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  • Damaged trains being removed from wreck site

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Commuter trains damaged in a crash in Connecticut were being removed Sunday in the first step to making repairs and restoring service, the agency that runs Metro-North ...

  • Criticism flares around new Pennsylvania graduation tests

    By MARC LEVY,Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov. Tom Corbett and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to toughen academic achievement standards and tie them to graduation tests for the state's roughly 1.7 million public and charter school students.After hours of legislative hearings on ...

  • Philly flower show ends with million-dollar loss

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- This year's Philadelphia Flower Show ended with a loss of about $1.2 million, and officials are blaming fears of a winter snowstorm during the week of the show that they say were whipped up by television and radio ...

  • Local ‘drummer boys’ plan march from Pittsburgh to Gettysburg

    Guibert entered the Civil War at 17, serving with the 74th Pennsylvania, a German speaking regiment, and the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served on the front line in several battles, including the first Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. He became known as "The Wizard of the ...

  • 1 killed in crash on Route 28

    Emergency dispatchers said crash involved a tractor-trailer and a motorcycle between the 16th and 31st Street Bridges in the northbound lanes of Route ...

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Lions for Lambs

Lions for Lambs

You shouldn't blame yourself if you mistakenly think that Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford's didactic excursion into contemporary politics and U.S. foreign policy, is based on a stageplay. While screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan had previously served up the war on terror ... ...

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  • White House insists Obama was not involved in IRS

    WASHINGTON -; A top White House adviser insisted President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for answers on ...

  • Serena Williams beats Azarenka to win Italian Open

    US Serena Williams returns the ball to Belarus' Victoria Azarenka during their final match at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew ...

  • Man shot dead in alleged western Pa. heroin deal

    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Authorities in western Pennsylvania have charged two men in a shooting death that investigators say occurred during an attempted heroin ...

  • Aide Obama learned about IRS from news accounts

    President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni. The ...

  • Report N. Korea fires fourth missile

    North Korea fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, according to South Korea's semiofficial news agency Yonhap, citing a South Korean military ...

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