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Man charged with 4th DUI hits cop car

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 ...
Celtics F Terrence Williams arrested near Seattle

KENT, Wash. -; Kent police say Boston Celtics basketball player Terrence Williams was arrested Sunday and accused of brandishing a gun at the mother of his 10-year-old son during a visitation ...
Aston man faces trouble with law after being found passed out at Sunoco station

cscharr@delcotimes.com UPPER CHICHESTER – An Aston man is in trouble with the law after he was found passed out in his car at the Sunoco Gas Station on Market Street Friday, police said.Police, fire and medics were dispatched to the gas station at 6:17 p.m. for a report of an unconscious person in a car. When Patrolman Brian Gilmore pulled up, Boothwyn Fire Co. personnel were attending to ...
Farmers turn to monster machines in race to plant crops

The John Deere logo is seen on earth moving tractors and equipment Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at Cross Brothers Implement John Deere dealership in Mount Pulaski, Ill. SHERIDAN, Ill. - With the U.S. spring planting season off to a historically slow start, an increasing number of farmers are counting on powerful tools to catch up: Monster machines that sow 36 rows of corn at once and feature ...
Pa. justices bid for new 10-term gets opposition

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A campaign by Pennsylvania's chief justice for another 10-year term on the high court is drawing criticism by two men who were active in the successful effort to repeal the 2005 government pay-raise ...

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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2 dead 20 injured after explosions in Dagestan- Wave of violent attacks kills at least 86 in Iraq

MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, a Russian state agency told Reuters. Police cordoned ...
New York Pennsylvania Rank High for Opioids Among Injured Workers

Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers' Comp The epidemic of opioid abuse and its impact on workers’ compensation in the Northeast is particularly noticeable in New York and Pennsylvania, where the percentages of injured workers that become longer-term users of opioids are among the highest in the nation. In its recent study, the Workers Compensation Research Institute found that in New ...
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 ...

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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. ...