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A special election will be held March 15 to fill the remainder of the term of former state Rep. Tim Krieger. Krieger, a four-term Republican from Delmont resigned last month after being sworn in as a Westmoreland County judge. His terms runs to the end of the year. Krieger's 57th District seat includes Greensburg, South Greensburg, Southwest Greensburg, Youngwood, part of Hempfield and Salem townships and Delmont. Officials from Westmoreland County's Democratic and a Republican committees will nominate candidates to run in the special election. Voters will return to polls on April 26 for a primary election when candidates will...

An East Sandwich woman and her son are suing The National Enquirer saying the supermarket tabloid printed “outright fabrications” alleging that she gave birth to Sen. Ted Kennedy’s “love child” then participated in a “20-year coverup” of the scandal. “Virtually every critical fact which these stories reported is false and each is defamatory,” says the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston by Caroline Bilodeau-Allen and her son, Christopher. The lawsuit contends that Christopher is not Kennedy’s biological son, that there is “no paternity test which proves that Sen. Kennedy fathered Mrs. Bilodeau-Allen’s son.” That “Sen. Kennedy never ‘paid’...