Specter urges NFL to continue Patriots' investigation U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter today pressed the NFL to conduct an investigation into the New England Patriots' Spygate scandal, suggesting one on the scope of baseball's inquiry into the use of steroids. He hinted that if it did not, Congress may well do so, and cited the NFL's anti-trust exemption provided by Congress.
Senate GOP shoots down
Pa. appellate court
nominees Four
vacancies on
Pennsylvania's appellate
courts, including one on
the Supreme Court, will
remain unfilled for now,
stuck in a partisan
dispute.
The Senate's majority
Republicans today defied
Gov. Ed Rendell and the
Supreme Court's chief
justice, Ronald D.
Castille, and rejected
four men nominated by
Mr. Rendell to
temporarily fill the
openings.
Clinton presses ahead in longshot campaign Hours after being routed by Hillary Rodham Clinton in West Virginia, Barack Obama picked up two more of the party leaders who are key to settling the Democratic presidential nomination. An embattled Clinton is urging the party leaders to take a hard look at West Virginia, which she won with 67 percent of the vote. But her victory did little if anything to knock Obama off stride as he approaches the delegate totals needed to give him the nomination.
Did gaming board break law? Lawmakers ask for probe Six state lawmakers called Tuesday for the state attorney general to investigate whether state gaming regulators broke the law when they, according to sources, ordered their investigators to change a background report on Mount Airy Casino Resort owner Louis DeNaples. The lawmakers are asking whether the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is allowed to directly influence and oversee the work of its Bureau of Investigations and Enforcement.
Graduation exam plan sparks great debate The plan to require Pennsylvania high school students to pass graduation competency exams will be the hot topic at a state Senate Education Committee hearing in Harrisburg today. Much of today's testimony, including that of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and the Pennsylvania State Education Association, is expected to be negative toward the state Board of Education's plan to require high school students to pass certain tests to graduate, beginning with the class of 2014.
McCain backer issues apology for remarks about Catholic church An evangelical pastor backing John McCain tried to put his remarks about the Catholic Church behind him yesterday, issuing an apology to the head of the Catholic League expressing "deep regret for any comments Catholics found hurtful

