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Obama Wants $500M for High-Tech Manufacturing

He will tour robotics site in Pittsburgh

(Newser) - Imagining advances from lighter cars to smarter robots, President Obama is announcing a $500 million project to spur high-technology manufacturing, a sector of US industry that presidential advisers say has lost ground to such competitors as Germany and Japan. Today in Pittsburgh, Obama is to call for a joint effort...

Altoona, Pennsylvania, Sells City Naming Rights to Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock and POM Wonderful for Advertising Documentary
Altoona Changes
Its Name to ...
Apr 14, 2011 3:58 PM CDT

Altoona Changes Its Name to ...

'POM Wonderful,' but for Only 60 Days as Part of Documentary Stunt

(Newser) - Altoona, Pennsylvania, is selling its naming rights to a filmmaker with an axe to grind. The city’s new name? “POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.” It's the title of Morgan Spurlock’s documentary—his most famous is Supersize Me—about America’s inescapable advertising, and...

Latest Addition to GOP 2012: Rick Santorum

Conservative ex-senator will test financial backing

(Newser) - It's official. Sort of. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum announced last night that he's launching an exploratory committee to begin raising funds for a possible run at the presidency. Santorum, popular with social conservatives, revealed the new step on Fox News last night. Earlier in the day the wanna-be candidate,...

Hunters in Pennsylvania Can Bag ... Porcupines?

Game officials declare 7-month season

(Newser) - Pennsylvania porcupines better watch their backs from September to March. The state game commission this week instituted a hunting season for the prickly creatures, much to the dismay of wildlife biologists who say too little is known about their population, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer . One member of the eight-person board...

7 Kids Dead in Farmhouse Fire

Three-year-old the lone survivor

(Newser) - A fire roared through a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse last night, taking with it the lives of seven of the family's eight children, ages nine months to 11, reports the Patriot-News . As mother Janelle Clouse milked cows in the barn around 10pm and father Ted drove a milk truck, 3-year-old Leah...

Recycling Gas Drilling Water Doesn't Stop Risks

Toxic wastewater can still get into drinking supply

(Newser) - The New York Times continues raising alarms about the drilling practice known as hydrofracking, in which water is blasted into rock to extract natural gas. Today's piece focuses on the dangers posed by the contaminated water that returns to the surface. Drilling companies in Pennsylvania have billed water recycling as...

Cops: Mom Showed Us Pic... of Tot Duct-Taped to Chair

Girl, 2, is being placed with relatives

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania mom has been arrested after showing a photo of herself posing with her toddler daughter gagged and bound to a chair with duct tape ... to police. The photo—which shows the mom smiling and her baby clad only in a diaper—first surfaced on the Mediatakeout website. The...

Allentown Explosion Revives Pipeline Fears

Country's aging infrastructure could cause more disasters

(Newser) - If the massive explosion that killed five people and damaged 47 buildings in Allentown Pennsylvania Wednesday was, as authorities suspect, a natural gas blast, it will be the third major gas explosion in the country since fall, the Wall Street Journal observes. That apparent pattern has revived fears that the...

Giant Explosion Rocks Allentown

 Giant Explosion 
 Rocks Allentown 
UPDATED
Feb 10, 2011 4:00 AM CST

Giant Explosion Rocks Allentown

2 missing after gas blast destroys homes

(Newser) - A huge gas explosion in the eastern Pennsylvania city of Allentown last night destroyed two homes, set several other buildings ablaze, and forced the evacuation of two entire city blocks. An elderly couple who lived in one of the destroyed homes is unaccounted for, as are at least four others,...

Pennsylvania Cops Now Let You Swear All You Want

Cops will no longer issue tickets for naughty words

(Newser) - Say it with me, foul-mouthed Pennsylvanians: Hot damn! It is officially no longer a crime to utter choice four-letter words in the presence of state police. They've agreed to stop citing the public for cursing as part of a settlement yesterday of a federal free-speech lawsuit. That suit stems from...

925 Pigs Found Dead Inside Pennsylvania Barn

Owner had left the farm months ago, say authorities

(Newser) - Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating what could be an unprecedented case of animal cruelty. They found 925 dead pigs inside an abandoned barn and are conducting autopsies to determine whether to file criminal charges, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer . The animals had been dead for months, and the owner reportedly left...

Bullied Teen, 14, Steps in Front of Tractor-Trailer

Pa. boy Brandon Bitner is the latest victim of torment to kill self

(Newser) - A 14-year-old boy stepped in front of a tractor-trailer in central Pennsylvania last week, and became the latest victim of school bullying to turn to suicide, the Patriot-News reports. Brandon Bitner, who had a close group of friends and a passion for the violin, wrote in his suicide note that...

Palin 'Cookie Bombs' School to Protest Health Push

Alaskan blasts 'nanny state' nutrition debate in Pennsylvania

(Newser) - Who knew nutrition guidelines were a Tea Party bugaboo? Sarah Palin's post-election focus on the issues has gone from monetary policy to ... cookies. The Alaskan brought cookies to a Pennsylvania elementary school yesterday to slam government interference pressing for healthier eating, ABC News reports. Pennsylvania is a "nanny state...

Michele Kalina, Pennsylvania Nurse's Aide, Charged With Murder of 5 Babies
Mom Charged With Murder
of 5 Babies
Oct 26, 2010 5:52 AM CDT

Mom Charged With Murder of 5 Babies

Pa. woman hid pregnancies from husband and lover

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania woman successfully concealed five pregnancies from both her husband and the man she was having an affair with before killing the infants and hiding their bodies, say prosecutors. Nurse's aide Michele Kalina has been charged with criminal homicide in the deaths of the babies, whose remains were found...

Stink Bugs Invade Eastern US
 Stink Bugs Invade Eastern US 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Sep 26, 2010 12:24 PM CDT

Stink Bugs Invade Eastern US

Vacuum these well-armored critters, experts advise

(Newser) - Stink bugs have infested the eastern US, devouring crops in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and nearby states, CBS News reports. The brown marmorated stink bug has no interest in people, but farmers hate the insect because of its voracious appetite for crops and because it, well, stinks. (When threatened, it emits a...

Angry Kin: 9/11 Memorial in Pennsylvania 'Looks Muslim'

Dirt carvings highlight 'huge crescent pointing to Mecca,' critics charge

(Newser) - The latest Muslim brouhaha to erupt in the US involves an earthen memorial to 9/11 victims that "looks" Islamic, according to furious critics. The father of a passenger killed on Flight 93, which went down in Pennsylvania, is taking out an ad in a local newspaper blasting the planned...

Loaded Diaper Deployed in Road Rage Incident

Pennsylvania woman charged with harassment

(Newser) - State police in Pennsylvania say a woman wiped a dirty diaper on the window of another woman's vehicle during a dispute in a traffic jam as both were leaving a county fair. Jessica Hollis, 23, has been charged with harassment in the incident, which state police said happened about 10:...

Midair Collision Kills 70-Year-Old Skydiver

(Newser) - A day in the Poconos turned deadly on Saturday for a 70-year-old skydiver who was killed after a midair collision. Theodore Wilson's parachute deployed but became tangled with that of a 75-year-old skydiver, who has been hospitalized in critical condition. The two fell about 75 feet to the ground, say...

Pa. Gets Vending Machines —for Wine

Finally, you can buy alcohol out of a kiosk

(Newser) - Thanks to complicated and antiquated liquor laws, it was quite difficult to get a bottle of wine in Pennsylvania…until now. The state recently introduced the nation’s first wine kiosks, ie, alcoholic vending machines. Normally, wine cannot be sold in a supermarket—only a state-owned store—but thanks to...

Woman Can Keep Corpses of Hubby, Sis
 Woman Can 
 Keep Corpses 
 of Hubby, Sis 
if she builds a crypt
Jul 7, 2010 4:19 AM CDT

Woman Can Keep Corpses of Hubby, Sis

Jean Stevens, 91, will build vault on property

(Newser) - The two corpses a 91-year-old Pennsylvania woman dug up and lived with will likely become permanent residents of her home. Jean Stevens, who is claustrophobic and doesn’t like caskets, will build a vault on her property, her attorney says. Without a mausoleum or crypt to store them in, the...

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