WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden’s campaign is dismissing as “mathematical gymnastics” Elizabeth Warren’s promise of financing a single-payer government insurance system without a middle-class tax hike. A top Biden presidential campaign deputy said Warren’s plan understates the cost and overstates savings while obscuring the costs to the middle class.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans say House members are motivated mainly by politics rather than by duty in their impeachment inquiry. That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll shows more Americans approve of the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump than disapprove of it, though only about a third say the inquiry should be a top priority for Congress.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will speak at a first annual Pennsylvania Democratic Party dinner fundraiser, three years after Donald Trump’s victory in the state stunned Democrats into trying to fix what went wrong in 2016’s presidential election. Friday’s dinner is part of what state Democrats are doing to prepare for 2020 in the presidential battleground. The party is employing perhaps its largest field staff ever in an off-year election to build relationships with local candidates and activists.

A health-care advocacy group for consumers is advising people shopping for insurance during the Affordable Care Act open enrollment period to be sure they understand what the insurance they are buying will cover. Andrea Sears reports…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A regional manager fired after the high-profile arrests of two black men at a Starbucks coffee shop has filed a wrongful termination suit against the company. Shannon Phillips accuses Starbucks of unfairly punishing white employees like her in response to the widely publicized arrests in a Philadelphia store last year. Starbucks denies Phillips’ claims and says it will defend the suit, filed Monday in federal court in New Jersey.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is making the most significant changes to its election laws in 80 years and helping counties buy new voting machines ahead of next year’s presidential election. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf signed the bill Thursday, two days after it passed the Republican-controlled Legislature handily. Wolf says it’s taking the nation’s least voter-friendly election laws and putting them in line with states that have the highest voter turnout.

A Detroit man has been sentenced for 1 death, and one overdose in Beaver County. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s chief elections official wants the state Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling that prevents the state from immediately counting or certifying results in next week’s referendum on a victims’ rights constitutional amendment. Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar filed an emergency order late Thursday that argued the ruling a day earlier by Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler will suppress voter turnout and “foment irreparable uncertainty” among voters.

The hottest costume for Halloween this year – at least here in the Pittsburgh area – turned out to be the infamous sinkhole bus. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, by now you’ve heard about the Port Authority bus that got stuck in a sinkhole in Downtown Pittsburgh just days before Halloween. The bus has since been extracted and an investigation to determine how the ground caved in is underway. But some Pittsburghers decided to get particularly creative and used the situation as inspiration for some very unique costumes last night. Yes, many locals dressed up as the bus in the sinkhole for Halloween and many of those costumes can be found on social media.

An Ellwood City Cocaine Dealer has been sentenced for his crimes. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more…

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