[naviga:h3]Trump to tout tax cut plan at Harrisburg visit[/naviga:h3]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is heading to Harrisburg next week to make his case for an overhaul of the nation’s tax code.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday the plan “is really a jobs bill.” Trump’s trip Wednesday to the state capital is aimed at building his case that tax cuts would help drive the economy.

Trump has promised Americans “the largest tax cut in our country’s history.” But for the poorest American households, Trump’s plan would amount to an average tax cut of about $60 a year, according to the Tax Policy Center. Middle-income families would save about $300 on average. Most of the cuts would go to the wealthiest Americans.

Trump last year became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Pennsylvania since 1988.

[naviga:h3]Physician accused of running ‘pill mill’[/naviga:h3]

GIBSONIA — A physician has been arrested on charges that he overprescribed painkiller medication.

Court records show Andrzej Zielke was arrested Thursday and has been charged with illegally distributing narcotics and fraud.

An affidavit alleges that the doctor operated a largely cash-only business out of his office in Gibsonia and wrote prescriptions without first conducting medical exams.

The affidavit states that a former patient told authorities that Zielke ran a “pill mill” that had patients regularly packing into and sometimes sleeping in the office waiting room. It says that at least three of his patients have died from drug-related overdoses.

Officials raided his home and office early Thursday.