soar to record 3,384
Pennsylvania on Friday set a record for covid-19 cases reported on a single day with 3,384. Of those, 2,910 are confirmed. The state recorded 20,414 new test results with 17,030 of those negative. The state’s total is now 223,950 cases since March with 212,258 of those confirmed while 2,408,366 residents...
Analysis: Trump’s vote diatribe both shocking, unsurprising
WASHINGTON — It was at the same time shocking and utterly to be expected. As the nation held its collective breath and awaited the result of the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump stepped to the podium in the White House on Thursday and made a full-frontal attempt to undermine...
Nearly 8 in 10 Allegheny County ballots counted Friday favored BidenVideo
Nearly 8 in 10 ballots counted Friday night in Allegheny County went for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, results show. Of about 17,800 ballots — including military and overseas, damaged and some mail-in ballots — Biden claimed 13,900 votes to Donald Trump’s 3,700 votes, according to incomplete results announced shortly...
Republican lawmakers rebuke Trump’s claims of voter fraud
WASHINGTON — Republican senators, governors and other elected officials have swiftly pushed back against President Donald Trump and his baseless claim that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, tweeted Thursday that the president’s claims of fraud are “getting insane.” If Trump has...
Allegheny County’s new daily covid-19 cases trend upward to 239
Allegheny County on Friday reported 239 new cases of covid-19, the highest daily total since July. The county’s 7-day average has been climbing for two weeks and sits at 174 cases. The Allegheny County Health Department said 146 cases were confirmed from 1,668 new PCR tests and 93 cases are...
Westmoreland County counts mail-in ballots
Former Vice President Joe Biden picked up a net gain of 640 votes in Westmoreland County on Friday as a final batch of mail-in ballots were counted and added to the totals from Tuesday’s election. County election officials spent the last two days reviewing as many as 4,000 ballots that...
Country-themed bar announced for Live! Casino Pittsburgh at Westmoreland Mall
Details have been revealed for a new restaurant and entertainment space inside Live! Casino Pittsburgh, a 100,000-square-foot facility to open this month in the Westmoreland Mall in Hempfield. PBR Pittsburgh, the 10th in the Professional Bull Riders country bar chain, is a restaurant and bar that also offers a professionally...
