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$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 ...
Pa. woman charged with texting before fatal crash

NEW CASTLE, Pa. - A western Pennsylvania woman has been charged with text-messaging while driving in connection with a crash earlier this month that killed a former volunteer fire chief.Online court records don't list an attorney for 42-year-old Laura Gargiulo (gar-JOO'-loh), of Volant, who also faces charges including homicide by vehicle and involuntary manslaughter in the wreck that ...
PPG Industries closes on acquisition of Deft

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- PPG Industries Inc., which makes paints and coatings for autos, aircraft and other industries, has completed its acquisition of specialty coatings company Deft ...

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I-70 to reopen after crash in Westmoreland

According to PennDOT spokeswoman Valerie Peterson, the four-car crash closed the road at mile marker 49 in South Huntingdon, between Exit 51B (Route 31/West Newton) and Exit 46A (Route 51 South/Uniontown) in ...
Illinois man jailed on charges he carjacked Brownsville woman

An Illinois man is jailed on charges that he threatened to kill his ex-wife and stole her car as she was driving him to Pittsburgh International Airport after visiting their son.Jason Sargent, of Tinley Park, Ill., was arrested in Washington County early Sunday morning.Police said Rachel Sargent, of Brownsville, was driving the defendant to the airport when they began arguing, prompting her to ...
Boy 15 dies in ATV drag racing crash in W. Pa.

NEW ENTERPRISE, Pa. - Grief counselors and local ministers were at a western Pennsylvania high school after a popular student was killed while drag racing an all-terrain vehicle at a nearby dirt track. State police say Northern Bedford High School sophomore Kaleb Rightenour, of Martinsburg, was killed Saturday night when his ATV hit a tire barrier on a 500-foot dirt drag strip, causing the ...
More storms expected after rash of tornadoes

And the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...
Commencements 2013 Ex-Phillies pitcher Moyer offers Immaculata grads sage advice

Commencement Speaker Jamie Moyer receives an honorary doctor of laws degree at commencement ceremonies at Immaculata on Sunday. Here, with the assistance of Immaculata President, Sister R. Patricia Fadden, right, Moyer, receives his hood. Immaculata University graduated 915 students Sunday May 19, 2013 in their 89th annual spring commencement ceremony. Moyer played Major League Baseball for 25 ...

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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. ...