HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe said the agency's public drawing for the 2010 elk hunting licenses will be webcast beginning at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 10. To view the drawing, a "Live Elk Drawing" icon will be posted on the agency's website (www.pgc.state.pa.us) for individuals to click on and watch the drawing.

Ultimately, it’s about the money. That was the upshot of a presentation given last week to the Pottstown Metropolitan Regional Planning Committee about the future of Route 422.

All driver license and photo centers, including its full-service center in Harrisburg, will be closed on Monday, Sept. 6, in observance of Labor Day.

HARRISBURG (AP) — Restaurant owners are warning that liquor and wine price increases are likely following a decision by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to charge higher handling fees to wholesalers beginning next year.

HARRISBURG — Last week Gov. Ed Rendell signed three more death warrants — for an Allegheny County man who killed his wife and teenage son nearly a decade ago, the murderer of a Reading police officer, and Jerry Chambers, who is on death row for the slaying of a 3-year-old Philadelphia girl who was beaten and left to die, trapped between a bed and a radiator.

Republican Pat Toomey is slightly ahead of Democrat Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race, while GOP nominee Tom Corbett enjoys a solid lead over Democrat Dan Onorato for governor, an independent poll showed Thursday, Aug. 26.