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Pittsburghs bridges getting better but still need work
Although Pennsylvania continues to lead the nation in structurally deficient bridges, the number of state-maintained bridges in that category has fallen from 5,600 in August 2010 to fewer than 4,500 in the most recent count. Similar progress has been made locally. In a five-county area that includes Pittsburgh, the number of deficient state- and locally maintained bridges has fallen from 1,246 ...
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Garcetti elected Los Angeles mayor over Greuel
Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti gets a kiss from his wife Amy Wakeland, as they vote early Tuesday morning, May 21, 2013, in Los Angeles. Garcetti faces Wendy Greuel in the mayoral runoff ...
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Chester police probe morning shooting
CHESTER – Police and paramedics are responding to a shooting at the Ruth L. Bennett Homes.The shooting occurred in the 1000 block of Hunt Terrace.Additional details are not yet ...
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King of Prussia Mall boots 3 sisters over profane anti-cancer hats
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) - Three sisters say they were kicked out of a suburban Philadelphia mall after refusing to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of breast cancer.Zakia Clark and Tasha Clark had been at the King of Prussia Mall on Sunday shopping for funeral dresses with a third sister, Makia Underwood. Their mother died last week after battling the disease.Zakia and Tasha ...
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Penn State basketball Lions set for foreign tour
UNIVERSITY PARK - The Penn State men’s basketball team will get an early jump on the 2013-14 season with a foreign tour that will see the Nittany Lions play three games and visit cities in Belgium, England and France.The Nittany Lions will get 10 practices to prepare for the foreign tour, which will take place August 10-17. Game dates and opponents are still being finalized. Penn State ...
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Authorities work to identify Pa. child shooters
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Allegheny County medical examiner's office has been working to identify a 19-month-old boy fatally shot during a backyard picnic in Pittsburgh, along with two young women who were ...
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Interactive before-and-after images of Oklahoma tornado devastation
A vicious tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday, tearing through businesses, homes and schools and leaving widespread destruction in its path.Below are before-and-after slider images of the devastation. Glide your cursor to the right and left to see how the tornado affected parts of the ...
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Man sues manufacturer Philadelphia shop over sex gel
PHILADELPHIA-A competitive martial artist is suing a Philadelphia sex shop and the makers of a gel he says burned and scarred his genitals. The Philadelphia Daily News reports ...
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EU bid to label Hezbollah wing terror group
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Two officials say Britain has launched a bid to formally have the European Union declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist ...
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Lowes 1Q profit rises but results miss Street
Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.But the home improvement chain's quarterly performance missed Wall Street's expectations. Its shares dropped more than 4 percent in premarket trading Wednesday.Spring is the biggest season for home improvement retailers. While the weather was chilly in the ...
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Targets 1st-qtr profit drops 26 pct on weak sales as weather financial pressures take toll
Target Corp. is reporting a 26 percent drop in first-quarter profits as cool temperatures and financial pressures limited customers' appetite for spending. The company, based ...
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Mortar lands in Congo as UN chief arrives
GOMA, Congo -; A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group. The explosion comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's distant capital for a two-day visit that is expected to take him to ...
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5 victims of Ill. van crash were from Baltimore
VANDALIA, Ill. -; Authorities have identified the five men killed when their Pennsylvania-bound van veered off a southern Illinois ...
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I learned some tough lessons Anthony Weiner launches comeback with bid to become New York Mayor
Ex-congressman Anthony Weiner whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago said in a YouTube video announcement that he is running for mayor of New York City. He had said last month he was considering entering the ...
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Doctors in Poland performed life-saving face transplant to accident victim
WARSAW, Poland - Doctors in Poland say they have performed an urgent total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident which also crushed his jaws. Doctors at the Oncology Center in Gliwice said the 27-hour operation was performed May 15, just weeks after the accident. The head of the team of doctors, Adam Maciejewski, said it was the world's first ...
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Lancaster police question release 2 in abduction
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- Police in Lancaster say two men brought in for questioning in the abduction of a woman who called 911 from the trunk of her car have been ...
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Germany backs terror label for Hezbollah militants
BERLIN -; Germany says it supports adding the military wing of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah to the European Union's list of terrorist ...
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Search for survivors winds down in Oklahoma
No survivors or bodies have been found in Moore since Monday, the day a mammoth tornado ripped through 17 miles of central Oklahoma and pummeled 2,400 ...
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Tornado-ravaged Oklahoma residents start to pick up the pieces
A man carries a drawer and a bag filled with clothes from Rachel Hernandez' home as residents of the Heatherwood Addition, on the south side of SE 4 and Bryant in Moore, Okla., returned to their homes Tuesday, May 21, 2013, to salvage any items after Monday's destructive tornado. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) MOORE, Okla. (AP) - With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin ...
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Twister Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down
By DAVID A. LIEB,Associated Press MOORE, Okla. (AP) - With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time."Parents had a gut-wrenching choice, and only a few minutes to make it. Trust the safety of the ...
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Philly controller Alan Butkovitz wins Dem primary race
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz has faced down two challengers for the Democratic nomination in his campaign for a third term as the city's fiscal watchdog.Butkovitz beat tax-overhaul advocate Brett Mandel and attorney Mark Zecca in Tuesday's primary in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 9-1. He will take on GOP businessman Terry Tracy ...
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Pa. Primary Dems nominate new mayors in Pittsburgh Scranton Harrisburg
By PETER JACKSON,Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Democrats nominated new mayors in Pittsburgh, Scranton and Harrisburg in the Pennsylvania primary election.They tapped veteran city Councilman William Peduto as their standard-bearer in Pittsburgh and city Tax Collector Bill Courtright in Scranton, but spurned Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson's re-election bid and chose bookstore ...
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Penn States costs for Sandusky scandal soar over $44M
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State's costs for legal fees, consultants and other services connected to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal have topped $44.4 million, the university's latest bill shows.That total was through the end of February, according to a university website this week. It's up about $1.5 million from the previous bill released through the end of ...
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‘America’s Most Wanted’ fugitive arrested in Patton Township
A man wanted for a killing in Washington, D.C., and featured on the TV show “America’s Most Wanted” has been arrested in Centre County.Patton Township police said Tuesday that Reynard Cook was arrested last week on charges of providing false identification to law enforcement and disorderly conduct.Cook was found to be wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service Arlington Office on ...
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Sisters ejected from Pa. mall over cancer hats
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) -- Three sisters say they were kicked out of a suburban Philadelphia mall after refusing to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of breast ...
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Philadelphia expands recycling, but not all is well
Philadelphia is expanding the range of recyclable products its accepts in the refuse disposal systems and in effort to increase recycling rates and save money for the city council during current lean times. But, there is a concern among environmentalists that increased recycling may actually have negative side effects.
Recycling across the country is not entirely mainstreamed yet, according to figures from 2007 to 2008 (the most recent available), just 11% of all the USA’s garbage was recycled. Environmentalists point to figures such as these for the reason why landfills are running out, pollution is increasing and the environment is suffering. Read more
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