Special election for John Murthas House seat is highstakes

JOHNSTOWN, PA. -- The ghost of John P.

Murtha looms large over this congressional district: from the hundreds of millions of dollars the late Democratic legislator famously funneled to western Pennsylvania to the many eponymous buildings, highways and even an airport that memorialize him. And now he is the elephant in the room...

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