HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker survived four rounds of voting Saturday to become the heavy favorite to fill an open congressional seat in northern Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Democratic nominee in a special election in a heavily Republican northcentral Pennsylvania congressional district is the same candidate who lost November's general election by 32 percentage points.

Democrats on Tuesday nominated Marc Friedenberg to fill the term of Republican Tom Marino, who resigned just three weeks into his fifth congressional term.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Recently resigned U.S. Rep Tom Marino now says problems with his remaining kidney prompted him to leave Congress just three weeks after starting his fifth term.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Voters in heavily Republican northcentral Pennsylvania have a special election date set to elect a new representative to the U.S. House after the five-term incumbent resigned just three weeks into the new congressional term.

Gov. Tom Wolf said Thursday he scheduled the special election to coincide with Pennsylvania's primary election on May 21.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Tom Marino, a five-term Republican congressman who helped steer Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign in Pennsylvania, said Thursday that he is resigning just days into a new term.

In a statement, Marino said his last day will be Jan. 23 and that he is taking a job in the private sector. Marino and his office did not respond to questions about the announcement Thursday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — 5-term Republican Congressman Tom Marino of Pennsylvania is resigning, taking job in private sector.

Congressional candidates began circulating paperwork Tuesday to get on the May 15 primary election ballot, knowing they might have to do it all over if court appeals alter district maps again.

The candidates or their spokesmen said they are seeking signatures for nominating petitions based on the congressional district map boundaries that the state Supreme Court ordered last week, even though Republican appeals of the map remain pending in federal courts.

NRA’s flunkies

Editor: The never-ending cycle of death by mass shootings keeps repeating itself.

The cycle goes like this: There is a mass shooting, then thoughts and prayers are followed by Facebook debates, then everyone forgets, Congress does nothing and the cycle begins again. It is obvious that the NRA controls Congress with its blood money.

OK, so now we have at least six maps out there that redefine the boundaries of the state’s congressional districts. We have the original written by House and Senate Republican leaders, Gov. Tom Wolf’s, House and Senate Democratic leaders’, one written by Democratic Lt. Gov. Mike Stack and one by a group of Republican intervenors trying to keep the existing map in place. The state Supreme Court plans to sort it all out by Monday. Let’s sort out how five of the maps might affect announced...

Both Republican congressmen from Northeast Pennsylvania, 10th District Rep. Tom Marino of Lycoming County and 11th District Rep. Lou Barletta of Luzerne County, rode the 2010 tea party wave into Congress. Both dutifully have recited the ideological canon of that movement, especially regarding deficit reduction. The first bill that Marino sponsored in 2011 was for a federal hiring freeze that would not be lifted until the federal deficit was eliminated. Barletta, in 2013, called for a balanced...

Advancing disparity

Editor: I have encouraged Sen. Pat Toomey and U.S. Rep Tom Marino to be patriots and not vote for the GOP tax bill.

Bradford County Commissioner Doug McLinko jumped into the Republican race for U.S. Rep. Tom Marino’s seat Thursday, ensuring the four-term congressman’s first primary election challenge as an incumbent. McLinko, 59, a commissioner since 2004 and chairman of the county board of commissioners, announced he will seek the post because Marino has failed to show up regularly in the 10th Congressional District to meet with constituents and contributed to the opioid crisis. He referred to an Oct. 15 “60...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An outspoken county commissioner from northern Pennsylvania says he'll challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Marino in next year's Republican primary, citing Marino's role in writing a law that critics say weakened the government's authority to stop drug companies from distributing opioids.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a co-sponsor of legislation criticized as checking federal power to stop companies from distributing opioids, is calling it "absurd" to suggest she return contributions from big drug companies that supported the new law.

Pained by Marino

Editor: I am disgusted to learn that my congressmen, Tom Marino, championed a bill to undermine the Drug Enforcement Agency’s ability to stem the tide of prescription pain meds flooding the black market, fueling our country’s opioid crisis. But I am relieved to know he will not become President Trump’s “drug czar.”

After “60 Minutes” and The Washington Post revealed that Rep. Tom Marino had championed a bill that had hindered drug enforcement, the Lycoming County Republican blamed the media that had exposed the law’s impact.

The law made it difficult for the Drug Enforcement Administration to stop prescription opioid shipments to corrupt operators who funneled them into the black market.

Last week, Marino withdrew his name from consideration to be the director of National Drug Control Policy.

After “60 Minutes” and The Washington Post revealed that Rep. Tom Marino had championed a bill that had hindered drug enforcement, the Lycoming County Republican blamed the media that had exposed the law’s impact. The law made it difficult for the Drug Enforcement Administration to stop prescription opioid shipments to corrupt operators who funneled them into the black market. Last week, Marino withdrew his name from consideration to be the director of National Drug Control Policy. After Marino...

The state Senate unanimously has passed a bill that would help to heal some of the damage caused by Rep. Tom Marino’s bill diminishing the ability of the Drug Enforcement Administration to reduce the flow of powerful prescription opioid painkillers onto the black market. Marino, the 10th Congressional District Republican from Lycoming County, withdrew from consideration to be the national “drug czar” this week. A “60 Minutes”/Washington Post exposé revealed that Marino’s Ensuring Patient Access...

Before we inevitably face Trump’s next phantasmagoria, let’s briefly pause to celebrate the speedy downfall of a apparatchik of the president. Because it speaks to the resilience of our democratic institutions. The free and independent press — The Washington Post, partnering with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” — reported in great detail that Trump’s choice to head the National Office of Drug Control Policy, Rep. Tom Marino, the 10th District Republican from Lycoming County, was a drug industry toady...

Lackawanna County Commissioners are calling on Congress to repeal a controversial law U.S. Rep. Tom Marino championed that is under national scrutiny for hampering the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to block excessive distribution of opioid-based painkillers.

Now that Rep. Tom Marino has demonstrated the pitfalls of naming a conflicted politician as director of National Drug Control Policy, President Donald Trump should take a different approach to naming the next “drug czar.”

Lackawanna County Commissioners are calling on Congress to repeal a controversial law U.S. Rep. Tom Marino championed that is under national scrutiny for hampering the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to block excessive distribution of opioid-based painkillers.

Lackawanna County Commissioners are calling on Congress to repeal a controversial law U.S. Rep. Tom Marino championed that is under national scrutiny for hampering the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to block excessive distribution of opioid-based painkillers.

Lackawanna County Commissioners are calling on Congress to repeal a controversial law U.S. Rep. Tom Marino championed that is under national scrutiny for hampering the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to block excessive distribution of opioid-based painkillers. The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act moved through Congress without objection before being signed into law last year by then-President Barack Obama. As the national opioid epidemic continues to...

Now that Rep. Tom Marino has demonstrated the pitfalls of naming a conflicted politician as director of National Drug Control Policy, President Donald Trump should take a different approach to naming the next “drug czar.” Marino, Trump’s nominee and a Republican from Lycoming County, withdrew his name from consideration Tuesday. CBS News’ “60 Minutes” and The Washington Post revealed that he had championed a law that impedes the Drug Enforcement Administration’s ability to keep prescription...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former nominee to be the nation's drug czar is defending his role in writing a law that critics say weakened the government's authority to stop companies from distributing opioids.

Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa., said he's proud of his work on the 2016 law, which passed without opposition in the House and Senate and was signed by President Barack Obama.

U.S. Rep. Tom Marino’s withdrawal Tuesday from consideration as national drug czar was a surprise because of its swiftness, but probably won’t end his political career if he still wants one.

With President Donald Trump promising to declare all-out war starting next week against the nation’s opioid abuse epidemic, the president couldn’t afford to have the Republican congressman from Lycoming County as his drug czar, despite Marino’s early support for his presidential candidacy.

There is no drug for the sort of narrow-interest pandering in which “60 Minutes” and The Washington Post recently caught Rep. Tom Marino, the 10th District Republican from Lycoming County. But there is a cure — term limits.

There is no drug for the sort of narrow-interest pandering in which “60 Minutes” and The Washington Post recently caught Rep. Tom Marino, the 10th District Republican from Lycoming County. But there is a cure — term limits. Marino withdrew his name Tuesday from consideration to head the National Office of Drug Control Policy. The two news organizations revealed over the weekend that the would-be “drug czar” had received nearly $100,000 in campaign contributions from interests tied to the...

U.S. Rep. Tom Marino issued a statement Tuesday after asking President Donald Trump to withdraw his name from consideration to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

“Today I informed President Donald Trump of my intent to withdraw my name from any further consideration to lead ONDCP.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Tom Marino, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the nation's drug czar, has withdrawn from consideration, following reports that he played a key role in weakening the federal government's authority to stop companies from distributing opioids.

"He didn't want to have even the perception of a conflict of interest with drug companies or, frankly, insurance companies," Trump told Fox News Radio in an interview Tuesday, shortly after breaking the news on Twitter.

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This July, in Rep. Tom Marino’s Northeastern Pennsylvania district, 51 people overdosed on a bad batch of heroin over the course of 48 hours.

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:

1. WHY TRUMP MAY WITHDRAW DRUG CZAR NOMINEE

The president may rethink his support of Republican Rep. Tom Marino amid reports the lawmaker played a key role in weakening federal authority to stop opioid distribution.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday raised the possibility of withdrawing his nomination of Republican Rep. Tom Marino to be the nation's drug czar following reports that the lawmaker played a key role in passing a bill weakening federal authority to stop companies from distributing opioids.