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Pa. senator sues over NCAA use of Penn State fine
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator sued the NCAA on Friday over its use of the $60 million fine that Penn State is paying for its handling of the child molestation scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky,...
Tags: College Sports, Litigation, Government, Electronics, Gary Schultz
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Some gun shows canceling after Conn. mass shooting
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Four gun shows, all about an hour's drive from Newtown, Conn., all canceled. A show in White Plains, N.Y., — brought back a few years ago after being called off for a decade because of the Columbine shooting...
Tags: Firearms, Elections, Barack Obama, Government, Personal Weapon Control
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Legalizing pot: What's happening in other states?
The votes in Washington and Colorado last month legalizing marijuana were just the latest developments in the debate over marijuana use in the United States. Lawmakers and activists in some other states are contemplating their next moves in regards to...
Tags: Government, Laws, Marijuana Use, Gays and Lesbians, Dave Heineman
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NCAA task force to oversee $60M Penn St. fine
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A 10-member task force has been named to come up with guidelines for how to distribute the record $60 million fine that Penn State has agreed to pay in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, the NCAA said Tuesday. The...
Tags: FBI, College Sports, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky
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UPDATE: Penn State football slammed with NCAA sanctions
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A potential exodus of star athletes. No hope of playing in the postseason. More than a decade of accomplishments erased from the record books. And Joe Paterno's legacy in shreds. Penn State football, a longtime...
Tags: Government, Awards and Prizes, Bill O'Brien, Indiana Hoosiers, Fines
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Punxsutawney Phil 'predicts' 6 more weeks of winter
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney emerged from his lair to "see" his shadow on Thursday, in the process predicting six more weeks of winter.
But, at this rate, that might not be so bad.
The groundhog made his "prediction" on...Tags: Punxsutawney Phil (groundhog), Groundhog Day (movie), Weather Reports, Pittsburgh, Weather
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Pa. boy, 13, ill after smoking synthetic pot, dies
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania eighth-grader who became ill after smoking synthetic marijuana and had a double lung transplant has died. Tonya Rice tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/tk0Vod ) that her 13-year-old son, Brandon,...Tags: Synthetic Marijuana, Pittsburgh, Human Body, Lungs and Airways, Lung Transplants
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GOP governors undermine Obama agenda in states
WASHINGTON (AP) — Their ranks swollen after the last election, Republican governors from Florida to Alaska are undermining President Barack Obama's agenda at every turn ahead of the Democrat's 2012 re-election campaign.
Some are rejecting...Tags: Environmental Politics, Barack Obama, Wisconsin, Democratic Party, Mississippi
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Police ID family in triple murder-suicide
SHALER, Pa. (AP) — Police investigating a triple murder-suicide have released the names of the two adults and two children killed. Police say Barry Hardesty and his girlfriend, Lynette Gasparre, were found dead in their rented home Sunday night,...Tags: Assault, Surgery, Suicide, Crime, Law and Justice, Condos and Houses
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Allentown School Board approves cutting 154 jobs
Allentown School Board approved a curtailment of programs Thursday that eliminates 132 teachers and 12 administrators, pushing the financially challenged district to more than 400 jobs slashed over the past four years. The district's second curtailment...Tags: American School for the Deaf, Job Layoffs, Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting, Allentown
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Budget delay and Memorial Day layoffs
Capitol IdeasYo! House Republicans apparently will not be releasing a budget on Tuesday as had been previously planned. It is pushed back tentatively until Wednesday, according to Steve Miskin, spokesman for House Republicans. But there was one piece of the budget....... -
Tuesday showed 2014 is looking good and ugly
Capitol IdeasYo! Congrats to the House’s two newest members: Kevin Schreiber of York and Dan Miller of Allegheny County. Unofficial election results from Tuesday's primary show Schreiber takes over the 95th District and Miller the 42nd, both of which had been......
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