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08.09.2022 / 19:59

Support of false election claims runs deep in 2022 GOP field

Former US President Donald Trump (L) applauds Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano during a campaign rally in support of Mastriano and Mehmet Oz for US Senate at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on September 3, 2022. (Ph Nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide offices that play a role in overseeing, certifying or defending elections supported overturning the results of the 2020 presidential race, according to an Associated Press review.They include contenders from one end of the country to the other, often in pivotal swing states, for positions that are the linchpins of democracy.In Michigan, Kristina Karamo, a community college professor who signed an affidavit to a lawsuit seeking to throw out President Joe Biden's win, is running to be the state's top elections official.

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Police ID mom of baby found stabbed to death in UGA dorm decades ago

ATHENS, Ga. - A decades-long investigation into the stabbing death of a baby boy found inside a trash can at a University of Georgia residence hall has finally come to a close.On Jan. 8, 1996, police say a custodian discovered the body of a newborn boy and placenta in the first-floor bathroom of Oglethorpe House dormitory.

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Pennsylvania prison escapee accused of sending threatening letter, powder

SCRANTON - Federal prosecutors have accused a Pennsylvania prison escapee of sending a letter with threats to kill President Biden and the chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, among others, and containing a white powder with an allusion to anthrax.Robert Maverick Vargo, 25, of Berwick is charged with making threats against the president and a federal official and with interstate communications with a threat.The U.S. attorney's office in Scranton said the Washington office of U.S.

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Governor Wolf move expands voter registration forms at state offices

WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA - AUGUST 30: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks before President Joe Biden takes the stage to speak on his Safer America Plan at the Marts Center on August 30, 2022 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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Trump moves to general election mode with Pennsylvania rally

Former president Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a rally to support local candidates on September 03, 2022 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ((Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images))WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Larry Mitko voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

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Biden heads to swing state Pennsylvania to talk crime, gun laws

President Joe Biden is ready to talk up his crime prevention plans during a visit to Pennsylvania, where Democrats and Republicans are looking for ways to gain leverage on the issue ahead of November's midterm elections.The White House said Biden will use his Tuesday visit to call out Republicans for opposing his proposal to restore a ban on assault-style weapons.Both parties worked together in a rare effort to pass bipartisan gun safety legislation earlier this year after massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, but Biden has repeatedly said more needs to be done.As a U.S. senator, Biden played a leading role in temporarily banning assault-style weapons, including firearms similar to the AR-15 that have exploded in popularity in recent years, and he wants to put the law back into place."A majority of Americans support this ...

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Trump backs Mastriano in Pennsylvania GOP governor primary

WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES - 2022/05/13: Far Right candidate for Pennsylvania Governor Doug Mastriano speaks to his supporters in Wilkes-Barre. Doug Mastriano is a Pennsylvania GOP candidate for Governor.

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3 sentenced to prison in murder of woman, wounding of sister

SCRANTON, Pa. - Three men have been sentenced to prison in the murder of an eastern Pennsylvania mother more than a year and a half ago.The defendants, now 18 and 19, were all juveniles at the time of the June 2020 slaying of 21-year-old Rosemarie Mistler on the west side of Scranton, The (Scranton) Times-Tribune reported. They were among five teenagers arrested in the case.Police said Mistler was shot in the head as she sat on the front porch and her sister wounded in the ribs after a group of juveniles went to the home to confront another youth in an ongoing dispute.

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Man convicted of first-degree murder in girlfriend's death in Pennsylvania

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - A man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, whose body was found in his sport-utility vehicle in northeastern Pennsylvania three years ago.Jurors in Luzerne County who heard three days of testimony took only about a half-hour Friday to convict 42-year-old Dana Ganjeh in the August 2018 death of 56-year-old Linda Frick. He now faces a mandatory life term without possibility of parole.Prosecutors characterized Ganjeh as a jealous and abusive boyfriend who brutally killed Frick, whose body was found covered with a blanket and towels in the SUV behind his Kingston apartment.

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9 discarded ballots weren't fraud, Pa. election chief says

FILE - Stacks of mail-in ballots. HARRISBURG, Pa. - It appears that an election worker’s decision to throw out nine military ballots in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, amounted to a mistake and not “intentional fraud,” the state’s top elections official said Wednesday.Workers in the elections office in Luzerne County are getting training on handling mailed-in military and overseas ballots, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said during an online news conference.“The investigation is still going on, but from the initial reports we’ve been given, this was a bad error,” said Boockvar, a member of Democratic Gov.

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Video shows New Jersey police fatally shooting Black man armed with broken bottle

VENTNOR, N.J. - Police officers who had been called to help a bleeding, disturbed Black man wandering along a road outside Atlantic City shot him to death after he ignored orders to drop a broken bottle, video released Friday by New Jersey’s attorney general shows.Amir Johnson, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was killed on Aug.

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Lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair sells for more than $81,000

Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865). BOSTON - A lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair along with a blood-stained telegram about his 1865 assassination have been sold at auction for more than $81,000.The items were sold during an auction that ended Saturday, according to RR Auction of Boston.No information about the buyer was disclosed.The roughly 2-inch (5 centimeter) long lock of hair was removed during Lincoln’s postmortem examination after he was fatally shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth.It was presented to Dr.

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Lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair and bloodied telegram up for auction

BOSTON, Mass. - This is one macabre auction: A lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair, wrapped in a bloodstained telegram about his 1865 assassination, is up for sale.Boston-based RR Auction said bidding has opened online for the items ahead of a live auction scheduled for Sept. 12 in New Hampshire.

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Authorities identify Pennsylvania man killed in police-involved shooting in Ventnor

VENTNOR, N.J. - Authorities in New Jersey have identified a man they say was shot and killed by police in Ventnor after allegedly advancing toward them with a broken bottle Thursday.The state attorney general’s office says Ventnor and Atlantic City officers responded shortly before 4:30 p.m.

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Olivia de Havilland embodied old Hollywood, and shook it up

NEW YORK – She was one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars and determined off-screen fighters. No one was better suited than Olivia de Havilland to play the sainted Melanie Wilkes in “Gone With the Wind” or more tenacious about the right to appear in the films of her choosing.Fans and actors alike owe much to de Havilland, the Oscar-winning performer who became, almost literally, a law unto herself.De Havilland, who died Sunday at 104, was one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age.

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