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Posted on: Friday, May 31, 2013 - 4:13am
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- Fire destroyed the library of a northeastern Pennsylvania elementary school. It happened early Thursday at St. Nicholas Elementary School in Wilkes-Barre. A nun... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 12:30pm
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) -- A central Pennsylvania town is weighing whether to lift a longstanding ban on food carts. Carlisle's borough code prohibits mobile food carts and trucks, except... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 4:27am
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- The family of the late Penn State coach Joe Paterno -- along with several university trustees, former players and others connected to the school -- plan to sue... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 4:19am
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Police arrested a Disneyland employee on suspicion of putting a so-called dry ice bomb in a theme park trash can where it exploded, authorities said Wednesday. No... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 4:16am
ALGONAC, Mich. (AP) -- A long-distance swimmer plans to swim 22 miles across Lake St. Clair this summer while hauling dinghies filled with 2,000 pounds of bricks. Jim Dreyer has made... READ MORE »

Posted on: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 4:24am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A former police officer being sought in a central Pennsylvania shooting was shot and killed during a confrontation with law enforcement officers at a Philadelphia-area... READ MORE »

Posted on: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 4:21am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania state police investigated crashes that killed 13 people and injured 245 over the long Memorial Day weekend. The number of fatalities matched last year'... READ MORE »

Posted on: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 4:13am
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- It's hardly a boom, but the population of six major Pennsylvania cities increased modestly between 2010 and 2012, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Last... READ MORE »

Posted on: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 6:04pm
LINWOOD, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities in suburban Philadelphia are investigating a fatal accident involving a school bus. WPVI-TV says a car slammed into the back of the bus shortly after 3 p.m... READ MORE »

Posted on: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 1:56pm
BEIJING (AP) -- A newborn's cries from a public restroom in a residential building in eastern China led a tenant to a startling discovery: a baby boy trapped in a sewage pipe beneath a... READ MORE »

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