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Real estate experts predict that home price appreciation will slow down in the next year as rising mortgage rates push some buyers out of the market. But home values are expected to keep rising as the large millennial population continues to compete for a low inventory of housing.
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Shamaine Daniels, a two-term Harrisburg city councilor who also operates her own immigration law practice, won the Democratic nomination for the commonwealth’s 10th Congressional District.
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Western Pennsylvania voters may be much closer to knowing who their Congressional representative will be by the end of the day Friday. Allegheny County officials say that by day’s end, they should have results from a small number of voting machines whose tallies haven’t been included in vote totals so far.
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Incarcerated people and their advocates are asking the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to reconsider COVID-19 restrictions that affect quality of life.
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More than 3,700 cases of COVID-19 were reported in Allegheny County for the week ending May 12.
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