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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Geologists say the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Kentucky over the weekend was too deep to be induced by the region's underground mining activity. The epicenter was about 10 miles west of Whitesburg, in the...

"Toys for All Ages" was the theme of the March 13 program of the Hillcrest Grange of Brothersvalley Township. The celebration-styled event was hosted by the David W. and Patricia Sue Paul family at their residence on "Clover Hill Farms" in the Berlin...

"Doctor Who" is celebrating 50 years on the air this year, new episodes begin airing Saturday and to top it all off, the good Doctor has just received a Peabody Award for 50 years of "evolving with technology and the times like nothing else in the known...

"Southland," "Girls," "Game Change," "Louie," "Doctor Who" and "Saturday Night Live" mastermind Lorne Michaels are among this year's Peabody Award winners honoring the best in electronic media. It's nice to see "Southland"--one of the best shows the Emmy...

UCLA apparel sponsor Adidas, a Los Angeles basketball trainer, a New York financial advisor and a 34-year-old financial planner all contributed funds to basketball standout Shabazz Muhammad and his summer league team as the talented player wound his way...

When Kennar Johnson, Tereseo Guevara and Mike Weed left Clermont East Ridge High School in 2010, they headed west for California and a little two-year school named Reedley College, just southeast of Fresno. They did fine, with each earning a starting...

Invest in Chicago, you'll make out like a bandit. Illinois awaits you with open palms. For years, marketing efforts to lure investment and business here have focused on our standing as a global crossroads, our quality of life and so on. Alas, we've...

How to Build an Android The True Story ofPhilip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection David F. Dufty Henry Holt: 288 pp., $26 In 2005, at the edge of robotics, a curious project took shape: an android that was an eerily realistic copy of science fiction...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Justin Wilson of Chambersburg, Pa., was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Widener University School of Law. TEANECK, N.J. — Stephanie Austin of Chambersburg, Pa., graduated in May from Fairleigh...

July 9, 2011 Henry Ackerman had plans — big, cross country, into-the-wild plans. It was 1998, and he was 48 years old, alone, sad and somewhat peculiar. He lived with threecats and a big, sandy-colored dog in an unkempt Baltimore County apartment...

Receiving a bad grade in a college — whether "bad" is considered an F or a B — can be disheartening to students expecting better marks. Dan Ariely, who used to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management,...

Chandeliers were the first thing Joe Niermann designed. And it was five years before he sold one. Now the bejeweled iron and crystal silhouettes are his signature. "I don't really care for the crystals, one way or the other," said Niermann, though...