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Emergency personnel are shutting down Route 901 in Mount Carmel Township near Ranshaw due to a motor vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon.

LEWISBURG — The attempted homicide case against Robert Kitchens will head to trial in Union County Court in December.

HARRISBURG — Commonwealth Secretary Al Schmidt spoke Tuesday of behaving with control and respect at the polls as election day approaches, and he asserted that Department of Justice monitors deployed to Pennsylvania to observe election administration are granted no more access than anyone from the public should expect.

Voter registration in Pennsylvania closed Oct. 19.

LEWISBURG — A former law clerk for the 17th Judicial District in Union and Snyder counties who is accused of possessing child sexual abuse material failed to appear in court Tuesday, marking his second missed court appearance in three months.

Repeated structural deficits within recent state budgets mean a tax increase is likely in the near future, the director of the Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office said Tuesday.

MILTON — A third fire in two days ripped through a local home Tuesday morning, this time in Milton, where a duplex was heavily damaged along Vine Street.

The Daily Item

Voters returning mail-in ballots face a patchwork of state deadlines for the midterm elections. Here's what to know.

The race pits Republican incumbent Brenda Pugh against Democrat Fern Leard.