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Lowes 1Q profit rises chilly spring hurts sales

Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.Spring is the biggest season for home improvement retailers. While the weather was chilly in the quarter, the improving housing market has helped such businesses.Lowe's Cos. earned $540 million, or 49 cents per share, for the period ended May 3. That compares with ...
Search for survivors winds down in Oklahoma

No survivors or bodies have been found in Moore since Monday, the day a mammoth tornado ripped through 17 miles of central Oklahoma and pummeled 2,400 ...
Tornado-ravaged Oklahoma residents start to pick up the pieces

A man carries a drawer and a bag filled with clothes from Rachel Hernandez' home as residents of the Heatherwood Addition, on the south side of SE 4 and Bryant in Moore, Okla., returned to their homes Tuesday, May 21, 2013, to salvage any items after Monday's destructive tornado. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) MOORE, Okla. (AP) - With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin ...
Twister Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down

By DAVID A. LIEB,Associated Press MOORE, Okla. (AP) - With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time."Parents had a gut-wrenching choice, and only a few minutes to make it. Trust the safety of the ...
Philly controller Alan Butkovitz wins Dem primary race

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz has faced down two challengers for the Democratic nomination in his campaign for a third term as the city's fiscal watchdog.Butkovitz beat tax-overhaul advocate Brett Mandel and attorney Mark Zecca in Tuesday's primary in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 9-1. He will take on GOP businessman Terry Tracy ...

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If one were to imagine a television show hosted by Wallace and Gromit, the delightfully silly plasticine man-and-dog duo first created by Nick Park in the early 1980s while he was still a student, Wallace & Gromits World of Invention woul ... ...

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Pa. Primary Dems nominate new mayors in Pittsburgh Scranton Harrisburg

By PETER JACKSON,Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Democrats nominated new mayors in Pittsburgh, Scranton and Harrisburg in the Pennsylvania primary election.They tapped veteran city Councilman William Peduto as their standard-bearer in Pittsburgh and city Tax Collector Bill Courtright in Scranton, but spurned Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson's re-election bid and chose bookstore ...
Penn States costs for Sandusky scandal soar over $44M

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State's costs for legal fees, consultants and other services connected to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal have topped $44.4 million, the university's latest bill shows.That total was through the end of February, according to a university website this week. It's up about $1.5 million from the previous bill released through the end of ...
‘America’s Most Wanted’ fugitive arrested in Patton Township

A man wanted for a killing in Washington, D.C., and featured on the TV show “America’s Most Wanted” has been arrested in Centre County.Patton Township police said Tuesday that Reynard Cook was arrested last week on charges of providing false identification to law enforcement and disorderly conduct.Cook was found to be wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service Arlington Office on ...
Sisters ejected from Pa. mall over cancer hats

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) -- Three sisters say they were kicked out of a suburban Philadelphia mall after refusing to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of breast ...
Family of girl abducted from Philly school to sue

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A lawyer for the family of a 5-year-old girl abducted from her Philadelphia elementary school says the family is planning to sue the ...

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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. ...