Pennsylvania

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WASHINGTON -- It's been more than 50 years since a candidate has won the White House without carrying at least two of the three swing states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, and a new poll shows Mitt Romney neck and neck with President Obama in two of them. Romney, who trailed Obama 49% to 42% in Florida and 47% to 41% in Ohio in late March, is now statistically tied with the president, 44% to 43% in Florida and 42% to 44% in Ohio, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll of voters in the three states.

The new Black Widow pendulum swing coming to Kennywood in 2012 will fling riders through the air like pint-size passengers on an enormous spinning Frisbee. > Photos: Black Widow thrill ride at Kennywood The 90-foot-tall thrill ride is set to debut May 17 with opening of the West Mifflin, Pa., theme park for the summer season. Riders will sit in 40 outward facing coaster-style seats as a counterclockwise-spinning circular gondola swings back and forth in a pendulum motion.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sweeping five contests in Northeastern primary states, Mitt Romney claimed the mantle of Republican presidential nominee — though he has not officially clinched the race — and turned his focus to a general election showdown with President Obama. Romney easily notched wins Tuesday night in Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New York — contests whose outcomes seemed all but assured once his chief rival, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, suspended his campaign two weeks ago. In remarks in New Hampshire, where his campaign began almost a year ago, Romney thanked his supporters for "a great honor and solemn responsibility.

WASHINGTON -- It's been more than 50 years since a candidate has won the White House without carrying at least two of the three swing states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, and a new poll shows Mitt Romney neck and neck with President Obama in two of them. Romney, who trailed Obama 49% to 42% in Florida and 47% to 41% in Ohio in late March, is now statistically tied with the president, 44% to 43% in Florida and 42% to 44% in Ohio, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll of voters in the three states.

Campaigning at a diner in his former congressional district the day after he lost three primaries, Rick Santorum brushed aside calls to bow out of the Republican presidential race and allow front-runner Mitt Romney to focus on defeating President Obama in the fall. “I've endured about eight months of people saying that. Everyone has been asking from the days I was driving around [a pick-up] truck in Iowa to get out of the race,” he said, speaking to reporters after greeting voters at Bob's Diner, and responding to Sen.  John McCain's statement earlier in the day on CNN that Santorum had become “irrelevant.” “I've never been the establishment candidate and that holds true till today and that's nothing new,” Santorum said.

As far as last stands go, Rick Santorum's campaign to rejuvenate his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination by winning his home state of Pennsylvania is looking increasingly bleak. A new poll by Public Policy Polling (PPP), released late Wednesday , has GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney ahead of Santorum 42% to 37%. The poll, conducted after Romney's primary victories in Wisconsin, Maryland andWashington, D.C.indicates a rapid, drastic swing in the former Massachusetts governor's favor.

Former Sen. Arlen Specter, on a return visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, said Pennsylvania would be difficult for President Obama to win in next year's election. "I think it is tough; I think Pennsylvania's economy is hurting," Specter said in a brief interview outside the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room where he had just testified. Specter spent 30 years representing Pennsylvania before losing in the Democratic primary last year. Now from his view on the outside looking in, Specter said the president "has to become engaged" in state issues if he hopes to carry it again.

With nary an acknowledgment of his triumvirate of losses in Tuesday's primaries, Rick Santorum said the race for the nomination was at its midway point and that he would win his home state of Pennsylvania in the next contest. “We have now reached the point where it's halftime; half the delegates in this process have been selected. Who's ready to charge out of the locker room in Pennsylvania for a strong second half?” he said, speaking in a half-empty ballroom in this town about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.

When: 4 p.m. Where: Honda Center On the air: TV: FS West; Radio: 570 Records: UCLA, 2-5; Pennsylvania, 5-5. Update: UCLA's starting point guard, Lazeric Jones, and freshman backup Norman Powell practiced Friday and are expected to play. Jones complained of a sore foot earlier in the week and Powell was hospitalized overnight Wednesday after suffering an allergic reaction to something he ate. Junior guard De'End Parker is expected to sit out his sixth game because of tendinitis in his knee.

AVELLA, Pa. - About two years ago, Dr. Amy Pare began treating members of the Moten family and their neighbors from a working-class neighborhood less than half a mile from a natural gas well here. A plastic surgeon whose specialty includes skin cancer, Pare removed and biopsied quarter-size skin lesions from Jeannie Moten, 53, and her niece, only to find that the sores recurred. "The good news is that it wasn't cancer, and the bad news is that we have no idea what it is," Pare said.

A Pennsylvania bakery teased by presidential candidate Mitt Romney for cookies that looked like “they came from the local 7-Eleven bakery” has turned a joke that fell flat into a marketing opportunity. During a campaign event in Bethel Park, Pa., this week, Romney sat down with locals, took a look at the cookies they'd baked for him and offered a joking response. “I'm not sure about these cookies. Did you make those cookies?” he asked the women around him. “You didn't, did you?

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - Rick Santorum is back on familiar ground, seeking redemption and a lifeline for his presidential candidacy in the state that rejected him almost six years ago. The former senator from Pennsylvania has resurrected his career after a shattering 2006 reelection defeat. Dismissed as a hopeless long shot when his presidential run began, he'll finish no worse than second for the Republican nomination. At 53, he's one of the nation's leading social conservatives, and his long-range future has never looked brighter.

As far as last stands go, Rick Santorum's campaign to rejuvenate his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination by winning his home state of Pennsylvania is looking increasingly bleak. A new poll by Public Policy Polling (PPP), released late Wednesday , has GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney ahead of Santorum 42% to 37%. The poll, conducted after Romney's primary victories in Wisconsin, Maryland andWashington, D.C.indicates a rapid, drastic swing in the former Massachusetts governor's favor.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Mitt Romney's shift from Republican primary partisan to general election candidate has begun in earnest. On the rooftop of an old office building that houses his Pennsylvania headquarters, Romney signaled the start of his effort to appeal to voters in the middle of the political spectrum, who will be critical to his chances in a race against President Obama. "I know that you know how important this is. That it isn't about one person or about even one party," Romney told a group of supporters Thursday under flawless skies.

Mitt Romney's evolution from Republican primary partisan to general election candidate has begun in earnest. Thursday morning, on the rooftop of an old downtown office building here that houses his Pennsylvania headquarters, Romney signaled the start of his efforts to reach across party lines to voters in the middle of the political spectrum, those who will be critical to his chances in a race against President Obama. “I really appreciate your willingness to come out here today and spend some time with me,” Romney told a group of supporters who had gathered on a rooftop deck on a flawless spring morning.

An earthquake measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale rattled a section of Lancaster County in southeastern Pennsylvania on Friday.

Hundreds of gamblers, mostly senior citizens who had been waiting hours in a foggy drizzle, poured into Pennsylvania's first slot-machine parlor as its doors opened Tuesday, more than two years after lawmakers authorized gambling to raise money for property tax relief. Eager to try their luck, gamblers occupied most of the casino's 1,100 machines in less than 10 minutes. The Mohegan tribe of Connecticut spent $70 million on the slots parlor.

Campaigning at a diner in his former congressional district the day after he lost three primaries, Rick Santorum brushed aside calls to bow out of the Republican presidential race and allow front-runner Mitt Romney to focus on defeating President Obama in the fall. “I've endured about eight months of people saying that. Everyone has been asking from the days I was driving around [a pick-up] truck in Iowa to get out of the race,” he said, speaking to reporters after greeting voters at Bob's Diner, and responding to Sen.  John McCain's statement earlier in the day on CNN that Santorum had become “irrelevant.” “I've never been the establishment candidate and that holds true till today and that's nothing new,” Santorum said.