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Bret Michaels of Poison: 'Every time I'm in Pennsylvania, I have a great time'
Bret Michaels performs with his band Poison at the Star Pavilion in Hershey on August 8, 2008.
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Ancient Amphibian Skull Discovered at Airport
A meat-eating amphibian that lived 300 million years ago may represent one of the earliest examples of land-based vertebrate life.
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Lawmakers targeted in pro-health care overhaul ads
A new $1.3 million ad campaign will target 17 House Democrats this week urging them to support President Barack Obama's health care plan.
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Pennsylvania highway deaths decline to record low
The number of deaths on Pennsylvania's highways has plunged to its lowest level since Model Ts still chugged along the roads of the commonwealth, and officials are crediting years of safety programs but cannot rule out an assist from the struggling economy.
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NY man charged with mass sexting of W. Pa. teens
Police say a New York man sent nude and lewd text messages to several teenage girls in northwestern Pennsylvania after accessing their personal information on Internet social networking sites.
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Sign the Pennsylvania's Promise for Children Declaration- show...
STAND UP and BE COUNTED! Have you ever wished you could show your support for high quality child care for every child in Pennsylvania? Now you can! Keep reading to learn more about the Pennsylvania's Promise for Children Delcaration : Do you believe that quality early learning and child development play a major role in a child's future success in ...
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Pennsylvania's college drop-out rate traced to high schools
When Mahala Muzopappa began taking classes at Westmoreland County Community College last year, she realized she was not ready for college-level math.
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Accurate census count crucial in Western Pennsylvania
Chris Ramirez is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-380-5682 or via e-mail. The mailbox isn't the only place census officials will conduct America's headcount.
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Interstate 80 decision looms large for Pennsylvania
The plan to levy tolls on Interstate 80 to generate hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for road and bridge projects in Pennsylvania won't go forward unless Washington gives it a green light.
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Pa.'s 'Tea Party' finding strength in independence
Some day it might be remembered as the Tea Party primary. The newly forming activist groups that identify heartily with calls for cutting taxes, deficits, red tape and government programs are organizing demonstrations, holding candidate forums and getting a boost from private conservative institutions in Pennsylvania.
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Pa. residents anticipate flooding, snow melt
Flood warnings have now spread to eastern Pennsylvania as steady rains and melting snow threaten to send rivers over their banks.
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GOP Lawmaker: White House Job Offer to Sestak Would Have Been a 'Crime'
A GOP lawmaker says that the White House committed a "crime" if it offered Democratic Rep.
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Death rates slide on Pennsylvania roads
Fewer people died on Pennsylvania highways in 2009 than any year since the state started keeping track in 1928, when Model T's still ruled the road.
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Obama Wants Yellen As Fed Vice Chair
President Barack Obama's likely choice of Janet Yellen to become vice chairman of the Federal Reserve would favor a policy that stresses low interest rates to ease unemployment over higher rates to curb inflation.
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GOP Could Win Pennsylvania House Seats
Congressional incumbents win re-election at a ridiculous clip, better than 90 percent of the time.
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Uncertainty over whether suspected al-Qaida terrorist captured is from Pennsylvania
Despite numerous news reports that Pakistan has arrested an American al-Qaida operative in the port city of Karachi , the U.S. government is unaware that anyone affiliated with the terrorist network, American or otherwise, has been captured in Pakistan recently, U.S. officials told McClatchy Newspapers Monday.
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Wagner backs constitutional convention for Pennsylvania
On the KD-PG Sunday Edition program that aired March 7 on KDKA-TV Auditor General Jack Wagner said that a constitutonal convention is a good idea.
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Holdouts in US town above decades-old mine fire claim condemnations part of 'massive fraud'
Residents of a coal mining town in the state of Pennsylvania have long believed the government's demolition of it was part of a plot to swipe the mineral rights to anthracite coal worth hundreds of millions of dollars - and not, as officials said, the solution to an out-of-control underground mine fire that menaced the town with toxic gases.
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Bill George to retire as Pa. AFL-CIO president
HARRISBURG, Pa. - After 20 years as the face of organized labor in Pennsylvania and 50 years since the United Steelworkers issued his first union card, Bill George is stepping down as the state president of the AFL-CIO. George, who will turn 69 in August, said Thursday he'll retire sometime after his successor is elected at the labor federation's ...
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Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk
Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system.
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