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Massive tornado slams Oklahoma City area

A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its ...
Hines Ward conducts one-on-one with Sally Wiggin

It is the 14th year that former Steeler Hines Ward has hosted a golf tournament that benefits the Highmark Caring Place. He began working with the organization that helps grieving children and their families soon after he arrived in Pittsburgh as a rookie wide ...
Attacks kill 95 in Iraq hint of Syrian spillover

Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war vet who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said Monday that he has decided to live for ...
Federal judge weighs fate of Corbett suit vs. NCAA over Penn State sanctions

By MARK SCOLFORO,Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Gov. Tom Corbett will learn within the next few weeks whether his federal lawsuit against the NCAA over the penalties handed down against Penn State will be allowed to continue, following a nearly two-hour hearing Monday in Harrisburg.Corbett sued the NCAA in January, claiming the $60 million fine and other penalties levied against Penn ...
3 charged in Montco home invasion murder of teen

NORRISTOWN - Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman, West Pottsgrove Township Police Chief Earl Swavely and Lower Pottsgrove Township Police Chief Michael Foltz announce the filing of charges against three men in a home invasion robbery in West Pottsgrove Township, which resulted in the murder of Kareem Ali Borowy, age 19, in Lower Pottsgrove ...

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Sleepy Hollow [DVD]

Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" is a wildly imaginative reinvention of Washington Irving's classic campfire ghost story about the Headless Horseman terrorizing a small, northeastern hamlet in the late 1700s. Burton and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker ("Seven")--with a little help from Tom Stoppard ("Shakespeare in Love") who contributed an uncredited rewrite--take the bare bones of the original sto ... ...

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Mile-wide tornado churns through Oklahoma City suburbs

A resident who did not want to give his name, searches through the rubble of his mobile home in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, destroyed by Sunday's tornado, near Shawnee, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. The tornado that slammed into Oklahoma on Sunday is now blamed for two deaths. Authorities say two men in their 70s have been found dead in or near a mobile home park outside of ...
Man rescued after falling at McConnells Mill State Park

The 26-year-old Ohio man was hiking with his cousin and apparently went off the path to get closer and take pictures but lost his balance and fell about 20 feet, a park ranger ...
More companies in Pa. trying fracking with gas

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Another natural gas exploration company says it's experimenting with the gas to power huge pump engines that drive the hydraulic fracturing process. Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. said Monday that it successfully tested an engine last month in northern Pennsylvania's Susquehanna County with gas from other wells it had already drilled. A Cabot spokesman says the ...
Tornado slams Oklahoma for 2nd straight day total destruction in some neighborhoods

Alli Christian, left, helps Jessica Wilkinson as she looks for her dog Bella after Wilkinson returned to find her home near 156th street and Franklin Road destroyed by a tornado, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Norman, Okla. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Steve Sisney) UPDATE: OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A mile-wide tornado churned through the Oklahoma City suburbs, destroying homes for the second day in a row ...
Indians rally to beat Mariners 10-8

Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and the Cleveland Indians, twice revived by Seattle's fielding errors, beat the Mariners 10-8 on Monday to complete a four-game ...

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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. ...