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No Squirrel Hill Tunnel closures this weekend

We travel through nearly 300 years of history as we explore how Squirrel Hill developed into one of the most well-known neighborhoods within the city of ...
SEPTA board OKs fare hike

jwolfe@delcotimes.com @delcoreporter The SEPTA board voted Thursday to approve the proposed fare increase and its plan to simplify the payment process for customers as it begins to prepare for its New Payment Technology for next year.The fare increase is for the fiscal year 2014, which begins July 1, 2013. The board deferred on approving the proposed capital budget due to the lack of a state ...
Boy Scouts OK plan to allow gay scouts adult ban remains

Former Boys Scout leader Jennifer Tyrrell, left, rests her head on her son and current Boy Scout Cruz Burns, 8, before an news conference at the Equal Scouting Summit being held near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. Delegates to the Boys Scouts of America meeting are expected to address a proposal to allow gay scouts ...
Kingston leads BMW PGA Championship

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy reacts to a wayward shot during the first day of the BMW PGA Championship at the Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, England, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo / Adam Davy, PA ) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE ...
Judge awards $7500 to former inmate for beating

District Judge Terrence F. McVerry ruled Thursday that former corrections officer 34-year-old Arii L. Metz should pay 26-year-old David Kipp for the 2010 ...

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For his third feature film, writer/director Gus Van Sant was finally able to bring to the screen a story he had been trying to tell for years about Portland street hustlers. His critical and commercial success with Drugstore Cowboy (1989) had made him a name in the bur ... ...

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Ex-PSU player takes battle vs. bullying to book

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- A former Penn State women's basketball player has taken to writing to resume the anti-bullying efforts she championed off the ...
Pittsburgh on the Hudson Wrong city in NY City campaign logo

Weiner, the candidate who infamously resigned from the U.S. Congress two years ago in a sexting scandal, unveiled a video announcing his mayoral candidacy and a campaign logo on his website on ...
Parents sue Pittsburgh Zoo over toddlers mauling death

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The parents of a 2-year-old boy mauled to death by African wild dogs at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the zoo of failing to protect visitors from dangerous ...
Man accused of chaining stepson to table after refusing to eat

Authorities say a western Pennsylvania man allegedly chained his 11-year-old stepson to the dinner table after he refused to eat the food on his ...
Dallas man gets death for drowning 2 sons in creek

DALLAS -; A father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek was sentenced to death on ...

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Friend of Boston bombers had confessed to 2011 triple murders claims FBI

NEW YORK A Chechen acquaintance of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has ...
Drone strikes are legal and extend to US citizens as well, says Obama

WASHINGTON - In a major counter-terrorism speech, President Barack Obama Thursday defended the covert US ...
Two civilians among 13 dead in Pakistan car bomb

QUETTA, Pakistan - At least 13 people, including two civilians, were killed in a car ...
Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials

JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday separately began meetings with Israeli and ...

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No Squirrel Hill Tunnel closures this weekend

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SEPTA board OKs fare hike

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Boy Scouts OK plan to allow gay scouts adult ban remains

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Kingston leads BMW PGA Championship

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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. ...