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  • Could Philadelphia Become Cushing East

    When two executives of a Philadelphia-based petroleum midstream and processing company last year proposed developing a crude-by-rail terminal to deliver domestic light sweet crude oil to five area refineries clustered along the Delaware River, the response from some was less than encouraging. "They said we were nuts," recalled Erik Johnson, vice president and general manager of Canopy ...

  • NBA Draft Combine Inside the Numbers w Jessie Wright

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  • Tornadoes wallop several states 2 killed

    The death toll now stands at two after tornadoes swept through Oklahoma on Sunday, the state medical examiner's office said Monday. Both victims were elderly men from ...

  • Police seeking information related to Park Forest church vandalism

    PATTON TOWNSHIP - Police continue to investigate an incident of vandalism last week at Park Forest Baptist Church. No new information was available Monday morning from Patton Township police.Overnight Wednesday into Thursday, actors spray-painted graffiti on the exterior walls of the church and on a bus on the church property at 3030 Carnegie Drive, causing what police called extensive ...

  • Ex-caseworker gets prison for shooting at Pa. cops

    GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A former Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare caseworker will spend five to 10 years in state prison for firing 17 shots at state troopers who surrounded his house after he allegedly refused to come out when they responded to a drunken domestic dispute last ...

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

While not an absolute certainty, I think it is fairly safe to say that no other movie this year, and quite possibly for the next several years, will so sharply and absolutely define the vast gulf between critical consensus and what American mov ... ...

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  • EXCLUSIVE Pittsburgh ad agencies may merge

    Ken Cuccinelli Chemistry Communications Inc. and Quest Fore Inc., two of Pittsburghs largest advertising agencies, are in talks to combine operations. Chemistry, based Downtown, ranked 10th among the citys largest agencies as ranked by 2011 revenue. Quest Fore, based in the South Side neighborhood, was 12th. Further details were not available but the combined agency could possibly crack the top ...

  • Donora duo charged with supplying heroin in overdose

    A Donora duo has been jailed on charges they sold the heroin that led to the overdose death of a 55-year-old man.James Darnell Foster, 21, and Maya Lawson, 30, remained jailed Monday and face charges including drug delivery resulting in death at a preliminary hearing May 30.Police said they linked the suspects to the death of 55-year-old Barry Daube, of Carroll Township, based on numbers they ...

  • $1 million ticket from huge Powerball drawing sold in Western Pa.

    One ticket was sold at CoGo's on Midland Avenue in Midland, Beaver County. The other ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven store in North Wales, Montgomery ...

  • Pa. man charged with 4th DUI hits police cruiser

    NEW CASTLE, Pa. - Police say a western Pennsylvania man charged with his fourth drunken driving offense was fleeing police when he smashed into a police cruiser belong to a township where another officer was killed in a similar crash earlier this month. Online court records don't list an attorney for 40-year-old Eric Jones, of Scott Township, Lawrence County, who faces a preliminary ...

  • Banned teen cited after trying to attend Shippensburg prom

    SHIPPENSBURG (AP) - A central Pennsylvania teenager has been cited for disorderly conduct after authorities say he swore at school officials who wouldn't let him into his school prom, from which he'd been banned for failing to serve detention.State police say 18-year-old Colin Mitchell Ocker tried to go Saturday's prom despite being told by Shippensburg Area High School officials ...

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