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Child labor hits home

The Department of Labor and Industry, through the Bureau of Labor Law Compliance, is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Child Labor Law (Act of 2012 P.L. 1209, No 151), and the Regulations Governing the Employment of Minors in Industry ...
Interim Interboro superintendent is in hot water over bad language

Interim Interboro School District Superintendent John Cleghorn allegedly mouthed a derogatory comment to an audience member at a meeting last week. TINICUM - Interboro School District Interim Superintendent John Cleghorn may be facing discipline for a verbal stunt in which he allegedly used two of the "seven words you can never say on television" at a school board meeting last ...
Primary 2013 Candidates make final push for office

Times file Polls will be open from 7 a.m.-8 p.m. today throughout Delaware County. HARRISBURG - Candidates for public offices, including a seat on a state appellate court and mayor in several cities, made their final pitches for support Monday - the last full day before the Pennsylvania primary.The most closely watched races include contested mayoral nominations in Pittsburgh, Scranton, ...
Primary 2013 Polls open today

Polls will be open from 7 a.m-8 p.m today. Any voter who is in line at 8 p.m. will still be allowed to vote.If voters have any issues at the polls related to their registration, they should call the county Office of Voter Registration at 610-891-4659.If there are problems with machines or legal issues, voters can call the county’s Election Bureau at 610-891-4673.Voters can also call the ...
Woman runs into path of bus in Chester

A woman apparently ran into the path of a SEPTA bus in Chester on Monday afternoon. Special to the Times / WILLIAM HOFFA CHESTER - A woman apparently ran into the path of a moving SEPTA bus Monday afternoon, police said.The incident happened at Ninth Street and Avenue of the States at about 3 p.m.The unidentified woman was taken to Crozer-Chester Medical Center, according to city Police ...

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Revanche [DVD]

Revanche is Austrian writer/director Gtz Spielmanns fifth feature film (in addition to several made-for-television features), but the first to receive significant distribution in the United States, so European viewers will have to forgive American audiences and critics who are treating ... ...

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Todays Meetings -- May 21 2013

Phollowing the Phillies Insight, observations on the first team in professional sports to reach 10,000 losses and the latest Philly team to make the playoffs - the Philadelphia ...
Springfield approves new insurance plan

By SUSAN L. SERBINTime Correspondent SPRINGFIELD - The school board approved a self-funding health care insurance program which is increasingly common in corporations and larger organizations. While not guaranteed, the move to self-funding from fully insured with an outside agency has projected savings of about $450,000.Executive Director Don Mooney presented the plan to the board and public, ...
Aston postpones vote on mobile home park

Aston commissioners delayed a vote on a proposal that would force residents of Fishers Corner to move. Times staff / JULIA WILKINSON ASTON - The 25 residents living in the Fishers Corner Mobile Home Community will have to wait a bit longer to learn their fate, as commissioners, during Wednesday’s meeting, did not vote on a request for a zoning change from mobile home to industrial.The ...
Plans for Coeburn’s future discussed

By LORETTA RODGERSTimes Correspondent@LorettaRodgers1 BROOKHAVEN - Eric Kuminka, principal of Coebourn Elementary School, and project engineer Gus Houtman, during a recent meeting of borough council, provided an update in reference to the demolition of Coebourn Elementary School as well as plans for housing Coebourn students at the former Our Lady of Charity School during construction.Kuminka ...
Mass scheduled for McFadden

Delaware County residents are invited to attend a memorial Mass for Harrisburg Bishop Joseph McFadden, who died of a heart attack May 2, 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Cathedral Basilica of SS Peter and Paul, 18th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway. PHILADELPHIA - Delaware County residents are invited to attend a memorial Mass for Harrisburg Bishop Joseph McFadden, who died of a heart attack May 2, ...

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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. ...