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Pa. jobless rate stays at 8.8 percent in October

AP News 4 days ago

Pa. jobless rate stays frozen at 8.8 percent in October; number of jobs increases slightly Pennsylvania's latest jobless rate remains at 8.8 percent, exactly where it was a month earlier. The state added nearly 11,000 nonfarm jobs, according to October figures released ...

U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry

Reuters Environmental Online Report 5 days ago

PERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop. Froehlich is among the growing number of people across America ...

Rotting deer carcasses in Pa. yard raise stink

AP News 6 days ago

Hundreds of rotting deer carcasses in western Pa. yard raise a stink with neighbors Hundreds of rotting deer carcasses in a southwestern Pennsylvania yard are causing a stink among the neighbors. Randy Good of North Buffalo Township has a contract with the ...

Committee Dems United On Federal Gay Protections Bill

On Top Magazine 6 days ago

House Democrats on the Education & Labor Committee appear to be united in favor of ENDA House Democrats on the Education & Labor Committee appear to be united in favor of passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would ...

Obama to visit Pennsylvania after jobs forum

AP News 6 days ago

Obama will visit Pennsylvania, other states, after Dec. 3 forum on jobs and economy President Barack Obama will travel to Pennsylvania and other states next month after hosting a White House forum on creating jobs. The White House said Monday that the ...

W.Pa.'s worst bridge brought down with explosives

AP News 6 days ago

Pa. uses 12 pounds of explosives to implode one of its most structurally damaged bridges Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation has used 12 pounds of explosives to bring one of the state's most structurally problematic bridges crashing into a river. The Point Marion ...

Pennsylvania's defense leads way past Harvard 17-7

AP News 9 days ago

Pennsylvania clinches at least share of Ivy League title in 17-7 defeat of Harvard The University of Pennsylvania clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title, defeating Harvard 17-7 on Saturday. The Quakers (7-2, 6-0) withstood a late charge from ...

35,000 in Pa. may get extension of jobless checks

AP News 12 days ago

More than 35,000 Pennsylvanians may qualify for 20-week extension of federal jobless benefit Thousands of Pennsylvania residents who have exhausted their unemployment compensation benefit may be able to get 20 more weeks of checks. State officials said Tuesday that more than 35,000 ...

Tennessee trader pleads guilty in Ponzi scheme

AP News 13 days ago

Tennessee businessman pleads guilty in Knoxville to defrauding investors of $21 million A Gatlinburg, Tenn., businessman accused of defrauding investors of $21 million in a wide-ranging Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty Tuesday to all charges against him. Dennis Bolze, 60, entered his pleas ...

Pa. man tried scaring cat with lighter, killed mom

AP News 13 days ago

Pa. man pleads guilty in fatal fire that started when he flicked lighter to spook mother's cat A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to accidentally starting a fire that killed his bedridden mother by using a lighter to get a cat to ...

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