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IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde arrives for a second day of the court hearing at a special court house, in Paris, Friday, May 24, 2013. Lagarde faced questioning at a special Paris court Friday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister. (AP Photo/Thibault ...
Funeral held for 8-year-old tornado victim

Some 300 mourners crowded inside Eagle Heights Baptist Church here Friday to pay their respects to an elementary school student killed when a tornado churned through nearby Moore, ...
Fugitive arrested on drug charges in Bellefonte after complaint about unsupervised children

BELLEFONTE - An East Orange, N.J., man was arrested in Bellefonte on Wednesday after borough police responded to a Beaver Farm Lane home for a complaint that young children were outside unsupervised.Police discovered that Prince Shaborn Manuel had been sleeping in the 127 Beaver Farm Lane house when they arrived at about 1 p.m., according to a Bellefonte Police Department news release. Manuel ...
Todays MLB starting lineups May 24

Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
Game agency reports 2nd Pa. eagle shot this month

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania game officials say an investigation shows a second bald eagle's death in the past month was caused by a bullet ...

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The Great Dictator [Blu-Ray]

While it is not the greatest of his feature films, Charlie Chaplins tragicomic The Great Dictator is certainly his bravest, if not one of the bravest films ever made. A blatant satire of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, it was a lone cinematic cry for humanity to stand t ... ...

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Chef Robinson reopens his popular barbecue business this time in Hempfield Twp.

For Chef Greg Robinson, cooking is more than a job. It's a passion. Robinson, a graduate of the International Culinary Academy, has been in the food industry for more than a decade. He worked for chain restaurants and a faith-based food service program before opening his own roadside stand in the Greengate area of Westmoreland County about 10 years ago. After that, he opened up Chef ...
Husband shot after hearing knock on door

Police are trying to figure out who shot a man when he went to check on a knock at the back door of his family's home late Thursday night inPittsburgh's Greenfield ...
FDA warns of infections tied to Tennessee pharmacy

WASHINGTON -- Government health officials are investigating several complications reported with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that the investigation involves seven reports from patients who received steroid injections from Main Street Family Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy in Newbern, Tenn.The injections ...
Frost and freeze warnings for W. Pa.

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The National Weather Service says the Memorial Day weekend will start off with brief frost and freeze warnings for much of western ...
US court upholds most kids for cash convictions

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A federal appeals court is upholding all but one of the convictions in the case of a county judge in the "kids for cash" juvenile justice scandal in northeastern ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

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Metro Hotel on Pitt

A truly affordable hotel in Sydney, with stylish decor, great location and in-house snazzy brasserie? If the notion of affordable ...

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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. ...