http://www.sharonherald.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:57:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_299215826.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_299215826.html Gov. Ed Rendell on Friday rescinded a state policy that had kept Pennsylvania’s list of polling places hidden from the public because of fears that terrorists could disrupt elections in the state. Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:43:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_286194618.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_286194618.html Someone — the source has not been identified — recently circulated a professional-looking flyer that erroneously claimed the Legislature had approved a bill to outlaw the widespread practice effective Nov. 10 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:30:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_272193057.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_272193057.html With electricity bills across most of Pennsylvania set to jump in a couple years when rate caps expire, a scramble is on at the Capitol to see how that might be averted. Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:51:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_271205159.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_271205159.html General Motors Corp. will put $29.9 billion into a fund for retiree health care and guarantee that cars and trucks will be built at 16 U.S. plants, including Lordstown, Ohio, as part of its tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers, according to a summary of the agreement released Friday by the union. Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:24:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_269112505.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_269112505.html The United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. agreed Wednesday to a tentative contract that ends a two-day national strike — the first against the automaker in 37 years — and puts responsibility for retirees’ health care into the union’s hands. Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:15:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_201211627.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_201211627.html Gov. Ed Rendell on Friday signed legislation aimed at making health care more accessible and less expensive for Pennsylvanians, calling it a good first step but warning that more work is needed to achieve full-fledged reform. Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:59:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_196230027.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_196230027.html A final version of the $27.2 billion state spending plan that is two weeks late received unanimous approval from a joint House-Senate committee Sunday night, a necessary step before it goes to both chambers for approval. Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:10:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_185221055.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_185221055.html State budget talks have degenerated from showdown to stalemate, and the prospect for state workers’ furloughs makes meltdown a real possibility. Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:36:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_166223706.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_166223706.html Congress is moving to postpone until June 2009 requiring passports for land and sea travel to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean after complaints about vacation-ruining delays by the State Department in issuing them. Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:46:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_360195307.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_360195307.html Iraq’s highest court rejected Saddam Hussein’s appeal Tuesday and said the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days for his role in the 1982 slayings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a town where assassins tried to kill him. Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_359194822.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_359194822.html The massacre at an Amish school in Lancaster County was among the top stories in Pennsylvania in 2006, a year in which casino gambling became a reality, National Guard troops came home, low-wage workers got a raise (effective in 2007) and illegal immigrants felt the heat. Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:08:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_350203746.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_350203746.html Trailers packed with cots and medical supplies are parked in secret locations around Colorado, ready for doctors to open makeshift hospitals in school gyms if a flu pandemic strikes. Parts of southeastern Washington are considering drive-through flu shots during a pandemic — although a practice run this fall showed they’d better hire traffic cops. Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:44:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_344223029.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_344223029.html WASHINGTON — Leaders of a bipartisan panel on Iraq sought to deflect criticism Sunday that their new war strategy endorses defeat, saying the Bush administration must push Mideast diplomacy or face “major-league problems.” Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:38:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_328213512.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_328213512.html “A Christmas Story” has come true.Brian Jones has restored the three-story, wood-frame house from the quirky film that’s found a niche alongside holiday classics like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Miracle on 34th Street” to its appearance in the movie and will open it for tours beginning today. Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_316223623.html http://www.sharonherald.com/apstorysection/local_story_316223623.html Responding to a humbling election, White House aides said Sunday that President Bush would welcome new ideas about the unpopular war in Iraq, even from Democrats he had branded as soft on terrorism.