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Hamlin takes Coca-Cola 600 pole with record lap

Danica Patrick looks on as crew members work on her car during practice for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Thursday, May 23, ...
Authorities seize 1000 drug-laced candies in Pa.

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities say they confiscated more than 1,000 pieces of drug-laced candy during a house search in northeastern ...
Boy Scouts to drop ban on gay scouts

The organization kept its ban on gay scout leaders, according to the Associated Press. About 1,400 Boy Scout leaders voted Thursday on whether to lift the ban on gay scouts during the organization's annual meeting in ...
Butler County eliminates jury commissioner position

Jury commissioners mail letters and field phone calls from prospective jurors. Much of the work they did in the past has been replaced by computers, McCarrier said. The work will be done in the county's court administration ...
VA would have to report Legionnaires’ and other diseases under House companion bill

Veterans Affairs health care facilities would have to report within 24 hours cases of Legionnaire's and other major infectious diseases to several agencies, patients and employees under companion legislation introduced Thursday by U.S. Reps. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair and Mike Doyle, D-Forest ...

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Corbett signs bill naming 31st Street Bridge after Millvale war hero

Prom, a Millvale High School graduate, joined the Marines in December 1967. He started a tour of duty in Vietnam in June 1968. On Feb. 9, 1969, Lance Cpl. Prom, then 20, died defending his company from enemy fire near An ...
Anti-war activist heckles Obama over Gitmo

President Obama had a run-in with a heckler on Thursday, when a founder of the anti-war group Code Pink interrupted a speech on drone policy and other national security ...
JetBlue launches flights to Philadelphia

BOSTON, Mass. - JetBlue Airways launches service to its 78th city, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Starting today, JetBlue will serve Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) with five daily nonstop flights from Boston's Logan International Airport (BOS). Adding Philadelphia to their growing route map helps solidify JetBlue's already strong relevance for the business traveler, ...
3-year-old learns to live with juvenile arthritis

His mother, Ashley Mikula, said that when he was initially diagnosed, he could hardly walk sometimes "He would sit in a chair and cry and say, 'Momma, I hurt. Help it,'" Mikula said. The pain was first helped by steroid injections directly into his joints, his knees and an ankle. Because the injections are painful, pediatric rheumatologists give them to children under general ...
Security concerns raised for Pittsburgh Pride events

They want to be assured that Pittsburgh Pride events will be given full attention when it comes to security, and they said that they will. The Delta Foundation said that for the first time the group is working with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, in addition to its regular partnership with Pittsburgh police. "We're taking the concerns, meeting with law enforcement and ...

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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. ...