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HARRISBURG - A joint House-Senate committee agreed Monday night on a bill to impose an "impact fee" on natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania, moving the long-debated fee a giant step closer to final passage.
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Two teachers are accused of committing lewd acts on children, leading to extraordinary move by districtThe entire teaching staff has been suspended at Miramonte elementary school in Los Angeles, where two teachers have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing children.The Los Angeles school superintendent, John...(more)
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American student jailed but later cleared of Briton's murder in Italy says police made her wrongly implicate Patrick LumumbaAmanda Knox, the American woman cleared in October 2011 of murder by an Italian court, has asked an appeals court there to overturn her slander conviction as well.Knox...(more)
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Houses flattened in remote villages on Negros island that have been cut off by fallen bridges and damaged roadsRescuers have found only bodies while digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by landslides on a central Philippine island after an earthquake. The death toll has...(more)
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ALBANY — State lawmakers raised privacy alarms Monday about a secret deal giving nearly every employee of the Inspector General’s office access to tax returns of state employees.
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AP - Maldives soldiers on Tuesday fired rubber bullets and clashed with police officers who were defying a presidential order to end a protest against what they perceive as illegal orders by authorities.
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Reuters - Mainland Chinese who have a second child in Hong Kong will be fined for breaching China's one-child policy, Chinese media quoted a family planning official as saying, as mainland Chinese women flock to the former British colony to give birth.
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Boy found outside Wheaton apartment building to remain in custody of foster parentsA toddler would be better off with his foster family than with his mother, a Myanmar refugee who abandoned him outside a Wheaton apartment building, a DuPage County judge ruled Monday.
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Jared Lee Loughner could soon be able to stand trial in the shootings that killed six and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner, who is being held in a prison mental hospital, may soon be competent to stand trial for the rampage of...(more)
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Reuters - The Simpsons are corroding the morals of Iranian youth, an official said on Monday, as dolls based on Bart, Homer and the rest of the American cartoon family joined the shapely Barbie among Western toys targeted by a new crackdown in Tehran.
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A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" experience — then headed off to church with a laugh.
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President Obama’s 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday.
