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...race, Democrat Robert Casey defeated William Scranton III to replace the retiring Republican governor. Incumbent Republican Arlen Specter cruised past Bob Edgar in the Senate race...
Until her accident, Karen had lived a fairly ordinary life. She was born Mary Anne Monahan in a hospital for unwed mothers in Scranton, Pa. The Quinlans adopted her at four weeks, renamed her, and gave her a strict Roman Catholic upbringing in Roxbury Township, N.J. She was an average student, good at swimming and skiing, popular with classmates...
...fifth-largest brokerage firm. Hours before Fomon appeared at a press conference in New York City last week, Hutton President Scott Pierce had pleaded guilty on behalf of the firm to 2,000 separate criminal charges of mail and wire fraud. After accepting Pierce's pleas in a Scranton, Pa., courtroom, Federal Judge William Nealon fined Hutton the maximum $1,000 on each charge, or a total of $2 million. Never before had a prestigious Wall Street investment group acknowledged such a major fraud...
Ferraro's reception in Scranton, Pa., an area in which roughly one-third of the population is Catholic and the pro-life movement is strong, was far less gentle. Worried about possible violence, Scranton police substituted plainclothes officers for volunteer drivers in the Ferraro motorcade, and a state police helicopter monitored the route. She faced bitter signs at her speech site in a downtown mall. FERRARO-A CATHOLIC JUDAS, read one. I'M GLAD FERRARO WASN'T MY MOTHER, said another, held by a five-year...
Within an hour after her speech, Scranton Bishop James Timlin, who had taken over O'Connor's former diocese after O'Connor was installed as Archbishop of New York, held a press conference. He sharply attacked Ferraro's attempt to separate her public duties from her religious views as "absolutely ridiculous." He likened her abortion position to the slavery issue. "You can't say," Timlin argued, " 'I'm personally opposed to slavery, but I don't care if others down the street have them.' " The bishop insisted that...