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Bus carrying Pennsylvania's Seton Hill lacrosse team crashes; 2 dead
A bus carrying the Seton Hill University women’s lacrosse team crashed Saturday morning, killing two people and sending several others to the hospital.  The bus was traveling along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in central Pennsylvania when it...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Lacrosse, Sports, Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Pregnant lacrosse coach at Seton Hill killed in bus crash
The Seton Hill University community in Greensburg, Pa., was in mourning Saturday after a bus carrying the women’s lacrosse team crashed, killing a pregnant coach and the bus driver. The team was on its way to an afternoon match at a school about...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Lacrosse, Sports, Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Restaurant notes: Lobster rolls in Rittenhouse; new Chinatown choices
The Philadelphia InquirerLuke's Lobster, a quick-growing quick-serve founded by 28-year-old Maine lobsterman Luke Holden, has opened its first Philadelphia shop in the subterranean space that was Bonte waffles at 130 S. 17th St. (215-564-1415). The look is Down East: wood-...Tags: Walnuts, Brooklyn (New York City), Restaurants, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vegetarian Diet
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Casino license competitors have strengths, weaknesses
Although Maryland has handed out five casino operating licenses, the state is entering uncharted territory with the allocation of its sixth. For the first time, there's real competition. Three serious operators submitted bids to run a casino in Prince...
Tags: Rushern Baker, Casino and Gambling, Tourism and Leisure, Horse and Harness Racing, Highway Transportation
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DeWitt claims politics played into charges against him
The Daily Courier, Connellsville, Pa.The day after a Connellsville mayoral candidate was held for trial for his alleged involvement in operating a chop shop, the candidate suspects politics to be the major factor. "Do you really think it's a coincidence that those who are related to or...Tags: Theft, Primaries, Fayette County, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials
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Turnpike shutdown planned early Sunday
The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa.A local stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike will be closed early Sunday because of a massive reconstruction project in the New Baltimore area at the Somerset-Bedford County line. Both sides of the toll road are scheduled to be closed from midnight...Tags: Bedford County (Pennsylvania), Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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Should call boxes be kept on the turnpike?
No With all due respect to smoke signals, Morse code and the telegraph — well, society forges on. Call boxes along the Pennsylvania Turnpike are an expensive, unnecessary and seldom-used taxpayer liability that should be struck from the...Tags: Telecommunication Service, Apple iPhone
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EDITORIAL: CARD GAMES: Pa.'s dealing the green kind to foreign investors in a fundraising scheme
Philadelphia Daily NewsIT'S complicated. That describes a lot in life, but when it describes government schemes to get money, especially for public works like roads, we get nervous. And a new scheme being pursued by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission that will award green...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Immigration, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Politics, Personal Data Collection
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PennDOT makes progress on I-81 work
The York Dispatch, Pa.Construction crews are working around the clock to remove a Harrisburg area bridge damaged in a fiery tanker crash last week. Crews started to demolish the eastbound Route 22 bridge over Interstate 81 on Friday and removed a section of it Saturday...Tags: Traffic, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Highway Transportation, Dauphin County
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Seton Hill motto especially poignant at graduation
Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa.Seton Hill University's motto, "Hazard yet forward," is especially meaningful as the school heals from a fatal bus crash in March, said commencement speaker Haley Scott DeMaria. "The hazard we can't control. The forward we can," DeMaria said on Saturday...Tags: Graduation, Ceremonies, Fayette County, University of Notre Dame, Chickenpox
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State seeks to unload 23-acre prison site
Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa.The state wants to sell the 123-acre parcel containing the soon-to-be-closed state prison in Hempfield, a site that Westmoreland County officials said Monday would be good for an office park or another kind of job-creating, taxpaying business. "I want...Tags: Property, Tom Corbett, YMCA, Centre County, Prisons
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Auditor general says Turnpike connection raises alarms
Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said Friday that an unusual plan to finance construction of the I-95/Pennsylvania Turnpike connection "raises alarms" and may prompt an investigation by his office. DePasquale said he was especially...Tags: Eugene DePasquale, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Joint Ventures, U.S. Congress, Bucks County
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