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Pittsburgh Wow coming in June

Big crowds are expected in downtown Pittsburgh for a jam-packed two-week stretch of events -- from the Three Rivers Arts Festival to the reopening of the Point State Park fountain and much ...
Steelers Sign Sixth-Round Pick Justin Brown

overall selection, played collegiate at the University of Oklahoma and Penn State University. He started 39-of-49 career games played and recorded 146 receptions for 1,926 yards and eight receiving touchdowns. Brown transferred to Oklahoma prior to the 2012 season where he earned All Big-12 honorable mention honors as a senior. The Steelers have now signed five of their nine selections from the ...
Several local men nabbed in Pennsylvania drug raids

New York.- Several Dominicans arrested and charged in Berks County Pennsylvania, moved, according to prosecutors, hundreds of thousands of dollars each week dealing heroin, cocaine and marijuana in various villages and towns. The authorities said the organization was headed by Michael Vazquez (Rambo) who investigators accuse of recruiting and planning crimes with other suspects. In a ...
NJ man gets life in prison for musicians death

DOYLESTOWN, PA. — A New Jersey man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for his role in a crime that left a Philadelphia-area musician dead. Twenty-year-old Jermaine M. Jackson of Trenton was sentenced on ...
Anthony Weiner’s NY Mayor Website Mistakenly Features Pittsburgh

website mistakenly features Pittsburgh as his backdrop. Multiple twitter users, political blogs, and even the Washington Post have picked up on the background mistake. The bridge in the photo looks like the Roberto Clemente bridge, and many of the buildings look similar, especially the BNY Mellon ...

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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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Court splits over shouting at deputys procession

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A divided Pennsylvania appeals court is upholding some charges, but not disorderly conduct, against a woman convicted after shouting a vulgar expression about police amid a procession of vehicles escorting the body of a slain ...
Pa. hearing to focus on political groups

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A group that aired TV ads critical of Gov. Tom Corbett is the impetus for a planned hearing before the House State Government ...
Pa. jurors weigh evidence in slaying of fiance

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Jurors in eastern Pennsylvania are deliberating the fate of a woman accused of fatally stabbing her fiance on their wedding ...
87-year-old woman loses to Trump in civil case

Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch ...

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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. ...