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2 hrs ago | KRMG-AM Tulsa

Ex-caseworker gets prison for shooting at Pa. cops

A former Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare caseworker will spend five to 10 years in state police for firing 17 shots at state troopers who surrounded his house after he allegedly refused to come out when they responded to a drunken domestic dispute in October.

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6 hrs ago | CBS Local

National Immigration Rates On The Rise While Births Are On The Decline

Recent Census Bureau projections show that immigration rates are up in the Unites States, while the number of births have declined.

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10 hrs ago | The Citizens' Voice

Open records case produced untracked drilling documents

Scattered records kept by the state Department of Environmental Protection offer one answer to a key question in a new age of fossil fuel extraction in Pennsylvania: How many water supplies have been damaged by drilling? The Times-Tribune requested the letters and enforcement orders that might best account for the number of drilling-disrupted water ... (more)

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Sun May 19, 2013

New Jersey Herald

Paper: Drilling damage in 161 Pa. water supplies

Oil and gas development damaged the water supplies of at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to state records obtained by a newspaper.

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The Times-Tribune

Sunday Times review of DEP drilling records reveals 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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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, Genetics, Leukemia

WPXI

Motorcycle safety stressed at press conference outside PNC Park

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Greater Pittsburgh Motorcycle Safety Council held a press conference on Sunday outside PNC Park to stress the importance of sharing the road with motorcycles.

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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, Home Gardening, Home, Life, Food, Recipes, Baked Goods, Bread

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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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, 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, Law, Employment / Labor Law

Sat May 18, 2013

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, Chester County, PA, Education Etc.

WPXI

Squirrel Hill Tunnel outbound lanes closed for second straight weekend

Drivers on the Parkway East will have to deal with delays once again as the outbound side of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel will remain closed until Monday.

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Fri May 17, 2013

MediLexicon

Infection And Sepsis-Related Mortality Hotspots Identified Across The US

In the past, researchers have sought to determine the geographic distribution of many life-threatening conditions, including stroke and cardiac arrest.

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WNEP-TV Moosic

Talkback Feedback: Construction Season

Anyone who drives the roads of northeastern and central Pennsylvania knows there is a little bit of construction out there these days.

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EurekAlert!

Study suggests new role for ECMO in treating patients with cardiac arrest and profound shock

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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Scientific American

Fracking Can Be Done Safely, but Will It Be?

FRACK WATER: A new review looks at the impacts of the fracking boom in Pennsylvania on the state's water.

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Chambersburg Public Opinion

I-81 to remain open while burned deck is demolished

The ramp has been closed since May 9 when a tractor trailer tanker crashed and its cargo of diesel fuel burned.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Nuclear gauge that fell off Chambersburg company's truck found in Maryland

The nuclear gauge that fell off a truck on Interstate 81 earlier this month has turned up undamaged in Maryland, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced today.

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O-R Online

Giving up billions to the gas industry

Facts are facts. That seems fairly simple, unless the subject at hand is taxation of Marcellus Shale drilling.

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