DAs new charge Stepdad smothered Pa. toddler

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

BLAIRSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- A district attorney has added a charge of criminal homicide against a western Pennsylvania stepfather already charged with physically abusing the ...

Ohio man rescued after fall at western Pa. park

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

PORTERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- An Ohio man had to be rescued after he fell 15 to 20 feet while taking photographs near Kildoo Falls in McConnells Mill State ...

Dicks Sporting Goods 1Q net income revenue up

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Dick's Sporting Goods said Tuesday that its net income rose 13 percent in the first quarter as revenue edged up and some expenses ...

Protesters rally at FirstEnergy meeting in W.Va.

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- At least 200 union workers picketed FirstEnergy's annual shareholder meeting in West Virginia on Tuesday, demanding the Ohio-based utility hire enough people to keep the power on without forcing an ever-shrinking labor force to work as many as 1,800 hours of overtime a ...

Recovered remains of Pennsylvania WWII veteran to be buried

Fox News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

FREEMANSBURG, Pa. – A military burial is scheduled in eastern Pennsylvania for a World War II soldier whose remains were recovered after more than 65 years. The Express-Times reports William Yawney was a 23-year-old Army private when he was killed on Saipan in July 1944, as Allied forces were trying to secure the island. The family initially received a letter saying he had been buried at ...

Today in Pittsburgh Hot... Hot... Hot

The Pittsburgh Channel - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The system that spawned the Oklahoma tornadoes will arrive in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. It will no longer be a massive upper level low, but it will swing a powerful cold front with an organized line of thunderstorms ahead of ...

Radnor honors those who helped save an officers life

Delco Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Radnor Township Police Officer Anthony Radico hugs Amanda Beal, the Springfield woman whose fast action saved his life, paramedics, hospital workers and other first responders. (Special to the Times/Pete Bannan) "Without her it would be a funeral not a celebration," said Radnor Township Police Officer Anthony Radico at a ceremony Monday honoring Amanda Beal, the Springfield woman ...

Baby falcons born in tower of Phillys City Hall

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

http://bit.ly/10hRIl2 ) the pair of peregrine falcons that are nesting there have four new baby falcons. Arthur McMorris, the peregrine falcon coordinator for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, says the baby birds are about 30 days ...

Melvins attorneys file notice of Superior appeal

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Attorneys for former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin have filed notice that they intend to appeal her campaign corruption conviction and sentence to state Superior ...

Protesters expected at FirstEnergys W.Va. meeting

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Union workers picketed FirstEnergy's annual shareholder meeting in West Virginia on Tuesday, demanding the Ohio-based utility hire enough people to keep the power on without forcing an ever-shrinking labor force to work as many as 1,800 hours of overtime a ...

Sprint to listen to Dish offer

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Wireless company Sprint Nextel Corp. says it can now let Dish Network Corp. see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current deal with Japan's SoftBank.The companies said late Thursday that SoftBank had waived provisions of its deal with Sprint that will allow Sprint to talk with Dish.SoftBank currently has a $20.1 billion deal ...

Best Buy reports 1Q loss on restructuring costs

Star Tribune - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Best Buy Co. is reporting a loss in its fiscal first quarter as it sold its stake in Best Buy Europe and works on a turnaround plan that includes cutting costs and closing some stores. The electronics retailer says net loss for the three months ended May 4 after paying preferred dividends totaled $81 million, or 24 cents per share. That compares with net income of $158 million, or 46 cents per ...

President Obama to speak on Oklahoma disaster

San Diego Union-Tribune - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs ...

Housing recovery boosts Home Depot 1Q results

ABC 3340 - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

ATLANTA (AP) - Even though the weather was poor, Home Depot posted an 18 percent increase in its net income for the first quarter thanks to the ongoing housing recovery. Its quarterly results topped Wall Street's view and the world's biggest home improvement chain boosted its full-year earnings and revenue forecasts Tuesday. Shares climbed 4 percent in premarket trading. For the ...

2 Pa. teens charged after trying to re-enter prom

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (AP) -- Police say two suburban Philadelphia teenagers were arrested following an altercation after one of them tried to re-enter their high school ...

Retired boxer wins round in Pa. parking dispute

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- Former heavyweight boxing champion Larry Holmes has won a legal round in a towing dispute at his eastern Pennsylvania ...

Democrats make last push in primary to be mayor of Harrisburg Pennsylvania

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

(Reuters) - The mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's cash-strapped capital, faces off on Tuesday against two fellow Democrats in a primary election that will likely determine who leads a city that has become a poster child for financial ...

Crews dig through night after deadly Oklahoma twister

KOCO Oklahoma City's Channel 5 - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered ...

Aston postpones vote on fate of mobile home park

Delco Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Aston commissioners delayed a vote on a proposal that would force residents of Fishers Corner to move. Times staff / JULIA WILKINSON ASTON - The 25 residents living in the Fishers Corner Mobile Home Community will have to wait a bit longer to learn their fate, as commissioners, during Wednesday’s meeting, did not vote on a request for a zoning change from mobile home to industrial.The ...

10 things you need to know for Tuesday

Delco Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

C-City Blogger Presenting Chester City's news and views to Delco Times web visitors who want to know more of what's going on in the City besides the stories they read in the ...

In tornados wake worried parents seek out kids in Oklahoma devastation

Delco Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

By NOMAAN MERCHANT,Associated Press MOORE, Okla. (AP) - The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off - survivors of a deadly tornado that barreled through their community.For many families, the ordeal ended in bear hugs and tears of joy as loved ones ...

Photographer describes Oklahoma school All I could see was destruction

Delco Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Rescue workers dig through the rubble of a collapsed wall at the Plaza Tower Elementary School to free trapped students in Moore, Okla., following a tornado Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo Sue ...