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Mother taken into custody after search for child

Police said the woman took her son from his aunt, who has legal custody of the child. As the command center went up near South Braddock Avenue, authorities worked together with dispatchers and the phone company to track down the pings from the mother's cellphone. After a three-hour search, the pings alerted police that the mother was in the area, and led them to finding her riding in a car ...
Man shot in the face in Greenfield

A man was shot in the face at a home along Gladstone Street on Thursday night. He was then taken to the hospital in critical condition. Police spent hours at the home, searching for clues that might lead them to the shooter. As of Friday morning, no arrests had been ...
Pirates don Penguins jerseys to show playoff support

The Pittsburgh Pirates show their support for the Pittsburgh Penguins during the NHL playoffs by wearing Penguins jerseys on their road trip to Milwaukee and ...
Army veteran surprised with new home

It was all made possible by the Homes For Heroes program through Wells Fargo and the Wounded Warriors Foundation. Schell was wounded four years ago when a bomb hit his vehicle while he was serving in Afghanistan. Schell's brother, Guy, was also awarded a Purple Heart, as well as a new home in Florida. "I just didn't expect it because he truly deserves it," said Guy Schell. ...
VA spending taxpayer money on TV ads

But now the VA is under fire again -- this time for spending taxpayer money on television ads. Much of the criticism of the VA has centered on Michael Moreland, who heads the VA healthcare system in western Pennsylvania. He is front and center in a series of television spots aired by the VA, and that does not sit well with the daughter of a Legionnaires' victim. The ads portray veterans ...

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The Return of the Living Dead [Blu-Ray]

Dan OBannons Return of the Living Dead is a gleefully irreverent, semi-successful faux sequel to George A. Romeros seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968), which single-handedly invented the modern zombie film and helped reinvigorate the horror genre ... ...

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Firefighters lend helping hand to tornado victims

Ford Cliff volunteer firefighters got the call to help the victims of the Oklahoma tornado, and they did not hesitate. Several of the men packed their bags, prepared their firetruck and began the 18-hour ...
Russias Far East rocked by powerful quake

The epicenter for the extremely powerful quake was located in the Sea of Okhotsk, just to the west of the Kamchatka Peninsula, and about 600 kilometers (nearly 375 miles) underground. The quake was felt for five minutes in the region, Russia's Ria Novosti news agency reported. Many people ran into the streets as the temblor shook. No tsunami warnings were issued in the quake's ...
Interboro super resigns denies allegations he used vulgar term

vsullivan@delcotimes.com Interboro School District’s embattled interim superintendent announced his resignation Thursday evening in an emailed statement, but vehemently denied the allegations that he used an obscene phrase at a board meeting last week.John Cleghorn, serving as the school district’s interim superintendent since December 2012, made the decision because of the uproar ...
Police Clifton Heights mail carrier failed to deliver charged with stealing cash

JOHN IACONO UPPER DARBY - A postal worker who allegedly helped himself to the contents of customers’ mail, including cash and coupons, was arrested after an investigation, officials said.John Paschal Iacono, 56, of the 1100 block of Stewart Place, Secane, has worked out of Clifton Heights Post Office for several years."Obviously there is an ongoing investigation by the United ...
Earthquake hits Russias Far East tremors felt as far away as Moscow

MOSCOW - A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometres (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter. Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told The Associated Press the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the ...

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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. ...