Highlights of major developments in Pennsylvania politics in the first decade of the 21st century: 2000: _ George W. Bush is nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, but speculation that Gov. Tom Ridge might be picked as his running mate fails to materialize. _ Former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell spends ...

Tom Ridge, former U.S. Homeland Security secretary and a former Pennsylvania governor, wrote a letter requesting leniency for an Erie, Pa., man who assaulted his ex-girlfriend's daughter. Despite the letter, 21-year-old Matthew Lazenby was sentenced Tuesday to four to eight years in state ...

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday people "are hyperventilating" about his assertion that politics played a role in talk of raising the terror alert before the 2004 elections. "A consensus was reached. We didn't go up. The process worked," Ridge said ...