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Man rescued after falling at McConnells Mill State Park
The 26-year-old Ohio man was hiking with his cousin and apparently went off the path to get closer and take pictures but lost his balance and fell about 20 feet, a park ranger ...
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More companies in Pa. trying fracking with gas
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Another natural gas exploration company says it's experimenting with the gas to power huge pump engines that drive the hydraulic fracturing process. Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. said Monday that it successfully tested an engine last month in northern Pennsylvania's Susquehanna County with gas from other wells it had already drilled. A Cabot spokesman says the ...
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Tornado slams Oklahoma for 2nd straight day total destruction in some neighborhoods
Alli Christian, left, helps Jessica Wilkinson as she looks for her dog Bella after Wilkinson returned to find her home near 156th street and Franklin Road destroyed by a tornado, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Norman, Okla. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Steve Sisney) UPDATE: OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A mile-wide tornado churned through the Oklahoma City suburbs, destroying homes for the second day in a row ...
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Indians rally to beat Mariners 10-8
Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and the Cleveland Indians, twice revived by Seattle's fielding errors, beat the Mariners 10-8 on Monday to complete a four-game ...
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Tornado tears through Oklahoma City suburbs
"The motion on this storm is sickening," says a storm chaser The tornado is estimated to be at least two miles wide 2 people are confirmed dead after a tornado tears through Shawnee, Oklahoma "500,000 square miles under the gun for severe weather," a meteorologist ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 20
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
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Pa. mayoral hopeful charged with defacing signs
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A mayoral candidate in Harrisburg is facing charges stemming from allegations that he spray painted the campaign signs of one of his competitors for the Democratic ...
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Pittsburgh police arrest bicyclist after chase through the South Side
Police charged Cody Walsh, 21, of Murrysville with traffic violations and fleeing police following the incident just before 1 a.m. Sunday. Walsh could not be reached for ...
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Military Bowl moving to Annapolis adds CUSA
The Military Bowl reached an agreement with Conference USA for the 2013 game, the first of its kind played at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md.The game, created in 2008 as the EagleBank Bowl, has been played at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. When the ACC released its bowl schedule earlier this month, the 2013 Military Bowl was set to feature an ACC opponent against an ...
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Watch live Large funnel cloud touches down near Oklahoma City
A large tornado is bearing down near Oklahoma City, part of a series of severe storms expected across portions of the Midwest.Television footage shows a funnel cloud touching down southwest of the city on Monday, and radar indicates it is moving toward the ...
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Eatn Park to open Hello Bistro downtown
The restaurant will be in a building on Wood Street at the corner of Forbes Avenue. Eat'n Park Hospitality Group said it has a lease with Italian Sons and Daughters of America to occupy space in the ...
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Dickey wins 2nd straight Blue Jays beat Rays 7-5
Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher R.A. Dickey works against the Tampa Bay Rays during first inning baseball action in Toronto on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris ...
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Housekeeper gets 6 years in theft of $3M Ben Franklin bust
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A housekeeper has been sentenced to six years in federal prison in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust stolen from a Main Line home and reportedly worth $3 million.Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Ala., was living in Philadelphia when the bust was taken Aug. 24 from a home where she had worked as a housecleaner. She fled to Alabama with the bust and was arrested Sept. 21 in ...
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Pittsburgh. priest removed in 2009 faces new porn charge
By JOE MANDAK,Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest who was removed from public ministry in 2009 after an allegation of past child sex abuse later deemed "credible" by his bishop has now been indicted on a federal charge of possessing child pornography.The indictment announced by federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh doesn't specify how much pornography the Rev. ...
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Police incident prompts lockdown at 2 Pa. schools
PLEASANT GAP, Pa. (AP) -- An elementary school and a vocational school in north-central Pennsylvania were on temporary lockdown as police responded to an off-campus ...
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Sustainable Shale head calls for broad discussion
Place is also the corporate director of energy and environmental policy at EQT Corp., a Pittsburgh-based energy company that has drilled more than 500 Marcellus Shale gas wells over the past four years. And he's the interim head of the newly formed Center for Sustainable Shale Development, a partnership between industry, environmentalists, and foundations, the Beaver County Times ...
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NY cigarette tax probes called weak sloppy
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Sting operations aimed at black market cigarettes in New York had such weak investigative protocols and financial controls that money went missing and prosecutions were dismissed, the state inspector general reported ...
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Government says it recorded Ohio jail conversation because of Redbank man’s threats to witness not his Muslim beliefs
The government recorded a jailhouse conversation between an Armstrong County man and another inmate to investigate his threats against a witness, not because of his Muslim beliefs, the government says in court documents filed ...
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Mourinho to leave Real Madrid at end of season
Jos Mourinho will leave Real Madrid CF at the end of the season after a three-year tenure that brought a record-breaking Liga campaign and three UEFA Champions League ...
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Steelers Sign Sixth-Round Pick Vince Williams
overall pick, played collegiately at Florida State University. He played in 50 games and made 26 starts in his final two seasons, and recorded 140 tackles, 13.5 TFLs and three sacks. Williams served as a team captain, earned All-ACC Honorable Mention honors, Phil Steele Postseason All-ACC Second Team honors and was an Under Armour Senior Bowl selection his senior ...
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Ill. State Police 5 killed in I-70 van crash
VANDALIA, Ill. -; Illinois State Police say five people were killed and six others injured when a van in which they were riding left a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several ...
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NYPD messages to Muslim informant Get pictures
This handout photo provided by Jamill Noorata, taken May 3, 2012, shows Shamiur Rahman, left, sitting with Siraj Wahhaj at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, New York. The New York Police Department defends its surveillance of Muslims as narrowly focused in a new court filing in a civil rights lawsuit. But text messages between a detective and an informant obtained by The ...
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Carney Senior White House staff knew of IRS probe
WASHINGTON -; The White House says White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was first informed about an audit of the IRS' inappropriate targeting of conservative groups on April 24 and that she notified senior staff, including Denis McDonough, the chief of staff to President Barack Obama. White House press secretary Jay Carney says Ruemmler "appropriately" decided not to tell Obama ...
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Pennsylvania Awards Funding for Natural Gas Fleet Conversion
has awarded more than $6.7 million in Act 13 funding to 18 organizations making the switch to natural gas for their heavy-duty fleet vehicles.Act 13 of 2012 increased protections of private water supplies, allowed the Department of Environmental Protection to issue larger fines and included a hydraulic fracturing fluid disclosure law. It also authorized DEP to develop and implement the Natural ...
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Ask not whodunit but why in Motive Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
What's on,You've got to love it when people are willing to mix it up a little. Let's face it: the traditional cop show has felt tired for years. Most are so formulaic that the crimes almost solve themselves. But with "Motive," a new series premiering May 20 on ABC, the formula has been set on its ear. Creator and executive producer Daniel Cerone ("The ...
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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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