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Teen gives dying father surprise at prom

Trays of food resting on the kitchen table. Fresh-cut flowers. The smell of hairspray in the air. Sixteen-year-old Madison Dobas' house was filled with all of the typical signs she was heading to her first prom. But unlike most of the other teenagers who would be attending California Area High School's prom Friday night, Madison was also getting ready for something ...
Braddock marks five years since last murder

As a result, Levi's Jeans featured the town in an ad campaign three years ago and donated $1 million to turn an abandoned church into a community ...
How safe is that bridge youre driving over

Like millions of other Americans, Dan and Sally Sligh packed up their vehicle and headed out for a Memorial Day weekend trip. As they crossed the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River outside Seattle, Washington, the bridge gave way and their pickup truck plunged into the frigid ...
No bail for Philly parents in faith-healing death

By MARYCLAIRE DALE,Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) - After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.But now they've lost an 8-month-old to what a prosecutor called "eerily similar" circumstances. And instead of another ...
Man will be tried for crash that killed Pa. chief

A York County judge ruled that there's enough evidence to try Matthew Diehl. He is accused of fatally striking Loganville Fire Chief Rodney Miller while Miller directed traffic last ...

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The Great Dictator [Blu-Ray]

While it is not the greatest of his feature films, Charlie Chaplins tragicomic The Great Dictator is certainly his bravest, if not one of the bravest films ever made. A blatant satire of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, it was a lone cinematic cry for humanity to stand t ... ...

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Greensburg Community Days attendees may notice security changes

In light of recent national tragedies, City of Greensburg and Westmoreland County leaders met to discuss festival plans and make security changes. "We're trying to make sure we cover every aspect of possibilities for this year," said Les Harvey, City of Greensburg emergency management director. "Kind of create, we hope, an atmosphere so the families who come in can feel ...
New flag program to alert community of air quality conditions

"Making that flag visible, making that forecast visible, can really help people cater or change their activities outside so they're not affected as much," said Karrie Kressler, of ...
After vote on gay youth Scouts face more turmoil

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 photo provided by the family, Wes Comer holds the Boy Scout uniform of his son, Isaiah, outside their home in Knoxville, Tenn. Comer, whose family attends an Apostolic Pentecostal church which considers homosexuality sinful, had been wrestling with whether to pull his eldest son out of the Scouts if the no-gays policy was abandoned. "To be honest, ...
Woman feared Iowa kidnapping suspects release

Investigators have discovered the blood of a missing 15-year-old Iowa girl on the truck of a registered sex offender suspected of kidnapping her Monday, diminishing the chances of finding her alive, a lead investigator said ...
Is cyber war just a scare tactic

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta talks to the media after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Oct. 10, 2012. ATLANTA, Ga. - A growing legion of cyber war hawks contends that the world faces a mounting threat of hacker-driven cataclysm. These hawks warn of downed power grids, contaminated water supplies and derailed trains - at the hands of ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

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The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.

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Metro Hotel on Pitt

A truly affordable hotel in Sydney, with stylish decor, great location and in-house snazzy brasserie? If the notion of affordable ...

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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. ...