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Scouts decision to allow gay youths galvanizes critics supporters

Former Cub Scouts den leader Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted from Scouting because she is openly gay, wears a button on her uniform shirt that reads "We Support All Boy Scouts" as she responds to a reporters question Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Grapevine, ...
Dye agrees to meet with NCAA investigators

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Miami senior Dyron Dye has agreed to meet for a third time with NCAA investigators, who want to know why there are discrepancies between what he told them in 2011 and what he wrote in a recent affidavit to support a former Hurricanes assistant coach.And according to that affidavit, Dye's explanation is simple. He claims he said what the NCAA told him in 2011 was ...
Pennsylvania native strives to fly from worlds wonders

Jon Potter didn't need to be asked twice. When a guard pointed to the top of the Bent Pyramid, Potter quickly climbed up through cracks in its limestone face. The 22-year-old Lawrenceville native carried the equipment of a small ...
Impact put home unbeaten record on the line vs. Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Union's Jack McInerney has taken MLS by storm as the league leader in goals heading into his return to the site of his lone red card from a season ago. Not far behind him in the scoring race is Italian veteran Marco Di Vaio of the Montreal Impact. These forwards will be in the spotlight Saturday night when the Impact look to remain unbeaten at home as they meet the ...
Budget season may bring passage of other Pa. laws

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- State lawmakers will soon return to the Pennsylvania Capitol with the state budget as the top order of business, accompanied by three marquee issues: liquor system privatization, public pension changes and transportation infrastructure ...

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Rosetta [Blu-Ray]

The title character of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardennes Rosetta is a young woman fighting on the margins of society, struggling against her unfairly appointed place in life with all of her might and getting nowhere. She is, in her own way, ferocious and relentless, but because the world is s ... ...

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Youth 16 charged in slaying of teenage Pa. girl

BRADDOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Police in western Pennsylvania say a teenager has been charged and a second suspect is being sought in the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl at a Pittsburgh-area housing ...
Uniontown woman’s WAC service helped her meet life’s many challenges

Carla Martin Vernon of Uniontown (right) is proud that her mother, the late Leona "Lee" Gilland Martin was a military trailblazer who served in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) during World War II. Vernon poses here with her daughter - Lee's granddaughter - Jessica Vernon Scott of Uniontown, along with photos of Lee and WW II WAC memorabilia. Vernon and Scott work both work at ...
Judge agrees to step aside in death penalty proceeding

In April, public defender Jeffrey Whiteko filed a series of pretrial motions seeking to have the death penalty removed and the trial moved to another ...
Youth suspended cited after classmate hit by BB

WEST CHESTER - Police say a suburban Philadelphia high school student was cited and suspended after a classmate was shot with a BB gun in homeroom.Investigators in Chester County allege that the 16-year-old student brought the gun to Rustin High School on Thursday and other students encouraged him to fire it at a friend.Westtown-East Goshen police said in a statement that the victim was ...
Gay soccer player Robbie Rogers joins LA Galaxy

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File). FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 file photo, Columbus Crew's Robbie Rogers celebrates after scoring against the San Jose Earthquakes during the second half of an MLS soccer match in San ...

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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. ...