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Congo fighting persists as UN chief arrives

FILE -In this Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, Congolese government troops patrol near Minova in eastern Congo. Fighting between M23 rebels and the army continued for a second day Tuesday, May 21, 2013, near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, in clashes that have so far killed 20 people, all of them either soldiers or rebels, officials said. Peace talks reached a dead end in recent weeks, ...
Okla. City mayor Up to 13K homes hit by tornado

MOORE, Okla. -- Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett says 12,000 to 13,000 homes were affected by the tornado that tore through a city suburb.At least 24 people died when the tornado laid waste to Moore on Monday afternoon.The Oklahoma Insurance Department says the financial cost of the tornado could exceed $2 billion, because of the size and duration of the storm. The disaster zone stretches more ...
3rd Delco man now charged in connection with Lancaster County murder

rquinn@delcotimes.comj , @rquinndelco A 24-year-old Middletown man is behind bars in Delaware County, charged with aiding the three men who authorities say shot and killed a 62-year-old Lancaster County man during home invasion last August.Emlyn Lucas Jones is additionally charged with hindering apprehension and receiving stolen property, according to online court records. He was arrested May ...
Chesco man faces murder rap for killing girlfriend after he hinted at it on Facebook

Gregory Twyman, who is accused of killing his girlfriend in their East Fallowfield home Tuesday, is taken to his arraignment in Downingtown. (Special to the Times/Tom Kelly IV) EAST FALLOWFIELD - A woman was killed Tuesday after an apparent domestic dispute turned violent in the first block of Rokeby Road, a day after the victim’s boyfriend changed his social media profile to show ...
AP Source Coach K returning to US mens team

Mike Krzyzewski had decided to remain coach of the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team.Krzyzewski will try to lead the Americans to a third straight gold medal, a person with knowledge of the decision said Wednesday. Originally expected to step down, Krzyzewski will hold a press conference to confirm his return Thursday at Duke, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity ...

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Perhaps as a way of proving his range as a director, Ron Howard has decided to follow up his multiple-Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind (2001) with The Missing, a moody and arduously serious western psychodrama. For every bit of emotional resonance Howard managed to wring out of A Beautiful Minds tale of the intermingling of genius and psychosis, he fumbles with The Missing ...

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Governor Can’t Find A Single Latino In Pennsylvania To Work For Him

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) brushed away a question about Latinos working in his administration during a roundtable discussion at The Union League in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday, telling the moderator, ';If you can find us one let me ...
DA to speak on religious couple who lost 2nd child

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Philadelphia prosecutors plan a news conference about a faith-healing couple who lost a second ill child while on probation in their toddler's 2009 pneumonia ...
5 dead in Ill. van crash part of Christian group

VANDALIA, Ill. (AP) -- Five Baltimore men killed when their van careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times were members of a Christian ministry returning from a weeklong international conference in ...
Trident McGowan Cos. to Offer Public Entity Coverage in Pennsylvania

Trident Insurance Services, LLC, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., has formed an exclusive business relationship with The McGowan Cos. to offer access to its public entity insurance program in Pennsylvania. The public entity insurance program--underwritten by Trident and now distributed by The McGowan Cos.--is available to municipalities (boroughs, cities, counties and towns) ...
Skateboarders might find new love at Philly park

PHILADELPHIA -; Brokenhearted skateboarders long banned from Philadelphia's internationally renowned shredding paradise of Love Park may have a new object of affection: Paine's ...

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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. ...