Lynn Swann was known on the football field for making his most spectacular catches with the game on the line. It won him four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers, a spot in the Hall of Fame and a celebrity that has catapulted him to the Republican nomination for governor.
Emergency officials kept a close eye on the Susquehanna River early Thursday, but expressed optimism that conditions were improving and that a recently improved levee system would hold back floodwaters. The rains, which began over the weekend, have been blamed for four deaths each in Maryland and Pennsylvania, one in Virginia and three in New York.
Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, trailing his Democratic challenger in statewide polls, launched his first television ads Friday with a spot that argues he's been tough in cracking down on illegal immigration.
Lawmakers took another step Wednesday toward putting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage on the ballot in Pennsylvania.
House Speaker John M. Perzel said he accepts the public's verdict that last year's pay raise law was wrong and acknowledged that his comments defending it have hurt other lawmakers.
The FBI arrested two men who did computer work for a powerful state senator Wednesday on charges that they permanently deleted e-mails to thwart a federal investigation.
Tom Ridge threw his considerable clout behind Republican Lynn Swann on Tuesday to help the former football star jump start fundraising for his gubernatorial campaign.
A voter revolt that ousted at least 14 Pennsylvania state lawmakers this week could portend trouble for Republicans elsewhere, experts said Thursday.
Pennsylvania voters Tuesday are expected to seal state Treasurer Bob Casey's nomination to run against conservative Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, and they may also show whether they are still mad at lawmakers for giving themselves a big pay raise in the middle of the night.
If Pennsylvania is a barometer, an endangered species list could be taking shape for incumbents in this fall's elections as increasing voter anger spreads across the political landscape.
Gov. Ed Rendell has gained ground on Republican challenger Lynn Swann, according to a poll released Thursday, three months after the same researcher found the football legend nipping at the governor's heels.
Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell and his likely GOP challenger, former football star Lynn Swann, got an independent challenger on Thursday for November's gubernatorial election.
Gov. Ed Rendell led his Republican challenger, Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Lynn Swann, in a statewide poll released Wednesday and held a particularly lopsided lead among black voters.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann held a slight lead over Gov. Ed Rendell in a statewide poll released Thursday, but more than a third of registered voters indicated they hadn't settled on either candidate.
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With an expansion of gambling stalled elsewhere in the country, major gambling interests have set their sights firmly on Pennsylvania, where hearings will soon begin on competing proposals for slots parlors from Pittsburgh to the Poconos.
Abortion-rights activist Kate Michelman won't be an independent candidate in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race.
Abortion rights advocate Kate Michelman says she will decide soon whether to enter the Pennsylvania Senate race as an independent, a bid that could cause more of a problem for the Democratic challenger than for Republican Sen. Rick Santorum.
The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a county may switch voting systems without voter approval.
Pennsylvania's Republican Party leaders endorsed former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann for governor Saturday, virtually guaranteeing that he will be the candidate to face Democratic incumbent Ed Rendell this fall.
Bill Scranton dropped out of the governor's race Tuesday after it became clear that Republican Party leaders planned to endorse former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann for the nomination.
A man is being reacquainted with his past after a Utah family returned a wallet he lost at a gas station nearly 40 years ago.