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Attorney General Kathleen Kane has retained a lawyer to look into disciplinary matters for her, the lawyer said Monday as her supporters mobilized against perceived efforts to force her out of office as she fights criminal charges.
With Attorney General Kathleen Kane battling criminal charges and increasingly isolated from Pennsylvania's legal and law enforcement communities, many eyes have turned to whether the state's highest court will invoke a rarely-used sanction to quickly suspend her law license.
The killing of a TV news crew in Roanoke on Wednesday by what appears to have been done by a man with mental illness is the latest example for Pa. Congressman Tim Murphy of a mental health system that needs fixed. Murphy joined the KDKA Morning News to talk about his frustration over the lack of action by Congress and that his mental health bill (H.R. 2646) needs to become law before another tragedy.
Yesterday's shooting is just one of many multiple killings that have people around the country calling for better gun control and help for those with mental illness.
Pennsylvania court officials released about 1,000 pages of records Wednesday from an investigation that produced criminal charges against the state's attorney general, including sexually explicit emails she has sought to make public as part of her defense.
Pennsylvania's budget impasse remained firmly in place Tuesday after the Republican majority failed during hours of debate to persuade Democrats during a series of 14 votes to override any portion of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's budget veto.
Pennsylvania's attorney general has arrived at a courthouse for a preliminary hearing on charges she leaked grand jury material to the press and lied about it under oath.
Former Freedom Area High School coach Steven Wetzel stole $91,000 from a bogus charity, U.S. Attorney David Hickton has charged, a charity that KDKA has learned was never properly registered in Pennsylvania.
One local official has a bold idea for how to get the state budget passed: close the liquor stores and cut off lawmakers' paychecks.
If next year's April primary were held today, Pennsylvania Republicans would pick Donald Trump as their nominee.
On Tuesday, Gov. Tom Wolf joined "The KDKA Morning News" with Larry Richert and John Shumway to talk about the state budget and how negations with Republican leadership are going.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane's lawyer said Tuesday she expects to disclose new details about a pornographic email scandal as part of her criminal defense, following the release of court documents that suggest she already had the authority to make them public, despite her claims to the contrary.
Pennsylvania's 500 school districts get millions of dollars in state funding to operate.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's political support has virtually collapsed as she prepares to fight criminal charges that could end her career.
Pennsylvania's attorney general commented publicly for the first time about the criminal charges that could end her career, but spent more time blaming her legal troubles on a "grand plan" to conceal pornographic and racially insensitive emails circulated among judges and state prosecutors.
