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Eatn Park to open Hello Bistro downtown

The restaurant will be in a building on Wood Street at the corner of Forbes Avenue. Eat'n Park Hospitality Group said it has a lease with Italian Sons and Daughters of America to occupy space in the ...
Woman hit by SEPTA bus in Chester

CHESTER – City police and fire personnel are on the scene at Ninth Street and Avenue of the States where a woman has been struck by a SEPTA bus. Police Commissioner Joseph Bail said the call was reported as "a person being trapped under the bus," but it was too early in the investigation to provide ...
Housekeeper gets 6 years in theft of $3M Ben Franklin bust

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A housekeeper has been sentenced to six years in federal prison in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust stolen from a Main Line home and reportedly worth $3 million.Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Ala., was living in Philadelphia when the bust was taken Aug. 24 from a home where she had worked as a housecleaner. She fled to Alabama with the bust and was arrested Sept. 21 in ...
Pittsburgh. priest removed in 2009 faces new porn charge

By JOE MANDAK,Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest who was removed from public ministry in 2009 after an allegation of past child sex abuse later deemed "credible" by his bishop has now been indicted on a federal charge of possessing child pornography.The indictment announced by federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh doesn't specify how much pornography the Rev. ...
Police incident prompts lockdown at 2 Pa. schools

PLEASANT GAP, Pa. (AP) -- An elementary school and a vocational school in north-central Pennsylvania were on temporary lockdown as police responded to an off-campus ...

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Sleepy Hollow [DVD]

Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" is a wildly imaginative reinvention of Washington Irving's classic campfire ghost story about the Headless Horseman terrorizing a small, northeastern hamlet in the late 1700s. Burton and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker ("Seven")--with a little help from Tom Stoppard ("Shakespeare in Love") who contributed an uncredited rewrite--take the bare bones of the original sto ... ...

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Sustainable Shale head calls for broad discussion

Place is also the corporate director of energy and environmental policy at EQT Corp., a Pittsburgh-based energy company that has drilled more than 500 Marcellus Shale gas wells over the past four years. And he's the interim head of the newly formed Center for Sustainable Shale Development, a partnership between industry, environmentalists, and foundations, the Beaver County Times ...
NY cigarette tax probes called weak sloppy

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Sting operations aimed at black market cigarettes in New York had such weak investigative protocols and financial controls that money went missing and prosecutions were dismissed, the state inspector general reported ...
Government says it recorded Ohio jail conversation because of Redbank man’s threats to witness not his Muslim beliefs

The government recorded a jailhouse conversation between an Armstrong County man and another inmate to investigate his threats against a witness, not because of his Muslim beliefs, the government says in court documents filed ...
Mourinho to leave Real Madrid at end of season

Jos Mourinho will leave Real Madrid CF at the end of the season after a three-year tenure that brought a record-breaking Liga campaign and three UEFA Champions League ...
Steelers Sign Sixth-Round Pick Vince Williams

overall pick, played collegiately at Florida State University. He played in 50 games and made 26 starts in his final two seasons, and recorded 140 tackles, 13.5 TFLs and three sacks. Williams served as a team captain, earned All-ACC Honorable Mention honors, Phil Steele Postseason All-ACC Second Team honors and was an Under Armour Senior Bowl selection his senior ...

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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. ...