Lackawanna County

Northampton County executive hopeful John Callahan kicked off his campaign with a spirited event Monday in Easton. But it's safe to say his campaign has been well underway for some time. Callahan formally joined the race about a month ago, and by the...

Some things seem to take forever in the retail world, like the opening of the new Weis Markets in Fogelsville or the Golden Corral at Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall Township. Eager shoppers and diners couldn't wait for either of those places to be up and...

Good Wednesday Morning, Felow Seekers. With President Barack Obama set to unveil his new gun-control proposals, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said proposals to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines would not infringe on gun owners' rights. Casey,...

Vowing to roll up her sleeves and “just get it done,” Kathleen G. Kane was sworn into office as Pennsylvania’s new attorney general on Tuesday, becoming the first woman and the first Democrat to serve as the state’s top law......

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The Kathleen Kane era in the state Attorney General's office officially gets underway today. The Lackawanna County Democrat will take the oath of office during a 2 p.m. ceremony today in the state Capitol rotunda,.......

.All three of Pennsylvania’s elected statewide row officers – state Attorney General, Auditor General and Treasurer – all of them Democrats, will take the oath of office in separate ceremonies next Tuesday.. State Auditor General-Elect...

In a law firm conference room 43 stories above Midtown Manhattan where giant windows offered vertiginous views of rain-soaked urban canyons, John Hanger’s ambitions were equally soaring. A former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. It's all happened to all of us: You're stopped at an intersection and some well-scrubbed, cherub-faced Penn State undergraduate pops up at your driver side window and waves an empty soup can at you. "Donate......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Gov. Tom Corbett sat down with Capitol reporters on Thursday for a series of round-robin interviews. And because different reporters ask different questions, each session yielded some slightly different results. True,...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. An 11-member task force charged with reviewing and recommending changes to Pennsylvania's child-protection laws issues its final report during an 11 a.m. news conference this morning. The panel chaired by Bucks County...

On Nov. 6, Democrat Kathleen Kane made history when she became the first woman, and first member of her party, to be elected Pennsylvania attorney general. For the four decades it's been an elected post, Republicans have exclusively controlled the......

Five weeks out from Election Day, Democrat Kathlelen Kane leads Republican David Freed in the race for Pennsylvania attorney general. But the campaign could still pivot on the opinions of a broad swath of undecided voters, according to a new......