News of Pennsylvania
Friday, July 3
PITTSBURGH, July 3 (UPI) -- Co-workers Friday praised infomercial pitchman Billy Mays as he was buried in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Pa.
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News of PennsylvaniaFriday, July 3PITTSBURGH, July 3 (UPI) -- Co-workers Friday praised infomercial pitchman Billy Mays as he was buried in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Pa. |
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| Thursday, July 2UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., July 2 (UPI) -- Consuming the recommended servings of dairy foods daily is a convenient and affordable way to get key nutrients, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Wednesday, July 1STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists studying how some human DNA mutations are involved in inherited diseases say their findings may affect the way genetic counseling is offered. |
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| Monday, June 29PITTSBURGH, June 29 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created a new algorithm that reveals how genetic networks in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, evolve. |
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| Thursday, June 25PITTSBURGH, June 25 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have developed a fluorescent substance that can detect harmful ozone molecules in the air as well as in the body. |
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| Tuesday, June 23PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (UPI) -- A University of Pennsylvania-led study has measured the cellular physical forces generated by individual cells during tissue development. PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., says he plans a hearing on the prostate cancer treatment program at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center. PITTSBURGH, June 23 (UPI) -- Frequent U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader says Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett should return $15,900 in campaign contributions. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 23 (UPI) -- U.S. and British scientists have determined nickel might be a useful isotopic marker to trace the origins of single cell organisms that produce methane. |
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| Monday, June 22PITTSBURGH, June 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests humans are more likely related to orangutans and not chimpanzees, as is commonly proposed. |
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| Thursday, June 18MONROEVILLE, Pa., June 18 (UPI) -- A 25-year-old Army National Guard sergeant helped with the birth of his daughter in Monroeville, Pa., despite being overseas in Iraq, his wife says. |
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| Wednesday, June 17PHILADELPHIA, June 17 (UPI) -- A medical device-maker and four executives were indicted Wednesday on charges of conducting unauthorized clinical trials, the U.S. Justice Department said. PHILADELPHIA, June 17 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers linked crowded emergency rooms to greater rates of complication in heart attack patients. |
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| Tuesday, June 16HARRISBURG, Pa., June 16 (UPI) -- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says stores and restaurants with licenses allowing beer to be consumed on the premises cannot limit sales to take out. |
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| Monday, June 15PHILADELPHIA, June 15 (UPI) -- Low-fat diet helps genetically predisposed animals avoid liver cancer, U.S. researchers found. PHILADELPHIA, June 15 (UPI) -- Flu sufferers, especially children, are at risk of potentially deadly bacterial infections, a top doctor at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia says. |
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| Saturday, June 13READING, Pa., June 13 (UPI) -- TV footage of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" shows the U.S. TV series' stars, Jon and Kate Gosselin, were not together for their 10th wedding anniversary. |
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| Thursday, June 11PHILADELPHIA, June 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have formed interconnected carbon nanostructures on graphene substrates in a study that might lead to new carbon-based devices. PHILADELPHIA -- Two men with arrest records face homicide charges in the deaths of three small children and a woman mowed down by a car driven one of them while fleeing a robbery, officials say. |
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| Wednesday, June 10STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 10 (UPI) -- Two U.S. universities have created a Web site that offers easy access to the latest knowledge about the origin of species on Earth. |
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| Tuesday, June 9PITTSBURGH, June 9 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they've determined there's no difference in mortality among certain patients with type 2 diabetes and stable heart disease. |
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| Sunday, June 7PHILADELPHIA, June 7 (UPI) -- A young hawk having a hard time making its first flight in Philadelphia was rescued by a wildlife expert before it hurt itself, witnesses said. PITTSBURGH, June 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., says he feels "comfortable" with Democrats after switching from the Republican Party this year. |
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| Friday, June 5PITTSBURGH, June 5 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania woman has filed a patent infringement suit against Victoria's Secret, saying the company copied her "multilayer uplift bra." |
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| Thursday, June 4PHILADELPHIA, June 4 (UPI) -- More than 17 million U.S. children live more than one hour away from trauma care, researchers calculated. PHILADELPHIA, June 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created a line of genetically engineered mice that experience seizures similar to infantile spasms so that new treatments can be tested. |
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| Wednesday, June 3PITTSBURGH -- Nobody would come out and say Pavel Datsyuk will definitely play in Game 4, but ask yourself: If he isn't going to play, would the Red Wings have asked him to perform a comedy routine for the media? |
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| Tuesday, June 2PHILADELPHIA, June 2 (UPI) -- Thousands of people strip searched after being arrested in Philadelphia for misdemeanors or traffic offenses will get $600 to $900 each, officials say. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 2 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have created a digital library and search engine that now holds more than 1 million journal articles and can be easily accessed by anyone. |
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| Monday, June 1CORAOPOLIS, Pa., June 1 (UPI) -- Thirty-six companies allegedly responsible for soil and groundwater contamination at a Pennsylvania Superfund site agreed to clean it, a federal agency said. PITTSBURGH, June 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered a new combination therapy that can help treat advanced head and neck cancers. |
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| Sunday, May 31WERNERSVILLE, Pa., May 31 (UPI) -- Residents of Berks County, Pa., say they are split regarding the local filming of the TLC program "Jon & Kate Plus 8." |
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| Thursday, May 28PHILADELPHIA -- Brett Myers says he needs surgery on his ailing right hip. The question is: Should he have an operation that could jeopardize his season now, or wait until the off-season? YARDLEY, Pa., May 28 (UPI) -- Intoxication is not always obvious, experts at an independently-owned U.S. consulting firm say. |
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| Wednesday, May 27FOGELSVILLE, Pa. -- When Joe Paterno sits in front of his television in early December, he'll hear a commentator talk about the quarterbacks in the Big 12, or the powerful teams in the Southeastern Conference, as they prepare for their conference championship games. |
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| Tuesday, May 26PHILADELPHIA, May 26 (UPI) -- Retail medical clinics were expected to help meet medical needs of the uninsured, but many are in more advantaged neighborhoods, U.S. researchers said. PHILADELPHIA, May 26 (UPI) -- Many people misjudge their actual degree of cancer risk and as a result their true need for prevention, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Sunday, May 24PITTSBURGH, May 24 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh say they have linked a common female infection, bacterial vaginosis, to vitamin D deficiency. |
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| Saturday, May 23PHILADELPHIA, May 23 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have linked low oxygen levels in prostate tumors to cancer recurrence. |
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| Thursday, May 21PHILADELPHIA, May 21 (UPI) -- Police in Pennsylvania said a 39-year-old man is in custody for allegedly stalking an ex-girlfriend through thousands of text and voicemail messages. |
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| Wednesday, May 20PHILADELPHIA, May 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. research team says it may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective human immunodeficiency virus vaccine. PITTSBURGH, May 20 (UPI) -- Carbon tetrachloride is present worldwide in elevated levels thanks in part to society's former use of the probable human carcinogen, U.S. scientists say. PITTSBURGH, May 20 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has won the Democratic Party mayoral primary, election returns indicated, giving him an inside track to gain a full term. WASHINGTON, Pa., May 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., still is beloved in his home district south of Pittsburgh despite ethics allegations he's facing in Washington, analysts say. |
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| Monday, May 18MARCUS HOOK, Pa., May 18 (UPI) -- A fire at Sunoco's refinery at Marcus Hook, Pa., was contained Monday, a company spokesman said. |
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| Sunday, May 17PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (UPI) -- A woman who owned and operated a Philadelphia-area daycare center found in 2006 to be contaminated with mercury has disappeared, officials say. |
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| Thursday, May 14HARRISBURG, Pa., May 14 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia judge was stupid to run a real estate business out of his chambers, his lawyer told the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline. PITTSBURGH, May 14 (UPI) -- Pregnant women and newborns are at greatest risk in a flu epidemic, but U.S. researchers question whether there are plans for their priority treatment. PHILADELPHIA, May 14 (UPI) -- Singer Sheryl Crow has been booked to headline a July 4 concert in Philadelphia as part of the Sunoco Welcome America! festival, organizers said Thursday. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 14 (UPI) -- U.S. private meteorologists say they expect fewer hurricanes this year, but warn the East Coast could still be at risk of a major storm landfall. |
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| Tuesday, May 12LOS ANGELES, May 12 (UPI) -- Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams have joined the cast of the drama, "Blue Valentine," currently filming in New York and Pennsylvania. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., May 12 (UPI) -- A study of Waorani men in the Amazon basin found more aggressive men do not acquire more wives than milder men, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Monday, May 11STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created tunable fluidic micro lenses that can focus light at will while remaining stationary and can be fabricated on a chip. PHILADELPHIA, May 11 (UPI) -- A woman's poor self image can take a toll on her health but U.S. researchers say an extremely good body image can also take its toll on a woman's health. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., May 11 (UPI) -- Higher concentrations of melanin -- the color pigment in skin and hair -- may indicate increased susceptibility to nicotine dependence, U.S. researchers say. |
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| Friday, May 8PHILADELPHIA, May 8 (UPI) -- Many of life's aches and pains can be due to poor posture, a U.S. physical therapist says. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 8 (UPI) -- Dry conditions that have fed recent wildfires in Southern California are likely to continue for at least the next two decades, a meteorologist said Friday. |
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| Thursday, May 7PITTSBURGH, May 7 (UPI) -- Seven people affiliated with the activist group ACORN were charged Thursday in western Pennsylvania with voter registration fraud, officials said. PHILADELPHIA, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have linked a bio-marker in tissue samples to breast cancer patient outcomes. |
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| Tuesday, May 5PHILADELPHIA, May 5 (UPI) -- Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia say they have discovered clues to why influenza is more severe in some victims than others. |
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| Monday, May 4STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 4 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led international team of scientists says it has determined the structure of chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that harvest light energy. |
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| Saturday, May 2PHILADELPHIA -- Imagine how good the Mets could be without Oliver Perez in the rotation. Jerry Manuel is thinking about it. So is Omar Minaya. WERNERSVILLE, Pa., May 2 (UPI) -- Jon Gosselin, star of the reality TV series "Jon & Kate Plus 8," was not cheating on his wife at a Pennsylvania bar, a bouncer says. HAZLETON, Pa., May 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., says switching from the Republican to Democratic Party should give him a better chance of extending his political career. SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa., May 2 (UPI) -- Twenty-two Slippery Rock, Pa., University students who visited Mexico say they will hold their own graduation ceremony after being banned from the official one. |
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| Thursday, April 30NORRISTOWN, Pa., April 30 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia-area woman whose husband is in prison for trying to kill her says he is using the legal system against her by dragging out their divorce. |
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| Wednesday, April 29WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- Some Republican senators say they are taking up an offer by Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to return political contributions since he changed parties. PHILADELPHIA -- Three of the five men convicted of plotting a terrorist attack on Fort Dix were sentenced to life in prison Tuesday, and two of them were given an additional 30 years for gun charges. |
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| Monday, April 27PHILADELPHIA, April 27 (UPI) -- Death from preventable or treatable conditions accounted for nearly 70 percent of the black-white mortality difference from 1980-2005, U.S. researchers said. PHILADELPHIA, April 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found mice lacking a receptor for one type of prostaglandins have lower blood pressure and less atherosclerosis than other mice. PITTSBURGH, April 27 (UPI) -- Tough measures to prevent U.S. food stamp fraud are keeping legitimate prospective recipients out of the program, advocates say. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 27 (UPI) -- With swine flu being reported in the United States, one might wonder whether weather has any part in spreading the flu -- and the answer is maybe PHILADELPHIA, April 27 (UPI) -- U.S. cancer researchers say they've determined outcomes of robot-assisted kidney cancer surgery are more beneficial to patients than open surgery. |
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| Saturday, April 25CENTREVILLE, Md., April 25 (UPI) -- A young black bear who made his way from New Jersey to the Maryland shore has been trapped and relocated near Pennsylvania, wildlife officials said. |
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| Friday, April 24PITTSBURGH, April 24 (UPI) -- A 24-million-year-old fossil thought to be a "missing link" in evolution has been discovered in northern Canada, researchers said. |
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| Wednesday, April 22BELLEFONTE, Pa., April 22 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania State University linebacker Navorro Bowman will serve a year of probation for smoking marijuana, a judge said Wednesday. |
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| Tuesday, April 21PITTSBURGH, April 21 (UPI) -- The longer women breastfeed, the lower their risk of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular disease, University of Pittsburgh researchers said. |
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| Monday, April 20PITTSBURGH, April 20 (UPI) -- An investigation tracking the source of a Pennsylvania measles outbreak to a child visiting from India came as no surprise, health officials say. |
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| Sunday, April 19PHILADELPHIA -- "Sweet Home Alabama" may be Jared Ross' unofficial theme song, but the Flyers' rookie center looked pretty comfortable in his adopted home Sunday afternoon. PITTSBURGH, April 19 (UPI) -- Hundreds of western Pennsylvania residents who alleged radiation exposure are entitled to $52.2 million in damages from Babcock & Wilcox Co., a judge says. PHILADELPHIA, April 19 (UPI) -- The Civil War Museum of Philadelphia is in limbo after Pennsylvania officials reneged on promised capital funding, an official says. |
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| Thursday, April 16STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 16 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a study of sedimentary rocks created more than 2.4 billion years ago suggests the Earth had an early, oxygen-rich atmosphere. PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they've discovered a protein called Mcl-1 that plays a critical role in allowing melanoma cells to metastasize. PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've determined the red panda is the first non-primate mammal to display a liking for the artificial sweetener aspartame. PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (UPI) -- The Franklin in Philadelphia says a traveling interactive exhibition showcasing the "Star Trek" legacy will stop at the museum next month. |
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| Wednesday, April 15HARRISBURG, Pa., April 15 (UPI) -- A conservative former congressman announced his challenge Wednesday to one of the last Republican moderates in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA, April 15 (UPI) -- U.S. and British scientists say they've identified a class of drugs that may enhance the effectiveness of medications used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia. |
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| Tuesday, April 14STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 14 (UPI) -- U.S. entomologists say a careful choice of nitrogen-fixing bacteria might provide soybean farmers protection against an invasion of soybean aphids. |
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| Friday, April 10PITTSBURGH, April 10 (UPI) -- Stem cell-based therapies might be an effective way to treat human corneal blindness and vision impairment due to scarring, U.S. researchers said. PHILADELPHIA, April 9 (UPI) -- It will cost $4.3 million to repair water damage in the bell tower in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, National Park Service officials said Thursday. |
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| Thursday, April 9STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 9 (UPI) -- U.S. geoscientists say the 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake might point to previously unknown increased earthquake and tsunami risks. PHILADELPHIA, April 9 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led study that shows all of Earth's far infrared background comes from distant galaxies has essentially solved the question of the radiation's origin. |
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| Wednesday, April 8PHILADELPHIA, April 8 (UPI) -- It is a lot more difficult to mask underarm odor from women's noses than men's noses, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Tuesday, April 7LOCKPORT, N.Y., April 7 (UPI) -- Western New York's First Niagara Financial Group extended its reach into Pennsylvania Tuesday, buying 57 PNC branches for $54.6 million. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 7 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led study suggests insecticides that would kill just older mosquitoes would be a better way of controlling malaria. |
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| Monday, April 6PHILADELPHIA, April 6 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers seek to determine if women can reduce breast cancer risk via regular workouts. |
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| Friday, April 3STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 2 (UPI) -- U.S. bioengineers say excess amounts of a naturally fluorescent molecule -- NADH -- might serve as a natural biomarker for cancer. PITTSBURGH, April 2 (UPI) -- Lead concentrations in blood are associated with an increased risk of death from coronary heart diseases, researchers said after a study of 533 U.S. women. |
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| Thursday, April 2PHILADELPHIA, April 2 (UPI) -- Police in Philadelphia have arrested a man accused of stalking actor Jamie Foxx and trying to break into his hotel room several times, sources told CBS 3 TV. PITTSBURGH, April 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Steel said it was putting a $1 billion plant upgrade in Clairton, Pa., on hold indefinitely due to the economic slowdown. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 2 (UPI) -- U.S. bioengineers say excess amounts of a naturally fluorescent molecule -- NADA -- might serve as a natural biomarker for cancer. PITTSBURGH, April 1 (UPI) -- A New York lawyer is pushing for a federal law that would make it a misdemeanor for teenagers to send sexual pictures via cell phone. |
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| Wednesday, April 1STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. evolutionary biologist says chimpanzees, which are several times stronger than humans, gain strength from their brains, as well as their muscles. UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 1 (UPI) -- A woman in Washington Township, Pa., has filed a lawsuit against McDonald's alleging that an 11-year-old boy was burned by coffee from a fast-food restaurant. |
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| Tuesday, March 31PHILADELPHIA, March 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows cardiac patients who suffered an allergic reaction to Plavix were treated successfully to alleviate the reaction and kept on using the drug. PHILADELPHIA, March 31 (UPI) -- U.S. biologists have finished a study started in 1915, determining snail shells can significantly increase in size during a relatively short period of time. |
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| Monday, March 30STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 30 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says hundreds of natural-selection molecular studies might be incorrect due to the use of flawed statistical methods. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 30 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered microbes can directly convert carbon dioxide and water to methane without generating hydrogen. |
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| Thursday, March 26PHILADELPHIA, March 26 (UPI) -- A team of U.S. biochemists say they have created a completely new type of protein that can transport oxygen similar to human neuroglobin. |
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| Tuesday, March 24STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have found a way to control the geometry and stability of a new family of self-assembled-monolayer materials called carboranes. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 24 (UPI) -- Education is helping slow the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa after having the opposite effect during the early stages of the pandemic, researchers said. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. sociologist says increased schooling across sub-Saharan Africa might be lowering the number of new HIV infections among younger adults. |
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| Monday, March 23STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they are studying motor proteins as possible nanoscale machines for drug delivery inside the body's cells. |
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| Saturday, March 21BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 21 (UPI) -- Residents of the Wind Gap area in eastern Pennsylvania were able to return to their homes Saturday afternoon, 13 hours after a truck carrying acid overturned. BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 21 (UPI) -- Three communities in eastern Pennsylvania were evacuated Saturday after a truck carrying 33,000 pounds of hydrofluoric acid overturned, officials said. |
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| Friday, March 20PITTSBURGH, March 20 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are testing a vaccine to prevent colon cancer in those already at high risk for the disease. |
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| Thursday, March 19PHILADELPHIA, March 19 (UPI) -- Children have a biological basis to like sweets, which is related to children's high growth rate, U.S. researchers said. PITTSBURGH, March 19 (UPI) -- A 7,000-pound, nearly 11-foot-tall bronze figure of late children's TV star Fred Rogers has arrived in Pittsburgh, Family Communications Inc. said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, March 18PHILADELPHIA, March 18 (UPI) -- Twenty-five percent of Americans are more than one hour from a U.S. hospital that's most prepared for a time-sensitive medical emergency, U.S. researchers say. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 18 (UPI) -- U.S. climatologists say they've determined the West Antarctic ice sheet changes rapidly over the eons, most influenced by ocean temperatures. PHILADELPHIA, March 18 (UPI) -- U.S. pathologists say they have developed a biomarker diagnostic test that can confirm or rule out Alzheimer's disease. PHILADELPHIA, March 18 (UPI) -- Some of U.S. President Barack Obama's black supporters are expressing concern about his post-racial approach to governance, observers say. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 18 (UPI) -- One of the first 2009 Atlantic hurricane season forecasts is calling for fewer named storms than during recent years, as well as fewer U.S. landfalls. |
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| Tuesday, March 17PHILADELPHIA, March 17 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they have identified a genetic master switch that might prevent cancer cells from metastasizing. |
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| Wednesday, March 11STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created a system to gauge customer satisfaction with search engine results, allowing businesses to optimize their marketing. |
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| Tuesday, March 10DANVILLE, Pa., March 10 (UPI) -- A physician-led healthcare system in Pennsylvania had fewer latex-related illness claims after switching to powder-free latex gloves. |
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| Monday, March 9PHILADELPHIA, March 9 (UPI) -- Many doctors don't offer emergency contraception pills to adolescents during emergency department visits because of misinformation, U.S. researchers said. PHILADELPHIA, March 9 (UPI) -- U.S. radiologists say they have developed a new lung cancer treatment that avoids conventional radiation regimens or surgical procedures. |
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| Sunday, March 8PITTSBURGH, March 8 (UPI) -- Former workers at a chemical lab in Pennsylvania might be able to take advantage of a government compensation plan for exposure victims, officials said. |
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| Saturday, March 7PHILADELPHIA, March 7 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia Gas Works employee died Friday evening in a police shooting that appears to have been a case of what is often called "suicide by cop." |
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| Thursday, March 5PHILADELPHIA, March 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. study has identified the source of immature cells that spur heterotopic ossification -- misplaced bone growth. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 5 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say dual catalysts might turn carbon dioxide and water vapor into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power. |
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| Wednesday, March 4PHILADELPHIA, March 4 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they have successfully demonstrated a non-invasive optical device that monitors cerebral blood flow in stroke patients. |
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| Monday, February 16STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. entomologist says climate change might alter malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases since global warming can affect parasite development. |
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| Sunday, February 15PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The University of Pennsylvania has warned its students that three of their peers have been diagnosed with meningitis, a school spokeswoman says. |
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| Thursday, February 5PHILADELPHIA -- Who knew that when Elton Brand came crashing to the hardwood on Dec. 17, his season would crash and burn as well? |
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| Wednesday, January 28HERSHEY, Pa., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say high levels of certain spinal fluid proteins may signal the onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. |
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| Tuesday, January 27Celebrated author John Updike died of lung cancer Tuesday in |
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| Friday, January 23NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A lethal condition that has been killing bats in New York for two years has spread into New Jersey and Pennsylvania, wildlife authorities said Friday. |
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| Thursday, January 22JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- FBI agents Thursday raided the Pennsylvania offices of a defense contractor that has received millions of dollars in contracts through Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Two Pennsylvania insurance companies, Highmark Inc. and Independence Blue Cross, are blaming state regulators for their decision to call off a planned merger. |
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| Tuesday, January 20STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Scientists say they've discovered U.S. fence lizards in the southeastern United States are evolving to avoid potentially fatal attacks by fire ants. |
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| Sunday, January 18Jan. 18--For Rep. Tim Holden, today is the best of both worlds: He can root for two local teams. But two weeks from now, if both Pennsylvania teams are playing in the Super Bowl, he won't hesitate to support the team closest to home. SHANKSVILLE, Pa., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A quarry company says it has agreed to sell 274 acres that will become the center of the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. |
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| Thursday, January 15PITTSBURGH, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A man found guilty of murder in western Pennsylvania based on a DNA analysis of deer meat is seeking a new trial. WEST CHESTER, Pa., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. television personality Ellen DeGeneres is scheduled to introduce her line of holistic pet care products on QVC, the TV shopping channel said. |
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| Tuesday, January 13Plaxico Burress is expected to be in a Pennsylvania courtroom on Wednesday, the defendant in a civil trial to determine how much the Giants wide receiver owes a car dealer for a damaged 2004 Chevrolet Avalanche he leased under unique terms more than two years ago. The truck wound up damaged and impounded by the New York Police Department, according to the complaint by the car dealer. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists who sequenced woolly mammoth DNA, opening the prospect of regenerating the extinct species, say they've now sequenced a Tasmanian Tiger's DNA. |
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| Monday, January 12LATROBE, Pa., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. tool maker Kennametal Inc. said it would eliminate approximately 1,200 positions in 2009 as it revised its second fiscal quarter earnings estimate. |
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| Thursday, January 8PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has fined the operator of the Peach Bottom nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, where guards were filmed sleeping on duty. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Chris Matthews, the MSNBC host, has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania next year, a network spokesman says. |
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| Wednesday, January 7ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Walt Disney World has settled a prolonged legal battle with a Pennsylvania company that designed one of its more controversial rides, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, January 6PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Verizon executive testified that former Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo tried to shake him down for $50 million to avoid breaking up the company. |
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| Friday, January 2DUNMORE, Pa., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A family history of prostate cancer has no impact on treatment outcomes of patients treated with brachytherapy, or seed implants, a U.S. researcher said. |
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| Tuesday, December 30HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania will begin enforcing a federal clean-air rule to cut emissions of smog-forming pollutants generated by power plants, officials said. |
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| Sunday, December 28SHANKSVILLE, Pa., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Disputes have plagued efforts to turn the rural Pennsylvania crash site of hijacked Sept. 11, 2001, United Flight 93 into a memorial, observers say. |
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| Thursday, December 25PITTSBURGH, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Police in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, have accused five hospital staff members of physically and verbally abusing a 94-year old Alzheimer's patient. |
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| Wednesday, December 24PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A patient-safety research group says alarm hazards, needle sticks and surgical fires are among the top five technology hazards in hospitals. |
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| Tuesday, December 23GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Sports drinks with a carbohydrate-protein mix are better than carb-only drinks in aiding cyclists' recovery from exercise, U.S. and Canadian researchers said. |
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| Monday, December 22HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Activists in Pennsylvania say they're pressing ahead with a lawsuit to ban touch-screen voting machines in the state's 67 counties. |
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| Wednesday, December 17CARLISLE, Pa., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush laid out his case Wednesday that actions his administration took during the past seven years kept America safe from terrorists. |
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| Sunday, December 14PHILADELPHIA -- In early November, before this 76ers season was two weeks old, general manager Ed Stefanski stood on the practice floor at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and said he needed to see a "trend" before he would consider change. |
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| Tuesday, December 9STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. university researchers say they've uncovered clues from a virus quirk that may lead to new ways to kill E. coli bacteria, which can be fatal to humans. |
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| Monday, December 1STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created a computer program to help predict when icebergs will calve from ice sheets. |
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| Friday, November 28UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Increasing the production of naturally occurring proteins that contain selenium in human blood cells slows the AIDS virus, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Thursday, November 27UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Obesity gradually numbs the taste sensation in rats to sweet foods and drives them to consume larger and ever-sweeter meals, U.S. researchers said. WILLISTOWN, Pa., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A wild African cat known as a serval was shot and killed this week on a farm 20 miles from Philadelphia. |
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| Wednesday, November 26HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Several Democrats, including one political commentator, are considering challenging Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in the 2010 election, party officials said. ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Two brothers survived an explosion Tuesday in eastern Pennsylvania that turned a house into a pile of splintered wood and debris. |
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| Monday, November 24STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A new planet closely orbiting a red giant star was found by a team of astronomers from Penn State University and Nicolaus Copernicus University. |
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| Thursday, November 20PHILADELPHIA -- Chase Utley tried fiercely to conceal the severity of his right-hip injury throughout the Phillies' championship season. BETHLEHEM, Pa., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A ban on fast-food ads in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Wednesday, November 19STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- An international team led by a U.S. researcher has completed genome sequencing for an extinct animal, offering insight into its modern-day cousin. |
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| Thursday, November 13WEST CHESTER, Pa., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Multimedia retailer QVC Inc. said it laid off 160 employees and would phase out all but jewelry returns at a West Chester, Pa., distribution center. MILWAUKEE, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Harley Davidson brand loyalty runs deep, but even loyalty can't overcome economic realities, one Pennsylvania customer said. |
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| Wednesday, November 12STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says evidence that global warming is causing a worldwide decline of amphibians might not be as conclusive as previously thought. |
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| Wednesday, November 5SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Veteran U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., held on to his seat Tuesday, edging out a Republican mayor known as a foe of illegal immigration. |
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| Tuesday, November 4HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain's gamble on trying to wrest Pennsylvania's electoral votes from the Democrats didn't work Tuesday as the state went Sen. Barack Obama's way. |
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| Monday, November 3MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain ripped Democratic foe Barack Obama Monday, saying he would raise both taxes and spending. HAMDEN, Conn., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama leads in the swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania but is in a dead heat in Florida, a poll indicates. |
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| Sunday, November 2WALLINGFORD, Pa., Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain told supporters in Pennsylvania Sunday morning he senses a victory over Democratic rival Barack Obama. |
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| Saturday, November 1STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Supporters of Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain are focusing their hopes on an upset win in Pennsylvania, political analysts say. |
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| Thursday, October 30STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Weather should be nice for most of the United States on Election Day next Tuesday, meteorologists say. PHILADELPHIA -- This is the city where boos once rained down on Santa Claus. On Wednesday night, a local baseball team wearing Santa's colors -- red and white -- got cheered and cheered for delivering the biggest present of them all. |
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| Wednesday, October 29UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- While video conferencing has become a substitute for face-to-face meeting, it's not the same as being there, U.S. researchers said. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are stumping together Wednesday in the battleground states of Florida and Pennsylvania. |
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| Tuesday, October 28STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Detectives were going through video footage of a post-game riot at Penn State, looking for people who should face charges, police said. CHESTER, Pa., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Voters have one week until they can "turn the page" in U.S. politics, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday in Chester, Pa. |
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| Monday, October 27WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., is in a tight re-election race in southwestern Pennsylvania district after making controversial comments, observers say. |
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| Saturday, October 25LEHIGHTON, Pa., Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania animal rescuer says he is no longer able to care for more than 150 snakes, some of them venomous, abandoned by a dealer. |
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| Friday, October 24HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- With Election Day fast approaching, Republicans and the NAACP both are seeking legal backstops for voting problems in the state of Pennsylvania, officials say. |
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| Thursday, October 23HAMDEN, Conn., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain continues to trail Sen. Barack Obama in Ohio and Pennsylvania, while closing the gap in Florida, a poll released Thursday indicates. UNIONTOWN, Pa., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania man is suing for $1 million after county officials barred the church he founded from holding services on his property. |
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| Wednesday, October 22HERSHEY, Pa., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say blocking signals from a specific protein might help kill cells that cause a rare form of blood cancer. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Campaigners for Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain say that, despite numerous polls, they're competitive in Pennsylvania and need to win it. |
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| Tuesday, October 21BENSALEM, Pa., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, campaigning Tuesday in Bensalem, Pa., pounded on rival Barack Obama's tax policies. NORRISTOWN, Pa., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania lawsuit pitting a former Episcopal priest against his diocese may be the first U.S. case involving church discipline, experts say. |
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| Monday, October 20UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Hispanics from Mexico integrate consistently with all ethnic groups over generations in the United States, researchers said. NORRISTOWN, Pa., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania lawsuit pitting a former Episcopal priest against his archdiocese may be the first U.S. case involving church discipline, experts say. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors say they are gearing up to finally begin their corruption case against Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo after lengthy delays. |
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| Sunday, October 19PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The Philadelphia Inquirer, the largest newspaper in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama on Sunday. |
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| Friday, October 17Oct. 17--Beaver County was one of three Pennsylvania counties listed as potential violators of a new lead pollution standard set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday. |
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| Thursday, October 16STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have learned how to use light to control certain proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions. HERSHEY, Pa., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Resveratrol, a compound in red wine and grape juice, is also found in dark chocolate and cocoa, U.S. researchers say. |
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| Tuesday, October 14BLUE BELL, Pa., Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain Tuesday outlined his plans to protect pensions, help U.S. homeowners and put money in taxpayers' pockets. |
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| Monday, October 13SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton returned to their roots, taking their message to blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania. |
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| Sunday, October 12PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania will be a busy stage for presidential politics this week as John McCain makes what analysts see as a bold move to win the Keystone State. KARNS CITY, Pa., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Thousands of western Pennsylvania residents returned home Sunday after a dangerous chemical was released from a nearby industrial facility, officials said. |
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| Saturday, October 11JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin Saturday said Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is out of the mainstream on abortion. BENSALEM, Pa., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Local election officials say they're moving a polling place in Bensalem, Pa., to a compromise site after its last placement generated a federal lawsuit. PHILADELPHIA -- As statements go, the Phillies' Brett Myers certainly made a loud one Friday by throwing behind Manny Ramirez in the first inning. Myers later said it was a mistake -- yeah, whatever -- but he put the Dodgers on notice early in Game 2 of the NLCS: our house, our rules. |
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| Thursday, October 9STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- An international team of scientists studying the Soufriere Hills volcano in the Caribbean's Leeward Islands has found deep magma controls eruption cycles. |
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| Wednesday, October 8STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Two Penn State scientists have received a U.S. patent for a statistical program that might someday make it easier to search the Internet for photographs. PITTSBURGH, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A civil rights group is suing the western Pennsylvania county that includes Pittsburgh, claiming a new law keeps sex offenders from living almost anywhere. |
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| Monday, October 6HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The chairman of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania Monday called Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama "a terrorist's best friend." |
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| Friday, October 3EASTON, Pa., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- More than 20 Broadway stars have agreed to appear alongside young amateur performers at a Pennsylvania benefit called "Broadway for Obama," organizers said. BETHLEHEM, Pa., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers suggest that e-mail is the most deceptive form of workplace communication and people feel justified in lying when using e-mail. PHILADELPHIA -- If history and cruel fate conspire to make the Phillies long shots to win the World Series, know this: A parade down Broad Street before Halloween can't be much more improbable than what happened Thursday night at Citizens Bank Park. |
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| Wednesday, October 1PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies and the Brewers did a little time-traveling on Wednesday. The two teams jumped in the Wayback Machine, dialed up the middle of September, and played a fifth game of the previous series between them. HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- A group led by a Spanish toll road operator has jettisoned its $12.8 billion offer to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the governor's office said. HAMDEN, Conn., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Barack Obama gained ground in the three largest swing states, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, a poll released Wednesday indicates. SMITHFIELD, Pa., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Three calves have been found skinned on a western Pennsylvania farm. |
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| Monday, September 29ERIE, Pa., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Officials at an insurance company estimate that about one in every 100 U.S. drivers is likely to have a collision with a deer. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Optimistic candidates inspire hope in the electorate and try harder, particularly when faced with challenges, U.S. researchers suggest. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Inclusion of pistachios in a healthy diet beneficially affects cardiovascular disease risk factors in a dose-dependent manner, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Sunday, September 28STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A team of international researchers have identified a gene in rice that controls the size and weight of grains, Pennsylvania State University announced Sunday. |
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| Wednesday, September 24PITTSBURGH, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader may be on the Pennsylvania ballot, but he is not expected to have an influence on the race there, observers say. |
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| Tuesday, September 23SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The Board of Directors of The Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pa., says it has nominated magician David Blaine for its first Houdini Award. |
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| Monday, September 22PITTSBURGH, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Republican presidential hopeful John McCain Monday tried to woo Irish-American voters in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Older voters could decide the presidential race in Pennsylvania, political observers say. |
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| Wednesday, September 17SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The votes of U.S. Roman Catholics, once a reliable Democratic bloc, are up for grabs because of splits over candidates' stands on abortion, churchgoers say. |
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| Tuesday, September 16HERSHEY, Pa., Sept. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. cancer researchers say nanoparticles filled with a drug targeting two genes that trigger melanoma might offer a potential cure for the deadly disease. |
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| Monday, September 15PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The corruption trial of Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo was postponed after U.S. District Court Judge William Yohn Jr. was hospitalized, officials said. |
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| Thursday, September 11HAMDEN, Conn., Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Republican presidential nominee John McCain has gained support in Florida and Pennsylvania, a poll indicates. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army might be ignoring recommendations from two major medical associations in continuing to use physicians to interrogate detainees, experts said. |
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| Monday, September 8UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Women who exercise and are more positive about their changing shapes are less depressed both during and after pregnancy, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Friday, September 5DURYEA, Pa., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama took his message on the economy to a specialty glass plant in Pennsylvania Friday. |
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| Thursday, September 4YORK, Pa., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama Thursday rebutted ridicule by top Republicans that his resume includes working as a community organizer in Chicago. YORK, Pa., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama acknowledged in an interview with Fox News Channel the surge in Iraq has been a success. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- John McCain knows America and the world's security and prosperity are linked, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge told Republican delegates in St. Paul, Minn. |
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| Tuesday, September 2STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. climate scientists say the Northern Hemisphere's surface temperatures were higher during the past decade than at any time during the last 1,300 years. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a computational tool that might lead to new understandings of how life began on Earth. |
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| Monday, September 1ALIQUIPPA, Pa., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The arrest of a gun-carrying man near a Pennsylvania event for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was unfair, a gun rights group alleges. TOLEDO, Ohio, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden was in Pennsylvania Monday for a Labor Day parade and to connect with voters in his hometown of Scranton. |
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| Saturday, August 30BEAVER, Pa., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his running mate, Joseph Biden, kicked off their campaign in a rust-belt Pennsylvania town. |
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| Friday, August 29UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- People tend to be more sympathetic to people suffering from the same misfortune as a friend, U.S. researchers said. LAKEVILLE, Pa., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Nearly 30 percent of U.S. men think sex is better after their football team wins and 10 percent say they have bad sex after a loss, a survey indicates. |
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| Thursday, August 28STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. and Japanese scientists say they've created ceramic dishware that will keep food heated by a microwave oven hotter for longer periods of time. |
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| Wednesday, August 27WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain's choice of running mate will hit the ground running this weekend with rallies in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri, say campaign insiders. PHILADELPHIA -- It started a year ago, when the Phillies were beginning their late-season surge to the National League East title. |
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| Tuesday, August 26HAMDEN, Conn., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in Pennsylvania and is tied with him in Ohio, a poll indicates. |
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| Monday, August 18PITTSBURGH -- As the Mets filed out of the clubhouse at PNC Park after Monday's 5-2 loss to the Pirates, words such as "successful" and "pleased" and phrases such as "we'll take that" and "not too shabby" were heard about the road trip that concluded with a 6-1 record and 1 1/2-game lead over the Phillies in the NL East. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've determined the impact of global warming in the Arctic may differ from computer predictions because of grazing animals. |
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| Saturday, August 16HERSHEY, Pa., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Hershey Co. is giving chocolate lovers some not-so-sweet news, saying it is raising its retail candy bar prices by 11 percent to cover surging costs. |
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| Friday, August 15UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers suggest that when intimacy ebbs, doubts about the relationship increase. |
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| Wednesday, August 13PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A poll in the U.S. presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania indicates a slim, five-point lead for likely Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. |
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| Tuesday, August 12PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- The parents of a girl whose mother allegedly starved her to death are suing the state of Pennsylvania and city of Philadelphia. ERIE, Pa., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Speculation is rife that former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge has emerged as a top Republican vice presidential candidate, political analysts say. |
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| Sunday, August 10GETTYSBURG, Pa., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- One of the last living "witness trees" to the decisive Civil War battle in Gettysburg, Pa., has been felled by a storm, National Park Service officials say. |
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| Saturday, August 9HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Barack Obama, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, has opened 29 campaign offices in Pennsylvania, a state both parties are gunning for. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The National Park Service introduced rules to allow the public on 70 percent of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington during U.S. presidential inaugurations. |
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| Friday, August 8ALTOONA, Pa., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say the New Zealand mud snail, long a problem in western states, has spread across four U.S. Great Lakes and is altering the lakes' ecology. |
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| Thursday, August 7WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has sent a $5,000 gift to a memorial for terrorism victims in western Pennsylvania. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say refrigerators and other cooling devices might one day operate without compressors thanks to some ferroelectric polymers. PHILADELPHIA -- Charlie Manuel scanned the box score in front of him Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park and liked what he saw. |
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| Saturday, August 2BRISTOL, Pa., Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A disgruntled former employee at a Bristol, Pa., book warehouse said he killed two workers there because he was out of money, a prosecutor said Saturday. |
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| Thursday, July 31PITTSBURGH, July 31 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain has gained support in Pennsylvania, a poll indicates. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 31 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've used computed tomography to virtually glue newly found skull fragments of an extinct giant lemur into a partial skull. PITTSBURGH, July 30 (UPI) -- PPG Industries Inc. is spinning off its auto glass and services division, giving it the name Pittsburgh Glass Works, the Pittsburgh company said. |
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| Tuesday, July 29PITTSBURGH, July 29 (UPI) -- Overweight or obese women may need 55 minutes of exercise a day five days weekly to sustain a weight loss of 10 percent over two years, U.S. researchers say. |
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| Sunday, July 27NEW YORK, July 27 (UPI) -- Humane Society officials have accused a New York vendor of selling pigeons that end up at Pennsylvania gun clubs, where they are killed in shooting contests. |
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| Thursday, July 24PHILADELPHIA, July 24 (UPI) -- A poll indicates that Sen. Barack Obama leads Sen. John McCain 66 percent to 23 percent in the U.S. presidential race among registered Hispanic voters. |
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| Wednesday, July 23PITTSBURGH, July 23 (UPI) -- The director of a Pittsburgh health complex is distributing an advisory to employees on avoiding possible health risks associated with cell phone use. HARRISBURG, Pa., July 23 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania would track movements of sex offenders using global positioning system technology under a new proposal. |
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| Monday, July 21STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 21 (UPI) -- This year's devastating earthquake in China may provide lessons on reading an area's topography to predict a possible hazard, U.S. geologists said. PHILADELPHIA, July 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. appeals court Monday threw out a fine against CBS for Janet Jackson's live nipple flash during half-time at the 2004 Super Bowl in Houston. |
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| Friday, July 18CHELTENHAM, Pa., July 18 (UPI) -- Primary care doctors don't always inform patients that being physically active reduces the risk of colon cancer, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Wednesday, July 16STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 16 (UPI) -- People anxious for the microwave to ding could speed up the cooking with baking dishes made from an exotic ceramic material, a U.S. researcher says. |
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| Monday, July 14PHILADELPHIA, July 14 (UPI) -- The Wentworth Gallery in Philadelphia has announced plans for an art exhibition of work by artist and rock icon Paul Stanley. |
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| Friday, July 11PHILADELPHIA, July 11 (UPI) -- Same-sex marriage is emerging once again as a divisive issue for the U.S. electorate, the Pew Research Center reports. PITTSBURGH, July 11 (UPI) -- Female soccer players and players with a previous concussion recuperate differently than males or players who never had a concussion, U.S. researchers say. |
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| Thursday, July 10PHILADELPHIA, July 9 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania researchers say an alternative, or naturopathic, method to lower cholesterol can be as effective as cholesterol-reducing medications. |
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| Wednesday, July 9PITTSBURGH, July 9 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania state police say a trucker used a stolen E-ZPass device to dodge $575,000 in turnpike tolls in the past two years. |
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| Tuesday, July 8WILKES-BARRE, Pa., July 8 (UPI) -- A pre-trial hearing for two accused killers in Pennsylvania ended Tuesday when a lawyer for one man revealed a conflict of interest. PITTSBURGH, July 8 (UPI) -- Alterations in a molecular brain pathway activated by marijuana may contribute to the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Monday, July 7PITTSBURGH, July 7 (UPI) -- The King Kahuna wasn't ruling as usual at Kennywood Monday -- the Pittsburgh amusement park says the ride is closed after a malfunction trapped 20 riders. PHILADELPHIA, July 7 (UPI) -- U.S. and Israeli medical researchers say they have discovered one of the factors involved in mitosis -- the ability of cells to daily divide and replicate. PHILADELPHIA, July 7 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say a gene region known to play a role in some varieties of adult rheumatoid arthritis is also present in all types of juvenile arthritis. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 7 (UPI) -- The May 12 earthquake in China's Sichuan province, the region's first in recorded history, has U.S. geologists studying it with an eye to the future. DUBOIS, Pa., July 5 (UPI) -- A 16-year-old Pennsylvania girl has invented magnetic locker wallpaper that can be used to decorate teenagers' school lockers, her father says. NEW YORK, July 6 (UPI) -- The Rev. Timothy Wright, a noted gospel singer, has been critically injured in a Pennsylvania car crash that claimed his wife's life, authorities say. PHILADELPHIA, July 6 (UPI) -- Dachshunds are a surprisingly aggressive breed of dog, as one in five of the dogs have tried to bite a stranger, U.S. research indicates. PHILADELPHIA, July 4 (UPI) -- Filmmaker Steven Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation reportedly has given $1 million to the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. |
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| Friday, July 4PHILADELPHIA, July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've used tiny proteins called zinc fingers to modify T-cell receptor genes in a study that may lead to a new type of AIDS treatment. PHILADELPHIA, July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've developed a potential way to use DNA to vaccinate against avian flu, allowing rapid mobilization during an epidemic. PHILADELPHIA, July 3 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia radio station manager says he won't run an ad featuring the impersonated voice of President Bush endorsing a "Big Oil" agenda. PHILADELPHIA, July 2 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say the protein neprilysin can reduce plaque formation and neuron death associated with Alzheimer's disease, but at the expense of lifespan. |
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| Wednesday, July 2PHILADELPHIA -- In the matter before the court, the case of Rotation v. Bullpen for the estate of Brett Allen Myers, I've got to enter a guilty plea this morning. |
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| Monday, June 30PHILADELPHIA, June 30 (UPI) -- Older people who already suffer brain impairment may be further stressed by a lack of sleep if findings about mice prove true for humans, U.S. scientists say. PHILADELPHIA, June 30 (UPI) -- A child's response to the smell of alcoholic beverages is related to his or her mother's reasons for drinking, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Thursday, June 26MALVERN, Pa., June 26 (UPI) -- Patients treated with antibiotics for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in U.S. hospitals increased 8 percent in one year, researchers said. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have created a computer-based system that monitors parked automobiles, immediately detecting a theft. PITTSBURGH, June 26 (UPI) -- A team of U.S. professors says it is starting a $2.5 million project designed to resolve complicated medical problems through the use of mathematics. |
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| Tuesday, June 24PITTSBURGH, June 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created a technology that can estimate where a photograph was taken by matching it online with other GPS-tagged photos. |
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| Saturday, June 21PHILADELPHIA, June 20 (UPI) -- Legislation that would allow a Philadelphia developer to build what would be the tallest building in America has been introduced by a city councilor. |
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| Friday, June 20PHILADELPHIA, June 19 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows the activation of a molecular pathway important in stem cell and developmental biology leads to an increase in lung stem cells. PHILADELPHIA, June 19 (UPI) -- Manufacturing activity in the Mid-Atlantic region contracted over the last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, June 18PITTSBURGH, June 18 (UPI) -- The late Pittsburgh Pirate Roberto Clemente is set to be honored Saturday as a member of the Rawlings Gold Glove All-Time baseball team. PHILADELPHIA, June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered misfolded proteins called TDP-43 accumulate throughout the brains of patients suffering amyotropic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. |
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| Tuesday, June 17PITTSBURGH, June 17 (UPI) -- A radio reporter in Pittsburgh was charged with possession of a firearm without a license after being caught at a courthouse with a loaded gun in his briefcase. PITTSBURGH, June 17 (UPI) -- A U.S. professor is urging Congress to pass legislation to fund demonstrations of new technologies that trap and store carbon dioxide emissions underground. WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says students from Massachusetts, Michigan and Pennsylvania have won its "Cassini Scientist for a Day" competition. MOUNT CARMEL, Pa., June 17 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania coal miner was killed Monday when the roof of the underground mine collapsed, authorities said. |
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| Monday, June 16PITTSBURGH, June 16 (UPI) -- Reading calisthenics aimed to help problem readers improved reading and changed the way the brain works, U.S. researchers say. PITTSBURGH, June 16 (UPI) -- U.S.-led medical scientists say they have found the source of drug-tolerant tuberculosis, as well as the bacteria causing TB relapses. PHILADELPHIA, June 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found the temperature of a photosynthesizing tree leaf is affected less by outside environmental temperature than believed. |
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| Sunday, June 15PHILADELPHIA, June 15 (UPI) -- U.S. transplant programs that gave patients both new kidneys and livers should face medical reviews, University of Pennsylvania researchers say. |
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| Friday, June 13PITTSBURGH, June 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Congress should approve a measure that would fund technologies that could aid to control global climate change, a Nobel Prize-winning professor says. |
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| Thursday, June 12STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered new properties in a class of non-magnetic materials that might lead to entirely new uses for the materials. PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says he's developed a new, more effective taste testing method based on the same technology used to produce breath freshener strips. PHILADELPHIA, June 11 (UPI) -- Officials at the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia say they have named a new fish species after a "dedicated" former mail room supervisor. |
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| Tuesday, June 10POTTSVILLE, Pa., June 10 (UPI) -- A plan to heat the Schuylkill County, Pa., courthouse and prison with gas has raised alarm in the region's 150-year-old coal industry, officials said. |
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| Monday, June 9UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 9 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a two-step process of washing harvested mushrooms greatly inhibits the growth of food-borne pathogens and extends shelf life. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have determined only two groups of the extinct woolly mammoth existed and neither had much genetic diversity. |
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| Wednesday, June 4PITTSBURGH, June 4 (UPI) -- A woman who filed suit against Allegheny County, Pa., after her son's remains were misplaced has settled out of court for $15,000. |
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| Monday, June 2PITTSBURGH, June 2 (UPI) -- Environmentalists are questioning whether a billion-dollar upgrade at the largest U.S. steel plant near Pittsburgh will be enough, health officials said. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 2 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says he's found the interactive look and feel of a corporate Web site can help shape positive perceptions about the organization. |
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| Saturday, May 31PITTSBURGH, May 30 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said they're working on a computer model that could eventually read brain scans to identify what someone is thinking. |
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| Wednesday, May 28PITTSBURGH, May 28 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers say they've developed a vaccine that might be able to prevent and even reverse development of type 1 diabetes. |
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| Tuesday, May 27PITTSBURGH, May 27 (UPI) -- The electrocution of a Pittsburgh soldier in a shower in Iraq has set off the latest round of questions about military contractors in the war. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've determined video games that energize players and induce a positive mood might also enhance the players' creativity. PITTSBURGH, May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've identified a potential target to treat hypertriglyceridemia -- a lipid disorder usually seen in obese and diabetic people. PHILADELPHIA, May 27 (UPI) -- A special ultrasound technique that can spot areas of blood flow in the prostate may reduce unnecessary biopsies, U.S. researchers said. |
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| Sunday, May 25PITTSBURGH, May 24 (UPI) -- Warm weather this spring is ushering in the emergence of one of the biggest cicada broods 13 U.S. states have experienced in years, experts say. |
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| Friday, May 23PHILADELPHIA, May 23 (UPI) -- U.S. adults who receive drug-eluting stents to open blocked coronary arteries have a better chance of surviving, U.S. researchers say. |
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| Wednesday, May 21STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 21 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania State University researchers say proactive policies are needed to provide broadband access for rural areas across the United States. |
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| Monday, May 19PHILADELPHIA, May 19 (UPI) -- The Esherick House, a private residence in Philadelphia designed by 20th century architect Louis Kahn, failed to sell at auction. PHILADELPHIA, May 19 (UPI) -- Fatigue is a recognized symptom of cancer treatment, but the measurement of fatigue has been based on many different definitions, a U.S. researcher says. |
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| Friday, May 16PHILADELPHIA, May 16 (UPI) -- A New Jersey high school football coach has lost another round in his fight to be allowed to lead his team in prayer. HARRISBURG, Pa., May 16 (UPI) -- Federal nuclear regulators said they will be conducting inspections at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station after a security lapse. |
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| Thursday, May 15PITTSBURGH, May 15 (UPI) -- The United Steelworkers union Thursday endorsed U.S. Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nod -- the second major endorsement in as many days. |
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| Tuesday, May 13PITTSBURGH, May 13 (UPI) -- An Amur tiger at the Pittsburgh Zoo failed once again to feed a newborn cub Tuesday after the pair were reintroduced. PITTSBURGH, May 13 (UPI) -- U.S. engineering researchers say they have developed software that automates the analysis of protein patterns. |
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| Wednesday, May 7PITTSBURGH, May 7 (UPI) -- Children of a parent who died suddenly have three times the risk of depression than those with living parents, a U.S. study finds. NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid is heading to state prison after admitting he smuggled narcotics into his Montgomery County Jail cell. BENSALEM, Pa. - Police had no trouble tracking down a suspect in the robbery of three women at a Bucks County convenience store, because the women had taken the man's picture a short time earlier at a bar. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 7 (UPI) -- The Apiary Inspectors of America says the United States has seen a dramatic decline in the number of managed honey bee colonies since 1980. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 7 (UPI) -- A female midshipman found dead in her dorm room at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., was identified Tuesday as a first-year student from Pennsylvania. |
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| Tuesday, May 6PITTSBURGH - Barry Zito, demoted to the San Francisco Giants bullpen last week, is returning to the starting rotation without having made any relief appearances. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered how a mole develops into melanoma by showing the interaction of two proteins involved in up to 70 percent of tumors. |
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| Friday, May 2PHILADELPHIA - Indianapolis Colts star receiver Marvin Harrison was interviewed by police about a shooting near his North Philadelphia car wash this week. PHILADELPHIA - Indianapolis Colts star receiver Marvin Harrison was interviewed by police about a shooting near his North Philadelphia bar this week. PHILADELPHIA - Indianapolis Colts star receiver Marvin Harrison was interviewed by police about a shooting near his North Philadelphia bar this week. Lt. Frank Vanore said the investigation of Tuesday's shooting was continuing. Harrison has not been arrested or charged. PITTSBURGH, May 2 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers found sleeping less than six hours and more than eight hours linked to metabolic syndrome. |
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| Thursday, May 1ERIE, Pa., May 1 (UPI) -- Ninety-one percent of U.S. teen drivers say they are good drivers, but many admit to unsafe driving practices such as text messaging, a survey indicated. PHILADELPHIA - Health insurer Cigna says first-quarter profit dropped 80 percent due to hefty reinsurance losses and litigation charges, and says full-year earnings may miss expectations amid challenges in its health care segment. |
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| Wednesday, April 30WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Wilkes University badly wanted 18-year-old Nicole Pollock to be part of its freshman class this fall - so much so that it made her the star of her own ad campaign. WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton may have won in Pennsylvania but Republican campaign advisers are focusing on her Democratic Party opponent, GOP strategists say. |
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| Tuesday, April 29SCRANTON, Pa. - The captain of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins was charged with indecent exposure after a police officer saw him running naked on a downtown street early Sunday, and a teammate was arrested for public drunkenness. Nathan Smith told the officer he acted on a bet. HARRISBURG, Pa. - Bud the cat is back home safe and sound after spending more than four days stuck in a drain pipe in his family's yard in Harrisburg. |
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| Monday, April 28PITTSBURGH - A newlywed couple spent the night in separate jail cells - she in her wedding gown - after police said they brawled with each other, then members of another wedding party, at a suburban Pittsburgh hotel. PITTSBURGH - Matt Morris, the veteran right-hander added by the Pittsburgh Pirates late last season to stabilize a young rotation, was released Sunday after failing to pitch past the second inning in his latest start. PHILADELPHIA, April 28 (UPI) -- The New England Journal of Medicine said gene therapy was used for the first time to restore some sight to patients with congenital blindness. PHILADELPHIA, April 28 (UPI) -- Having colon or rectal cancer surgery at a National Cancer Institute-designated hospital greatly improves short- and long-term survival, a U.S. study found. |
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| Sunday, April 27PITTSBURGH - Paul Maholm tossed a two-hitter, Nate McLouth hit two home runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep. PITTSBURGH - Matt Morris, the veteran right-hander added by the Pittsburgh Pirates late last season to stabilize a young rotation, was released Sunday after failing to pitch past the second inning in his latest start. PITTSBURGH - Matt Morris, the veteran right-hander added by the Pittsburgh Pirates late last season to stabilize a young rotation, was released Sunday after failing to pitch past the second inning in his latest start. |
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| Saturday, April 26PHILADELPHIA - Pistons forward Antonio McDyess returned to Detroit on Saturday and had surgery to repair the broken nose he suffered in Game 3 of their playoff series with Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA - Pistons forward Antonio McDyess returned to Detroit on Saturday and had surgery to repair the broken nose he suffered in Game 3 of their playoff series with Philadelphia. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 26 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton had overwhelming support among Catholics and Jewish voters in Pennsylvania's primary Tuesday, exit polls show. PHILADELPHIA, April 26 (UPI) -- Two distant relatives of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth want a chance to prove the family legend that he was not killed in a Virginia tobacco barn. PHILADELPHIA - Pistons forward Antonio McDyess returned to Detroit on Saturday and had surgery to repair the broken nose he suffered in Game 3 of their playoff series with Philadelphia. |
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| Friday, April 25ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A man survived a 500-foot fall into a strip mine Friday, astounding rescuers who spent hours on a risky descent into the abyss to bring him back out. |
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| Thursday, April 24WASHINGTON, April 24 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton's U.S. presidential campaign reports raising $10 million in Internet donations after her Pennsylvania primary victory this week. PITTSBURGH, April 24 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have identified a potentially unlimited, non-controversial, easily collectible and cheap source of stem cells -- menstrual blood. PITTSBURGH, April 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists studying how climate change affects food production say it is dietary choice that determines a household's food-related climate impacts. ERIE, Pa., April 24 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers are planning technological strategies they will use in the future to identify Earth-like watery planets circling distant stars. INDIANAPOLIS, April 24 (UPI) -- Questions about Sen. Barack Obama's electability have been raised after his loss to Sen. Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, his campaign says. NEW YORK, April 24 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., says her primary victories in Pennsylvania and Ohio were "the states we have to win" in Democrats' quest for the presidency. EMMAUS, Pa., April 24 (UPI) -- Germs can lurk in some surprising places such as the vacuum cleaner brush, weight-lifting gloves and restaurant menus, U.S. researchers report. |
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WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton parlayed her campaign-saving primary victory into a fundraising bonanza Wednesday in the Democratic presidential race. Rival Barack Obama, his delegate lead intact, said, "We just keep on plugging away." WASHINGTON, April 23 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton publicly pressed her case as the most viable Democratic presidential candidate following her high-profile victory in the Pennsylvania primary. NASHVILLE, April 23 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton's win in Pennsylvania exposed fissures within the Democratic party which could affect the party's success in November, observers say. PHILADELPHIA, April 23 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, with a win in Pennsylvania in her pocket, now looks to taking on challenger Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Indiana and North Carolina. EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 22 (UPI) -- After a stinging loss in Pennsylvania, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama took solace in having whittled rival Hillary Clinton's lead in the state. |
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| Tuesday, April 22PHILADELPHIA, April 22 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton handily beat back rival Barack Obama in the pivotal primary election in Pennsylvania, according to projections. PHILADELPHIA - Hillary Rodham Clinton edged ahead in the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday night in a fight for survival against Barack Obama, her rival in a Democratic presidential race growing steadily more negative. PITTSBURGH, April 22 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama predicted Tuesday the race for the party's nomination would extend through June. PHILADELPHIA - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama collided Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary, the last of the big-state contests in a Democratic presidential campaign growing more negative the longer it goes. DANVILLE, Pa., April 22 (UPI) -- Hearing repeated stories of suffering from trauma victims causes serious psychological stress in clinical social workers, U.S. researchers found. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 22 (UPI) -- The six-week build-up to Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary culminated in an ad campaign by Sen. Hillary Clinton questioning her rival's ability to lead. PHILADELPHIA - Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama questioned each other's character and readiness to be commander in chief in last-minute television ads as the six-week Pennsylvania primary campaign steamed toward an uncertain conclusion Tuesday. |
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| Monday, April 21HARRISBURG, Pa., April 21 (UPI) -- The candidates were crisscrossing Pennsylvania making their final pitches ahead of the state's Democratic presidential primary Tuesday. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 21 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton leads rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania ahead of the Keystone State's primary Tuesday, a poll indicates. PHILADELPHIA, April 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department says it will monitor voting in Philadelphia during Pennsylvania's presidential primary election Tuesday. PHILADELPHIA, April 21 (UPI) -- U.S. cardiology researchers report creating a versatile synthetic material that can bind to a variety of gene therapy vectors. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 21 (UPI) -- Undecided voters tend to pick U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., which could help her win in Tuesday's Pennsylvania presidential primary, analysts say. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 21 (UPI) -- A huge rise in the number of new Democratic voters in Pennsylvania could make for a tight race in Tuesday's primary election, an analysis suggests. WASHINGTON, April 20 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton took turns Sunday lobbing bon mots at each other prior to Tuesday's primary in Pennsylvania. |
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| Sunday, April 20PITTSBURGH, April 20 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has a slim lead over rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania going into the state's primary Tuesday, a poll shows. YORK, Pa., April 20 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton spent Saturday hop-scotching across Pennsylvania, attacking Barack Obama on a range of issues, including healthcare. |
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| Saturday, April 19HARRISBURG, Pa., April 19 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., spent Saturday in an old-fashioned whistle-stop trip through southeastern Pennsylvania. |
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| Friday, April 18PHILADELPHIA, April 18 (UPI) -- Analysts say Sen. Hillary Clinton needs a large win in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary for voters in the remaining primary states to view her as a real winner. PHILADELPHIA, April 18 (UPI) -- Challenges by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., to Barack Obama's character and electability have not changed the minds of some superdelegates, the delegates said. |
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| Thursday, April 17PHILADELPHIA, April 17 (UPI) -- Presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama says he will be a friend to the U.S. Jewish community and Israel and pledged a commitment to Israel's security. PHILADELPHIA, April 17 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama used their debate in Philadelphia to appeal to Pennsylvania voters before Tuesday's primary. |
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| Wednesday, April 16PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (UPI) -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton found themselves on defense at their presidential debate in Philadelphia Wednesday night for earlier statements they've made. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've traced strains of the influenza-A virus to a viral reservoir located somewhere in the tropics. PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (UPI) -- Sen. Barack Obama is six points behind Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton among likely Pennsylvania voters, a Daily News/Franklin & Marshall Poll indicates. |
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| Tuesday, April 15WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama's comment that some rural voters might be "bitter" has not cost him in Pennsylvania, a voter survey shows. PITTSBURGH, April 15 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered the previously unknown roles of two enzymes involved in heart muscle contractions. PITTSBURGH, April 15 (UPI) -- Earmark bans, budget reviews and tax code revisions are parts of his economic plan if elected U.S. president, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain said. PHILADELPHIA, April 15 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say maturing cells are much more flexible than thought, having the ability to develop either into T-cells or other blood cell types. PITTSBURGH, April 15 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama stumped in Pennsylvania, offering their proposals on two key issues, trade and the economy. |
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| Monday, April 14PITTSBURGH, April 14 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton told a gathering of manufacturers in Pittsburgh Monday U.S. trade laws need fixing. PHILADELPHIA, April 14 (UPI) -- Supporters of the presidential bid by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., say his lack of appearance in Pennsylvania's black community is a strategic choice. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 14 (UPI) -- Catholics backed the winner in past presidential elections, posing a challenge to Sen. Barack Obama, who lacks their support in Pennsylvania, experts say. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 14 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential candidates say they would like to reduce the number of abortions, in a bid to diffuse the issue before November, strategists say. |
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| Sunday, April 13GRANTHAM, Pa., April 13 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama argued about faith and values Sunday in a forum at a Christian college in Pennsylvania. WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said Sunday he was "saddened" by remarks by presidential contender Barack Obama about small-town residents in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination has shifted into damage control mode, observers say. |
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| Saturday, April 12WASHINGTON, April 12 (UPI) -- A poll taken before Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was hammered for calling small-town voters "bitter" portends a close election in Pennsylvania. MUNCIE, Ind. - Barack Obama sees himself with a disadvantage in Pennsylvania and with an advantage in North Carolina. |
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| Friday, April 11WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is being criticized for saying some Pennsylvania voters "cling to guns or religion or antipathy" out of political frustration. PHILADELPHIA, April 11 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Friday that if elected she would halve the murder rate in U.S. cities and hire 100,000 police officers. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., April 11 (UPI) -- Macadamia nuts, shown to reduce cholesterol, should be counted among tree nuts that are heart healthy, U.S. researchers suggest. PHILADELPHIA, April 11 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton proposed a $4 billion anti-crime program Friday she said would cut the murder rate in big U.S. cities in half. |
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| Thursday, April 10PITTSBURGH, April 10 (UPI) -- International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James Hoffa Thursday stumped in Pittsburgh for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. MALVERN, Pa., April 10 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton's camp has accused Democratic foe Barack Obama of trying to buy the Pennsylvania primary with an extensive and misleading TV ad campaign. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 10 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., says she's the only presidential candidate offering a real plan to end the war in Iraq. |
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| Wednesday, April 9SAN DIEGO, April 9 (UPI) -- A diet rich in pistachios has a positive effect on multiple cardiovascular disease risk factors, a Pennsylvania State University researcher said. PITTSBURGH, April 9 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh's young mayor could energize the campaign of Democratic presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, observers say. PHILADELPHIA, April 9 (UPI) -- A group of Democratic students at the University of Pennsylvania said it switched candidates, deciding to back New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for president. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 9 (UPI) -- Nostalgic images of Sen. Hillary Clinton's childhood visits to her grandfather in Scranton, Pa., are captured in a new ad, her media team said. |
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| Tuesday, April 8YORK, Pa. - A 2-year-old girl died after being beaten with a video game controller by her mother's boyfriend, police said Tuesday. Darisabel Baez's mother overheard the beating Sunday but did nothing until she realized the girl was unconscious, police said. PHILADELPHIA, April 8 (UPI) -- Barrack Obama is gaining ground on Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary race thanks to growing support among women, a poll released Tuesday indicates. |
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| Monday, April 7STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests continuous oral contraceptives might be more effective than standard 28-day birth control pills. |
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| Sunday, April 6READING, Pa. - A Reading man whose minivan crashed after he climbed on its roof while driving about 55 miles per hour is in fair condition this weekend. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 6 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is trying to woo pro-gun voters in Pennsylvania, which is home to a large number of gun owners, observers say. |
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| Friday, April 4WASHINGTON, April 4 (UPI) -- A Democratic strategist says Sen. Barack Obama should not try to knock Sen. Hillary Clinton out of the presidential primary race in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 4 (UPI) -- Barack Obama has put his war chest to use, pushing beyond Pennsylvania to advertise in North Carolina and Indiana, a move observers say his rival can't match. |
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| Thursday, April 3STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 3 (UPI) -- U.S. and British scientists say they've created a software program to give land managers more efficient, cost-effective ways of controlling gypsy moths. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 3 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore could have a post in a potential Barack Obama administration, the U.S. senator from Illinois says. PHILADELPHIA, April 3 (UPI) -- U.S. adults have long been told drinking eight glasses of water daily is healthy, but University of Pennsylvania researchers say the evidence is thin. |
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| Wednesday, April 2PHILADELPHIA - Sen. Barack Obama was endorsed Wednesday by a labor union and two Democratic superdelegates, as a poll showed he has cut Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in Pennsylvania almost in half since mid-February as he strives to deny her a resounding victory in the state's presidential primary. HAMDEN, Conn., April 2 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton lost a little ground against Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, although she continues to lead in the state, the latest Quinnipiac Poll indicates. HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Web site that says it will help people find money they didn't know they owned is misleading and violates Pennsylvania consumer law, state prosecutors said in a lawsuit. WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has gained ground on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania by drawing more support from men and younger voters, according to presidential polls in the state. PHILADELPHIA, April 2 (UPI) -- Abortion opponents say remarks by Sen. Barack Obama suggesting pregnancy is a punishment may hurt his chances to win the U.S presidency. WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing billions of dollars a year Wednesday to keep jobs from being shipped abroad as she appealed to blue collar workers in Pennsylvania, the next big primary contest where she hopes to trim rival Barack Obama's lead. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 2 (UPI) -- The two Democratic U.S. presidential hopefuls focused on the presumptive Republican nominee as they stumped across Pennsylvania. |
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| Tuesday, April 1HARRISBURG, Pa., April 1 (UPI) -- Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama had pointed exchanges over the Iraq war, each U.S. senator questioning the other's credentials. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 1 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said they have used direct observation and computer models to describe how different forms of lightning are produced. PHILADELPHIA, April 1 (UPI) -- Doctor-patient communication may be the key to heart health and telemedicine may make that possible for all patients, a U.S. doctor said. |
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| Monday, March 31LANCASTER, Pa. - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama secured the backing of a second female senator on Monday as a top supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton raised expectations for her rival in the upcoming Pennsylvania primary. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 31 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, despite her suburban roots, has resonated with blue-collar workers who, observers say, are keeping her U.S. presidential candidacy afloat. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 31 (UPI) -- Republicans opposed to U.S. President George Bush's war policy say they're finding a candidate they can endorse in Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 31 (UPI) -- Conventional wisdom says teens should complete their education and postpone marriage, but a U.S. study finds having children early may be beneficial. |
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| Sunday, March 30PHILADELPHIA, March 30 (UPI) -- U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama is reporting $10 million more in Pennsylvania campaign donations than his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton. PHILADELPHIA, March 30 (UPI) -- Democratic Sen. Barack Obama may have the wind at his back as calls mount for Sen. Hillary Clinton to end her U.S. presidential bid, Pennsylvania observers say. |
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| Friday, March 28PITTSBURGH - Barack Obama got a surprise boost in the last big state of the long Democratic campaign Friday with an endorsement from Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Jr., while another Obama supporter sought to nudge Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the race. PITTSBURGH, March 28 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania political observers say they're disappointed that the Democratic presidential candidates have not spent more time in the Keystone State. PITTSBURGH, March 28 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh Zoo officials said the zoo's oldest resident, a yellow-footed tortoise named Big Mo, has died at the estimated age of 75. PITTSBURGH, March 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, son of a popular former Pennsylvania governor, abandoned neutrality Friday and endorsed Sen, Barack Obama for president. PHILADELPHIA, March 28 (UPI) -- Comcast, the largest Internet provider in the United States, announced it would switch tactics for dealing with systems-clogging software. |
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| Thursday, March 27UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 27 (UPI) -- "Viral sex" has been found to be the cause of many flu epidemics, Pennsylvania State University researchers said. |
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| Wednesday, March 26PITTSBURGH, March 26 (UPI) -- Carnegie Mellon University said comedian and Philadelphia native Bill Cosby is giving the Pittsburgh school its first official live mascot, a Scottish terrier. PHILADELPHIA, March 26 (UPI) -- U.S. cable company giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable are discussing a joint venture based on wireless WiMax technology, sources said Wednesday. |
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| Tuesday, March 25PITTSBURGH, March 25 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton and the staff of her rival, Barack Obama, traded political jabs out on the campaign trail Tuesday. PHILADELPHIA, March 25 (UPI) -- Authorities are investigating a break-in at a Philadelphia art gallery where a state House candidate recently established his office, the campaign said. PHILADELPHIA, March 25 (UPI) -- One of the three giraffes at the Philadelphia Zoo has been put down at the age of 27. PHILADELPHIA, March 25 (UPI) -- Women can help their incontinence symptoms by learning about their pelvic floor muscles and how to exercise them, a U.S. physical therapist advises. BLUE BELL, Pa., March 25 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton found herself dodging criticism Monday over her story about dodging sniper bullets 12 years ago. |
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| Monday, March 24PHILADELPHIA, March 24 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Monday unveiled a plan to counter the growing housing crisis and help homeowners keep their homes. |
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| Friday, March 21PHILADELPHIA, March 21 (UPI) -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., using the phrase "typical white person" on a Philadelphia radio station has drawn criticism on the airwaves and over the Internet. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says he is concerned that advanced brain imaging technology is being used to interrogate suspected terrorists. |
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| Thursday, March 20PITTSBURGH, March 20 (UPI) -- The parents of a U.S. soldier who was fatally electrocuted in the shower in his Baghdad quarters has sued the contractor KBR Inc. |
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| Wednesday, March 19ROSTRAVER, Pa., March 19 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania man faces 40 years in prison after admitting in court that he was driven to kill his wife after she turned off the television set. PHILADELPHIA, March 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined fruit flies are more like humans in their response to many sweet tastes than nearly any other species is. PHILADELPHIA, March 19 (UPI) -- Aerobic exercise significantly decreased the chemical imbalances that can lead to heart disease and stroke in post-menopausal women, a U.S. study found. PITTSBURGH, March 19 (UPI) -- A judge in Pennsylvania has approved a $27.5 million settlement between Atlantic Richfield and 250 residents who lived near its former nuclear fuels plants. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., March 19 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., has endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for the Democratic Party nomination for president. |
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| Tuesday, March 18HAMDEN, Conn., March 18 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has a wide lead over rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, a poll indicates. PHILADELPHIA, March 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., denounced the "profoundly distorted" remarks by his pastor and called upon Americans to look more closely at race relations. PHILADELPHIA, March 18 (UPI) -- U.S. biologists studying the genomes of viruses infecting the bacteria E. coli, P. aeruginosa and L. lactis found many of them exhibit codon bias. PHILADELPHIA, March 18 (UPI) -- U.S. materials scientists are studying metals at the nano scale, testing the strength of wires a thousand times thinner than a human hair. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 18 (UPI) -- Policies of the Bush administration surged to the forefront as the Democratic presidential hopefuls discussed the credit and housing crises. PHILADELPHIA, March 18 (UPI) -- A particular sex chromosome -- meiosis-specific gene -- has been linked to infertility by researchers in the United States, Sweden and Germany. |
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| Monday, March 17STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 17 (UPI) -- U.S. and British scientists have developed a process for growing a single-crystal semiconductor inside the tunnel of a hollow optical fiber. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 17 (UPI) -- White men may be the swing constituency in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, recent exit polls indicate. |
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| Sunday, March 16SCRANTON, Pa., March 16 (UPI) -- U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton ended her first week of a major push in Pennsylvania by marching in Scranton's St. Patrick's Day Parade. |
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| Friday, March 14PHILADELPHIA, March 14 (UPI) -- Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, hoping to improve his chances for a win in Pennsylvania, is working to register independents and Republicans as Democrats. |
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| Thursday, March 13PHILADELPHIA, March 13 (UPI) -- University of Pennsylvania researchers have found a way to administer the drug propofol that may be safer and less costly during a colonscopy. |
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| Wednesday, March 12PHILADELPHIA, March 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. District Court in Philadelphia approved a class-action settlement Wednesday against New York Life Insurance Co. for investing in proprietary funds. PHILADELPHIA, March 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. study has found a gene crucial for embryonic development can quickly become a potent cancer promoter in adult mice after a genetic misalignment. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have developed a chemical cocktail including a common insecticide and a plant protein to inhibit insects' growth rates. |
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| Tuesday, March 11PITTSBURGH, March 11 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has a wide lead over rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, a poll indicates HARRISBURG, Pa., March 11 (UPI) -- U.S. presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are trading barbs, she saying he's all talk and he accusing her of trying to score political points. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created a bottom-up manufacturing technique that might lead to tiny medical devices capable of detecting viruses or cancer markers. PHILADELPHIA, March 11 (UPI) -- One out of 10 grandmas and grandpas are getting a tan at a tanning salon and risking cancer, a U.S. study shows. |
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| Monday, March 10PITTSBURGH, March 10 (UPI) -- A study by a Pittsburgh scientist on the effects of driving while answering questions found that simply hearing a cellular phone call may distract drivers. BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 10 (UPI) -- The job market for U.S. college graduates looks more promising than it did in 2007, USA Today reported Monday. |
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| Sunday, March 9HARRISBURG, Pa., March 9 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is favored over Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the upcoming Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary, it was reported Sunday. |
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| Wednesday, March 5HARRISBURG, Pa., March 5 (UPI) -- The Pennsylvania presidential primary is now the focus for Democratic contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, observers say. PLUM, Pa. - An investigator with the medical examiner's office says one person has died in a suburban Pittsburgh explosion that destroyed a house. ERIE, Pa., March 5 (UPI) -- A random sample of Canadian and U.S. sex therapists said that sexual intercourse of seven to 13 minutes is most "desirable." |
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| Saturday, March 1PHILADELPHIA, March 1 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania researchers said the spice turmeric appears to provide few benefits to patients seeking relief from psoriasis. |
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| Thursday, February 28PHILADELPHIA - Twin brothers who have appeared in hardcore gay-porn online videos are charged with the rooftop burglary of a South Philadelphia business and are suspected in dozens of similar crimes in at least three states, authorities said. HANOVER, Pa. - A mail carrier was trapped inside her car for nearly two hours at a home near Hanover after a pair of dogs attacked her tires, flattening three of them. |
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| Saturday, February 23PITTSBURGH - People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said. |
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| Wednesday, February 20PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A federal judge is set to decide if a Pennsylvania town's law allowing political signs only 30 days before an election violates free speech rights. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created a proof-of-concept device that can do what plants, trees and algae do -- directly split water and produce recoverable hydrogen. |
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| Tuesday, February 19OIL CITY, Pa., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Encouraged by the climbing price of oil, prospectors large and small are scouring Pennsylvania's historic oil fields, hoping to revive a lost economy. |
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| Monday, February 18STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined insects will feast and leafy plants will suffer as global temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise. |
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| Thursday, February 14NEW YORK - NYPD investigators on Thursday questioned a man in Pennsylvania in the slaying of a psychologist hacked to death in her office with a meat cleaver, law enforcement officials said. |
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| Wednesday, February 13FRANKLINVILLE, Pa., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Class-action status was granted to a lawsuit filed by families whose children attended a Philadelphia-area day-care center built on a site tainted with mercury. |
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| Thursday, February 7PHILADELPHIA - A traffic judge apologized to a man who had been hounded for 17 years by officials trying to get his similarly named twin brother to resolve $1,800 in unpaid tickets and fines. PALMERTON, Pa., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A budding kindergarten real estate tycoon with $5 was the only bidder for a sports field in a Pennsylvania town listed for sale at $2 million. |
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| Wednesday, February 6FARMINGTON, Pa., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The owner of a private zoo in Pennsylvania denies that a bear bit a woman at his park last year. PHILADELPHIA - Health insurer Cigna Corp. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit rose 13 percent as the managed-care insurer reported higher premiums and fees from specialty insurance and Medicare Part D. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A diet with whole grains may reduce abdominal fat and lower the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, a U.S. study finds. |
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| Thursday, January 31STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. geoscientists have discovered earthquakes occurring at the edges of tectonic plates can trigger events at a distance and much later in time. |
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| Tuesday, January 29WASHINGTON, Pa. - A woman in southwestern Pennsylvania locked her 10-year-old grandson in a feces-filled dog crate for about 90 minutes because he told his family he had been spiking their drinks with lamp oil and household cleaner, police said. WASHINGTON, Pa. - A woman in southwestern Pennsylvania locked her 10-year-old grandson in a feces-filled dog crate for about 90 minutes because he told his family he had been spiking their drinks with lamp oil and household cleaner, police said. |
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| Thursday, January 24UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Football players and wrestlers are encouraged to be violent outside the sport because they are rewarded for being aggressive in sports, a U.S. study suggests. |
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| Wednesday, January 23PHILADELPHIA - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday picked up the endorsement of Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who wished Clinton and her presidential rivals would drop the rancor. |
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| Tuesday, January 22CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. study underscores the need for a systematic, evidence-based approach to the problem of neck pain. |
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| Saturday, January 19HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has begun surveying Interstate 80 for the sites of future toll booths. |
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| Friday, January 18PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona is leading among the Republican presidential hopefuls in Pennsylvania, a new poll indicates. |
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| Thursday, January 17STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Geoscientists said a natural gas black shale reservoir in northern Appalachia could conservatively boost proven U.S. reserves by trillions of cubic feet. |
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| Sunday, January 13SCOTT, Pa., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh is using his expertise and a high-tech scanner to retrieve information from old tombstones. |
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| Wednesday, January 9UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Parental divorce exerts immense pressure to lessen father-child closeness and the pressure is increased by the father's physical separation, a U.S. study found. READING, Pa. - A junior/senior high school was evacuated Wednesday morning after three students were stabbed, emergency and hospital officials said. |
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| Friday, January 4HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A security guard at the Peach Bottom nuclear facility in Pennsylvania videotaped his co-workers sleeping on the job, prompting a nuclear security examination. |
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| Saturday, December 29SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Sean Penn may soon be a single man walking. Robin Wright Penn has filed for divorce from the actor and director, according to media reports. |
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| Friday, December 28LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Sean Penn and his wife Robin Wright Penn filed divorce papers in a California court on separate occasions earlier this month, People.com reported Friday. PITTSBURGH, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. Marine was arrested at a Pennsylvania bus station as he tried to return to his base with the 13-year-old girl he wanted to marry. |
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| Tuesday, December 25SACRAMENTO, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The governors of California, Illinois and Pennsylvania proposed dramatic healthcare reforms this year, but none will be adopted before the end of 2007. |
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| Thursday, December 20
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PHILADELPHIA - The difference between a pill and a capsule might not seem big, but it could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales for Wyeth's top drug. |
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| Tuesday, December 18STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A U.S. team of meteorologists and economists at Pennsylvania State University are considering how best to model weather forecasts for various businesses. |
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| Monday, December 17STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists have developed a technique using a flexible video endoscope that might replace certain types of conventional surgery. |
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| Thursday, November 29STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have developed a method of converting cellulose and other biodegradable organic materials into hydrogen. |
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| Wednesday, November 28PITTSBURGH, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Strong public criticism of a dairy product labeling plan from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has prompted a review of the proposal. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have developed a method of converting cellulose and other biodegradable organic materials into hydrogen. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are using modified mushrooms in a project designed to produce millions of doses of a vaccine or other drugs within a three-month period. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. engineers are working to increase the data transmission rate of Category-7 copper cables used to connect computers to each other and the Internet. |
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| Tuesday, November 27STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests lower dosages of anti-malarial drugs might be safer, preventing parasites from becoming drug-resistant. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, was helpful in treating depression. |
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| Monday, November 26STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggested the estimate of the number of Atlantic tropical storms occurring before the advent of aircraft and satellites is fundamentally accurate. |
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| Wednesday, November 21PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania said their studies found monkeys can ward off AIDS-like symptoms with an enhanced HIV vaccine. |
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| Tuesday, November 20BRANDYWINE HUNDRED, Del. - Delaware State Police have arrested a Chester, Pennsylvania, man who they said was running naked and drunk on Interstate-95 and caused three accidents. |
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| Wednesday, November 7STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists discovered that animals, like plants, can build tolerance to infections at a genetic level. |
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| Saturday, November 3WICHITA, Kan., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Cargill Meat Solutions announced Saturday it is recalling more than 1 million pounds of ground beef produced at a Pennsylvania plant. |
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| Friday, November 2PHILADELPHIA - Health insurer Cigna Corp. said Friday its third-quarter earnings rose 23 percent on increased premiums and fees to top Wall Street expectations, and raised its outlook for the full year. |
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| Thursday, November 1NORRISTOWN, Pa., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A judge said Philadelphia Eagles Coach Andy Reid heads a "family in crisis" as he sentenced Reid's two sons to jail Thursday. |
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| Monday, October 29PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- President George Bush visited Pennsylvania on a fundraising mission Monday for the Pennsylvania Victory 2008 committee. SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- "The Office" convention in Scranton, Pa., has been declared a hit with those involved already talking about a follow-up event. |
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| Friday, October 26HAZELTON, Pa., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. agency said it has found no environmental factors linking 38 cases of a rare blood cancer in northeastern Pennsylvania. |
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| Thursday, October 25STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A new U.S. Web site has been launched, designed to allow quick responses to ethical issues that arise during the climate change debate. |
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| Friday, October 19MOUNT LEBANON, Pa., Oct. 19 (UPI) -- At least 10 students at a Pennsylvania high school have been diagnosed with a staphylococcus infection, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. |
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| Wednesday, October 17SWARTHMORE, Pa., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Swarthmore College is believed the first and only U.S. school in which biology students conduct research using embryonic stem cells from mice. |
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| Tuesday, October 16STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Searching for digital online photographs could become an easier task thanks to a U.S. software system that automatically tags images as they are uploaded. |
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| Thursday, October 11
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PITTSBURGH - Carey Price made 26 saves in his NHL debut and Tomas Plekanec and Andrei Markov each had a goal and an assist to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night. Mark Recchi had two assists and Ryan Whitney and Maxime Talbot scored for Pittsburgh. |
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| Wednesday, October 10SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Fanatical fans of Pam, Michael, Dwight and Jim are expected to descend on Scranton, Pa., this month for "The Office Convention." |
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| Monday, October 8DANVILLE, Pa., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. workers who have diabetes and suffer from neuropathic symptoms such as numbness or tingling in feet or hands lose some 1.4 hours a week. |
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| Thursday, October 4PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was ordered by a judge Wednesday to pay $62.3 million to nearly 125,000 Pennsylvania current and former workers for working off the clock. |
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| Wednesday, October 3LANCASTER, Pa., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- President George Bush told a Pennsylvania audience he'd consider discussions with Iran under the right circumstances, but the next move is up to Iran. PHILADELPHIA - Outfielder Seth Smith, a September call-up who had a key hit in Colorado's tiebreaker win over San Diego, is part of the Rockies' 25-man roster for the start of the playoffs. PHILADELPHIA - Baseball's division series start today with Colorado at Philadelphia, the Los Angeles Angels at Boston and the Chicago Cubs at Arizona. |
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| Tuesday, October 2GANS, Pa., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Two sisters in western Pennsylvania say an animal shelter gave them cats to care for knowing they were carrying a deadly virus that spread to their own cats. |
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| Saturday, September 29HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Look-alike and sound-alike drugs are among the main causes of wrong drug medication errors that occur in Pennsylvania. |
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| Friday, September 28PHILADELPHIA - Accepting the Liberty Medal for his humanitarian work in Africa, Bono exhorted Americans to keep working to solve the world's problems and spoke of those who are without freedom. |
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| Thursday, September 27NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A two-headed turtle captured by a turtle collector is a rare example of a conjoined-twin birth, its owner said. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led study suggests hair shafts are a better source of ancient DNA than bones or muscle for studying the genomes of extinct animals. |
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| Thursday, September 20STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. study has found the influenza A virus isn't dormant during summer but migrates globally and mixes with other viral strains. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- People confident, comfortable and flexible in their eating habits may be at lower risk of heart disease compared to those who aren't, a U.S. study said. |
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| Wednesday, September 19PIT, Pa., Sept. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers have proposed a strategy they say might dramatically slow the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| Tuesday, September 18APOLLO, Pa., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A federal agency has designated employees at a Western Pennsylvania nuclear plant a special exposure designation, moving them closer to getting compensation. MILLERSVILLE, Pa. - Police will not file charges in a suspected sexual assault that led to the suspension of nine Millersville University football players because the alleged victim refuses to cooperate, authorities said Tuesday. |
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| Friday, September 14FRAZER, Pa., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Cephalon Inc. is urging U.S. doctors to take extra care in selecting patients and prescribing the correct dosage of the cancer drug Fentora. |
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| Tuesday, September 11STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency has selected Pennsylvania State University for a five-year cooperative agreement to present NASA to K-12 students. SHANKSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Supporters remain confident a park to honor victims of the Sept. 11 crash in Shanksville, Pa., will open on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy. |
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| Wednesday, September 5WEST CHESTER, Pa., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. singer Barry Manilow is set to debut his latest album, "The Greatest Songs of the Seventies," on the TV retailer QVC -- nine days before it hits stores. HERSHEY, Pa., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered a potential way for people to eat as much as they like but remain slim and energetic. |
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| Thursday, August 30PENN HILLS, Pa., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- An 18-year-old western Pennsylvania college student has been charged with stabbing his twin half-brothers, killing one of them. |
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| Wednesday, August 29STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A U.S.-Australian study suggested a switch from predominantly undersea volcanoes to a mix of undersea and terrestrial ones created Earth's oxygen. |
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| Tuesday, August 28ERIE, Pa., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- An Erie, Pa., leukemia patient, fed up with chemotherapy, developed technology that may one day be used to fight cancer. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have determined the manipulation of a single amino acid of an enzyme that helps viruses multiply can render the viruses harmless. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have conducted one of the first academic studies of search engine-sponsored link technology.
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AUSTIN, Texas - A man suspected of killing four people in a home near Austin was arrested after a brief standoff in New York's Long Island, and police were investigating whether the slayings were connected to others in recent days in Texas and Pennsylvania. |
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| Friday, August 24ERIE, Pa., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Auto crashes are the top killer of U.S. teens and a Pennsylvania insurance company advises parents to set ground rules to prevent auto accidents. |
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| Thursday, August 23SWARTHMORE, Pa., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., faced critics at a town hall meeting who expressed frustration that the Democratic Congress has yet to pull U.S. troops from Iraq. |
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| Saturday, August 18HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- An alligator spotted by a couple on a nature walk in Pennsylvania has been taken into custody by state police and put in a home. |
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| Wednesday, August 8STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. computer scientists have created a search engine that can identify and extract tables from PDF documents, as well as index and rank the results. |
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| Tuesday, August 7LAS VEGAS - Harrah's Entertainment Inc., which is being taken private in a $17.1 billion deal, said Tuesday its second-quarter profit surged 85 percent, as visitor volume powered growth in Las Vegas and a new race track casino in Pennsylvania offset weak results in Atlantic City, N.J. |
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| Saturday, August 4PHILADEPHIA, Pa., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The 50th anniversary of the iconic U.S. TV series "American Bandstand" takes place this weekend, but will do so with little fanfare or dancing. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Home shopping networks such as Pennsylvania-based QVC are set to revamp the industry by introducing musical acts and other entertainment content. |
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| Thursday, August 2STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A planet was discovered by a team led by U.S. astronomer Alex Wolszczan, who in 1992 discovered the first planets found outside the solar system. |
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| Monday, July 30BUENA VISTA, Pa. (AP) -- A 13-year-old girl used a shotgun to fatally shoot her father in the head early Monday in a home overrun with animals and filth, police said. |
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| Sunday, July 29PHILADELPHIA, July 29 (UPI) -- A food concession worker was hospitalized in critical condition after riding a cart into an open elevator shaft at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park. |
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| Friday, July 27PITTSBURGH, July 27 (UPI) -- The Veterans Affairs hospital in Pittsburgh says simple precautions can keep deadly drug-resistant infections at bay. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Mayor John F. Street drew cheers during his first months in office, dispatching squadrons of beeping tow trucks and helmeted demolition crews to clear out thousands of abandoned cars and dilapidated buildings. PHILADELPHIA, July 27 (UPI) -- An implanted stimulator being studied at a Philadelphia hospital may be able to predict and prevent seizures before they start in people with epilepsy. |
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| Thursday, July 26HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday struck down Hazleton's tough anti-illegal immigration law, ruling unconstitutional a measure that has been copied around the country. PHILADELPHIA - Phillies All-Star second baseman Chase Utley broke his right hand when he was hit by a pitch during Thursday's 7-6 loss to the Washington Nationals. PITTSBURGH, July 26 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered how the human immunodeficiency virus can so easily enter the body's immune cells. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 26 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered a novel chlorophyll-producing bacterium in Yellowstone National Park that transforms light into chemical energy. |
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| Wednesday, July 25PHILADELPHIA, July 25 (UPI) -- Aerospace giant Boeing is No. 1 among undergrad engineering students when choosing a choice spot to work, a national survey shows. |
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| Tuesday, July 24STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 24 (UPI) -- Some of the more than 2,000 people expected at Penn State University next week for the U.S. National Autism Conference will receive free daycare. |
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| Monday, July 23PHILADELPHIA, July 23 (UPI) -- Some small U.S. colleges are chaffing at the rules used to establish the popular rankings of universities issued by U.S. News & World Report. HERSHEY, Pa., July 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists discovered a specific cell protein might act as a messenger, instructing components in the nucleus to stop cell growth. PITTSBURGH, July 23 (UPI) -- An ESPN Radio sportscaster in Pittsburgh appeared in federal court Monday on a charge of child pornography, the U.S. attorney's office said. PHILADELPHIA, July 23 (UPI) -- Delegates elected Roberta Reardon president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists during the union's convention in Philadelphia. |
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| Sunday, July 22PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Five people were shot to death within six hours early Sunday, including three who were killed after an argument in a neighborhood bar, police said. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The mayor and two of his bodyguards happened upon a house fire and ended up rescuing a cat, helping a victim and warning neighbors, officials and witnesses said. |
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| Friday, July 20PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A 1-year-old girl was found strapped in a car seat, rain-soaked and covered with leaves and dirt, after her mother left her for about 10 hours with the sun roof open as a violent storm raged, police said. |
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| Thursday, July 19SCRANTON, Pa. - Shannen Rossmiller isn't a terrorist. She just plays one on the Internet. PHILADELPHIA, July 19 (UPI) -- Jefferson Medical College and Johns Hopkins University scientists have shared a U.S. patent on what might someday become a ubiquitous tool in DNA analysis. HARRISBURG, Pa. - Hershey, the nation's largest candymaker, on Thursday reported its profit tumbled 96 percent in the second quarter as it spent heavily to begin transforming its production lines and revive flat sales. |
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| Wednesday, July 18HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The state will pay a day's salary to the 24,000 workers who were idled when the government partially shut down over a budget impasse, Gov. Ed Rendell said Wednesday. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Former President George H.W. Bush got his World War II service revolver back Wednesday, 60 years after giving it to a Navy lieutenant aboard the submarine that rescued him when his plane was shot down over the Pacific Ocean. CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) -- A tractor-trailer slammed into three houses shortly before dawn Wednesday, clipping the first house, then hitting the second home and knocking it 12 feet into the house next door. |
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| Tuesday, July 17ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- A woman accused of planning a bizarre bank robbery that ended with a pizza deliveryman dead after a bomb locked around his neck exploded pleaded not guilty Tuesday to robbery, conspiracy and a firearms charge. LANSDOWNE, Pa. (AP) -- A 13-year-old boy fatally stabbed his brother with a steak knife after the 16-year-old refused to turn over a video game controller, authorities said. PHILADELPHIA, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers have identified a combination therapy as a way to sensitize treatment resistant human cancer cells. |
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| Monday, July 16PHILADELPHIA, July 16 (UPI) -- U.S. and Canadian researchers have identified a gene variant that raises a child's risk for type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes. |
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| Sunday, July 15PHILADELPHIA - Seven years ago, Russian courts convicted a wealthy American motel owner of molesting children, sent him to prison, then expelled him from the country. GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Apple trees have been planted, wood fences restored and power lines buried in recent years to transform the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg to the way it looked when Union and Confederate forces clashed on farmers' fields in 1863. |
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| Friday, July 13KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., July 13 (UPI) -- U.S. firm CSL Behring said Friday enrollment is complete in a phase 3 trial of its injectable immunoglobulin therapy for primary immunodeficiency. |
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| Thursday, July 12PHILADELPHIA, July 12 (UPI) -- Human definitions of sour taste in food depend more on nature than nurture, found scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. SWIFTWATER, Pa. - The third suspect in a shooting that left a New York City police officer paralyzed and his partner wounded was captured early Thursday in the Pennsylvania woods. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Alcoa Inc. withdrew its $28 billion offer to buy Canadian aluminum rival Alcan Inc. on Thursday after being outbid by mining giant Rio Tinto. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The nephew of late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson has begun renovating Wilson's boyhood home and wants the city to designate it a historic structure. PITTSBURGH, July 12 (UPI) -- U.S. oncologists have used a new monoclonal antibody to achieve significant reductions in liver cancer tumor growth in both human and mouse models. |
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| Wednesday, July 11PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (UPI) -- The more "Western" the diet -- red meat, starches and sweets -- the greater breast cancer risk among postmenopausal Chinese women, a study found. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 11 (UPI) -- Preteens who prefer evenings are more likely to exhibit anti-social behavior, rule-breaking and attention problems, according to a U.S. study.
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ERIE, Pa. - A pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank and was then blown up by a bomb locked around his neck helped plan the robbery and then got caught up in something "much more sinister," a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. HONESDALE, Pa., July 11 (UPI) -- German children's author Rotraut Susanne Berner said she walked away from the U.S. market because her illustrations are a bit too risque for the publisher. ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- A pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank and was then blown up by a bomb locked around his neck was involved in the robbery plot, a federal law enforcement official familiar with an indictment being released Wednesday told The Associated Press. |
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| Tuesday, July 10PITTSBURGH, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. computer graphics experts have created a new system for editing or altering photographs using segments of the millions of images available on the Web. PITTSBURGH, July 10 (UPI) -- People who take hydroxychloroquine for rheumatoid arthritis have a much lower risk of type 2 diabetes, and U.S. doctors say the effect might be universal. PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (UPI) -- Prophylactic antibiotics don't reduce urinary tract infections in children but increase their risk for resistant infections, say U.S. researchers. PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (UPI) -- A study of some 2,200 women in Philadelphia shows African-American women have more advanced breast cancer at diagnosis than Caucasian women. PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (UPI) -- Many otherwise healthy U.S. children and adolescents have low vitamin D levels, which may put them at risk for bone diseases such as rickets, a study says. PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests the recent discovery of contaminated Chinese food exports exposes a flawed regulatory system in that nation. UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A judge refused to reduce the sentence of a former youth baseball coach convicted of offering a player money to bean a 9-year-old autistic teammate. |
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| Monday, July 9PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. on Monday said second-quarter profit slipped nearly 4 percent as outage costs at two smelters weighed down results. SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- A man who once tried to blow up his parents' house went on trial Monday on federal charges alleging he offered to help al-Qaida destroy pipelines and refineries to help end the war in Iraq. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania campers were bitter about being kicked out of their spots at state parks and people showing up at driver's license offices were stunned to find them closed by a partial government shutdown Monday. NEWTON, Pa., July 9 (UPI) -- Patients can now access their medical records via a quick glance at their cell phones, a U.S. technology company said Monday.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The state museums didn't open Monday. State parks were closed to visitors at the height of the summer tourism season, and many state services were idle because of a government shutdown that kept about 24,000 workers off the job. PITTSBURGH, July 9 (UPI) -- A U.S. research team has recommended various public policy guidelines that could be used to control indoor mold contamination in homes. HARRISBURG, Pa., July 9 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania furloughed nearly 25,000 state workers because of a budget impasse Monday but kept its casinos open. |
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvanians will be unable to take a driver's license test, visit a state-run museum or place a casino bet starting Monday unless an 11th-hour breakthrough ends a budget stalemate that threatens a partial government shutdown.
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PHILADELPHIA - When Henry Powderly II ordered Verizon Communications Inc.'s FiOS fiber-optic service, he knew he was about to be connected to the future of telecommunications. He also got unplugged from its past. Which meant that while Powderly was gaining features, he was losing some telecommunications options. |
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| Saturday, July 7PITTSBURGH - Mark O'Mahoney was like a kid again, crouched on the floor with an aggie cocked in his thumb and aiming at one of 13 target marbles arranged in an "X" at the center of a 10-foot circle. TRENTON, N.J. - A man charged with two homicides who was mistakenly released from jail was captured Friday night in Pennsylvania, authorities said. |
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| Friday, July 6HARRISBURG, Pa., July 6 (UPI) -- Director Michael Moore, whose latest documentary "Sicko" paints an ailing picture of U.S. healthcare, wants to debate the CEO of Capital Blue Cross. PITTSBURGH, July 6 (UPI) -- Adults with damaged blood vessels in the brain or atrophy in their temporal lobe are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, a new study shows. |
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| Thursday, July 5PHILADELPHIA, July 5 (UPI) -- Cancer cells' attempts to avoid immune system recognition leave a fingerprint that may be used to fight the disease, say U.S. doctors. PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., July 5 (UPI) -- U.S. firm Genaera said Thursday it discontinued phase 2 studies of Lomucin for cystic fibrosis and squalamine for prostate cancer. |
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| Wednesday, July 4PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Cable companies are planning to charge more for set-top boxes to help pay for new, more expensive versions mandated by the Federal Communications Commission. |
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| Tuesday, July 3PHILADELPHIA, July 3 (UPI) -- An acne-like rash that often occurs with use of the anti-cancer drug erlotinib --sold as Tarceva -- is linked to an improved chance of survival. PHILADELPHIA, July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered two different ways of seeing motion are involved when the brain and eye combine to spot and follow an object in motion. |
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| Monday, July 2PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., July 2 (UPI) -- A combination of mammography and MRI almost triples the number of breast cancers found in high-risk women, say U.S. doctors. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- In a case that involves issues as lofty as the First Amendment and as basic as which cut of meat was served, a restaurant critic is being sued for libel for describing a $15 piece of beef as "miserably tough and fatty." PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The voice of Darth Vader will be the voice of the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Sunday, July 1PHILADELPHIA, July 1 (UPI) -- New Jersey and Pennsylvania are seeing their worst invasion of damaging Gypsy moth caterpillars in nearly two decades, it was reported Sunday. |
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| Friday, June 29PHILADELPHIA, June 29 (UPI) -- By combining an old and a new screening technique, U.S. researchers can now test thousands of HIV strains for drug resistance in a single day. PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., June 29 (UPI) -- An independent U.S. review of studies on inhaled insulin in type 2 diabetes has revealed both pluses and minuses about the still-controversial treatment. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Mayor John F. Street was among the first to get a coveted iPhone on Friday, waiting in line, on and off, for almost 15 hours and forced to defend the effort when a passer-by asked about the city's skyrocketing murder rate. PHILADELPHIA, June 29 (UPI) -- U.S. firm Shire said Friday it has filed for U.S. approval of Vyvanse for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities in a bloodstained corridor along the East Coast are seeing a surge in killings, and one of the most provocative explanations offered by criminal-justice experts is this: not enough new immigrants. NEW MILFORD, Pa. (AP) -- A tour bus carrying diverted airline passengers crashed on an interstate exit ramp early Friday, killing the driver and injuring a dozen passengers. |
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| Thursday, June 28STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. study has found when Web searchers evaluated identical search-engine results, they overwhelmingly favored Yahoo! and Google. PHILADELPHIA, June 28 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers have developed a new method of screening for drug-resistant forms of the human immunodeficiency virus. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rite Aid Corp., the nation's third-largest drugstore chain, said Thursday its profit soared in the first quarter as sales rose in both the pharmacy and front-end sections of the stores. PHILADELPHIA, June 28 (UPI) -- Services for older adults in Sweden are controlled locally, are tightly associated with elder needs and families are more involved than in U.S. services. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 28 (UPI) -- U.S. cancer survivors ages 55 to 65 who remain cancer-free for two to six years after diagnosis are just as likely to work as peers without cancer. PHILADELPHIA, June 28 (UPI) -- GlaxoSmithKline said Thursday an analysis of data from a phase 3 trial shows its cervical cancer vaccine protects against most virus types. |
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| Wednesday, June 27PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (UPI) -- The FBI has recovered a typewritten copy of "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck and other materials courtesy of a tip from a Philadelphia auction house. PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (UPI) -- Children who die of a chronic illness are more likely to spend their final days at home compared to children who died two decades ago, says a U.S. study. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The FBI has recovered the long-lost manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Good Earth," after the daughter of one of the author's former secretaries tried to put it up for auction. HERSHEY, Pa., June 27 (UPI) -- A Penn State University College of Medicine study suggests air pollution has a more significant effect on the immune systems of females than of males. PITTSBURGH, June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered a process by which a kind of grease can make some plastics vastly better electrical conductors. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 27 (UPI) -- Air pollution may have a bigger effect on the immune system of females than males, according to a study by the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine. PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (UPI) -- Feedback either through phone counseling or via the mail can play a crucial role in getting people to exercise, according to a U.S. study. |
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| Tuesday, June 26PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A former school security guard accused of keeping a teenage runaway in his home for a decade and having sex with her pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison. PITTSBURGH, June 26 (UPI) -- Additional body fat may prove to have some advantages for women with type 1 diabetes, a U.S. study has found. PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. physicists have built some of the tiniest metal nanostructures ever created, some 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists have found gene therapy might be successful in restoring sight in some people even if they have been blind since birth. PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (UPI) -- A protein can predict how well a patient with advanced pancreatic cancer will do after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, says a U.S. study. |
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| Sunday, June 24GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Farmers have been growing apples here since before the Civil War, and as times have changed, they have changed with them, planting smaller trees to speed up harvests and growing popular new varieties to satisfy changing tastes. |
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| Saturday, June 23PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Fish and wildlife departments around the country are on the hunt -- for more wardens. BRADFORD, Pa. (AP) -- The former owner of a property where more than 20 Great Dane carcasses were found earlier this month has been charged with animal cruelty. |
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| Friday, June 22PHILADELPHIA, June 22 (UPI) -- A pediatric cancer specialist in Philadelphia says gene research may play a key role in understanding the biological causes of neuroblastoma. |
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| Thursday, June 21HARRISBURG, Pa., June 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. policy barring gay men from donating blood is drawing criticism from gay activists, blood banks and some medical officials.
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PITTSBURGH - The mothers of five children killed in a house fire surrendered to police Thursday to face involuntary manslaughter charges for allegedly leaving the youngsters alone while they went to a bar. PITTSBURGH - The mothers of five children killed in a house fire were charged with involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday after they were accused of leaving the youngsters alone while they went to a bar, authorities said. |
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| Wednesday, June 20ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Federal agents arrested 81 suspected illegal immigrants during a raid at a manufacturing plant in the Poconos. The company said an agency that provides temporary workers was responsible. PITTSBURGH, June 20 (UPI) -- The Pittsburgh Pirates' version of "The Sopranos" finale has became an Internet sensation after being shown before a game June 15. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 19 (UPI) -- Summer in the United States is officially here, but whenever temperatures hit swelter and relative humidity tops 70 percent, heat illnesses are a concern. |
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| Tuesday, June 19PHILADELPHIA - It looks like the U.S. Mint has struck again - or not struck again, depending on how you look at it. New dollar coins featuring John Adams are missing edge inscriptions including "In God We Trust," according to the Professional Coin Grading Service, a rare coin authentication company based in Newport Beach, Calif. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Richard Gere will receive the 2007 Marian Anderson Award for his advocacy efforts on behalf of independence for Tibet and better care for HIV/AIDS patients. PITTSBURGH, June 19 (UPI) -- U.S. cancer researchers have discovered cancer therapies often eliminate most of the disease but are thwarted by multiple-drug-resistant tumor cells. PITTSBURGH, June 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have successfully engineered artificial blood vessels from muscle-derived stem cells for heart and kidney treatments. |
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| Monday, June 18STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 18 (UPI) -- U.S., Canadian and British scientists have created a new way of determining how extinct species moved that's independent of analyses of limb structure. PITTSBURGH, June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have cultured stem cells from human fat tissue, creating an alternate source for life-saving hematopoietic stem cell transplants. PITTSBURGH, June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. engineering researchers say rising U.S. trade with nations such as China might increase carbon emissions and affect climate change. |
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| Sunday, June 17OAKMONT, Pa. - Angel Cabrera of Argentina stepped up while other contenders fell away Sunday to challenge Tiger Woods as the final round of the U.S. Open turned into a survival contest. Cabrera finished with a 1-under 69, the only player among the leaders below par for the round. |
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| Saturday, June 16LANCASTER, Pa. - A high school student accused of breaking into the home of a fellow classmate, then stabbing the teenager and his parents to death last month was arrested on Saturday, police said. |
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| Friday, June 15PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Racetrack and casino operator Penn National Gaming Inc. said Friday it agreed to be acquired by funds managed by two investment companies for about $6.1 billion in cash. LEWISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Scientists investigating a mysterious ailment that has killed many of the nation's honeybees are concentrating on pesticides and microorganisms as possible causes of the disorder, and some beekeepers are refusing to place their hives near chemically treated fields. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Leonard Slatkin will be the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor for the next three years, beginning in September 2008. ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- Though he lost the engagement ring and two wedding bands, the prospective bridegroom apparently found true love. |
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| Thursday, June 14PHILADELPHIA, June 14 (UPI) -- A federal judge has upheld a Philadelphia Police Department ban on religious headgear on the job, ruling that a female officer has no right to wear a hijab. |
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| Wednesday, June 13PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man who told dates he met online tall tales of being a doctor, an astronaut and a CIA assassin was convicted Wednesday of two counts of sexual assault but acquitted of raping several women who accused him of drugging them. BROWNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- An 18-year-old firefighter was charged with setting a weekend blaze that damaged a one-room Amish schoolhouse -- a fire he claimed to have discovered by driving past in the dead of night. PHILADELPHIA, June 13 (UPI) -- GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday it will donate 50 million doses of its vaccine against the H5N1 strain of bird flu to the World Health Organization. |
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| Tuesday, June 12PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Fire raced through a three-story row house early Tuesday, killing five children, and was caused by the youngsters playing with matches, authorities said. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pennsylvania will pay for security at the Flight 93 crash site to end a dispute over a donation box at the memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the governor said Tuesday. PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (UPI) -- A new MRI identifies with 100 percent accuracy mild cognitive disorder, which can be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, say U.S. researchers. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have used an industrial-sized computed tomography scanner to study 200 million-year-old fossils embedded in stone. PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists have found a potential new target for treating type 2 diabetes: a protein that regulates fat metabolism. |
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| Monday, June 11PHILADELPHIA, June 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have found deleting a gene important in embryo development leads to premature aging and loss of stem cell reservoirs in adult mice. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 11 (UPI) -- The key to successful dieting may be eating foods low in calorie density -- high in water and low in fat, according to U.S. researchers. |
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| Sunday, June 10BUTLER, Pa., June 10 (UPI) -- Officials in the fur industry say they suspect animal rights activists were likely behind a raid on a Pennsylvania mink farm that ended with animals dead. BROWNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- One or more people broke into a one-room Amish schoolhouse in the middle of the night and set a fire that caused an estimated $20,000 in damage, fire officials said. |
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| Thursday, June 7PHILADELPHIA - Archaeologists unearthing the remains of George Washington's presidential home have discovered a hidden passageway used by his nine slaves, raising questions about whether the ruins should be incorporated into a new exhibit at the site. PITTSBURGH, June 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows shoppers will pay extra to buy items from online retailers when they can ascertain how retailers' policies protect their privacy. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests nearly all 162 land-breeding frog species living on Caribbean islands originated from a single frog species. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The company that owns The Philadelphia Inquirer would be interested in joining a bid to buy Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, The Inquirer reported Thursday. WHITE HAVEN, Pa. (AP) -- A bear tried to pull a Girl Scout out of her tent during a camping trip, the girl and scout officials said. |
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| Wednesday, June 6STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Twelve major universities will digitize select collections in each of their libraries -- up to 10 million volumes -- as part of Google Inc.'s book-scanning project. The goal: a shared digital repository that faculty, students and the public can access quickly. PHILADELPHIA, June 6 (UPI) -- With its top-selling diabetes drug Avandia under a cloud of safety concerns, British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline fought back this week. PHILADELPHIA, June 6 (UPI) -- Counting circulating tumor cells before and after the start of treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer could help treatment, says a U.S. study. |
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| Tuesday, June 5
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PITTSBURGH - A man who owns property at the site where Flight 93 crashed has demanded millions for his portion of land where a memorial is planned, and has installed a donation box to help pay for security. The actions by Mike Svonavec have angered victims' families, who believe he is overcharging and disagree with the need for a donation box. SHANKSVILLE, Pa., June 5 (UPI) -- The owner of a large part of the site where United Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania has angered victims' families by putting up a collection box. PHILADELPHIA, June 5 (UPI) -- Comedian Bill Cosby marched through Philadelphia neighborhoods to rally residents against gun violence and challenge those waiting for divine intervention. KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. - Police arrested two intruders found inside a suburban Philadelphia high school as students were evacuated and the building was locked down Tuesday morning. HORSHAM, Pa., June 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. Midwest consumer revolt is returning the original recipe of an Arnold Foods Co. wheat bread brand to supermarket shelves, the company says. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Shirley Jones, the matriarch of TV's "The Partridge Family," has been honored by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera for her lifetime contribution to musical theater. PHILADELPHIA, June 5 (UPI) -- Obesity may contribute to a greater likelihood of post-operative complications for patients having pancreatic surgery, U.S. researchers found. |
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| Monday, June 4LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- A man shot and wounded five people, including his girlfriend's 2-year-old grandson, then turned himself in less than an hour later and confessed, police said. PITTSBURGH, June 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests women treated with Herceptin (trastuzumab) and chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer do not develop congestive heart failure. PITTSBURGH, June 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have identified a new treatment for patients with follicular lymphoma, a slow-growing type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
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| Sunday, June 3HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Shohei Takagiwa wanted more than anything to see his three friends graduate from college, but he couldn't travel halfway around the world from his native Japan to Northampton Community College in Bethlehem. |
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| Friday, June 1PITTSBURGH, June 1 (UPI) -- Up to 84 percent of the U.S. elderly with depression fail to respond to first-course treatment or relapse during their first six to 12 weeks of treatment. |
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| Thursday, May 31ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- As the out-of-control police cruiser hurtled toward them Wednesday night, Crystal Legrand grabbed her two youngest children and took cover behind a wall.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Food producer H.J. Heinz Co. said Thursday its fiscal fourth quarter profit increased 7.8 percent, boosted by strong sales of the company's top brands. PHILADELPHIA, May 31 (UPI) -- Radiation after lumpectomy for early-stage breast cancer can be safely delivered in higher daily doses to reduce treatment time, found a U.S. study. COLLEGEVILLE, Pa., May 31 (UPI) -- Wyeth said late Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Torisel for treating advanced renal cell carcinoma. PITTSBURGH, May 31 (UPI) -- Mylan said Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration tentatively approved its generic version of GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil CR. |
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| Wednesday, May 30PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Roxxi, a brunette nanobot with a blaster for a left arm, takes careful aim at a cancer cell and zaps it into oblivion. DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A woman accused of stealing an ambulance left running while a rescue squad was in a house attending to an elderly stroke victim will stand trial on second-degree felony charges of theft, receiving stolen property and other counts, a judge has ruled. |
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| Tuesday, May 29PHILADELPHIA, May 29 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists have found evidence that small pieces of non-coding genetic material known as microRNAs might influence cancer susceptibility. PHILADELPHIA, May 29 (UPI) -- U.S. heart researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College have used gene therapy to reverse heart failure in animals. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- To the Rev. David J. Beale, it looked like an avalanche: an enormous wall of water thundering down the mountain into the valley community, carrying debris, livestock, train cars and human beings. |
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| Monday, May 28
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MOOSIC, Pa. - Roger Clemens appears ready to rejoin the New York Yankees' starting rotation. Clemens pitched six shutout innings for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in a 2-0 victory over Toledo on Monday, leaving to a standing ovation from an overflow crowd in what was likely his final minor league tuneup. ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- These weren't just bugs. These were bugs on drugs. |
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| Sunday, May 27PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Tour guides will show you this historic city on foot, trolley or double-decker bus, in a horse-drawn carriage, while riding a Segway or even as you blow a kazoo on a boat with wheels. |
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| Friday, May 25MEDIA, Pa. (AP) -- Elected to Congress on an anti-war platform, Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak nevertheless voted this week to continue funding the war without setting a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. PHILADELPHIA, May 25 (UPI) -- U2 singer Bono and the advocacy organization he co-founded will receive the 2007 Liberty Medal, the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia said. |
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Government data showing an unexpected surge in new home sales weren't much comfort to luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc., which reported a 79 percent drop in second-quarter profits Thursday. PITTSBURGH, May 24 (UPI) -- A child-friendly statue of one of children's most beloved neighbors, Mr. Rogers, is in the planning stages for a Pittsburgh neighborhood. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Bono, who has helped bring worldwide attention to medical and economic problems in Africa, will receive this year's Liberty Medal. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. PHILADELPHIA, May 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined COX inhibitors, such as traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, may weaken the effects of estrogen therapy. |
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| Tuesday, May 22PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Canadian aluminum maker Alcan Inc. on Tuesday urged its shareholders to reject a hostile $27 billion takeover bid by U.S.-based rival Alcoa Inc., saying the offer failed to reflect the company's value. KITTANNING, Pa. (AP) -- A woman who tried to steal a fetus by knocking her pregnant neighbor unconscious with a baseball bat and cutting her abdomen was sentenced Tuesday to 22 to 50 years in prison. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A truck driver who improperly hitched a wood-chipper to his vehicle was sentenced Tuesday to nine to 18 months in jail for causing a crash that killed a father and two of his triplets. |
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| Monday, May 21SCRANTON, Pa., May 21 (UPI) -- Scranton, Pa., officials revealed plans for a "The Office" Convention during a party with the fictitious paper company's accountants, Kevin and Angela. PITTSBURGH, May 21 (UPI) -- A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study found that components of green tea protect bladder cells from inflammation damage. |
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| Sunday, May 20CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) -- A bus veered off a highway and crashed in central Pennsylvania early Sunday, killing two people and injuring 32 others, authorities said. SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- Ain't no party like a Scranton party. CLEARFIELD, Pa. - A bus veered off a highway and crashed in central Pennsylvania early Sunday, killing two people and injuring 32 others, authorities said. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- In a span of seven years, Loretta Weathers moved from a plasma physics laboratory at MIT to a federal courtroom, trading long days of crunching data for the adrenalin rush of high-stakes litigation. |
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| Saturday, May 19PITTSBURGH, May 18 (UPI) -- The first U.S. transplant of a beating heart was performed on a 47-year-old Pennsylvania man with congestive heart failure. |
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| Friday, May 18PITTSBURGH, May 18 (UPI) -- U.S. physicists say they've found a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with efficient electrical conductors. HARRISBURG, Pa., May 18 (UPI) -- U.S. doctors warned Friday that trying to get a "perfect" tan is always an unhealthy activity. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A woman was charged with abuse of a corpse after police found the remains of a baby in her freezer. |
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| Thursday, May 17PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Lawyers for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal argued to an appeals court Thursday that racism by a judge and prosecutors corrupted the 1982 trial at which he was condemned for killing a white police officer. PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (UPI) -- Some feel they are fated for cancer, so they don't seek to prevent it; their belief might turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy, says a U.S. survey. PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists discovered that a well-known cell receptor sends a signal to dampen the immune system -- a finding that might help control immune responses. PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered adult mice can regenerate hair follicles and hair in a study that might help in developing treatments for skin disorders. |
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| Wednesday, May 16PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pennsylvania is placing online the complete inspection records of its 2,600 licensed dog kennels. |
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| Tuesday, May 15PHILADELPHIA, May 15 (UPI) -- Older U.S. adults with major depression treated by a depression manager are 45 percent less likely to die in five years than those not treated by a manager. |
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| Monday, May 14PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The operator of a pier that collapsed in 2000, killing three nightclub patrons and injuring 43 others, pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of involuntary manslaughter. The pier's owner pleaded no contest to the same counts. |
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| Sunday, May 13PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Gloomy weather didn't dim the smiles of the two perfectly coifed TV anchors as they bantered into their microphone headsets. |
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| Friday, May 11PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The maker of Splenda on Friday settled a lawsuit over its disputed advertising slogan -- "Made from sugar so it tastes like sugar" -- just after the jury reached a verdict that would have gone against the market-leading artificial sweetener. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Federal antitrust authorities have approved United States Steel Corp.'s planned acquisition of Lone Star Technologies Inc., a maker of welded pipe used in oil fields. |
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| Thursday, May 10HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Hershey, the nation's largest candymaker, said Thursday it will earn less in 2007 than it had originally forecast, a day after disclosing plans to close its last two plants in Canada and cut jobs from another plant in Pennsylvania. SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) -- It took global-positioning technology for police to track down a 10-year-old boy and get him to a hospital in time for a life-saving heart transplant. PITTSBURGH, May 10 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists are working to make hydrogen more stable and cost efficient than fossil fuels. |
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| Wednesday, May 9PITTSBURGH, May 9 (UPI) -- Two Romanian nationals have been indicted for their alleged part in a conspiracy involving the use of card readers on ATM machines in the Pittsburgh area. SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Police located a 10-year-old boy awaiting a heart transplant by asking his mother's cellular provider to locate her cell phone. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Hopes of an imminent housing recovery are dimming as the nation's largest homebuilders continue to report slumping sales and profits. PITTSBURGH, May 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered a genetic mechanism that shuts down healthy immune cells -- a finding with implications for cancer and other diseases. |
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| Tuesday, May 8READING, Pa., May 8 (UPI) -- A Berks County, Pa., correctional officer's recent photo spread in Playboy magazine has reignited debate regarding a ban on adult magazines for many inmates. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- After six people were shot in the city's Homewood neighborhood in less than 24 hours, Pittsburgh police rolled in with a 20-ton armored truck with a blast-resistant body, armored rotating roof hatch and gunports. PHILADELPHIA, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created a collection of yeast, each containing an olfactory receptor that allows the strain to "smell" various odors. PHILADELPHIA, May 8 (UPI) -- Dead Can Dance is a dead concern -- at least for British songstress Lisa Gerrard. |
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| Monday, May 7PHILADELPHIA, May 7 (UPI) -- Unlike most body tissues that are renewed from adult stem cells, insulin-producing beta cells renew themselves, U.S. researchers have found. PHILADELPHIA, May 7 (UPI) -- A majority of U.S. hospital CEOs see the growing dearth of doctors in the United States as a serious problem, said a survey released Monday. PHILADELPHIA, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. companies that require employees to speak only English on the job have sparked lawsuits alleging discrimination against immigrants, federal figures show. WAYNE, Pa. (AP) -- The sprawling estate of the wealthy family that inspired "The Philadelphia Story" is up for sale. |
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| Friday, May 4PHILADELPHIA - The City Council approved limits to gun purchases with the promise to sue state lawmakers to enforce it, saying the city could no longer wait for the Legislature as the murder rate skyrockets. |
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| Thursday, May 3GLENMOORE, Pa. (AP) -- A bus carrying high school students to a band competition plowed into a tractor-trailer early Thursday, injuring about 30 people and closing a highway for hours, authorities said. PITTSBURGH, May 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. review of family-oriented psychosocial interventions found that they were beneficial but had a smaller impact than expected. PHILADELPHIA, May 3 (UPI) -- As children with sickle cell disease become teens, their consumption of important nutrients declines, says a U.S. study. PITTSBURGH, May 3 (UPI) -- Mylan said Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration tentatively approved its generic version of Novartis' Femara. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- In her native Malaysia, Mary Tiong developed a reputation for selling leftover computer monitors for a large manufacturer behind the industry's best-known brands. She earned a nickname: The Monitor Queen. ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- A man already serving time for helping a fugitive hide was sentenced Wednesday to almost two years in prison on a federal weapons conviction in the same case. |
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| Wednesday, May 2STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State's groundbreaking arrangement with Napster is over. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 2 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered eating macadamia nuts can result in a reduction of cardiovascular disease risks. |
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| Tuesday, May 1PHILADELPHIA, May 1 (UPI) -- The Philadelphia Fire Department has suspended a firefighter who wrote a rap lyric about police officers, saying he would turn "pigs into bacon bits." PHILADELPHIA, May 1 (UPI) -- Pediatricians believe secondhand smoke is a serious health concern for children, but they are not equipped to help reduce exposure, says a U.S. study. PHILADELPHIA, May 1 (UPI) -- New evidence is emerging that clinical death doesn't begin a few minutes after a human heart stops pumping and can take as long as hours to occur. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., May 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. study found pistachios lower cholesterol and provide antioxidants usually found in leafy green vegetables and brightly colored fruit. PITTSBURGH, May 1 (UPI) -- Women with recurrent depression may prevent subsequent depressive episodes with monthly-maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy, found a U.S. study. |
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| Sunday, April 29PHILADELPHIA - Jamie Moyer took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning and combined with two relievers for a four-hitter in the Philadelphia Phillies' 6-1 win over the Florida Marlins on Sunday. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A multimedia designer and artist, Jesse Hambley dabbles in Web and graphic design, photography and even film work. But when he started looking for a photography studio, the 23-year-old realized he couldn't afford a place on his own. PHILADELPHIA - A sport-utility vehicle filled with teenagers leaving their prom struck a median and rolled over, killing one and injuring six others, police said. |
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| Saturday, April 28MILLERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- A woman denied a teaching degree on the eve of graduation because of a MySpace photo has sued the university. SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - A two-year campaign to raise $30 million for a permanent memorial for the victims of Flight 93 has fallen far short of its goal, and organizers say they are shifting their strategy to close the gap. |
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| Friday, April 27WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 26 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are investigating a theory that twins can be half-identical. |
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| Thursday, April 26PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The former director of a whaling museum and an antiques dealer pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally importing hundreds of sperm whale teeth from England and selling them to U.S. merchants. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable television operator, on Thursday reported that first-quarter profits surged by 80 percent, in part helped by a one-time gain resulting from the dissolution of a joint venture with Time Warner Cable. |
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| Wednesday, April 25PHILADELPHIA, April 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher has pinpointed 1616 as the year of the first European voyage up the Delaware River. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Black lawmakers want police to investigate protesters at a statehouse gun rights rally who held up a banner calling for an opponent to be "hung from the tree of liberty." |
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PHILADELPHIA - A classic-car broker who swindled actor Nicolas Cage and other clients before he was caught in Spain was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison and $1.8 million in restitution. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The to-do list for the next mayor is a daunting one: slow a surging homicide rate and change the pay-to-play culture in City Hall.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A bloody, bullet-filled weekend left 11 people dead across the city, where drugs and disrespect have trumped brotherly love and the murder rate is on pace to be the highest in a decade. Philadelphia has seen more than one killing a day this year, totaling 127 as of Monday afternoon. |
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| Monday, April 23PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A bloody, bullet-filled weekend left 11 people dead across the city, where drugs and disrespect have trumped brotherly love and the murder rate is on pace to be the highest in a decade. Standing on the wind-swept flatlands of southern Vermilion County, you might think you'd have to drive the 180 miles to Chicago's Field Museum to find the nearest fossilized tree trunk from the Pennsylvania Age, 300 million years ago. Nah, just drill straight down. PITTSBURGH, April 23 (UPI) -- A compound found in many fruits and vegetables as well as red wine selectively kills leukemia cells in culture, according to a U.S. study. PITTSBURGH, April 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have identified the genes activated during learning that alter neuron activity inside the brain. PITTSBURGH, April 23 (UPI) -- U.S. generic drug maker Mylan said Monday it has been approved to market a generic version of Sanofi-aventis' Ambien. PHILADELPHIA, April 23 (UPI) -- Scientists at an independent U.S. cancer center have identified a gene involved in the spread of breast cancer that's resistant to estrogen deprivation. |
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| Sunday, April 22BRADDOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Mayor John Fetterman worked alongside a team of volunteers pulling broken furniture and other debris out of an abandoned church, its ceilings sagging and its belfry thick with pigeon droppings. |
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| Saturday, April 21PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Duquesne University, one of 60 schools targeted by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for allegedly accepting commissions from private loan providers, has announced that it will stop the practice. PITTSBURGH - NHL scoring champion Sidney Crosby played the final 2 1/2 weeks of the regular season and the playoffs with a broken left foot, an injury the Pittsburgh Penguins star didn't disclose until Saturday. |
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| Friday, April 20PHILADELPHIA, April 20 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia firefighter moonlighting as a rap singer has been suspended for a song in which he refers to police officers as "pigs." |
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| Thursday, April 19PHILADELPHIA, April 19 (UPI) -- The discovery of a bacterial enzyme infecting lungs may hold the key to new treatments for some cystic fibrosis patients, say U.S. researchers. PHILADELPHIA, April 19 (UPI) -- A U.S. study has determined an enzyme produced by lung-infecting bacteria further shuts down a protein that is defective in cystic fibrosis patients. PITTSBURGH, April 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created a robotic device that can be inserted onto a heart using minimally invasive surgery to deliver medical treatment. PHILADELPHIA, April 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered a way to observe proteins involved in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases as they move along axons. PITTSBURGH, April 19 (UPI) -- Mylan said Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed its drug as the only approved generic of Pfizer's Norvasc. PITTSBURGH, April 19 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say the demand for critical care services in the nation will soon outpace the supply of specialists trained in intensive care. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have developed a method of directly and precisely measuring the shift in an atom's quantum oscillations. PHILADELPHIA, April 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created a method of expanding the number of immune system "natural killer" cells, increasing antibody effectiveness against cancer. |
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| Wednesday, April 18PHILADELPHIA, April 18 (UPI) -- Doctors having a short discussion with patients about their drinking could have significant effects on their alcohol behavior, says a U.S. review. PITTSBURGH, April 18 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute suggest fish caught in Pittsburgh rivers contain substances that mimic the actions of estrogen. ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A bell pealed 33 times inside the soaring cathedral at Muhlenberg College, breaking the silence as students mourned the dead in the Virginia Tech massacre hundreds of miles away. |
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| Tuesday, April 17SWIFTWATER, Pa., April 17 (UPI) -- French firm Sanofi pasteur said Tuesday it has received U.S. marketing approval of the first vaccine for H5N1, the bird flu virus. PHILADELPHIA, April 17 (UPI) -- Two U.S. universities have been selected the 2007 Templeton Research Lectures grant recipients to promote science and religion conversations. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Police union officials have called for the immediate firing of a city firefighter and aspiring rapper who wrote anti-police lyrics about turning "pigs into bacon bits." |
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| Monday, April 16PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined an antigen-cloning technique might boost efforts to develop a melanoma vaccine, as well as other cancer vaccines. PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (UPI) -- Philadelphia's Comcast Center, the city's tallest building, is to get some added balance with the addition of a 300,000-gallon water tank near its top. |
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| Sunday, April 15PITTSBURGH (AP) -- At a small laboratory in Pittsburgh, workers assemble 2-by-3-foot metal boxes connected to computers -- devices used to measure the hydrogen-absorbing qualities of various materials. |
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| Friday, April 13PITTSBURGH (AP) -- One of the nation's last independent steel unions formally merged with the United Steelworkers on Friday, adding to the ranks of North America's largest industrial labor union. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Vatican has defrocked a former priest accused of sexually assaulting and whipping boys participating in Passion plays, the Philadelphia archdiocese said. PITTSBURGH, April 13 (UPI) -- U.S. firm Mylan said Friday it has been approved to sell a generic version of Bristol-Myers Squibb's type 2 diabetes drug Metaglip. PHILADELPHIA, April 13 (UPI) -- GlaxoSmithKline said late Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its antibacterial Altabax. LINTHICUM, Md. - A strike by about 1,200 miners at three Foundation Coal Holdings Inc. mines in Pennsylvania and Illinois was settled Thursday, the United Mine Workers of America said. |
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| Thursday, April 12PHILADELPHIA, April 12 (UPI) -- Heightened risk taking in teens is the result of competition between two different brain systems, says a Philadelphia psychologist. PHILADELPHIA, April 12 (UPI) -- Excessive doses of niacin, or vitamin B3, taken in an attempt to defeat drug screening tests can result in toxic side effects, say U.S. researchers. POTTSTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A veteran FBI agent killed a week ago while pursuing a trio of bank robbery suspects in central New Jersey was eulogized Thursday as a dogged investigator and role model to legions of colleagues. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rite Aid Corp. on Thursday reported a small fourth-quarter profit that missed expectations, and the nation's third-largest drugstore chain said it has agreed to divest two dozen stores in a deal for 1,850 Brooks and Eckerd stores that it expects to close in May. |
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| Wednesday, April 11PHILADELPHIA, April 11 (UPI) -- Comcast Corp. said Wednesday it would buy movie-ticket site Fandango Inc. as the U.S. cable operator launches an online entertainment business. PHILADELPHIA, April 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a mosquito-sized biosensor that can rapidly detect tiny amounts of disease-causing E. coli bacteria in food. PITTSBURGH - A Florida-based Web site that invites women to warn others about men they've dated cannot be sued in a Pennsylvania court by an attorney who said its postings falsely claimed he was unfaithful and had sexually transmitted diseases. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A Florida-based Web site that invites women to warn others about men they've dated cannot be sued in a Pennsylvania court by an attorney who said its postings falsely claimed he was unfaithful and had sexually transmitted diseases. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Record aerospace industry demand and higher metal prices helped lift Alcoa Inc.'s first-quarter profits nearly 9 percent, as the aluminum maker kicked off earnings season and gave Wall Street its first taste of how companies have fared so far this year. |
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| Tuesday, April 10PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The marketers of Splenda have made millions by confusing consumers into thinking the yellow packets contain a natural product and not an artificial sweetener, its chief rival told a jury Tuesday in a trial that pits Splenda against its rivals in the $355 million market for sugar substitutes. PITTSBURGH, April 10 (UPI) -- During the past 30 years, the number of male births has decreased each year in the United States and Japan, but researchers are not exactly sure why. PITTSBURGH, April 10 (UPI) -- U.S. computer scientists are advocating peer-to-peer Internet file sharing services be configured to share not only identical files, but also similar ones. PHILADELPHIA, April 10 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered a protein that is key to the spread of breast cancer and, therefore, presents a potential new drug target. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 10 (UPI) -- An international team will live in a small shelter in the Utah desert for two weeks this month in a NASA simulation of Martian exploration. |
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| Monday, April 9PHILADELPHIA, April 9 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are studying a procedure called airway bypass, which involves creating pathways in the lung to relieve emphysema symptoms. PHILADELPHIA, April 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have developed technology that uses cylindrical-shaped nanoparticles to deliver drugs to tumors. COLLEGEVILLE, Pa., April 9 (UPI) -- U.S. firm Wyeth said Monday the Food and Drug Administration has extended by three months the agency's review of Torisel for kidney cancer. PITTSBURGH, April 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined stem cells isolated from females regenerate skeletal muscle more efficiently than do stem cells from males. PHILADELPHIA, April 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have developed carbon nanotube-tipped pipettes for use in in-situ DNA sequencing and organelle-targeted drug delivery. |
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| Sunday, April 8HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's new statewide computer system makes it possible for the first time to put a number on how many warrants remain unserved across the state -- 1.4 million, including more than 100 for homicide, The Associated Press has found. |
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| Saturday, April 7SCRANTON, Pa., April 7 (UPI) -- A man who worked as a mascot for a New York Yankees' triple-A farm team in Pennsylvania has been arrested and charged with raping a 15-year-old boy. |
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| Friday, April 6STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Bob Lawless had a sunny outlook for his peach crop earlier this week as delightful weather pushed some of his trees nearly to blossom. Then the cold snap hit. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prosecutors want the entire 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to recuse itself from the latest appeal for death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal because Gov. Ed Rendell -- whose wife serves on the court -- was district attorney during his trial. PITTSBURGH, April 6 (UPI) -- Andy Warhol turned a can of tomato soup into highly regarded pop art but it remains to be seen whether U.S. student artists do the same for ketchup. |
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| Wednesday, April 4
AP / 6:10PM
PHILADELPHIA - A 40-year-old intern with the National Archives pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing 164 Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death, and putting most of them up for sale on eBay. PHILADELPHIA, April 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. study showing damaged pancreatic cells can regenerate into healthy cells has implications for diabetes and other pancreatic disorders. PHILADELPHIA, April 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have used a weakened rabies virus to vaccinate laboratory primates against an AIDS-like disease. PHILADELPHIA - A man who contended that he was not required to pay income tax, and whose case led to an indictment against actor Wesley Snipes, was sentenced Tuesday to 27 months in prison. |
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| Tuesday, April 3PHILADELPHIA, April 3 (UPI) -- U.S. cable operator Comcast Corp. said Tuesday it agreed to purchase Patriot Media & Communications for $483 million, or about $6,000 per subscriber. KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., April 3 (UPI) -- CSL Biotherapies said Tuesday it has applied for U.S. approval for its influenza vaccine in adults. HARRISBURG, Pa. - Three airline pilots have asked an appeals court to let them keep flying past the mandatory retirement age of 60, a limit federal regulators plan to raise to 65. |
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| Monday, April 2NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) -- A bell summoned Amish students to a new, more cheerful and more secure one-room schoolhouse Monday, six months to the day after a gunman shot 10 of their classmates, killing five. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 2 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania natural resources officials say the state's forests aren't showing any new growth because of overgrazing by deer. KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., April 2 (UPI) -- U.S. firm CSL Behring said Monday it has been approved for the expanded use of Rhophylac for the rare blood disorder immune thrombocytopenic purpura. PHILADELPHIA, April 2 (UPI) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline said Monday it got U.S. approval for an accelerated dosing schedule for hepatitis vaccine Twinrix.
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NICKEL MINES, Pa. - A new school symbolizing a new beginning stands ready for Amish students who survived a shooting that killed five of their classmates six months ago. PHILADELPHIA - Flexcar, one of the nation's largest car-sharing companies, will launch operations Monday in its 11th U.S. city, Philadelphia. |
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| Sunday, April 1HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- For many Pennsylvanians, the path to medical care may soon be less likely to lead to a doctor. |
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| Friday, March 30PITTSBURGH, March 30 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've uncovered the roots of carbon monoxide's anti-inflammatory effects. FRAZER, Pa., March 30 (UPI) -- U.S. firm Cephalon said Friday it got an approvable letter from the Food and Drug Administration for narcolepsy drug Nuvigil. NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) -- Amish students who survived a shooting that killed five of their classmates plan to attend school in a new building Monday, exactly six months after the massacre, authorities said. PHILADELPHIA, March 30 (UPI) -- Fearnet, the U.S. on-demand, horror-thriller video network, is getting off the ground with the help of high-flying "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi. |
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| Thursday, March 29GREENSBURG, Pa. - A judge on Thursday ordered a couple and their three teenage children to stand trial on charges that they held a woman captive for months and beat her for not doing chores or for no reason at all. |
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| Wednesday, March 28PITTSBURGH - A man freed from prison after 18 years when DNA evidence failed to link him to a 1988 murder sued police Wednesday claiming they violated his civil rights. |
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| Tuesday, March 27
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GREENSBURG, Pa. - A state senator was charged Tuesday with improperly storing a handgun and then lying about it to authorities after a 14-year-old neighbor used the gun to kill himself. PHILADELPHIA - Police brass are going back on patrol to help increase police presence in high crime neighborhoods as the city's homicide rate climbs. MANHEIM, Pa. - An elected coroner has been ordered to stand trial after a newspaper reporter testified that the coroner, trying to keep reporters from calling him, gave her the password to a confidential government Web site. |
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| Monday, March 26UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 26 (UPI) -- Children's self-regulation abilities, such as shifting focus and inhibiting impulses, account for more success in school than intelligence, says a U.S. study.
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PHILADELPHIA - Kal Penn, known for his role as Kumar Patel in the 2004 cult classic "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," will be a guest instructor at the University of Pennsylvania during the spring 2008 semester. PHILADELPHIA, March 26 (UPI) -- Where people live influences their lifestyle, and as a result, their risk of heart disease, according to a U.S. study. HORSHAM, Pa., March 26 (UPI) -- Centocor and Schering-Plough said Monday a European Medicines Agency committee advised Remicade be OK'd for treating Crohn's disease in kids. PITTSBURGH, March 26 (UPI) -- Mylan said Monday it launched its generic version of Bayer's antibiotic Cipro XR tablets in the United States. PHILADELPHIA, March 26 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered string-like nanoparticles similar to viruses circulate in the blood for up to 10 times longer than spherical nanoparticles. HATBORO, Pa. (AP) -- John Smyth needed more than the big flat-screen TV, towel warmers and homelike furniture offered at the Willow Ridge Center to persuade him to stay in the nursing home's rehab unit following knee-joint replacement. |
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| Saturday, March 24SCRANTON, Pa. - During a nine-day trial, a federal judge has learned a lot about Hazleton, a working-class former coal town that few outside Pennsylvania had heard of until the mayor declared war on illegal immigrants. |
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| Friday, March 23PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The inner-city youth swimming program here could have inspired many movies, with its stories of children jumping into the pool as novices and climbing out with college scholarships and foundations for greater success. |
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| Thursday, March 22UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 22 (UPI) -- Walking or yoga eases symptoms and increases quality of life for women during menopause, according to a Pennsylvania State University study. PHILADELPHIA, March 22 (UPI) -- Spinal-cord injuries among U.S. adults over 70 has increased five-fold in the past 30 years, as compared with younger spinal-cord-injury patients. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A group of coin experts warned collectors Thursday that some George Washington dollar coins have been altered to look like ones that mistakenly left the U.S. Mint without "In God We Trust" on the edges. SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- The city of Hazleton tried to "scapegoat and demonize illegal immigrants," blaming them for crime, overburdened schools and other problems, an ACLU lawyer said Thursday at the close of a federal trial over the town's illegal-immigration crackdown. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Software filters work much better than a 1998 federal law designed to keep pornography away from children on the Internet, a federal judge ruled Thursday in striking down the measure on free-speech grounds. PHILADELPHIA, March 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge in Philadelphia ruled Thursday that the U.S. Children's Online Protection Act is unconstitutional. PHILADELPHIA, March 22 (UPI) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline Thursday announced the U.S. launch of once-daily Coreg to treat three key cardiovascular conditions. PHILADELPHIA, March 22 (UPI) -- U.S. cancer biologists have identified a gene mutation that can reduce the number of colon polyps, thereby potentially cutting the risk of colon cancer. |
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| Wednesday, March 21UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) -- A child who brought a realistic replica of a gun to school told a teacher she needed it "for protection," police said. PHILADELPHIA, March 21 (UPI) -- Philadelphia officials began what the mayor called "digging for the truth" for the memorial to the first presidential home and the slaves who lived there. PITTSBURGH, March 21 (UPI) -- More than 77 percent of Americans report at least occasional digestive health problems while traveling, according to a U.S. survey. |
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| Tuesday, March 20PHILADELPHIA, March 20 (UPI) -- A scientist at the University of Pennsylvania is studying what happens in the brains of people who speak in tongues. VALENCIA, Pa. (AP) -- A teenager who was chasing a ball at recess became trapped under a heavy concrete slab for about two hours Tuesday before emergency crews could remove it and rush him to a hospital. PITTSBURGH, March 20 (UPI) -- Nearly one in three dollars spent on healthcare in the United States go to administrative costs, a new study says. |
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| Monday, March 19PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A man pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter for failing to properly hitch a wood-chipper to his truck in an accident that killed a man and two of his young triplets. PITTSBURGH - Jarkko Ruutu is the Pittsburgh Penguins' fourth-line winger, a player with 30 career goals in parts of seven seasons. But now he has become a go-to guy in the shootout. Ruutu's backhand move got the puck past goalie Ray Emery and Pittsburgh tied the Ottawa Senators for fourth place in the Eastern Conference playoff race with a 4-3 win Sunday night. |
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PITTSBURGH - Jarkko Ruutu had the only goal in the shootout and the Pittsburgh Penguins tied the Ottawa Senators for fourth place in the Eastern Conference playoff race with a 4-3 win Sunday night. |
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| Thursday, March 15PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An intern with the National Archives stole about 165 Civil War documents -- including the War Department's announcement of President Lincoln's death -- and sold most of them on eBay, prosecutors charged Thursday. PHILADELPHIA, March 15 (UPI) -- University of Pennsylvania researchers found transcendental meditation can greatly reduce the severity of congestive heart failure. PHILADELPHIA, March 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. study confirms taking a daily medication to prevent migraine headaches can reduce lost job productivity. PITTSBURGH, March 15 (UPI) -- The Pittsburgh Steelers won up to $10 million in tax credits Thursday to help the NFL team with construction of a new amphitheater near Heinz Field. MILFORD, Pa. (AP) -- Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks. HORSHAM, Pa., March 15 (UPI) -- Neose said Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared NE-180, a potential anemia treatment, for clinical trials. PHILADELPHIA, March 15 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers have developed two imaging techniques that allow physicians to look more closely inside human lungs. |
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| Wednesday, March 14PHILADELPHIA, March 14 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined why human olfactory sensory neurons work best when we sniff.
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PITTSBURGH - Penguins fans will get the chance to see Sidney Crosby have many more nights like this in Pittsburgh. Hours after the franchise announced it remain in Pittsburgh for the next 30 years, Crosby had a goal and two assists and scored the deciding goal in the shootout as the Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-4 on Tuesday night. |
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| Tuesday, March 13
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PITTSBURGH - Sidney Crosby scored the deciding goal in the shootout as the Penguins celebrated the announcement that they're staying in Pittsburgh for the next 30 years with a 5-4 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night. PHILADELPHIA, March 13 (UPI) -- Men who grew up in one-parent households are more likely to have been abused as children, according to a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study. |
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| Sunday, March 11YORK, Pa. (AP) -- An explosion destroyed three row houses and damaged three others, but there were no serious injuries, a fire official said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, March 10PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Creditors of bankrupt Le-Nature's Inc. want the Latrobe drink-maker's assets liquidated. PITTSBURGH - Sidney Crosby scored a milestone game-tying goal but was relegated to hearing the crowd roar for the game winner from the locker room. HAZLETON, Pa. - Jose and Rosa Lechuga operated a successful grocery store for a decade in this northeastern Pennsylvania city, but they say a local crackdown on illegal immigrants killed their business. |
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| Friday, March 9PHILADEPHIA, Pa., March 9 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to screen cancer patients to see if they're suitable for a promising class of anti-cancer drugs. PHILADELPHIA, March 9 (UPI) -- Inhaled anesthesia increased the number of brain plaques in animals and might hasten the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's, a U.S. study found. PHILADELPHIA, March 9 (UPI) -- Both arts and U.S. municipalities would benefit from agencies that coordinate and weave cultural activities into a city's planning, a study said. PITTSBURGH - Martin Brodeur picked an ideal time to reach another milestone. Brodeur overcame a mediocre performance in regulation to stop all three shots in the shootout and win his 40th game this season with a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night. |
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| Thursday, March 8PITTSBURGH - Patrik Elias had the deciding goal in the shootout as the New Jersey Devils extended their Atlantic Division lead to eight points with a 4-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night. GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A teenager who was found dead with a state senator's gun by his side committed suicide, according to a county coroner who recommended Thursday that no charges be filed over the death but left open the possibility of lesser charges. PHILADELPHIA, March 8 (UPI) -- Baby boomers, those ages 51 to 56, may be approaching retirement in worse health than their predecessors, say U.S. and Canadian researchers. EDINBORO, Pa. (AP) -- Sharon Stone is best known for her roles as a sexpot in movies such as "Basic Instinct" and "Casino." PITTSBURGH (AP) -- In the months since a 14-year-old boy was found shot to death with a state senator's handgun at his side, questions have swirled about whether his death was a suicide, homicide or some sort of terrible accident. EDINBORO, Pa. - Actress Sharon Stone is best know for her roles as a sexpot in movies like "Basic Instinct" and "Casino." |
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| Wednesday, March 7PHILADELPHIA, March 7 (UPI) -- Blood tests can now reveal several types of chemical biomarkers linked to repetitive-motion injuries, say Pennsylvania researchers.
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PHILADELPHIA - An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and are fetching around $50 apiece online. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Police ended their nearly 20-year practice of providing around-the-clock security at the former headquarters of the radical back-to-nature group MOVE, a city official said. PHILADELPHIA, March 7 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have found a way to make regulatory immune cells function more efficiently, holding promise for such diseases as diabetes and arthritis. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Philadelphia hopes to add salvation to the seemingly endless list of things Internet surfers can find on Google Inc.'s YouTube. |
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| Tuesday, March 6ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to swinging her 4-week-old son like a bat to hit her boyfriend during a fight, fracturing the infant's skull in the process. |
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| Monday, March 5PHILADELPHIA, March 5 (UPI) -- US Airways Group Inc. struggled to bring check-in kiosks back online after the Arizona-based airline combined reservation systems of its predecessor carriers. PHILADELPHIA, March 5 (UPI) -- Nearly four out of five hospitalized children receive drugs that have been tested and approved only for adults, according to U.S. researchers. PITTSBURGH, March 5 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say particulate matter may be having a greater influence on global climate than previously thought. PHILADELPHIA, March 5 (UPI) -- Global drug giant GlaxoSmithKline said Monday new data indicate its bird-flu vaccine protects against different strains of the virus. |
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| Sunday, March 4PHILIDELPHIA, Pa., March 4 (UPI) -- The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pa., is seeking to sell a collection of minerals despite the late collector's request that they not be sold. |
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| Friday, March 2PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A retired custodian fatally shot his wife and two adult sons in their sleep, then turned the gun on himself, police said Thursday. |
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| Thursday, March 1PITTSBURGH, March 1 (UPI) -- Special courts for mentally ill people that deal out treatment for non-serious crimes save taxpayers money, a new U.S. study says. VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (AP) -- A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A longtime member of the O'Jays has sued his former partners and record label over royalties. MALVERN, Pa. (AP) -- Bambi won't be dining at M. Night Shyamalan's estate anytime soon. Township officials have ruled that "The Sixth Sense" director's 8-foot deer fence can continue to surround his property in the suburban Philadelphia countryside. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 1 (UPI) -- U.S. geoscientists say sediment produced by glacial movement might act as a buffer against moderate sea level increases caused by global warming. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Amgen Inc. shares have been anemic lately amid worries that sales of the company's blockbuster anti-anemia drugs might slow because of competition and safety concerns. Now, some analysts and investors say shares of the Thousand Oaks, Calif., biotechnology giant look like a bargain. |
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| Wednesday, February 28BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) -- A middle school principal accused of selling crystal methamphetamine from his office after school and on weekends was arrested after police found the drug on his desk, authorities said Wednesday. HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The Pennsylvania Dental Association says good toothbrush care can help maintain good oral hygiene and reduce the amount of germs in a person's mouth. |
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| Tuesday, February 27DELTA, Pa. (AP) -- A transformer at a nuclear plant caught fire Tuesday morning, but the smoky blaze was confined to the non-nuclear side of the plant, company officials said. |
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| Saturday, February 24PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The last of the 14 bargaining units at the financially ailing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette voted Saturday to ratify a new contract that includes staff reductions, net pay cuts and changes in health care benefits. PHILADELPHIA - David Berger, a class-action lawsuit pioneer who won major cases in the Three Mile Island nuclear accident as well as disputes with oil companies, has died. He was 94. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- David Berger, a class-action lawsuit pioneer who won major cases in the Three Mile Island nuclear accident as well as disputes with oil companies, has died. He was 94. PHILADELPHIA - A high school teacher was assaulted by two students and hospitalized with broken vertebrae after he took an iPod away from one of them during class, officials said. |
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| Friday, February 23CHADDS FORD, Pa., Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Employers looking to enroll their high-cost employees in disease-management plans should use trusted doctors, a new U.S. study says. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Charles Dutoit, former music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, has been named interim conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra while it searches for a new director. |
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| Thursday, February 22GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Blood droplets around the body of a 14-year-old boy who was shot to death with a lawmaker's gun show the boy could have shot himself, an investigator said at a coroner's inquest Thursday. PHILADELPHIA - Luxury-home builder Toll Brothers Inc. said Thursday its first-quarter profit dropped 67 percent due to hefty writedowns and other costs, and Chief Executive Robert Toll said many markets were still soft. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A family filed a negligence and wrongful-death lawsuit against ConAgra Foods Inc., claiming a relative died from eating salmonella-tainted peanut butter. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Unionized workers at Harley-Davidson Inc.'s largest manufacturing plant overwhelmingly approved a new labor agreement Thursday, ending a strike that halted motorcycle production for three weeks. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Advocacy groups for immigrant families and the Department of Homeland Security are at odds over detention facilities in Texas and Pennsylvania that critics argue are inhumanely housing adults and young children in jail-like conditions. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A judge extended Beanie Sigel's supervised release after the rapper was questioned in federal court about a positive drug test and association with convicted felons. |
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| Wednesday, February 21UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. children suffer from asthma more than any other chronic illness, and African-American children are at greater risk of the disease. |
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| Tuesday, February 20HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Four Pennsylvania congressional members said the Federal Communications Commission didn't give adequate notice about a media consolidation public hearing.
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MCKEESPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Raised in the projects in an old steel town, Edward "Willie" Carman saw the Army as a chance to build a new life. |
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| Monday, February 19UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Plant-based omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may have a protective effect on bone health, says a Pennsylvania State University study. |
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| Sunday, February 18
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WAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Fire swept through a house in southwestern Pennsylvania early Saturday, killing six young children and a woman and injuring one other person, state police said. |
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| Saturday, February 17WAYNESBURG, Pa. - Fire swept through a house in southwestern Pennsylvania early Saturday, killing six young children and a woman and injuring one other person, state police said. |
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| Friday, February 16
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The last of hundreds of stranded motorists were freed but Pennsylvania highways remained shut Friday as crews struggled to clear ice and snow following a monster storm that has been blamed for at least 24 deaths in the Northeast and Midwest. |
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| Thursday, February 15HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Hershey Co., whose name has been synonymous with U.S. candymaking for more than a century, is moving a bigger chunk of its production to Mexico. |
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| Wednesday, February 14PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- NutriSystem Inc. said Wednesday that fourth-quarter earnings more than tripled as revenue doubled, with a men's diet plan helping to drive the bottom line. STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Researchers looking to root out computer attacks hope that speed kills. |
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| Tuesday, February 13PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Alcoa Inc. is being targeted by two foreign mining giants who are each preparing $40 billion takeover bids for the aluminum producer, a British newspaper reported. Alcoa shares rose nearly 6 percent Tuesday although some analysts questioned whether such a deal was likely. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An investor who killed three people and himself at a marketing company was upset about losing money in a failed real-estate venture and told his victims to "say your prayers" before he opened fire, police said Tuesday.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An angry investor who killed three people and himself at a marketing company was upset about losing money in a failed real-estate venture and told his victims to "say your prayers" before he opened fire, police said Tuesday. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A business meeting turned deadly when a gunman apparently angry over money killed three men and critically injured a fourth before exchanging gunfire with police and then killing himself, police said. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A gunman fatally shot three men at a business meeting Monday night before exchanging gunfire with police and committing suicide, police said. |
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| Monday, February 12PITTSBURGH - A woman pleaded guilty Monday to attempted homicide, assault and kidnapping for trying to cut a fetus from her neighbor's womb. Peggy Jo Conner, 39, was accused of plotting to steal Valerie Oskin's baby and pass it off as her own. Both Oskin and the baby survived after a boy on an all-terrain vehicle spotted the two women in a clearing. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say honeybees across the nation are being killed as the result of a mystery disease that scientists are calling Colony Collapse Disorder. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have created anti-worm computer technology that can identify and contain "worms" milliseconds after a cyberattack begins. |
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| Thursday, February 8PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The father of a young girl who died of exposure had knocked her unconscious because he was angry, then took her outside in subfreezing temperatures and left her there, police said before the man's arraignment Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, February 7ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Teachers and administrators at Central Elementary School knew they had a problem with F.H., a 12-year-old who had been accused of going into a bathroom stall and sexually assaulting a first-grade boy. PHILADELPHIA - Managed care insurer Cigna Corp. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit rose more than 10 percent as medical spending fell. EXTON, Pa., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- ViroPharma said Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted orphan-drug status for maribavir for treating cytomegalovirus. |
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| Tuesday, February 6JENKINSTOWN, Pa., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Platinum recording group Five For Fighting donated use of its new single, "World," for the Breast Cancer 3-day television ad campaign in the United States. PHILADELPHIA - State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, one of the most powerful and controversial figures in Pennsylvania politics, was indicted Tuesday on federal charges he used a nonprofit group for personal and political gain and defrauded the state out of $1 million. |
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| Monday, February 5
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Bam Margera -- professional skateboarder, prankster and MTV star -- just earned himself another title: husband. Margera, 27, who became a punk hero on the shows "Jackass" and "Viva La Bam," married childhood friend Missy Rothstein, 26, in downtown Philadelphia on Saturday. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. pilot study suggests a low dose of a pharmaceutical used to ease symptoms of drug addiction may also help sufferers of Crohn's disease. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A county coroner was charged Monday with illegally giving newspaper reporters a password to access the 911 system's confidential Web site. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led team of geologists says a phenomena known as sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large 2004 tsunami that struck Sumatra. |
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| Sunday, February 4DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- The brother of a prominent Pennsylvania attorney who was among three people killed in a small plane crash questioned whether insufficient runway lighting contributed to the accident. |
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| Saturday, February 3PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The first time Joseph Neubauer took Aramark Corp. private in 1984, the deal was worth $889 million. When he and other managers led a leveraged buyout of the nation's largest food services company a second time, the price tag zoomed to $6.24 billion. |
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| Friday, February 2PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A Pittsburgh novelty supplier and a Georgia retailer have sued Louis Vuitton Malletier, arguing the fabric bags they sell and distribute do not violate the French handbag maker's trademark. NORRISTOWN, Pa., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Two sons of Philadelphia Eagles Coach Andy Reid could face drug and weapons charges after separate traffic incidents. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Pennsylvania Gambling Control Board has three words for Donald Trump on why he lost his bid to build a slots casino in Philadelphia: location, location, location. YORK, Pa., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- More than 2,700 workers in York, Pa., Friday struck Harley-Davidson Inc.'s largest manufacturing plant after failing to agree on wages and health benefits. PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) -- A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction. YORK, Pa. (AP) -- Union workers began a strike Friday at Harley-Davidson Inc.'s largest manufacturing plant, with small groups quietly picketing each entrance of the York facility. |
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| Thursday, February 1PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable television operator, said Thursday that fourth-quarter profits nearly tripled as customers signed up for its discounted video, Internet and phone package, but the results fell short of expectations. YORK, Pa., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Harley-Davidson Inc. Thursday shut down production at its Pennsylvania manufacturing plant, the company's largest, after unionized workers authorized a strike. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable television operator, said Thursday that fourth-quarter profits nearly tripled on a 30 percent increase in revenue as customers signed up for its discounted video, Internet and phone package. |
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| Wednesday, January 31PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy said his father told him, "Go to your grandma's house, I am going to kill your mom," before fatally shooting the woman over the weekend. |
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| Tuesday, January 30STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led international study suggests microtubules use proteins that act as molecular motors and brakes to organize into their correct structure. |
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| Monday, January 29PITTSBURGH (AP) -- United States Steel Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit more than doubled from a year ago, boosted by higher sales and steel prices, the company said Monday. JENKINTOWN, Pa., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The drug-therapy duo of Roche's Xeloda and Sanofi-aventis' Eloxatin has been added to the national colon-cancer guidelines. |
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| Saturday, January 27PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prince Charles and his wife Camilla shook hands with well-wishers outside Independence Hall Saturday to kick off their first trip to the city where Americans declared their independence from British rule. NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Miss USA Tara Conner said she recognized she suffered "from the disease of alcoholism and addiction" while in rehab in Pennsylvania. | </