The Air Force and Space Force are raising the maximum age applicants can enlist as the services continue to search for ways to alleviate ongoing recruiting struggles. Those interested in joining the Air Force or Space Force will have until they are 42-years-old to sign up, a three-year rise in …
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MUNHALL, Pa. – A teachers union said a special needs student at a Pittsburgh-area elementary school shouldn’t be allowed to use a faculty restroom even though school officials said it’s difficult for the girl to climb steps to reach a student restroom on another floor. The Steel Valley Education Association …
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DALLAS – It’s not your usual car abandoned on the side of a road. A Dallas police impound lot is the new home for a yellow Lamborghini left on the Dallas North Tollway. Police found the Italian luxury sports car on the shoulder of the highway Sunday after its driver …
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PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia man has survived being shot 11 times while walking down the street. Police say the 21-year-old was wounded in the forearm, legs and buttocks late Saturday night in the city’s Point Breeze section. They say the man fell to the ground as a suspect in a …
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OKLAHOMA CITY – One week before a man’s scheduled execution for killing a baby, the head of Oklahoma’s prison system says he’s confident in his staff’s ability to carry out the first lethal injection in the state since one went awry in April. Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton told …
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PHILADELPHIA – An 18-year-old woman who plunged to her death while taking photographs from an eighth-floor window ledge in downtown Philadelphia has been identified as a first-year Temple University student. Police say the student slipped and fell Thursday evening and landed on a pedestrian on the sidewalk outside an H&M …
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SEATAC, Wash. – Two planes were evacuated upon arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Sunday due to what a spokesman called a “security concern.” Airport spokesman Perry Cooper says a JetBlue flight from Long Beach, California, and a regional SkyWest jet from Phoenix were the planes involved. The flights arrived …
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The Associated Press-WE tv poll was conducted ahead of the premiere of WE tv’s new show “Match Made In Heaven.” The poll was conducted by GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communications Dec. 19-21. It is based on online interviews of 1,315 adults, including an additional 300 who have never been …
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BOSTON – A federal appeals court has agreed to hold a hearing on a request from lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) to move his trial outside Massachusetts. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled the hearing for Feb. 19. Tsarnaev’s lawyers have repeatedly argued …
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The Appalachian Regional Commission asked outside researchers to analyze changes to the 420 counties in the 12 states it serves in the 50 years since the federal-state partnership’s creation. Below are some highlights from their 180-page report. EMPLOYMENT While Appalachia had a higher unemployment rate than the country as a …
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