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June 20, 2012

Wednesday's Top 10 stories

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1.BAIN CAPITAL MAY NO LONGER BE ROMNEY'S BANE

The presumptive GOP nominee spent years vetting people for jobs at the private equity firm, an experience that might help him pick his VP.

2.SANDUSKY TESTIMONY COULD BE TRIAL'S FINALE

Wednesday could be the last day of testimony in the Penn State abuse trial and so far no one knows if the former assistant coach will testify.

3.IF SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN OBAMACARE, MOST AMERICANS WANT REPLACEMENT

AP poll finds three quarters of Americans would want Congress and Obama to write new legislation on health care.

4.FAST AND FURIOUS INVESTIGATION FOCUSES ON HOLDER

A Congressional committee will decide at 9 a.m. whether to hold the attorney general in contempt for failing to hand over additional documents.

5.AMIDST CONSTANT TALK OF GLOOM, LIFE IN GREECE IS SURPRISINGLY NORMAL

Tourists are still flocking to its ancient monuments and its public and police services are continuing to function.

6.MUBARAK'S DETERIORATING HEALTH ADDS UNCERTAINTY TO EGYPT'S TRANSITION

Each of the two presidential run-off candidates claims victory in the contested poll.

7.EXPERTS QUESTION SCIENCE BEHIND OPENING 9/11 HEALTH FUND TO CANCER PATIENTS

Some scientists say the links between 50 types of cancer and 9/11 toxic dust just don't exist.

8.THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH GETS ITS FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEADER

The largest U.S. Protestant denomination moves closer to reconciling its 167-year-old troubled racial past.

9.AP'S ANICK JESDANUN TAKES THE NEW SAMSUNG GALAXY PHONE FOR A TEST DRIVE

His conclusion: Samsung's latest touch-screen mobile phone may give the iPhone a run for its money.

10. A BIKE COULD BE THE MOST USEFUL THING TO HAVE AT THE LONDON OLYMPICS

Fearing gridlock and congestion, visitors are encouraged to bike their way around the Games.

 

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    The Force is strong with Casey Bassett.
    In two years of feverish planning and laborious love, the 24-year-old has roughly tripled the size of his homegrown geek convention, Sci-Fi Valley Con, being held this year at the Jaffa Shrine in Altoona. Today is the 2013 convention’s final day.

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  • deer 17.JPG The story behind Johnstown’s viral video

    The way John Porter tells it, some of his co-workers now call him “John Deer.”

    May 17, 2013 1 Photo

  • Bus_15_b VIDEO | Deer gets on, off city bus

    A CamTran bus picked up an unscheduled passenger on Tuesday evening – a white-tailed deer.

    May 15, 2013 1 Photo

  • troxler_nuc_gauge_3440_svd_may2013.jpg DEP seeks missing nuke gauge

    The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and West Virginia state officials are searching for a missing portable gauge containing sealed sources of radioactive material that was lost May 3 along Interstate 81 between West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

    May 14, 2013 1 Photo

  • _RUC5208.JPG AAABA Tournament legend dies at 83

    Johnstown and the All American Amateur Baseball Association (AAABA) lost a friend and an icon on Thursday as George Arcurio Jr. died at age 83 after a lengthy illness.

    May 9, 2013 1 Photo

  • INCLINE_8 Eatery moving to Incline location

    The restaurant atop Johnstown’s venerable Inclined Plane will be sporting a familiar name with some familiar faces at the door when it reopens for business this summer.

    May 7, 2013 1 Photo

  • missing.jpg Frantic 911 call leads to 3 missing women in Ohio

    The woman's voice was frantic and breathless, and she was choking back tears. "Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," she told a 911 dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."

    May 7, 2013 1 Photo

  • duck.jpg Giant duck splashes into Hong Kong harbor

    A six-story-high rubber duck is making a big splash in Hong Kong.

    May 3, 2013 1 Photo

  • suspects.jpg For 3, bomb suspect's friendship leads to charges

    Just hours before one of the Boston Marathon suspects and his brother allegedly gunned down a campus police officer, authorities say he exchanged a series of text messages with a friend who'd become suspicious after seeing what looked like a familiar face being flashed on television.

    May 2, 2013 1 Photo

  • suspects.jpg FBI: 3 removed backpack from Boston suspect's room

    Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev removed a backpack containing fireworks emptied of gunpowder from his dorm room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth three days after the attack, according to charges filed today.

    May 1, 2013 1 Photo

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