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US Midwest Jobs Return as Applesauce Joins Cars to Lift Obama – BusinessWeek

January 30, 2012
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Tweet US Midwest Jobs Return as Applesauce Joins Cars to Lift ObamaBusinessWeek30 (Bloomberg) — From northern Michigan's iron mines to Pennsylvania's natural-gas fields, the industrial heartland of America is humming with jobs again as a region once left for dead recovers faster than the rest of the US The turnaround may shape … and...

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Santorum: US wrong to condemn Iran scientist death – Boston.com

January 14, 2012
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Santorum: US wrong to condemn Iran scientist death – Boston.com

Tweet Boston.com Santorum: US wrong to condemn Iran scientist deathBoston.comThe Obama administration's public posture on the death Wednesday of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan does not reflect the hard line Santorum supports in keeping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the former Pennsylvania senator said while campaigning in …Santorum joins scrum on Romney's biz recordCBS News all...

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Pennsylvania Fracking Site Gets US Scrutiny After Complaints – BusinessWeek

January 6, 2012
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Pennsylvania Fracking Site Gets US Scrutiny After Complaints – BusinessWeek

Tweet The Star-Ledger – NJ.com Pennsylvania Fracking Site Gets US Scrutiny After ComplaintsBusinessWeek6 (Bloomberg) — Water from wells in a Pennsylvania town near a gas-drilling site that used hydraulic fracturing will be collected and sampled by US regulators after residents complained, the Environmental Protection Agency said. Cabot Oil & Gas Co., …Pennsylvania DEP Secretary...

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Santorum Becomes Millionaire in Six Years After US Senate Loss – BusinessWeek

January 5, 2012
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Santorum Becomes Millionaire in Six Years After US Senate Loss – BusinessWeek

Tweet Moneycontrol.com Santorum Becomes Millionaire in Six Years After US Senate LossBusinessWeek5 (Bloomberg) — Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum describes himself on the campaign trail as a frugal man of faith and limited means. “I come from a little different background than most Republicans,” he said at a Jan. …Santorum Becomes Millionaire in Six...

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Sunbury to shut five coal-fired generators in Pennsylvania by 2015 – Platts

December 29, 2011
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Tweet Sunbury to shut five coal-fired generators in Pennsylvania by 2015PlattsSunbury Generation is planning to close five of its six coal-fired generators in Pennsylvania by 2015, a move driven by tougher US Environmental Protection Agency standards and the low cost of natural gas, it said Wednesday. …Pa. plant to convert generators from coal to...

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A new map of US House districts is followed again by calls in Pa. to change … – The Republic

December 25, 2011
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Tweet A new map of US House districts is followed again by calls in Pa. to change …The RepublicThe Pennsylvania Legislature seems unlikely to heed calls to change a process that has resulted in a new map of congressional districts widely criticized as a political product designed by Republicans to benefit Republicans. Similar calls...

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Shale boom may help lead US to energy independence – The Seattle Times

December 23, 2011
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Shale boom may help lead US to energy independence – The Seattle Times

Tweet The State Shale boom may help lead US to energy independenceThe Seattle TimesThe United States could pass its 1970s peak as an oil-and-gas producer in less than a decade with the help of a shale formation in Pennsylvania. By Kevin G. Hall No comments have been posted to this article. TOWANDA, Pa. —...

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Child Abuse: New US Data Shows Continuing Drop – Huffington Post

December 13, 2011
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Child Abuse: New US Data Shows Continuing Drop – Huffington Post

Tweet WTSP 10 News Child Abuse: New US Data Shows Continuing DropHuffington Post"The recession hasn't had the draconian effect that some feared," said Richard Gelles, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice and an expert on child welfare. "The doom and gloom predictions haven't come true. …Montanans must fulfill...

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US man fakes mom’s obit to get time off – Jamaica Observer

December 13, 2011
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US man fakes mom’s obit to get time off – Jamaica Observer

Tweet KVAL US man fakes mom's obit to get time offJamaica ObserverBROOKVILLE, Pennsylvania (AP) — Authorities in northwestern Pennsylvania say a man published an obituary for his living mother in a ploy to get paid bereavement time off from work. Relatives called The Jeffersonian Democrat newspaper in Brookville …Man fakes mom's death to get...

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Russia Seeks Own Justice for Adopted Boy Who Died in US – Voice of America (blog)

November 19, 2011
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Russia Seeks Own Justice for Adopted Boy Who Died in US – Voice of America (blog)

Tweet Fox News Russia Seeks Own Justice for Adopted Boy Who Died in USVoice of America (blog)A court in the US state of Pennsylvania sentenced Michael and Nanette Craver Friday to the 19 months they have already spent in prison. Russia's foreign ministry criticized the verdict as irresponsible Saturday, while the nation's federal investigative...

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