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2 hrs ago | The News Item

State budget deadline casts spell

A combination of events is focusing attention on whether Gov. Tom Corbett and lawmakers can perform the political hat trick of passing major legislation dealing with transportation spending, liquor store privatization and curbing public pension costs while passing the next state budget on time for the third year in a row.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US Governors, Tom Corbett, Pension, Personal Finance, Harrisburg, PA

7 hrs ago | The Citizens' Voice

Family descendant bands with volunteers to save cemetery

Sheri Prokopchak / For The Citizens' Voice From left, Plymouth Historical Society member and family descendant Elizabeth Malloy points to a hand-carved headstone in Davenport Cemetery in Plymouth while Steve Kondrad, society president, and Albert Dragan, member, look on.

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Related Topix: Plymouth, PA, Easton, PA

11 hrs ago | The Lebanon Daily News

Proposed Pennsylvania graduation standards flying into flak

It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Tom Corbett, US News, Clymer, PA, Lebanon County, PA

12 hrs ago | The Citizens' Voice

DEP drilling records reveal water damage, murky testing methods

State environmental regulators determined that oil and gas development damaged the water supplies for at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to a cache of nearly 1,000 letters and enforcement orders written by Department of Environmental Protection officials and obtained by The ... (more)

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania Government

Sun May 19, 2013

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

No slots in sight

The odds of Rush Street Gaming successfully developing a slots parlor off Madison Street grew longer this past week with the emergence of environmental obstacles, a continued lack of sufficient information from the developer, and a revelation of more fines against Rush Street Gaming for violating Pennsylvania gambling laws.

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Patch.com

Kai the 'Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker' Arrested in Pennsylvania

Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, dubbed "Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker," was arrested Thursday evening at the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Philadelphia by members of the Philadelphia Police Department, Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow said.

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Patch.com

Political Nonprofit Skirting PA Election Law Targeted Four GOP Lawmakers Last November

By Eric Boehm | PA Independent HARRISBURG - A new political nonprofit claims to be holding Gov.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, US Governors, Tom Corbett, Pittsburgh, PA

Philly.com

Therapy programs patients' own cells to fight cancer

It is vanishingly rare for an experimental treatment to wipe out advanced, recurrent cancer, then keep the disease from coming back.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Genetics, Leukemia

PennLive.com

Hats off to all who did great work after tanker fire on I-81: PennLive letters

Three cheers for the emergency first responders, PennDOT, its engineers, draftsmen, work crews and the many construction workers who reacted almost immediately to the I-81 bridge catastrophe in Susquehanna Township.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania Government, Opinion

The Tennessean

Pennsylvanian misses home's fresh fare

A Pennsylvania native, Kathy Strunk says spring has her craving rhubarb and asparagus, which are bountiful this time of year in Pennsylvania.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania Government, Home Gardening, Home, Life, Food, Recipes, Baked Goods, Bread

Daily Kos

This week in the war on voting: North Carolina 'ground zero' in voter suppression fight

The EAC was created in the aftermath of the disastrous elections of 2000 as part of the Help America Vote Act.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Robert Brady, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Pennsylvania Government, African-American

PennLive.com

This time, Pennsylvania's unemployment rate goes lower for the right reasons

More Pennsylvanians went to work in April, swelling the ranks of the state's employed to over 6 million workers.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania Government, Law, Employment / Labor Law

Sat May 18, 2013

PennLive.com

Pennsylvania Mystery Species: The Winners

The answer to this week's Pennsylvania Mystery Species, a weekly, serial contest about the wild things and wild places of Pennsylvania, was posted here earlier today.

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Related Topix: Dillsburg, PA, New Cumberland, PA, Highspire, PA

Post-gazette.com

Pennsylvania education standards running into resistance

After years of development, a new set of educational standards for Pennsylvania has run into late-in-the-game opposition along unusual political lines.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania Government, Chester County, PA, Education Etc.

Post-gazette.com

$600 million Powerball jackpot attracts a crowd

Vanessa Adams stood in line Friday afternoon at a Downtown convenience store hoping to win the largest Powerball jackpot in history.

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Related Topix: Lottery, Downtown (Los Angeles, CA), UC Los Angeles

WTAJ

Neighbors: "SWAT Team Called Out"

Pennsylvania State Police have not said what happened in the small town of Baxter.

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Philly.com

Go Outside Spring Festival on Walnut Street

THE RESTAURANTS and merchants of Rittenhouse Row are gathering again on Walnut Street this Saturday, and that means about 50,000 area residents and guests will be joining them for one of Center City's largest street fairs.

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Related Topix: Drexel University

CBS Local

State Unemployment Rate Dropped Slightly Since April

The state Department of Labor & Industry said Friday the April rate of 7.6 percent compared to 7.9 percent in March.

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Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law

CBS Local

Fact Check Friday: Scandals Hit The White House

We call it Fact Check Friday , and we have help from factcheck.org, a nonpartisan non-profit part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia On Monday, President Barack Obama said, "The IRS, as an independent agency, requires absolute integrity and people have to have confidence that they're applying it ... (more)

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Related Topix: University of Pennsylvania, US Politics, Barack Obama

Fri May 17, 2013

Bioscience Technology

Study Suggest New Roles for ECMO

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation , a procedure traditionally used during cardiac surgeries and in the ICU that functions as an artificial replacement for a patient's heart and lungs, has also been used to resuscitate cardiac arrest victims in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

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Related Topix: University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government

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