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Officials 6 killed in OKC tornado

A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of city on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its ...
Dog on the loose after vicious attack

A man attacked by a dog in Carrick Sunday, is in the hospital suffering from wounds to his ankles, wrist and face, while the dog is still on the ...
Kids rescued from rubble at Okla. elementary

An Associated Press photographer saw several children being pulled out of what was left of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on Monday after a massive tornado hit the ...
Bail set at $25K for Celtics F Terrence Williams

KENT, Wash. -; A judge has set bail at $25,000 for Boston Celtics basketball player Terrence Williams after he was arrested and accused of brandishing a gun around the mother of his 10-year-old son during a visitation ...
Yahoo looks to regain its cool with Tumblr deal

SAN FRANCISCO -- After falling woefully out of fashion, Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders. That goal led CEO Marissa Mayer to make a $1.1 billion bet on online blogging forum Tumblr in a risky acquisition that revolves around the vision and instincts of a 26-year-old entrepreneur who dropped out of high school to pursue his dream of ...

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Sleepy Hollow [DVD]

Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" is a wildly imaginative reinvention of Washington Irving's classic campfire ghost story about the Headless Horseman terrorizing a small, northeastern hamlet in the late 1700s. Burton and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker ("Seven")--with a little help from Tom Stoppard ("Shakespeare in Love") who contributed an uncredited rewrite--take the bare bones of the original sto ... ...

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Woman hit by SEPTA bus in Chester

CHESTER – City police and fire personnel are on the scene at Ninth Street and Avenue of the States where a woman has been struck by a SEPTA bus. Police Commissioner Joseph Bail said the call was reported as "a person being trapped under the bus," but it was too early in the investigation to provide ...
Parents plead for information on missing Montco college student who disappeared while driving home to Skippack

MATTHEW ROYER Missing SKIPPACK - The parents of a Skippack college student missing since he left the University of Rhode Island Friday issued a tearful plea for his return during a press conference Monday."Matthew, we love you," said Janet Royer, the mother of Matthew Royer. "We’re here for you. Please call us. We’ll come get you anywhere, anytime."Janet was ...
Massive tornado slams Oklahoma City area

A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its ...
Hines Ward conducts one-on-one with Sally Wiggin

It is the 14th year that former Steeler Hines Ward has hosted a golf tournament that benefits the Highmark Caring Place. He began working with the organization that helps grieving children and their families soon after he arrived in Pittsburgh as a rookie wide ...
Attacks kill 95 in Iraq hint of Syrian spillover

Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war vet who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said Monday that he has decided to live for ...

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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. ...