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Five Penn State students plead guilty for roles in cheerleader Paige Raque’s fall from window
BELLEFONTE - Five Penn State students took plea deals Thursday for their roles in supplying alcohol at a party where a cheerleader was seriously hurt after falling from the window of a State College high-rise apartment.Alyssa Duffy, Alexandria Hipple, Madeline Miller and Brooke Piccione each pleaded guilty to supplying alcohol to the party and were given a punishment of a year of probation, ...
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Tigers lose on Fielders single off Burtons glove
DETROIT — Ron Gardenhire has never made a secret of his admiration for Prince Fielder. The Minnesota Twins manager has often called the Detroit Tigers' slugger one of the best and smartest hitters and baseball, and openly talks about telling his pitchers not to let Fielder beat them. That's why Thursday night was so tough. With the game tied at six in the eighth inning, ...
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KCs Santana fans 8 but gives up 4 HRs to Angels
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ervin Santana's mastery of the strike zone against his former teammates was incomplete. Sure, he struck out eight, but he also gave up four home runs and the Kansas City Royals lost to the Los Angeles Angels 5-4 Thursday night. "He throws a lot of strikes, and he's around the plate," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "He had his fastball up to 95 a ...
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Tornado’s lessons not lost on Alle-Kiski Valley schools
Pennsylvania law does not require schools to have safe rooms to protect students during severe storms, but it does require at least one disaster drill annually, officials ...
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Connellsville set for 9th annual Geranium Festival
Connellsville is preparing for the 9th annual Geranium Festival on Saturday. The warmer weather allowed for planting around town to dress up the area. Michael Edwards (shown), executive director of Fayette County Cultural Trust, along with Daniel Cocks for the Downtown Connellsville initiative, Casey Sirochman and Sheryl Craven of the Carnegie Free Library of Connellsville planted a variety of ...
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Frazier residents get details on school project
Residents of the Frazier School District in Perryopolis got their first chance to look at the district's upcoming construction project and to review its costs during a public hearing Wednesday in the high school ...
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Vets Remember reason behind holiday
Michele Margittai, director of development and community relations for the Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania, agrees that people can do more to better understand the sacrifices made by veterans. "Even though as a community we have become much more sensitive to veterans and may even know someone who served, too many people still see Memorial Day as a holiday instead of ...
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Tentative budget hires 17 hikes tax
Greensburg Salem school directors have approved a tentative budget that calls for hiring staff to ease classroom overcrowding and increasing property taxes to the highest level allowed by the ...
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Fireworks to honor Greensburg Community Days organizer Koval
Shea Archer of Coshocton, Ohio, hangs a banner on a game tent at Lynch Field in preparation for the opening of Greensburg Community Days on May 23, 2013. Archer works for Oren Concessions of Parker City, ...
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Westmoreland County Community College passes tentative budget
A copy of the preliminary budget is available for public review in Ron Eberhardt's office in Founders Hall on Westmoreland County Community College's Youngwood campus. Eberhardt is vice president of administrative ...
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Former Speaker DeWeese expected to remain in prison
HARRISBURG -- Former House Speaker Bill DeWeese likely will serve out the remainder of his prison term, because his appeals could drag on well beyond the end of his sentence, legal experts ...
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Board Former IU 4 chief in Pennsylvania authorized $110K of her charges provided few receipts
Former Midwestern Intermediate Unit 4 Executive Director Cecelia Yauger personally authorized the IU to pay nearly $110,000 in charges to her IU credit card while providing few itemized receipts, according to documents the Tribune-Review ...
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Hearings set for North Huntingdon woman in alleged stalking
A 49-year-old North Huntingdon woman is accused of repeatedly stalking a man who had repaired her car when police found her behind his home, dressed in black and carrying binoculars and a roll of ...
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Pittsburgh City Council chief Harris eyes mayor’s job
Pittsburgh Mayoral candidate Darlene Harris fields a question Sunday, March 17, 2013 at Barack Obama Academy in East Liberty. The Democratic candidates got together for a debate as they fielded questions from the school's youth and government ...
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Transit union unhappy in talks
Drivers and mechanics for the Westmoreland County Transit Authority could take a strike vote in the summer if negotiations for a new labor contract produce no results, union officials said Thursday ...
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Greig Keep pooches on right side of the law
Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture George Greig tours the Humane Society of Westmoreland County in Greensburg with Executive Director Kathy Burkley on May 23, ...
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11 jurors confident they took oath
But two members of the judge's staff insisted that no oath was ever administered as they testified during a hearing on Thursday on a defense request for Knight to receive a new sentencing ...
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Constable discovers marijuana plants on porch of Uniontown residence
Constable Phil Varndell found the plants on a porch on South Mt. Vernon Avenue at 1:44 p.m. Wednesday, a police report said. The plants were in plastic cups marked "Berry Bomb" and "Kandy ...
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Train to Harrisburg supported
Supporters of Amtrak's Pennsylvanian, which provides the only passenger rail service between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, say the daily round trip is vital to communities and outperforms most routes in the railroad's ...
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Former Latrobe man gets hearing to decide on double-murder
A former Latrobe man who was released from prison having served 20 years on a double homicide conviction has been granted a hearing to determine whether the charges should be formally dismissed and prosecutors barred from retrying the ...
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3-mill tax hike tentatively OK’d
Taxes will increase 3 mills, or about $35.49 more annually for the average Derry Area resident. That would make the millage 77.5 mills for the 2013-14 school year. The current tax rate is 74.5 ...
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August Wilson Center for African American Culture needs to play ball
The Downtown facility recently laid off half its staff and is behind on payments on a $7 million loan. Foundations that have been the center's lifeblood are skittish about providing more money because the center hasn't completed a required audit or submitted a recent business ...
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Former Jeannette hospital attracts Calif. buyer
Jeannette District Memorial Hospital to house part of its expansive business operations and employ up to 200 people, according to Westmoreland County and city ...
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Dr. Arlene Hall named interim chancellor at PSU-Eberly
A former top administrator at Penn State-New Kensington will serve as interim chancellor of Penn State-Fayette, The Eberly Campus, the university announced on ...
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Charleroi-based firm lands day reporting center contract
Fayette County commissioners awarded the contract for a day reporting center for criminal offenders to a Charleroi-based agency. Commissioners on Thursday voted unanimously to enter into a contract with Southwest Behavioral Care Inc., an affiliate corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania Human Services ...
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Pittsburgh's East Liberty may emulate Market Square
East Liberty in Pittsburgh is to undergo another construction project aimed at revamping the neighborhood and enhancing its potential as a market center, possibly using the recently completed redevelopment of Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh as a model.
East Liberty is a 254 acre neighborhood in Pittsburgh and one of the city’s more overlooked areas with crime rates that are higher than the rest of the city and a general lack of robust economic activity, which has led to some degree of social decay. Read more
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