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Okla. Medical examiner expects more bodies

The vicious tornado that tore across central Oklahoma on Monday has killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said. The official death toll will gradually rise as the bodies are ...
Death toll now at 51 after devastating tornado slams Oklahoma town 200 mph wind flattens school 20 children victims

A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. The relationship between the woman and the child was not immediately known. A tornado as much as half a mile (.8 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on ...
View videos and slideshow from devastation of killer Oklahoma tornado

A vicious tornado was one of several that touched down Sunday in the nation's midsection, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan.The National Weather Service was forecasting more of the same for the region -- including Oklahoma City and Tulsa -- Monday afternoon and evening, warning of the possibility of tornadoes and baseball-sized hail. Residents of Arkansas, Kansas and ...
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 ...
Todays Meetings -- May 21 2013

Phollowing the Phillies Insight, observations on the first team in professional sports to reach 10,000 losses and the latest Philly team to make the playoffs - the Philadelphia ...

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Cats & Dogs

Until a few years ago, Cats & Dogs would have been unthinkable as a live-action movie. But, with the rapid advances in computer-generated imagery and animatronic puppetry, the technical wizards behind Cats & Dogs have turned it into a kind of live-action cartoon, where the boundaries between live animals and various special effects are blurred almost beyond recognition. If you look ... ...

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Mass scheduled for McFadden

Delaware County residents are invited to attend a memorial Mass for Harrisburg Bishop Joseph McFadden, who died of a heart attack May 2, 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Cathedral Basilica of SS Peter and Paul, 18th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway. PHILADELPHIA - Delaware County residents are invited to attend a memorial Mass for Harrisburg Bishop Joseph McFadden, who died of a heart attack May 2, ...
Pleasant Hills sets weight limits

Council approved an ordinance on Monday setting a 10-ton limit on W. Bruceton Road and 5-ton limits on E. Bruceton as well as Arbor and Dutch lanes and Mowry ...
Slight tax increase proposed in Norwin

The district's 2013-14 $61.4 million preliminary budget, which the board unanimously approved on Monday, requires an increase of .65 of a mill, and approximately $554,000 from the district's general fund, to be considered balanced, according to John Wilson, director of business ...
University of Rhode Island student vanishes on way home to Pennsylvania

The parents of a University of Rhode Island student who vanished while driving home to Pennsylvania are pleading for his safe return. 21-year-old Matthew Roye left his apartment in Rhode Island Thursday night but never made it home, authorities say. He was seen just after 2 a.m. Friday when a surveillance camera recorded him at a gas station about 35 miles from his parents' ...
Ordinance to restrict lions tigers and bears in White Oak

"We're (defining better) what exotic, wild and farm animals are," borough Solicitor Jessica Crown said. "Lions and tigers and bears were not in the original ordinance. Really you could have maintained a lion on your property So they're going to be banned within the borough unless they're in a zoo property. One of the other issues with farm animals, they're ...

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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. ...