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OKC Mayor 12000 homes damaged in storm

At least 12,000 homes were damaged or demolished from Monday's abysmal tornado, Oklahoma City Mayor Mike Cornett said. The twister killed 24 people, including 10 children, and injured 353 in central ...
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May 23--PHILLY'S OWN Kate Flannery has chosen her first post-"The Office" assignment. Flannery will star in "Love, Loss and What I Wore," the off-Broadway smash written by the dearly departed writer/director Nora Ephron and her sister Delia, for the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Although Flannery has played local clubs with her musical comedy group, the Lampshades, this ...
Swarthmore named in federal complaint over rape allegations

NEW YORK (AP) - Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred joined students from four U.S. colleges and universities - including Swarthmore - on Wednesday to announce the filing of federal complaints over how the higher-education institutions handle rape allegations.Students who attended the New York news conference said the colleges and universities had not taken their rape complaints ...
Ex-Penn State prez Graham Spanier wants criminal charges tossed

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former Penn State President Graham Spanier has asked a county judge to throw out charges accusing him of helping cover up abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.Spanier's lawyers filed the motion last week, citing his allegation that the university's former top lawyer, Cynthia Baldwin, violated attorney-client confidentiality ...
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Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is the best big-screen superhero movie since Richard Donner's Superman (1978). Like Donner, Raimi achieves a near-perfect balance between the humanistic and the mythical, giving us a deeply human and often moving character story in addition to a rousing action-adventure fantasy. ...

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Committee will help pick new principal at Wallingford Elementary School

By Neil A. SheehanTimes Correspondent NETHER PROVIDENCE - A committee made up of parents and faculty will be tasked with winnowing down a field of 65 candidates seeking to become the next principal of Wallingford Elementary School.Wallingford-Swarthmore Schools Superintendent Richard Noonan said once the initial screening of applications has occurred, the committee will invite a certain number ...
Primary 2013 Library referendum fails in Upper Chichester

UPPER CHICHESTER - Voters said no Tuesday to a ballot referendum that would have added about 3.5-tenths, or 0.00035, of a mill to their real-estate taxes to support a new library building and enhanced library programs and services.The measure failed by a vote of 1,259 to 375 during Tuesday’s primary election.Had it passed, the referendum would have generated about $300,000 in additional ...
Primary 2013 Brookhaven residents vote to end borough’s ‘dry’ status

By LORETTA RODGERSTimes Correspondent@LorettaRodgers1 BROOKHAVEN - Residents voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of the borough being able to obtain a liquor license so alcohol can be served. The vote of 715 for and 247 against ended the 60-year "dry" status of the borough."The people spoke," said Mayor Mike Hess. "Now council will act on their wishes."Hess said ...
Upper Darby man pleads to assault rap

arose@delcotimes.com MEDIA COURTHOUSE - An Upper Darby man accused of attacking an 8-year-old fighting with the man’s son pleaded guilty Monday to one count of simple assault, a misdemeanor of the second degree.Raynard F. Reese, 46, of the 7100 block of Atlantic Avenue, was sentenced to one year of probation and 32 hours of community service.Reese was arrested on the afternoon of Jan. 10 ...
Darby OKs contract for scanning

By Laura WiseleyTimes Correspondent DARBY BOROUGH - The borough will execute a contract to provide instant document scanning services for the borough’s administration and code enforcement departments.Borough Manager Mark Possenti said at a recent business meeting that the contract with DocStar Imagenet of Malvern will allow the borough to convert its files into electronic images, saving ...

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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. ...