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Actress gets escorted off plane for kiss

2011-09-27T08:44:05-04:00

A lesbian actress who starred in “The L-Word” said she kissed a girl – and got escorted off of a Southwest Airlines flight on Monday for doing it.

President outlines the way forward in Afghanistan

2011-06-22T22:02:04-04:00

Full text of President Obama's Wednesday evening speech on the way forward in Afghanistan.

U.S. drone-fired missiles kill 12 in Pakistan

2011-06-20T23:11:40-04:00

Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at a vehicle and a house in northwest Pakistan, killing 12 people Monday in a rare attack in an area where some of NATO’s fiercest enemies have reportedly traveled, Pakistani officials said.

MLK’s peace legacy praised

2011-01-17T21:48:37-05:00

The nation observed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on Monday with thousands volunteering for service projects and more reflecting on his lessons of nonviolence and civility in the week following the shootings in Arizona.

Toomey sees hope in Afghan conflict

2011-01-17T21:45:48-05:00

Pat Toomey, on a three-day trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan with other Republican senators, said Monday that he thinks the United States can achieve success and scale back its military presence in Afghanistan in the coming years.

Islands’ double disaster

2010-10-26T23:41:59-04:00

A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia – spasms from the “Ring of Fire,” which spawns disasters from deep within the Earth.

Jackson takes a walk

2009-03-26T08:55:00-04:00

Jackson, the 11,000-pound bull elephant being housed at the International Conservation Center in Somerset County, went outside for the first time Tuesday.

“If an elephant of his size and demeanor can be excited, then I would say Jackson was excited,” said Tracy Gray, public relations manager for the center.

Central Cambria board votes again to split middle school

2008-08-04T23:33:00-04:00

Despite pleas from a crowd of about 100, a majority of Central Cambria school board members stood firm in their earlier vote to abandon the middle school concept and send seventh- and eighth-graders to the high school.

After listening to more than a dozen teachers and parents who want to keep grades 6, 7 and 8 together, the board voted for a third time on the controversy – and the results were the same.

Chicago-based blacksmith company plans to set up shop in city

2008-08-02T23:19:00-04:00

Inside a nondescript brick building on a section of Johnstown’s Iron Street that doesn’t even appear on many maps, crews have spent years painstakingly restoring a relic of the city’s industrial heritage.

Their work is about to pay off.

Mechanical problems shorten competition between firemen

2008-08-02T08:24:00-04:00

The Boswell Volunteer Fire Department held the event at the fireman’s Grove during the 100th anniversary of Somerset County.