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The pen pals finally get to meet in person

While airmen from the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon Township were overseas, they were getting letters from Moon Area middle school students. Fifth-and-sixth-graders became pen pals with reservists as they traveled to Qatar and other parts of the Middle ...
Hospitals treat more than 120 after Okla. tornado

OKLAHOMA CITY -; Officials at two hospitals say they're treating more than 120 patients, including about 70 children, after a massive tornado hit suburban Oklahoma ...
Oklahoma officials Tornado search rescue ongoing

A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to ...
Adams placed on 15-day DL with strained back

MIAMI -- The Phillies placed right-handed reliever Mike Adams on the disabled list Tuesday because of a strained back. The move is retroactive to May 11, meaning Adams can be activated as early as Sunday. But because he has not pitched since May 10, he will need to get his arm back in shape. He said he plans to throw Thursday and Saturday in Clearwater, Fla., and if everything goes well, he ...
Big holiday weekend in Connellsville arrives with plenty of events

This hanging flowering moss ball is one of the many unique items that members of the Connellsville Area Garden Club will be selling on Saturday at the Geranium ...

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Revanche [DVD]

Revanche is Austrian writer/director Gtz Spielmanns fifth feature film (in addition to several made-for-television features), but the first to receive significant distribution in the United States, so European viewers will have to forgive American audiences and critics who are treating ... ...

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Task force to investigate possible link in slayings five years apart

A special task force of Omaha police detectives and the FBI has been formed in Nebraska to determine if there is any link between the slayings of a prominent Gateway High School graduate and his wife and the deaths five years ago of a Creighton University colleague's son and ...
State says two judicial candidates erroneously listed as missing deadline

State officials wrongly listed two Western Pennsylvania judicial campaigns last week as having missed a key deadline for making financial disclosures, a state spokesman confirmed ...
2 hospitals treating nearly 60 after Okla. tornado

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Officials at two hospitals say they're treating nearly 60 patients, including more than a dozen children, after a massive tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City.Integris Southwest Medical Center spokeswoman Brooke Cayot (KAY'-ot) said 10 of 37 patients being treated at that facility Monday are listed in critical condition. Twelve are in serious and 15 others are listed in ...
Massive tornado roars through Oklahoma City suburb killing 37

A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary ...
President Obama pledges help after Oklahoma tornado

President Barack Obama has called Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin to express his concern about a monstrous tornado that wreaked havoc in the Oklahoma City ...

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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. ...