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Pennsylvania stories: 119 news summaries

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 Dad Used 
 Facebook to 
 Proposition 
 Daughter: 
 Cops 

Self-described 'Bad Daddy' faces up to 30 years in prison

Oct 11, 09 3:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Pennsylvania man who used Facebook to proposition his 13-year-old daughter has been charged with attempted incest and unlawful contact with a minor, police say. After tracking down the girl, with whom he had had no contact for a decade, he asked to meet her for sex, writing, "Not... More »

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social networking • crime • Facebook • Pennsylvania • incest

Pittsburgh Braces for Big March After 66 Arrests

G20 protesters will take to the streets—legally

Sep 25, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pittsburgh police are preparing for a big afternoon march today after arresting 66 people yesterday. One big difference: Today's march to protest the G-20 summit is sanctioned, and organizers are requiring demonstrators to pledge to behave. Yesterday and last night, a group of self-described anarchists tried to march downtown before... More »

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world economy • Pennsylvania • Subway • Pittsburgh • protesters • G-20

Swim Club Discriminated Against Minority Kids: Panel

Suburban Philly club could face millions of dollars in fines for booting camp

Sep 23, 09 1:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A state panel has found that a Philadelphia-area swim club racially discriminated against a day camp group of mostly black and Hispanic children when it canceled an agreement to let them swim, the Philadelpha Inquirer reports. The panel examined the Valley Club's actions and communications before and after the agreement... More »

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Pennsylvania • Philadelphia • racial discrimination • Valley Swim Club • Creative Steps Day Camp

G-20 Summit Puts Spotlight on Reborn Pittsburgh

City managed to reverse decline after collapse of Big Steel destroyed its economy

Sep 22, 09 2:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The choice of Pittsburgh for this week's G20 summit highlight a Rust Belt success story, Kris Mamula writes in Portfolio. The smokestacks and steel mills Mamula remembers from his Pittsburgh childhood are long gone, victims of the collapse of Big Steel that left the city in a state similar to... More »

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Pennsylvania • steel • cities • summit • G20

(Newser) - The many states hoping gambling will revive their troubled budgets are in for an unpleasant surprise, writes Nate Silver for Esquire. Gambling is supposed to be recession-proof, but that hasn’t been the case this time. "The year 2008 was the first time in history that total casino gaming... More »

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California • taxes • gambling • Las Vegas • Pennsylvania • casino • Delaware • Nevada • Nate Silver • state budgets


 Army Recruiters' 
 Video Arcade 
 Draws Fire 

Simulations ignore 'reality of war itself:' Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges

Sep 11, 09 5:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Army Experience Center in Philadelphia—a sort of video arcade/recruiting center—has numerous detractors, and those opponents have an influential ally. “This is just a new version of an old attempt” at recruiting, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges tells dscriber.... More »

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Army recruiting • US military • Pennsylvania • protests • Philadelphia • recruitment • anti war movement • video games • Chris Hedges • Army Experience Center

(Newser) - Colin Powell today honored the "gallant heroes" of United Flight 93 who fought back against their hijackers 8 years ago today. At a ceremony in Shanksville, Pa., where the plane went down, he likened them to the "citizen soldiers" who have fought for the US since its inception.... More »

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Pennsylvania • September 11 • Colin Powell • United Flight 93 • Shanksville • 9/11 attacks • Flight 93 National Memorial • terrorist attacks

Ambulance Responds to Call at Gosselin Home

Elderly female relative takes nasty spill while Jon watches kids

Sep 6, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - An ambulance was called to the home of Jon and Kate Gosselin yesterday after a woman took a nasty fall and needed medical attention, Radar reports. “The police were called for EMS assistance," a police official said. “An elderly female fell. She was transported to a local... More »

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Pennsylvania • ambulance • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • Kate Gosselin

(Newser) - The longest serving bartender in the world—that Guinness-certified honor came 10 years ago—and slinger of one of the first beers after Prohibition ended is hanging up his cocktail shaker, the AP reports. Ninety-five-year-old Angelo Cammarata, owner of the beloved Cammarata’s Café in Pittsburgh, is selling after more... More »

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alcohol • Pennsylvania • Prohibition • Pittsburgh • cafes • Guinness World Record • bartender • Angelo Cammarata

 Senators Tweet It Out 
 Over 'Death Panels' 

Specter accuses Grassley of spreading false info

Aug 14, 09 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter and Chuck Grassley engaged in a very 21st-century sniping match today, ABC's Jake Tapper reports. The 79-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat took to Twitter to accuse the 75-year-old Iowa Republican of spreading "myths about health care reform and imaginary ‘death panels.' " He was referring to comments... More »

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health care • social networking • Iowa • Senate • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Charles Grassley • health care reform • medical care • Twitter • death panel

(Newser) - Birther "crazies" are fueling ugly confrontations at town hall meetings about health care reform, complains Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. “The birthers are a perfect slice of people who have lost their rationality" whose "obsession is hurting the Democratic process," he said on Hardball yesterday. The so-called... More »

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Barack Obama • Pennsylvania • Ed Rendell • Gov. Ed Rendell • health care reform • town hall meeting • President Obama • birther

(Newser) - Some 18 years after a Pennsylvania camp counselor was shot in the head and raped as she died, cops have charged the son of a famed Metropolitan Opera bass with the brutal murder, the New York Post reports. Jeffrey Plishka, 46, has long been suspected of the crime, and... More »

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New York City • murder • rape • Pennsylvania • Metropolitan Opera • DNA evidence • summer camp • Jeffrey Plishka • Paul Plishka • Laura Ronning

Health Club Gunman Questioned, Freed by Cops

Shooter quizzed over grenade report

Aug 10, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(AP) - The Pennsylvania man who shot up a women's aerobics class, killing three people and then himself, was questioned a week earlier by police because he matched the description of a man seen pulling what appeared to be a grenade from a computer bag, authorities said today. Police let George Sodini... More »

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police • Pennsylvania • shooting • health club • George Sodini

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania woman will take her new spouse's last name, but they can't live together—the object of her affection is an amusement park ride. Amy Wolfe is so devoted to the "1000 Nachts“ gondola at Knoebels Amusement Resort that she rides it 300 times a year, the Sun ... More »

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Pennsylvania • wedding • amusement parks • rollercoasters • theme park • carnival • objectum sexuality • Amy Wolfe • 1001 Nachts • Knobels Amusement Resort

Pa. Gym, Va. Tech Shooters Shopped on Same Website

Site rep: This proves people need to protect themselves

Aug 7, 09 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Pennsylvania health club shooter and the Virginia Tech killer purchased gun equipment from the same website, WPXI Pittsburgh reports. George Sodini bought accessories from TGSCOM, which sold a gun to Seung-Hui Cho. “We deal with police and government agencies as customers,” said a rep for the firm,... More »

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Seung-Hui Cho • murder • Pennsylvania • website • Virginia Tech shootings • firearms • shooting • gym • guns • health club • George Sodini

(Newser) - Being back home preparing to take care of his eight kids again apparently isn't crimping Jon Gosselin's love life. He's spent at least one night with his kids' new babysitter, his fourth gal pal in less than a month, reports Radar. Jon and Stephanie Santoro, 23—a cocktail waitress, single... More »

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Pennsylvania • TLC • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • ex-girlfriends • television program

(Newser) - Family members of dozens of black and Hispanic children turned away from a suburban Philadelphia swim club plan to sue the club for discrimination, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The director of the camp has turned down the club's invitation for the campers to return. "The children are permanently scarred,... More »

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discrimination • children • Pennsylvania • lawsuit • summer camp • Valley Swim Club • Creative Steps Day Camp

(Newser) - The suburban Philadelphia swim club at the center of a racism controversy will ask the day campers it disinvited to return, the local ABC affiliate reports. "We are very very sorry that this had to happen," the club president tells WPVI-TV. He had sparked the incident by saying... More »

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federal courts • discrimination • children • Pennsylvania • race relations • Philadelphia • racism • civil rights • swimming pool • racial discrimination • summer camp • Valley Swim Club • Creative Steps Day Camp

OPINION

 Pool Bans Black Kids?  
 What Decade Is It? 

Racial discrimination sends us back to the 1950s

Jul 10, 09 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A largely white suburban Philadelphia swim club’s barring of black and Latino campers was so backward “I thought I had fallen into a time warp,” writes Annette John-Hall in the Inquirer. Things like this happened in the 1950s—when singer Dorothy Dandridge booked a room in a... More »

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children • Pennsylvania • race relations • swimming • Philadelphia • racism • civil rights • swimming pool • racial discrimination • summer camp

Black Kids Booted From Swim Club Over 'Complexion'

Suburban pool rejects summer campers,
cites 'complexion'

Jul 9, 09 12:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Philadelphia summer camp says it may take legal action after a suburban swim club rejected its campers, the Inquirer reports. On their first visit to the pool, the children said they’d overheard other poolgoers complaining about black people frequenting the swim club; soon after, management refunded the $1,... More »

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race • children • Pennsylvania • Philadelphia • racism • swimming pool • racial discrimination • summer camp

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