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With only a few days left until the midterm elections, Stacy Garrity, the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, made a campaign stop Friday in Altoona.

Centre County added hole punches to mail in ballot envelopes to help election workers identify missing secrecy envelopes and notify voters before Election Day.

Lancaster County in Pennsylvania has been the epicenter of the nation's worst measles outbreak in 35 years. It's also home to the largest Amish population in the U.S. Some Amish and related Mennonite groups, with historically lower rates of vaccination, have been hit hard and are showing a new openness to vaccines.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission partially rejected a proposal by FirstEnergy Pennsylvania.

The cost of heating oil in Pennsylvania nearly doubled since last fall. A release of fuel from the federal oil reserve may be too small to solve the issue.

The Department of Justice notified state officials that monitors would be in Allegheny and three other Pennsylvania counties next week for the general election. The DOJ said monitors will be there to observe only.

Penn State officials say they’re transforming part of the closing DuBois campus into a regional manufacturing hub, thanks to nearly $200 million in private and public investments, including a $39.9 million federal grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

Several polling locations have been changed in Centre County to meet federal accessibility standards after a regular audit.

Centre County named Latisha Stefanko interim elections director only a few weeks before the general election, after the previous director left the position.

The midterm elections are less than a week away, and one recent political ad in Pennsylvania is raising questions about the legality of using AI deepfakes.