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Plea deal reached in Pa. steel town arson caseWEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) - A former assistant fire chief accused of setting two small fires in an arson-plagued steel town near Philadelphia has worked out a plea bargain freeing him from jail. A Chester County judge says the deal for Robert... In this article: Pennsylvania, Coatesville, Rash, Chester County, and Philadelphia |
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washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
Pa. utility commission approves gas company sale
...Hope sale. The PUC voted Thursday. SteelRiver Infrastructure said it would bring Dominion Peoples' senior management functions, customer relations and other services to Pennsylvania. Dominion Peoples has about Pennsylvania 359,000 customers.
In this article: Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Natural gas, Dominion Resources Inc., and San Francisco
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AP Online | 1 day ago
Pa. jobless rate stays at 8.8 percent in October
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - 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 on Thursday. Gov. Ed Rendell says...
In this article: Ed Rendell
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Ex-chief justice's Pa. casino group draws scrutiny
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A state lawmaker is questioning why a casino industry association in Pennsylvania that is headed by a former state Supreme Court chief justice is not registered as a lobbying group, despite its apparent attempts to...
In this article: Tax, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Supreme Court, Mount Airy, and Philadelphia
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Grand jury said to be eyeing Pa. casino licensing
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Documents from Pennsylvania's casino licensing process are being looked at by a state grand jury. Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board spokesman Doug Harbach said Wednesday that the agency has been asked by the attorney...
In this article: Attorney General, Pittsburgh, The Tribune, Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, and Tom Corbett
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Study charts use of 'swap' deals by Pa. schools
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Auditor General Jack Wagner said about one-fifth of Pennsylvania's school districts have recently been involved with interest rate "swaps," a practice he said the Legislature should ban. Wagner said that 107 school...
In this article: Revenue
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Pa. woman can't re-sue Ernst & Young for $103M
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A federal appeals court says a western Pennsylvania woman isn't entitled to a new trial on her claim that an accounting error by Ernst & Young cost her $103 million. The Pennsylvania Superior Court two years ago threw out...
In this article: Ernst & Young, Butler County, Bankruptcy, and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Pa. woman struck by bullet through wall dies
CHESTER, Pa. -- Police say a suburban Philadelphia woman lying in bed was struck by a bullet that came through a wall, killing her. Investigators recovered a dozen shell casings from a gun battle outside. Police say Kathy Ann Stewart was...
In this article: Chester and Philadelphia
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No. 5 Villanova routs Big Five rival Penn
...a dunk by Pena - to take a commanding 62-25 lead. That was certainly more than enough. Villanova, which was 13-0 at home last season, leads 39-18 in the all-time series against Penn. Penn's last win came on Dec. 10, 2002 at the Palestra.
In this article: Corey Fisher, Most Valuable Player, Penn State, Scottie Reynolds, and Corey Stokes
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (/ˌpɛnsɨlˈveɪnjə/), often colloquially referred to as PA (its postal abbreviation, which succeeds the archaic Penn. and Penna. as common abbreviations) by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and a water border with Canada to the north, and New Jersey to the east. The state's most populous city is Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania has been known as the Keystone State since 1802, based in part upon its central location among the original Thirteen Colonies forming the United States, and also in part because of the number of important American documents signed in the state (such as the Declaration of Independence). It was also a keystone state economically, having both the industry common to the North (making such wares as Conestoga wagons and rifles) and the agriculture common to the South (producing feed, fiber, food, and tobacco).
Another one of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial times, it was known officially as the Quaker Province, in recognition of Quaker William Penn's First Frame of Government constitution for Pennsylvania that guaranteed liberty of conscience. He knew of the hostility Quakers faced when they opposed religious ritual, taking oaths, violence, war and military service, and what they viewed as ostentatious frippery.
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