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Montgomery County Republicans on Monday night tapped an Abington businessman to carry their party's standard in this year's effort to topple three-term Democratic incumbent Allyson Y. Schwartz from her 13th District congressional seat. With six candidates battling, it took some 300 GOP committee members and proxy voters to award their endorsement to Dee Adcock, 58, who heads one of the biggest independent swimming pool suppliers in the country. Adcock fought off a determined bid by Dr. Damian Dachowski, a 47-year-old dentist from Lower Moreland and a member of the county health board. While only one vote separated the pair in...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Some Arkansas lawmakers are spitting mad — over chaw. Representative Pam Adcock says she'll introduce legislation that would bar chewing tobacco from the state House floor. She says she's tried of seeing her spitting colleagues, adding that it's gross. But some in the House say use of chewing tobacco is a personal decision. Smoking is already banned in the Arkansas Capitol.