With many electronic voting machines more than a decade old, and states lacking the funding to repair or replace them, officials have opted to return to the pencil-and-paper voting that the new technology was supposed to replace.

In the 10 days since “we got beat,” as he put it, by Republicans who captured the Senate and bolstered control over the House, Mr. Obama has flexed his muscles on immigration, climate change and the Internet, demonstrating that he still aspires to enact sweeping policies that could help define his legacy.

Tens of thousands of Americans who went through bankruptcy are still haunted by debts long after — sometimes as long as a decade after — federal judges have extinguished the bills in court

When it was released in July 2012, the Freeh Report was billed as an independent review, commissioned by Penn State leaders, into the university administration’s handling of the Sandusky debacle.

Overall, the annual price survey found that average tuition and fees for full-time, in-state students at public four-year colleges and universities rose by 2.9 percent in 2014-15 to $9,139, up from $8,885 last year.

“We have seen columns of Russian equipment, primarily Russian tanks, Russian artillery, Russian air defence systems and Russian combat troops entering into Ukraine,” US General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s commander in Europe, said in Sofia…

HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: Governor-elect Tom Wolf has named Kathleen “Katie” McGinty, former state environmental protection secretary and one of his opponents in the Democratic primary, as his chief of staff…

“Joe Scarnati has served as President Pro Tempore for eight years, and he has provided honest and energetic service during that time. But now he says we need to change direction, and he has hand-picked a leadership team to carry it out,” Smucker wrote in a letter to Senate GOP members.

Obviously, the more partisan Wolf appears, the more difficult it will be to forge a bipartisan government agenda.

The “they,” however, includes Mr. Corbett, who, as governor, was and is a member of the PSU board of trustees. He was less than a year into his term when the board fired Mr. Paterno in November 2011, but had not participated in any board meetings.

Voters will soon get a chance to render their own verdict on the seven-member court, as three spots are up for election next year. Ambitious lawyers and lower-level judges are lining up to make sure there will be choices.