Weather and local police blotter items from New Castle area
Weather forecasts and lottery numbers appear alongside a police blotter for New Castle and nearby towns. Names include Melissa A. Amodie Marlene Garcia, Keith Palmer Omar Tmor Moore Louis Thomas Qualin Sebree Randy Mulig Wade Savage. Charges cover health violations exterior paint rubbish public drunkenness disorderly conduct and aggravated or simple assault.
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New Castle
Keith Palmer
Omar Tmor Moore
Louis Thomas
Qualin Sebree
Jerry G. Cartwright
Randy A. Mulig
Ellwood City
Jennifer L. Nicholson
Wade Christopher Jamone Savage
Union Township
Senate advances bills to curb opioid crisis in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Senate passed a slate of drug fighting measures as opioid deaths peaked at 5559 in 2017 and then declined to 4267 in 2018. Bills target overdose charges, addict job training, and buprenorphine oversight with authors Bartolotta Langerholc and Brooks cited.
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Senate
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Pennsylvania
Yaw
Camera Bartolotta
Washington County
Wayne Langerhole
Cambria County
Michele Brooks
Mercer County
Brooks
State Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs
Health worries push call for moratorium on fracking health impact study
The push to study fracking health effects grows as lawmakers cite cancer fears in southwestern Pennsylvania. Local officials note 46 pediatric cancer cases since 2008 across four counties, including multiple Ewing sarcoma cases, while health reviews show no clear cancer cluster yet call for more data and stronger regulation.
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Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Maryland
New York
Laura Dagley
Physicians For Social Responsibility
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Washington
Greene
Fayette
Westmoreland
State Department of Health
Washington County
Schwartz
Ned Ketger
Department of
Capitol
State Department
Department of Health
Bradford County
Rachel Levine
Colorado
Wolf
Levine
David Spiglemyer
Marcellus Shale Coalition
Divided House votes to end 54 million welfare program
In Harrisburg Republicans in the state House approved 106 to 95 a measure to end a $54 million cash welfare program bundled with a Philadelphia hospital subsidy. The program, revived after a 2018 court ruling, had grown to about $150 million yearly before 2012. supporters called it a lifeline for the vulnerable while critics cited lack of accountability. The bill advances to the Senate as debate over welfare policy continues amid partisan friction.
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Harrisburg
State House
Pennsylvania
House
Philadelphia
Tom Corbett
Supreme Court
Tom Wolf
George Dunbar
R-Westmoreland
General Assembly
Wolf
J.J. Abbott
Mike Sturla
D-Lancaster
Mike Turzai
Allegheny
Elizabeth Fiedler
Greg Rothman
Cumberland
Rothman
Dan Frankel
D-Allegheny
Maureen Madden
D-Monroe
Appropriations
Stan Saylor
R-York
Commonwealth
Saylor
Senate
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