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Fayette officials consider housing federal prisoners

Fayette CountyĢƵ commissioners voted in favor of entering into a contract with the U.S. Department of Justice to house federal prisoners at the county jail. Commissioner Scott Dunn said the jail will be used to house prisoners who are awaiting trial. According to the proposed contract, U.S. ...

Gov. Shapiro pushes budget proposals for firefighters in Mt. Lebanon

Gov. Josh Shapiro visited Mt. Lebanon Fire Department Monday to press lawmakers in Harrisburg to approve his budget, which includes $30 million in grants for fire companies across Pennsylvania. Top of mind for Shapiro and other speakers at MondayĢƵ event was the recent arson at the ...

Trump signs a bill funding the government for 6 months, avoiding a shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown and capping off a struggle in Congress that deeply divided Democrats. Harrison Fields, White House principal deputy ...

‘Everybody is going to be impacted’ by federal layoffs, cuts

Southwestern Pennsylvania does not come close to rivaling regions like northern Virginia or the corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., for its number of federal employees, but the large-scale layoffs of the federal workforce that have been initiated by the White House and the ...

Local lawmakers react with skepticism to Shapiro budget proposal

In his annual budget address, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Pennsylvania is “on the rise,” but the proposed $51.5 billion budget got a rise out of local Republican lawmakers who characterized it as being top-heavy on spending. “The budget proposal is more of the same,” said state Rep. Tim ...