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John Yudichak described his defection as an effort to empower the political middle.

Legislation to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 passed the state Senate on Wednesday against a deadline to stall Gov. Tom Wolf’s move to substantially expand overtime pay eligibility.

Discussions on raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 are heating up, in part to get Gov. Tom Wolf to abandon an effort to extend overtime pay eligibility to tens of thousands of additional workers.

A Pennsylvania county is signaling that it won’t go along with Gov. Tom Wolf’s insistence that counties buy new voting systems as a security measure in 2020’s election, when the state is expected to be a premier presidential battleground.

Philadelphia results from the 2019 elections took longer than usual to be tabluated. Officials report that new voting machines combined with a high turnout of voters led to the delay.

Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein wants Pennsylvania to block Philadelphia from using new touchscreen machines it’s buying ahead of 2020’s elections and is threatening court action if it doesn’t do so promptly.

When post offices close Monday, the last victim compensation funds at Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses will also close, hours before lawmakers plunge back into a years-old fight over whether to let long-ago victims of child sexual abuse sue perpetrators and institutions that may have covered it up.New chapter opens in Pennsylvania in fight over suing church

The debate over guns is reviving in Pennsylvania’s Legislature, although Democrats say the process ignores their top priorities and could end up loosening gun laws.

CVS, Walgreens and Wegman’s are among the growing list of retail chains asking people to not carry their guns in store in respect of others, as it can be very alarming.

Carol Evans approves of Donald Trump’s immigration policy. She gives him credit for the strong economy. But the Republican from the affluent Milwaukee suburbs of Waukesha County, a GOP bedrock in the state, just can’t commit to voting for the president next year like she did in 2016. “I just don’t like the way he talks about other people,” Evans,...

Gov. Tom Wolf warned Monday that food stamp benefits for about 200,000 people in Pennsylvania are jeopardized by a Trump administration move to stop allowing states to exceed federal income eligibility thresholds for the food-assistance program.

The White House’s new food stamp proposal could leave millions of children without free lunch. Gov.Tom Wolf says if the proposal is approved it will impact 200,000 people in Pennsylvania. Government officials say most children who would lose free meals will qualify for reduced-priced meals.

Pennsylvania’s Republican Party is trying to settle a contested race for chairman between a candidate who had backing from Trump campaign advisers, and a rival.

Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday he is ordering a bond issue to help Pennsylvania’s counties pay for new voting machines ahead of 2020’s presidential election after a dispute between the Democrat and the Republican-controlled Legislature doomed legislation to help fund the machines.

Pennsylvania’s colleges and universities have a year to develop online, anonymous reporting systems to receive complaints about sexual assault from students and employees.

The first new voting machines in Philadelphia since 2002 will begin counting votes in the November election. City Commissioner Lisa Deeley gave NBC10 an exclusive first look at the features of the new machines.

A federal judge is dismissing a lawsuit over Pennsylvania Turnpike toll increases that are financing payments to help fund transit agencies.

A new audit shows the Pennsylvania Turnpike is $11.8 billion in debt. State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale says that tolls won’t fix the problem and the debt will cause travelers to steer clear of the turnpike.