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  • Police 2 additional arrests in UK hacking death

    Police made two additional arrests Thursday as part of their investigation into the slaying of a soldier killed in Woolwich, London Metropolitan police said on the department's official Twitter ...

  • Parents sue Pittsburgh zoo in boys mauling death

    PITTSBURGH -; The parents of a 2-year-old boy who fell into a wild African dogs exhibit and was mauled to death last fall have sued the Pittsburgh ...

  • NOAA predicts another busy hurricane season

    COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.Thursday's outlook calls for 13 to 20 named storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes.The prediction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is more than what's considered an average Atlantic season. Last year was the third-busiest ...

  • Missing Montco college student found safe

    MATTHEW ROYER A college student who went missing while driving home to Montgomery County has been located safe, state police said. He has been reunited with his family, who have requested that his whereabouts not be released.Matthew Royer, 21, was last seen on surveillance video at a Sunoco gas station near Allentown early last Friday morning. He had left the University of Rhode Island in his ...

  • College Township mobile home park owners settle lawsuit

    state attorney general filed last month to recover relocation expenses owed to some tenants when the park closed.Hilltop Mobile Home Park owners Kenneth Mayes and his sister, Sharon Mayes, will pay $26,700, according to the terms of the agreement that Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced on Thursday. The sides were set for a hearing in Centre County court on Friday.A spokesman for Kane said ...

Movie Review

My Own Private Idaho [DVD]

My Own Private Idaho [DVD]

For his third feature film, writer/director Gus Van Sant was finally able to bring to the screen a story he had been trying to tell for years about Portland street hustlers. His critical and commercial success with Drugstore Cowboy (1989) had made him a name in the bur ... ...

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  • Parents Sue Pittsburgh Zoo Over Mauling Death

    PITTSBURGH (AP) – The parents of a 2-year-old boy who was fatally mauled after falling into a wild African dogs exhibit last fall have sued the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, claiming officials had ample warning that parents routinely lifted children onto a rail overlooking the exhibit so they could see better. The lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of Jason and Elizabeth Derkosh seeks ...

  • 4 serving probation for role in Pa. students fall

    BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Four Penn State students will serve probation for supplying alcohol to a party where a cheerleader was seriously hurt in a fall from a fifth-floor ...

  • Search for man who came to work with rifle gun

    EXPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Police are searching for a man who brought an assault rifle to the Pittsburgh-area business he works at shortly after he was ...

  • Diddy visits Pennsylvania liquor board to promote product

    Combs visited with Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board officials on Wednesday to promote a new product, soon-to-be-launched Ciroc Amaretto. The musical entrepreneur endorses Ciroc ...

  • $250G bail set in Pennsylvania infants faith-healing death

    PHILADELPHIA – Bail is set at $250,000 each for Philadelphia parents who believe in faith healing over medicine and have had two children die of pneumonia. Herbert and Catherine Schaible were in custody Thursday. They're charged with third-degree murder in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They had been convicted of involuntary manslaughter after 2-year-old Kent ...

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