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Company investigates explosion at Pa. steel plant
Officials have begun investigating an apparent explosion at an eastern Pennsylvania steel plant that hurt three people. Investigators say a bucket containing molten steel exploded on Thursday night at the ArcelorMittal plant in Coatesville. ArcelorMittal spokesman William Steers told the Daily Local News on Friday that both the company and ...
Report: Yahoo, pay-TV operators among Hulu bidders
Online video site Hulu is again up for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The person wasn't authorized to speak publicly and spoke Friday on condition of anonymity, after several ...
Devin Hamilton named associate publisher in DuBois
An Ohio newspaper executive has returned to his home state of Pennsylvania to become associate publisher of The Courier-Express in DuBois. The appointment of Devin Hamilton by Community Media Group was announced in a statement Friday by publisher Joseph Piccirillo. Hamilton started this week at The Courier-Express in west-central Pennsylvania. ...
Protesters arrested at coal firm Alpha's HQ in Va
Several environmental activists were arrested Friday after blocking the road leading to the headquarters for Alpha Natural Resources to protest the coal producer's mining practices. The members of Radical Action for Mountain Peoples' Survival chained themselves and large industrial equipment to a bridge railing, which prevented Alpha employees from getting ...
Website plans columns by Corbett, Schwartz
Philly.com, a website affiliated with Philadelphia's two major newspapers, is drawing criticism from politicians and journalists for its decision to publish columns by Gov. Tom Corbett and one of his prospective re-election challengers, U.S Rep. Allyson Schwartz. In a Friday story in The Philadelphia Inquirer, the parent company's top executive ...
Brewers team up on beer to help military families
Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime — baseball bats. Nine different brewers collaborated to create Homefront IPA, all using the same recipe, complete with orange peel and unfinished maple Louisville Sluggers. Toward the end ...
Clarification: Fossil Fuels-Divestment story
In a story May 22, The Associated Press reported 72 percent of Harvard University's student body voted in favor of the school's endowment divesting from fossil fuel companies. The story should have made clear that the vote was held only among undergraduates and that of the ballots cast, 72 percent ...
Pa. water plants fined by EPA for drilling waste
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is fining three western Pennsylvania wastewater plants for discharging natural gas drilling wastewater into the Allegheny River or tributaries that feed it. The fines are contained in a consent agreement with Hart Resources Technology Inc. and Pennsylvania Brine Treatment Inc., which ran the plants in ...
Study: No higher cancer rate at Conn. Pratt plants
An 11-year study of the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in the state ended Thursday with university researchers saying they found no statistically significant elevations in the rate of cancer among workers. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois at ...
PA Lottery
These Pennsylvania lotteries were drawn Thursday: Cash 5 19-21-22-32-41 (nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-two, forty-one) Estimated jackpot: $500,000 Evening Big 4 5-1-6-7 (five, one, six, seven) Evening Daily Number 1-2-0 (one, two, zero) Evening Quinto 7-9-1-0-5 (seven, nine, one, zero, five) Match 6 Lotto 04-14-16-21-27-40 (four, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-seven, forty) ...
Newest Pa. casino set to open July 1 at Nemacolin
Pennsylvania's newest casino will open to gamblers in just over a month. Officials announced Thursday that the $60 million Lady Luck Casino outside Pittsburgh will open on July 1 at noon, pending regulatory approvals. Lady Luck Casino is part of the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Fayette County. It will feature ...
House backs variable rate student loans
Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the House passed legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets in a vote largely along party lines. The Republican-backed bill would allow students to dodge a scheduled rate hike for students with ...
Judge awards $7,500 to former inmate for beating
A federal judge has ruled that a former Allegheny County Jail corrections officer should pay $7,500 to a former inmate. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry ruled Thursday that former corrections officer 34-year-old Arii L. Metz should pay 26-year-old David Kipp for the 2010 beating. McVerry called Metz's conduct "outrageous" and ...
Wyden: FracFocus a 'constructive' tool on drilling
A website partially funded by the oil and gas industry could be a "constructive" tool for federal regulators as they consider requiring public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said Thursday. Wyden, D-Ore., stopped short of endorsing the website, FracFocus.org, but said ...
Defense: Ex-Pa. judge cooperating in coke case
A western Pennsylvania judge who abruptly resigned last year was charged Thursday with stealing cocaine from evidence in cases before him, and his attorney said the former jurist is cooperating with the investigation. State police filed the charges against former Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky as part of a state ...
Rue21 agrees to go private in nearly $1B deal
Clothing and accessories company Rue21 has agreed to be taken private in nearly $1 billion deal with private equity firm Apax Partners. Shares hit an all-time high Thursday. Apax will pay $42 per share, a 23 percent premium to Rue21 Inc.'s Wednesday closing price of $34.12. The companies put the ...
Newly found Pearl S. Buck book is to be published
A publisher is planning to release a newly discovered novel by the late Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck later this year, describing it as a coming-of-age novel about a young man who travels the world. Buck wrote the novel, titled "The Eternal Wonder," shortly before she died in 1973, ...
Japan gyrations underline economy's vulnerability
Japan's financial markets gyrated wildly Thursday, underscoring the vulnerability of its economy to a loss of investor confidence as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempts shock monetary easing to end two decades of stagnation. Interest rates, or yields, on 10-year Japanese government bonds briefly topped 1 percent for the first time ...
SEPTA says canceled trains reflect chronic problem
The transit agency serving southeastern Pennsylvania says crew shortages prompted cancellation of eight trains last weekend, and the problem is chronic and may worsen. The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/12vSUCM ) says the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is citing a 2011 toughening of federal work rules that have reduced the number of ...
Rocky Gap Casino opens doors in western Maryland
The newly christened Rocky Gap Casino Resort is opening its doors to the public in western Maryland. The casino opened its doors Wednesday after winning approval from state gambling regulators. It is Maryland's fourth casino and will add 250 jobs to the resort formerly known as the Rocky Gap Lodge ...
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