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Game humane groups offer $5K in bald eagle death

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and The Humane Society of the United States are offering more than $5,000 for information on whoever fatally shot a bald eagle in western Pennsylvania earlier this month.The wounded eagle was found by people riding all-terrain vehicles on May 10 in northern Cambria County, about 70 miles east of Pittsburgh. The bird died before it could be treated for a single ...
FBI Man fatally shot in Boston bombing probe

Investigators stand outside an apartment complex where a man was fatally shot when a team of FBI agents swarmed his home early Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Orlando, Fla. The FBI says the man, being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation. (AP Photo/John ...
Official Treasury played no role in IRS targeting

Several dozen tea party activists and other concerned citizens, wave signs and small American flags as they march outside the main Internal Revenue Service office on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Phoenix. The rally was one of many around the country after IRS officials acknowledged that some conservative groups received inappropriate attention and questioning. (AP Photo/Ross D. ...
US home sales tick up to highest in 3 12 years

WASHINGTON - Sales of previously-occupied U.S. homes ticked up last month to the highest level in three and a half years, helped by a jump in the number of houses for sale.The National Association of Realtors says sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.97 million, up from 4.94 million in March.Home sales have risen 9.7 percent in the past 12 months. Still, sales have changed little ...
Dahlkemper rebounds with Erie executive nomination

ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- Former Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper has resurrected her political career by winning the Democratic nomination for Erie County ...

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Classic film noirthose American crime films made in the darkness of the neurotic postwar years that the French recognized as genius but the homefront could only see as B-movies that weren't well litalmost always centered around an ordinary man who got in over his head. Like shadowy inversions of the American dream, they dolled out poetic justice for everyday Joes who thought they could get ahead ... ...

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Pittsburgh jitney driver charged in passenger rape

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pittsburgh police have charged a jitney driver with raping a female passenger and say his pants were still loose from the alleged attack and fell down when they stopped him and made him get out of the ...
Cops Pa. man robbed store he targeted in 2004

CHARLEROI, Pa. (AP) -- Police say a southwestern Pennsylvania man who didn't succeed in robbing a liquor store in 2004 should have thought twice about trying again to rob the same store earlier this ...
Man fatally struck by commuter train near Philly

It happened around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's West Trenton line. SEPTA spokeswoman Kristin Geiger says the train was heading outbound toward Trenton when the 56-year-old man was hit near the Philmont station in suburban Huntingdon ...
Sisters ejected from Pennsylvania mall for profane cancer hats

KING OF PRUSSIA -- Three sisters say they were kicked out of a suburban Philadelphia mall after refusing to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of breast ...
Disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner announces bid for NYC mayor- Garcetti elected Los Angeles mayor over Greuel

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner has announced he is running for mayor of New York City, almost two years after resigning over a Twitter scandal. In a video released Tuesday night, Weiner announced his candidacy for the election in November 2013, with his wife, Huma Abedin, aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their young son Jordan, by his side. Sources tell the New York ...

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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. ...