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Carol Ferguson (left) and Dale Cable (right), both lifelong Mt. Lebanon residents, have volunteered for campaigns for much of their life — Ferguson for Republicans and Cable for Democrats. (Photo by John Hamilton | Managing Editor)

Gallery: Lamb vs Saccone

Voters in Pennsylvania’s 18th District cast their ballots Tuesday for Conor Lamb or Rick Saccone, but election workers couldn’t count absentee ballots fast enough to declare a winner by midnight.  

Conor Lamb shakes hands with supporters after declaring victory in Tuesday's special election, confident in his lead even as a few thousand absentee ballots remained uncounted. (Photo by John Hamilton / Managing Editor)

Lamb declares victory, election still too close to call

Update as of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday: Lamb's lead expanded after Washington County absentee ballots results came. But county election officials could take weeks to review the results and make them official. Voters...

Voters head into Lincoln Elementary School in My. Lebanon Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by John Hamilton / Managing Editor)

Lamb vs. Saccone: National attention on Pa’s 18th District

By John Hamilton / Managing Editor March 13, 2018

Voters are going to the polls today in Pennsylvania’s 18th District to decide between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone in a uncharacteristically close race in the deeply Republican district. The...

Democratic Congressional candidate Conor Lamb, left, and Jon "Bowzer" Bauman of the musical group Sha Na Na in Lamb's campaign office. (Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Editorial: Keep a local focus on special election

By The Pitt News Staff March 12, 2018

When President Donald Trump appeared at a Pittsburgh airplane hangar Saturday night, his role, ostensibly, was to pump up the assembled crowds to vote for Rick Saccone, the Republican running in today’s...

Rick Saccone, Republican Congressional candidate for Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District, speaks to supporters during a Make America Great Rally Saturday, March 10, 2018 at Atlantic Aviation in Moon Township. (Alex Edelman/CNP/Zuma Press/TNS)

Special election signals shifting national politics

By Brian Gentry | Columnist March 12, 2018

Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District, a slice of pro-President Donald Trump territory located just south of Pittsburgh, is poised to flip from Republican to Democratic in today’s special election....

Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., who resigned earlier this year after a personal scandal broke, may be replaced by Rick Saccone, a member of the state legislature from the town of Elizabeth. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

Editorial: Saccone would underserve Pennsylvania’s 18th District

By The Pitt News Editorial Board November 14, 2017

With the Republican Party’s announcement of their nominee over the weekend, the race to replace disgraced former Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., just got a little more eccentric. Rick Saccone, currently a...

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