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Thunderstorms slow cleanup in Oklahoma town hit by tornado as first of victims laid to rest

Lightning strikes during a thunder storm as tornado survivors search for salvagable stuffs at their devastated home on May 23, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. Severe thunderstorms barreled through this Oklahoma City suburb at dawn Thursday, complicating clean-up efforts three days after a powerful tornado killed 24 people and destroyed 2,400 homes. More rain was forecast to fall on Moore, soaking the ...
Connellsville’s Memorial Day features wreath toss recitation of Gettysburg Address on 150th anniversary

Connellsville will observe Memorial Day with a parade and programs, including the recitation of the Gettysburg Address to mark the 150th anniversary of the ...
Budget steady on taxes

The motion passed by a 7-1 vote, with School Director Catherine Fike voting against it. School Director Ken Alt was not in attendance when the vote on the proposed budget was ...
Dunbar Vanderbilt plan Monday services

The Dunbar American Legion Hughes Post 146 will host the annual Memorial Day Parade Monday. The parade will start at 10 a.m. with the lineup starting at the Old Borough School at 9:45 a.m. The parade marshal this year will be Diana Homer and master of ceremonies will be Nick Bell ...
Newest Dunbar Community Festival ornament is now available

Members of the Dunbar Community Festival planning committee have gotten the newest community ornament made and ready for sale. Showing off the ornament of the B&O Railroad are, from left, Cindy Moag, Dennis Morrison and Linda ...

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The Return of the Living Dead [Blu-Ray]

Dan OBannons Return of the Living Dead is a gleefully irreverent, semi-successful faux sequel to George A. Romeros seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968), which single-handedly invented the modern zombie film and helped reinvigorate the horror genre ... ...

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Fay-West communities to observe Memorial Day

Scottdale's Memorial Day Parade starts at 10 a.m. at the Rite- Aid parking area. The parade will proceed to the Scottdale Cemetery where there will be a short program at 11 a.m. then will proceed to the St. John Cemetery for another short ...
Mt. Pleasant to dedicate new digital wall

Mt. Pleasant officials and a project developer surround the borough's newly installed digital veterans' memorial wall at Veterans Park in the borough. They include (from left) borough Manager Jeff Landy; borough Councilman Larry Tate, chairman of the Veterans Park committee; Shannon Roberts, production manager of ITS Enclosures Inc.; borough Councilman Fred McCloy; and borough Mayor ...
Clairton board OKs dek hockey concept

School directors unanimously approved the club, pending approval by the Clairton Education Association. District officials said the sponsor position would have to be added to the contract in a memorandum of ...
NK-Arnold OKs proposed tax hike

The preliminary budget calls for the full tax increase allowed by the state, 3.4325 mills. That would increase the property tax rate to 78.1325 mills next ...
School taxes down in Elizabeth Forward

That's 4.4 mills lower than the current year's rate, but school officials said the move will be revenue neutral because of the 2013 Allegheny County ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

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Amora Hotel Jamison Sydney

This hotel is located right in the heart of the CBD of Sydney in Jamison Street. The hotel neighbours the ...

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Pallam Raju to visit USA for dialogue on higher education

Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister M.M. Pallam Raju would be on a five-day visit to Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boston beginning on May 13 for dialogue on higher education.

"This a continuation of India-US higher education dialogue which was initiated in 2009 after the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to the US during the same year, " Pallam Raju told the media here today.

This visit is the follow up of the Obama-Singh initiative taken on higher education. The focus of the visit would be on strengthening and enhancing higher education initiatives- 8 projects have been identified under this initiative. Strategic dialogue on higher education would take place. The visit will also cover school education and skill development sector.

Pallam Raju also discussed 'Connect to India' programme where US students will be coming and joining higher research institutes in India. The visit will also focus on exchange of faculty and development of faculty.

The Government has also initiated a scheme through University Grants Commission (UGC) to sponsor Indian researchers at the Post-Doctoral level and the first batch of 126 Indian scholars is ready to go to the US Institutions for post-doctoral research. ...