Josh Shapiro was sworn in Tuesday as the 48th governor of Pennsylvania, opening a new era of state politics that gives the fresh-faced Democrat a chance to put his imprint on the battleground state, as well as on a party in need of a new generation of leaders.
A 28-year-old criminal justice graduate student was arrested in eastern Pennsylvania on Friday as a suspect in the mysterious stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students last month, authorities said.