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Testing under way on brain of man in Pa. shooting
MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — Testing is under way to determine if a brain tumor contributed to a Pennsylvania ex-convict's deadly shooting rampage before he was killed by police. A spokeswoman for the Delaware County medical examiner says the pituitary...Tags: Chicago Hotels, Pennsylvania, Human Body, Delaware, New York City
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Pa. man clubs family to death with bat, kills self
WARRINGTON, Pa. (AP) — A man clubbed his wife and 7-year-old son to death with a baseball bat before committing suicide on a set of train tracks, authorities said Saturday. Christopher Moyer called 911 on Friday night to say that he had killed...Tags: Crimes, Bucks County, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Crime, Law and Justice, Homes
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Slow road for Turnpike's electric-car charging stations
Q: The planned Turnpike car-charging stations you wrote about some time ago raise a few questions. How much will the Turnpike Commission be charging car owners to 'charge up' their plug-in hybrid or electric cars? Are there reliable studies showing that a...Tags: Road Transportation, Lancaster County (Pennsylvania), Services and Shopping, Allentown, Transportation
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Awards and honors for Lehigh Valley residents
Roger Lehmann was formally installed as president of the Pennsylvania Association of Sewage Enforcement Officers during the organization's annual meeting March 4 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Grantville. In addition to being a Pennsylvania-...Tags: Science and Technology, Media Industry, Students, Moravian College, Allentown
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Pennsylvania getting swept into national 'Common Core' education debate
HARRISBURG — In the last three years, the Bethlehem Area School District and other districts have spent lots of money rewriting curriculum and lessons to prepare students for tougher state-sanctioned academic standards and exams. "It's got to be...Tags: Science and Technology, Tom Corbett, Credit and Debt, Executive Branch, Students
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Baltimore has high rate of staff-inmate sex
The Baltimore City Detention Center had the nation's second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at...
Tags: AFSCME, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Sexual Misconduct
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Casey, Toomey on Senate committee that will investigate IRS next week
Call Washington BureauPennsylvania's two U.S. senators sit on the powerful tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which will begin its investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups at a hearing on Tuesday. Republicans and Democrats are...Tags: Patrick J. Toomey, Jim Gerlach, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Allyson Y Schwartz, Politics
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Fraud report highlights need to stay vigilant
Pennsylvania ranks high in a new report on fraud, and the common scams highlighted in the report continue to dog victims in the Lehigh Valley. A Lower Macungie Township man was conned out of $300 this month in one of those swindles. He was duped into...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Microsoft Corporation, Crime, Law and Justice, Computer Crime, Allentown
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Hires and promotions at Lehigh Valley companies
Chang Xu has been appointed to platform leader of polymer encapsulation at Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s Tidewood facility. Xu holds a doctorate from City University of New York as well as a bachelor of science degree from the University of...Tags: Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Science and Technology, City University of New York, East Stroudsburg University, Madison Square Garden
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Interests of candidate, supporter and spouse align
WASHINGTON — An issue at the top of U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz's legislative agenda is also of foremost concern to her biggest campaign contributor: the University of Pennsylvania, where her husband is a doctor. Schwartz, a suburban Philadelphia...
Tags: Allyson Y Schwartz, Health and Medical Professionals, Lobbying, Government Health Care, Politics
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High court considers mandatory retirement for judges
HARRISBURG — When Pennsylvania last voted to amend the state Constitution in 1968, it adopted a provision to ensure that judges didn't stay on the bench longer than their minds stayed sharp. On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court heard arguments...Tags: Northampton County (Pennsylvania), Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Tom Corbett, Lawyers
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Baltimore police choose new internal affairs leader
The Baltimore Police Department tapped one of its lawyers as the new head of internal affairs, saying Rodney Hill's experience as an officer and his recent turn as a prosecutor of police misconduct cases give him the credibility to lead a group charged...
Tags: Morgan State University, Prosecution, Baltimore Police Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles Police Department
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May 6, 2013
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