The LuLac Edition #5, 226, December 29th, 2024

 

TOP 5 STATE STORIES

1.   ATTACK ON TRUMP: Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at a rally in Butler on a hot summer day. He survived and later returned to the area.

2.   SHAPIRO VEEP TALK: Governor Josh Shapiro was the focal point of possibly being the Vice-Presidential candidate for Vice President Harris. Given the outcome, he dodged a bullet when Harris picked Tim Wahls.

3.   CASEY LOSES: senator Bob Casey loses his uphill bid for another term in the Senate.  Casey is the only Senator who served three terms in a row. Plus, this was the first time since the 1940s that the Democrats held the two Senate seats at the same time. Casey in his own quiet way was a consequential Senator for the state. He will be missed.

4.   GOP SWEEPS ROW OFFICES: Pennsylvania Republicans swept all three statewide offices with York County District Attorney Dave Sunday winning the Attorney General’s race and Auditor General Tim DeFoor and Treasurer Stacy Garrity holding onto their seats. Trump led the top of the ticket.

5.   HEALTH CARE KILLER CAUGHT IN STATE: The Western Pennsylvania town of Altoona was thrust into the spotlight Dec. 9 when it was reported that a man believed to be the suspect in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was spotted in a local McDonald’s. That afternoon, Luigi Nicholas Mangione, a 26-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, had been arrested in Thompson’s Dec. 4 killing. Manhattan prosecutors charged him with five counts, including murder, criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal possession of a forged instrument.