PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- State Treasurer Rob McCord announced his candidacy for governor of Pennsylvania on Tuesday. McCord is no stranger to Pennsylvania politics. Twice elected state treasurer ...

He was born in Tyrone, son of the late Robert Lee and Donna J. (Mills) Carson. He is survived by his daughter, Mindy Carson; and son-in-law, David, who are the last of his immediate family.

But this morning in Northampton County court Tyrone Wright, of Newark, and co-defendant Maurice Cook, of Easton, admitted trying to rob Robert Pierce Jr., 27, of Easton, last December. Judge Paula A.

Rob McCord resigned with two years left in his second term as state treasurer before pleading guilty in February 2015 to two counts of attempted extortion. He is to be called as a witness in the ...