Joe Sestak

Once upon a time, Joe Sestak thumbed his nose at Democratic establishment and primaried party-pick Arlen Specter for theU.S. Senate. As the story goes, he beat Specter, but lost in the general election to Pat Toomey. Now, the former U.S. congressman is...

Participate in our 9/11 memorial To the editor: The Franklin County, Pa., 9/11  Veterans Memorial is under construction. It is located at Letterkenny Army Depot beside the historic chapel. It will be dedicated May 19 with a VIP ceremony thanks to a...

While the delivery was different the message from speakers at the annual Somerset County Democratic spring banquet was the same: Democrats need to be voted into office to turn the country around. The event was held Thursday evening in the Berlin...

The four remaining Republican presidential candidates, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, and the five GOP Pa. Senate hopefuls, Sam Rohrer, Steve Welch, Tom Smith, Marc Scaringi and David Christian, filed the requisite number of...

Tim Burns, once considered among the top tier in the crowded Republican Senate primary, has dropped out of the race after not receiving the coveted endorsement from the state party at its winter meeting last weekend. The Republicans chose rival Steve...

Chester County businessman Steve Welch may have the support of Pennsylvania’s Republican establishment in his bid to win the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, but during a candidates’ debate Saturday he was vividly reminded that the path to a...

Taylor Clark is a 17-year-old senior at Johnstown Christian School. This is his second year writing for the Daily American, and he am hoping it will be as great as last year. He has a sister, Bre, and is the son of Mark and Randy Clark. He has a...

Somerset County Democratic candidates banded together Thursday along party lines. The Somerset County Democrat Fall Banquet featured keynote speaker state Sen. Richard Kasunic and longtime U.S. Rep. John Murtha’s aide John Hugya. The evening was...

The race to take on Democrat incumbent Bob Casey hit its stride this week with two Republican businessmen from opposite ends of the state making their runs official within 24 hours of each other. Tim Burns, 43, of Washington County......

Chester County businessman Steve Welch, who briefly ran for Congress in 2010 until incumbent U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach decided he wasn't giving up his seat to run for governor, made his run for the U.S. Senate official Wednesday morning. Welch,......

As he introduced his plan to balance the federal budget in just nine years, Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey warned that keeping up current government spending will put the nation in economic peril. "We're on a trajectory to soon meet a debt......

We Begin This Morning ... ... with the disappointing (yet unsurprising) news that taxpayers are paying $116K to defend officials at the Gavel state Department of Health who have "lawyered up" in the investigation into why the state turned a blind eye to...