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  • Rescuers search board by board for survivors

    Amid downed power lines, hissing gas pipes and immense devastation, rescuers searched "board by board" Tuesday for survivors and victims of a massive tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City ...

  • Pittsburgh WWII vets get free trip to national memorial

    As Puma got ready to board the bus to Washington to salute his fallen brothers at the WWII Memorial, he said, "The ones who were buried -- they're the real heroes. We're the lucky ones that came ...

  • Very light turnout across Delco for primary election

    cscharr@delcotimes.com @cindyscharr Poll workers in Aston anticipated a meager 15 percent of voters would show up to cast their ballots Tuesday, Primary Election Day in Pennsylvania."People should come out and execute their right to vote," said Ann Iacono, sitting outside of Aston Elementary School.She didn’t have much to do. Although polls opened at 7 a.m., only eight people ...

  • 1 of 2 Delco women charged in Chesco prison escape plot cops plea

    mrellahan@dailylocal.com WEST CHESTER – One of two Delaware County women involved in a failed plot to engineer an escape by two accused murderers from Chester County Prison pleaded guilty to charges surrounding the scheme Tuesday, and was sentenced to a prison term in the same institution she had targeted.What Jameela Aigne Rozier could not do, however, was explain why she had agreed to ...

  • Former IRS chief No knowledge of how targeting conservative groups happened

    ALAN FRAM and By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner.Douglas Shulman, who vacated his position last November when his five-year ...

Movie Review

Mondo Cane

Any way you look at it, "Mondo Cane" (which is pronounced "car-nay") is a patently silly piece of cinematic junk masquerading as an important anthropological documentary of strange and exotic parts of the world. The dead give-away to its exploitative nature is the condescending, inflated narration that immediately clues the viewer in to the fact that the filmmakers have no respect for the cultures ... ...

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  • U.S. Prison cant contain Philly drug kingpins rage they want death penalty

    By MARYCLAIRE DALE,Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Prosecutors seeking the death penalty for a drug kingpin convicted of killing 12 people say no prison can contain his rage.Former boxer Kaboni Savage will otherwise spend his life in solitary confinement, according to defense lawyers trying to keep him off death row.The sentencing hearing began Tuesday and is expected to last two weeks.The ...

  • Pa. man accused of taking diapers shoe inserts

    CARLISLE, Pa. - A central Pennsylvania man is in jail, facing charges he stole two packages of adult diapers and shoe inserts from a Carlisle pharmacy.Pennlive.com reports (( http://bit.ly/18frogw) police say 47-year-old David Voigt of York took the merchandise on Monday night from a CVS Pharmacy. The news outlet says Voigt is being held in the Cumberland County Prison, with bail set at ...

  • Police seek 2 after Pa. woman calls 911 from trunk

    LANCASTER, Pa. - Police in Lancaster County are searching for two suspects after a woman called 911 from the trunk of a car to report that she had been abducted by strangers.Lancaster police say the 33-year-old woman called 911 around 8:45 a.m. Tuesday and said she had been abducted in the city of Lancaster. Police Lt. Todd Umstead says that based on her communications with dispatchers, ...

  • Man charged in second robbery at Pa. bank in week

    MCKEESPORT, Pa. - Authorities had at least one person in custody after a Pittsburgh-area bank was robbed at knifepoint twice in less than a week.The Huntingdon Bank branch in McKeesport was robbed about 10 a.m. Monday. The same bank had been targeted five days before.FBI and police in McKeesport, about 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, say one man was in custody and being questioned about ...

  • Students OK after W. Pa. school bus driver crashes

    PATTON, Pa. (AP) -- Officials say more than two dozen school students have escaped injury when their bus driver crashed after suffering a medical emergency in central ...

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