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Slow Fade of the Pennsylvania Irish
A new book tells the story of the immigrants from Donegal who still inhabit modern-day Trump Country. By Charles F. McElwee III.
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Pennsylvania police use this sketch to identify robbery suspect
Pennsylvania police say they have identified a suspect involved in a Jan. 30 robbery based on an amateur sketch drawn by a witness. Lancaster police say they are looking for Hung Phuoc Nguyen, the man accused of impersonating a farmer’s market employee in order to steal money from one of the stands.
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Gas station installs blue lights to combat drug use
A Sheetz in Pennsylvania is working with the support of the New Kensington Police Department, installing blue recessed lighting to combat the drug use in the community.
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In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
A young woman, wearing a traditional full-length Amish dress and white bonnet, stepped away from a farmer’s market, opened her palm and revealed a smartphone... By Kevin Granville, Ashley Gilbertson.
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Alt-right leader Richard Spencer not welcome at Penn State: President Barron
The alt-right leader and president of the National Policy Institute who took part in the recent demonstrations in Charlottesville will not be speaking at a Penn State University event, President Eric Barron said Tuesday. "After critical assessment by campus police, in consultation with state and federal law enforcement officials, we have determined that Mr. Spencer is not welcome on our campus...
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102 OD on synthetic weed in 3 days in 1 county
One hundred and two people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, overdosed on synthetic marijuana in three days, according to C. Robert May, director of Lancaster Emergency Medical Services. None of the overdoses were fatal. "Heroin is normally the issue but in the last week there's been an overdose of synthetic marijuana," also known as K2, May told CNN. "The assumption is that heroin is not readily available, so people are turning to K2."
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Officer sues Wal-Mart for firing him for carrying gun while working as police officer
A Pennsylvania police officer is suing Wal-Mart after he says he was fired for carrying his police-issued gun while in the store. While in uniform and on-duty, Michael Zuby said he stopped by the Wal-Mart store where he was employed to grab some lunch. Zuby, who worked as security at the store, was told by his boss he had to take his gun out of the store.
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Kids Ages 4, 5 and 6 Allegedly Locked in Room for Months and May Have Eaten Paint to Survive: Prosecutors
Prosecutors say three young children in rural Pennsylvania are lucky to be alive after police recently rescued them from a locked room in their home where they’d allegedly been kept for three months — wasting away — with no heat and little food. “The door to the room was locked from the outside and the paint on the wall was peeled off at the height of the kids,” Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico tells PEOPLE. “We theorize they’d been peeling it off in order to eat it.”
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Andrew Wyeth, his Critics, and Small Town Mud
“By his palette, by his tempera, by his specificity, by his attention, Wyeth transmuted the actuality of the tenant farmer’s house onto a flat piece of canvas, a material that otherwise has nothing to do with bricks, or snow, or lonely fields in the woods.” By Morgan Meis
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Pennsylvania man who lied about Marine service for lighter sentence gets more prison time
A Pennsylvania man who pretended to be a decorated ex-Marine sniper so he'd receive less time for theft and weapons crimes is now getting more prison time. Shane Sperow, 43, was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months to five years in state prison, beyond the six to 23 months he's serving for a simple assault conviction, The Reading Eagle reported.
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Pennsylvania mom malnourished baby with vegan diet
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with endangering her 11-month-old son by restricting him to a vegan diet of fruits and nuts. State police say 30-year-old Elizabeth Hawk, of Farmington, became "obsessed" with the vegan diet, which prompted her estranged husband to contact Fayette County child welfare workers. A police complaint says the baby developed a rash "so bad that the child was scratching his skin off." Hawk allegedly refused to use a cream to treat the rash.
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A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home.
For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents. Dutifully, she got dressed in their apartment outside Pittsburgh on Monday morning and went to school, keeping her worries to herself. But on the bus ride home, McKeesport, Pa., police say, she told the driver she’d been unable to rouse the adults in her house. Inside the home, authorities found the bodies of Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25, dead of suspected drug overdoses, according to police.
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Verizon workers can now be fired if they fix copper phone lines
Verizon has told its field technicians in Pennsylvania that they can be fired if they try to fix broken copper phone lines. Instead, employees must try to replace copper lines with a device that connects to Verizon Wireless’s cell phone network. This directive came in a memo from Verizon to workers on September 20. “Failure to follow this directive may result in disciplinary action up to and including dismissal,” the memo said. It isn't clear whether this policy has been applied to Verizon workers outside of Pennsylvania.
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“Ride on Red” law goes into effect across Pennsylvania
A new law which allows drivers to go through some red lights went into effect across Pennsylvania on Sunday.Act 101, more commonly known as the "Ride on Red" law, gives anyone on the road the option to go through red lights as long as they use common sense and caution. Essentially, if a stop light is unresponsive, and no one is coming the other way, the new law, sponsored by Rep. Stephen Bloom (R-Cumberland), someone can legally drive through the intersection.
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Pa. becomes 24th state with legal medical marijuana
Pennsylvania has become the 24th state to legalize a comprehensive medical marijuana program. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf signed the bill into law Sunday afternoon surrounded by a jubilant crowd of supporters at the Capitol building in Harrisburg. "Marijuana is medicine and it's coming to Pennsylvania," said Democratic Sen. Daylin Leach, the bill's co-sponsor.
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Pennsylvania Senate passes medical marijuana legislation
The Pennsylvania Senate passed medical marijuana legislation for the second time in 11 months. The Senate passed the bill Tuesday, after making minor changes to legislation the House passed last month. The bill would allow patients, who suffer from a list of ailments, obtain marijuana for therapeutic purposes. It also sets standards for tracking plants and licensing growers, dispensaries and physicians. Gov. Wolf said he supports...
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The Great Pennsylvania Government Porn Caper
The emails should've made Kathleen Kane's career. Instead, they destroyed it. By David Gambacorta. (Feb. 24)
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Police: 5 dead, 3 injured in Pennsylvania shooting
Five people have been killed in an ambush-style shooting during a backyard party in suburban Pittsburgh and at least two gunmen are at large, police said.
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The Sánchez Insurgency
Inspired but isolated, Maria Quiñones-Sánchez is at war with her own party, Latino political bosses and half her [Philly] Council colleagues. Her fighting spirit could make her mayor someday — or leave her career in ashes. By Holly Otterbein. (Jan. 24)
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America's Biggest Gas Field Finally Succumbs to Downturn
The drilling rigs are gone from the hills surrounding this Pennsylvania town of 30,000. The hotels and bars are quieter too, no longer packed with the workers who flocked in their thousands to America's newest and biggest gas field.
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