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Five Penn State students plead guilty for roles in cheerleader Paige Raque’s fall from window

BELLEFONTE - Five Penn State students took plea deals Thursday for their roles in supplying alcohol at a party where a cheerleader was seriously hurt after falling from the window of a State College high-rise apartment.Alyssa Duffy, Alexandria Hipple, Madeline Miller and Brooke Piccione each pleaded guilty to supplying alcohol to the party and were given a punishment of a year of probation, ...
Tigers lose on Fielders single off Burtons glove

DETROIT — Ron Gardenhire has never made a secret of his admiration for Prince Fielder. The Minnesota Twins manager has often called the Detroit Tigers' slugger one of the best and smartest hitters and baseball, and openly talks about telling his pitchers not to let Fielder beat them. That's why Thursday night was so tough. With the game tied at six in the eighth inning, ...
KCs Santana fans 8 but gives up 4 HRs to Angels

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ervin Santana's mastery of the strike zone against his former teammates was incomplete. Sure, he struck out eight, but he also gave up four home runs and the Kansas City Royals lost to the Los Angeles Angels 5-4 Thursday night. "He throws a lot of strikes, and he's around the plate," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "He had his fastball up to 95 a ...
Tornado’s lessons not lost on Alle-Kiski Valley schools

Pennsylvania law does not require schools to have safe rooms to protect students during severe storms, but it does require at least one disaster drill annually, officials ...
Connellsville set for 9th annual Geranium Festival

Connellsville is preparing for the 9th annual Geranium Festival on Saturday. The warmer weather allowed for planting around town to dress up the area. Michael Edwards (shown), executive director of Fayette County Cultural Trust, along with Daniel Cocks for the Downtown Connellsville initiative, Casey Sirochman and Sheryl Craven of the Carnegie Free Library of Connellsville planted a variety of ...

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Frazier residents get details on school project

Residents of the Frazier School District in Perryopolis got their first chance to look at the district's upcoming construction project and to review its costs during a public hearing Wednesday in the high school ...
Vets Remember reason behind holiday

Michele Margittai, director of development and community relations for the Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania, agrees that people can do more to better understand the sacrifices made by veterans. "Even though as a community we have become much more sensitive to veterans and may even know someone who served, too many people still see Memorial Day as a holiday instead of ...
Tentative budget hires 17 hikes tax

Greensburg Salem school directors have approved a tentative budget that calls for hiring staff to ease classroom overcrowding and increasing property taxes to the highest level allowed by the ...
Fireworks to honor Greensburg Community Days organizer Koval

Shea Archer of Coshocton, Ohio, hangs a banner on a game tent at Lynch Field in preparation for the opening of Greensburg Community Days on May 23, 2013. Archer works for Oren Concessions of Parker City, ...
Westmoreland County Community College passes tentative budget

A copy of the preliminary budget is available for public review in Ron Eberhardt's office in Founders Hall on Westmoreland County Community College's Youngwood campus. Eberhardt is vice president of administrative ...

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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. ...