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  • November 2007
    • Bigfoot Sighting Revealed to be Big Mistake

      Bigfoot Sighting Revealed to be Big Mistake

      (Newser) - A Pennsylvania hunter's footage of a "juvenile Sasquatch" has been discredited after officials said the star of the show was actually an unhealthy bear. Same deal for a Texas rancher who claimed to have captured a chupacabra, the legendary Mexican goat-killer, but had in fact only bagged a coyote. Why the mix-up? A skin infection, mange, is the culprit. More »

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      Texas   Pennsylvania   bigfoot   Sasquatch   parasites   coyote   chupacabra

    • Cargill Recalls 1M Pounds of Ground Beef

      Cargill Recalls 1M Pounds of Ground Beef

      (Newser) - E. coli fears led to a recall today of more than 1 million pounds of ground beef from Cargill Inc., Reuters reports. The USDA found the potentially deadly bacteria after testing meat produced October 8 in Pennsylvania and sold in 10 states at stores including Giant, Shop Rite, Stop & Shop, Wegmans, and Weis, the AP says. The recall is Cargill's second in a month. More »

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      Pennsylvania   USDA   E. coli   beef recall   ground beef   Cargill

  • October 2007
    • Senator Has Hots for Anti-Sex Ed

      Senator Has Hots for Anti-Sex Ed

      (Newser) - Arlen Specter has won over $8 million in earmarks for abstinence education in Pennsylvania, sparking jibes from critics and accusations of political pandering. The moderate Republican senator supports abortion rights and sex education, Politico reports, leading some to cry hypocrisy when he directs money to no-sex-until-marriage projects like Coolvirginity.com. More »

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      Pennsylvania   earmarks   Arlen Specter   abstinence   abstinence education

    • Bar Association Seeks to Halt Executions

      Bar Association Seeks to Halt Executions

      (Newser) - After a three-year study of the death penalty in eight states, the American Bar Association is calling for a nationwide moratorium on executions until prevalent problems in the system are rectified. Defense attorneys nationwide are under-qualified and underfunded, cases are plagued by sloppy evidence gathering, and race influences sentencing, the organization concluded. More »

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      Florida   Georgia   Ohio   death penalty   Pennsylvania   Arizona   Tennessee   Alabama   legal defense   American Bar Association   National District Attorneys Association

    • 14-Year-Old's Mom Arrested on Gun Charges

      14-Year-Old's Mom Arrested on Gun Charges

      (Newser) - A Pennsylvania woman faces multiple criminal charges after buying guns and bomb-making materials for her emotionally disturbed 14-year old son. Michele Cossey is accused of purchasing a 9mm semiautomatic rifle, a .22 rifle and handgun, and black powder for use in making grenades, CNN reports. Her son, home-schooled after withdrawing in 2006, is being charged with solicitation to commit terror. More »

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      Pennsylvania   Columbine school massacre

  • September 2007
    • Amish Community Heals, Slowly

      Amish Community Heals, Slowly

      (Newser) - It's been almost a year since the shooting spree at an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania in which five girls were killed and five wounded. In the Lancaster New Era, the families talk with stunning directness about the particular pain of losing a child and making peace with the "new normal." "You can wake up one day and think, 'You know what? I'm starting to heal," says one mother . More »

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      school shooting   Pennsylvania   family   Amish

    • Six Years Later

      Six Years Later

      (Newser) - Relatives gathered at a park near Ground Zero to remember the victims of the World Trade Center attacks today—the first anniversary without a clear blue sky, notes the New York Daily News. It was also the first time the memorial was moved away from the footprints of the towers. "Just so long as we continue to do something special every year," said one victim's aunt. More »

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      New York City   Pentagon   September 11   Pennsylvania   World Trade Center   Ground Zero   Peter Pace   Shanksville

    • In Pa. Field, 9/11 Memorial Takes Shape

      In Pa. Field, 9/11 Memorial Takes Shape

      (Newser) - New York isn't the only city with a stalled, controversial 9/11 memorial. In Shanksville, Pa., site of the crash of Flight 93, the new memorial park's architect has proposed an arc of red maple trees around the crater formed by the plane. But, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports, some conservative columnists and even one presidential candidate have bewailed the design: a red crescent, they say, signifies Islam. More »

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      September 11   Pennsylvania   Tom Tancredo   memorial   United Flight 93   Shanksville

  • August 2007
  • July 2007
    • Lightning Strikes Same Man Twice

      Lightning Strikes Same Man Twice

      (Newser) - A man celebrated the 27th anniversary of being struck by lightning with a second electrocution from above—and once again lived to tell the tale, the Guardian reports. The 68 year old was hiding from a Pennsylvania storm in a shed when he and four others were shocked by lightning; he had been hit at the age of 41 while driving a tractor-trailer. More »

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      storm   Pennsylvania   injury   lightning   electrocution

    • Judge Tosses Anti-immigrant Town Law

      Judge Tosses Anti-immigrant Town Law

      (Newser) - A set of city ordinances intended to check illegal immigration was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge yesterday,  the AP reports.  The measures had imposed fines on businesses that hired illegal workers and required rental tenants to register with the city and buy permits. More »

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      immigration   Pennsylvania   illegal immigrant   immigration reform   ACLU   Hazleton

    • Pa. Reopens for Business

      Pa. Reopens for Business

      (Newser) - Nearly a week and a half into the fiscal year, Pennsylvania lawmakers agreed on a new budget late last night, ending a partial government shutdown. More than 24,000 state employees idled for a day by the impasse between the governor and legislature will return to work, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports, reopening state parks and motor-vehicle bureaus shuttered by the furloughs. More »

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      Pennsylvania   Ed Rendell

  • June 2007

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