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What We've Found
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Bucks County residents were outraged after the Philadelphia Gun Club held a live-pigeon shoot in Bensalem, seven months after the group's president promised police not to use live birds as target practice anymore.
Gun Owners of America wrote to senators, urging them to vote against the proposed health-care overhaul bill because it does not contain an article explicitly prohibiting Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from "decreeing that 'no guns' is somehow healthier."
Armed conflict in Africa is about 50 percent more likely in warm years, researchers reported, indicating that poor crop yields resulting from climate change are the main causes of war across the continent.
Italian unions, nutritionists and food producers were indignant over a cabinet minister's proposal to eliminate lunch breaks from the working day. The minister argued that his measure would reduce obesity and work-shirking.
Class-action lawsuits were filed against seven Philadelphia-area health-care networks who allegedly failed to compensate employees who worked during their half-hour lunch breaks, even though employers sometimes knew and encouraged the employees to do so.
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Eighty people were left homeless, and nineteen of them in critical condition in hospitals, after a fire gutted a 41-unit apartment building in northeast Philadelphia yesterday morning.
After at least 104 Chinese mineworkers were killed in a gas blast at a mine in northeast China, their relatives protested outside the mine's entrance, demanding that officials speak to them and answer their questions about the incident.
The bodies of 21 Filipino politicians and supporters were found earlier today in a small town in the Philippines, where they were believed to have been deposited by gunmen who hijacked their convoy and killed them on behalf of other politicians, in anticipation of the next national election in May 2010.
Two Swiss human rights organizations reported in a study that war video games allow players to virtually break many of the laws that actually govern real-world warfare, such as killing civilians, destroying homes and civilian buildings and torturing prisoners. The study's authors called upon game-makers to "consequently and creatively incorporate rules of international humanitarian law and human rights into their games."
Israel was rumored to be close to a deal with the Islamist group Hamas to exchange several Palestinian war prisoners for the Israeli soldier Sergeant Gilad Shalit, who was seized in 2006.
Recognizing the fact that Pennsylvania's prisoner population is growing faster than its prison system, state leaders plan to move as many as 2,000 criminals into prisons in other states beginning early next year.
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A Chester county boy with diabetes and his parents filed for a "due process" hearing with his middle school after school officials refused to let the boy attend gym class more frequently than other kids to keep his blood sugar low.
The Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides health insurance to children in low-income families, would be phased out by the House health overhaul bill, which would instead direct such children either to Medicaid or to a national health insurance exchange.
Beijing's poorest residents were still seeking medical care from illicit "black clinics," even after the government shut down 3,300 of the illegal medical centers last year.
Afghan president Hamid Karzai must show "measurable results" of his efforts to fight corruption and cronyism and improve the Afghan army before he can expect to receive future civilian aid from the United States, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton informed Karzai yesterday.
Political contributions from the U.S.-Cuba Democracy political action committee reached some lawmakers in the House of Representatives days before they voted against closer ties with Cuba -- a sharp reversal of their previous positions.
Since there has been no inflation in cost-of-living expenses over the past year -- in fact, a net deflation of 0.14 percent -- Pennsylvania state lawmakers' salaries were frozen at $78,315 this month.
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A bill extending statewide hate-crimes legislation to protect gays, women and the disabled passed its first vote in the Pennsylvania General Assembly and was expected to pass in the House, though it may have more trouble in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Climate change will affect women in developing countries worst, because they do most of the agricultural work around the world and are hence most vulnerable to weather-related natural disasters, the United Nations Population Fund reported.
Half of all children in the United States will be on food stamps at some point in their lives, according to a new United States Department of Agriculture report. Forty-three percent of individuals receiving food stamps in Philadelphia are children.
CT scans of 22 Egyptian mummies several thousand years old, mostly priests or courtiers, show that they suffered from hardened arteries -- proving the condition isn't unique to modern humans, according to the cardiologist who headed the study.
Archaeologists have discovered an ancient fire pit and a variety of small tools from 3,500 years ago on the grounds where the SugarHouse casino is slated to be built, in what constitutes the largest single discovery of Native American artifacts in Philadelphia. When the dig is over, the site will become a parking lot for the casino.
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Australian officials invented and issued a new fire alert, "catastrophe" level, to urge residents of South Australia to immediately evacuate their houses and avoid the deaths of people who linger when fires hit, trying to protect their property.
A 6-foot-high cross was burned outside the home of a white Western Pennsylvania family, after their black foster son's high school football team lost a game.
The recession was smoothing historically tense relations between the white and black populations of an Atlanta, Ga., suburb, as job losses and economic hardship indiscriminately sent residents to welfare offices and food stamp lines.
President Obama's bow to Japan's Emperor Akihito over the weekend was provoking outraged online commentary, mainly from conservatives, who thought it looked like Obama was groveling to the foreign leader.
Several groups, including the N.A.A.C.P. and A.F.L.-C.I.O., were preparing to join together and call on Obama to create more jobs, specifically by spending more on schools and roads and financially relieving state and local governments to prevent more layoffs.
319 more employees in Pennsylvania state agencies will be laid off, announced Governor Rendell yesterday, bringing the total number of state government layoffs this year to 769.
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A deer-culling expedition composed of USDA marksmen was preparing to run through Lower Merion for the next four nights to reduce the local deer population and prevent the transmission of Lyme disease. The deer carcasses will be donated to the local food bank.
The giant Irish deer -- the largest species of deer that ever lived, with antlers nearly eleven feet across -- went extinct about 10,000 years ago because of natural climate change that caused fewer plants to grow and starved the deer, scientists found.
Rather than hammer out a climate change agreement at the widely-anticipated Copenhagen conference in December, world leaders including President Obama agreed in Singapore over the weekend, they'll just come up with a less specific, non-legally binding pact that will have to be fully realized at a later international conference.
Alaskan governor Sean Parnell was suing the federal government to get polar bears off the list of threatened species, claiming that protections on the bears' habitat was preventing the state from developing lucrative offshore oil discoveries.
In anticipation of the impending healthcare bill, the pharmaceutical industry was raising the prices of drugs at the fastest rate in seventeen years: about 9 percent over the last year, which will add more than $10 billion to the nation's drug bill this year.
Teachers routinely paid thousands of dollars to obtain teaching jobs in the public schools of northeastern Pennsylvania, according to the results of an FBI probe that began in the spring. So far, six school board members have been indicted for accepting bribes from prospective teachers.
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Water cascaded through the streets of the Southwest Philly Eastwick neighborhood for three hours after a 30-inch water main broke around 3 a.m. this morning.
After an enormous 17,000-megawatt hydroelectric dam abruptly went off the grid last night, large parts of Brazil, including its two major cities, underwent a blackout for two hours.
The Vatican commissioned scientists from around the world to study the possibility of extraterrestrial life in the universe, and its implications for the Catholic Church.
For the first time, the Mormon Church has announced its support for gay rights legislation, specifically Salt Lake City laws that prohibit discriminating against gays in jobs and housing.
To mollify Iraqi officials upset about the fatal shooting of 17 civilians in 2007 in Baghdad's Nisoor Square, the security contractor group Blackwater tried to pay off those officials with about $1 million in bribes, according to former executives of the corporation.
"Predatory towing" companies are marauding the streets of Philadelphia, according to the City Controller, charging residents exorbitant fees to get their vehicles back.
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Julia Harte with your morning fix.
The Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Pa., expanded its Weatherization Training Center with federal stimulus funds to teach students about the installation of green technology in low-income households.
The president of the Maldives, a collection of islands in the Indian Ocean that is the world's lowest lying country and may be entirely submerged by rising oceans by the end of this century, censured rich countries for doing too little to stem climate change.
Marine scientists were summoned by the Environmental Protection Agency to study the Chesapeake Bay and understand why it remains polluted and unhealthy even after billions of dollars were spent to clean it up.
Though Democrats by and large celebrated the passage of the health care bill in the House of Representatives last weekend, a subgroup within the party vowed to fight an amendment inserted to avoid further delays in its passage: a clause that limits abortion coverage even for women paying for it by themselves.
The American Public Health Association is holding its annual meeting in Philadelphia this year, discussing topics such as H1N1, water safety and public health at the Convention Center.
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Have you ever had to report something stolen to the police? Would you ever tell the police that someone stole all of your weed?
Would you then drive around drunk and call 911 again, while vomiting?
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Nidal Malik Hasan, the Muslim, U.S.-born major who killed at least 13 people in an attack on the army base at Ft. Hood, Texas, yesterday, had been the target of ethnic harassment and due to deploy soon to Afghanistan, which he called his "worst nightmare."
Partly in response to the recent deaths of five British soldiers, who were killed by an Afghan police officer they were mentoring, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a speech informing the Afghan government that Britain would begin to withdraw support for the anti-Taliban fight if the country's pervasive corruption was not more effectively dealt with.
Robert Sturman, a financial adviser who preyed on retired school teachers in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs with quasi-Ponzi schemes that netted him about $4.6 million, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court yesterday.
Spanish fishermen whose ship was seized by Somali pirates one month ago were urging their families to pressure the Spanish government to return two pirates captured the day after the hijacking, saying that their holders refuse to negotiate until those two men are returned.
Governor Rendell and U.S. representative Bob Brady reported that the striking Philadelphia Transit Workers Union is considering a revised contract offer from SEPTA, provoking speculation that the end of the strike may be imminent.
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya withdrew from a power-sharing deal that the United States had drawn up between Zelaya and interim leader Roberto Micheletti, saying the deal would be illegitimate unless Congress first voted to restore Zelaya to power.
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