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Pa. table games continue strong growth
Gross revenue from table games at Pennsylvania's 11 casinos rose sharply last month. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board says table games generated $72.7 million in May, up 13.6 percent from the same period last year. The increase was fueled by gains at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem (up 27 percent) and ...
To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?
By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery. Her cystic fibrosis was threatening her life, and her case spurred a debate on how to allocate donor organs. ...
Pa. shopper is killed while chasing bank robber
A Pennsylvania bank robber fatally shot a supermarket customer who ran after him and tried to stop his getaway car, police said. South Strabane Township police identified the dead man as Vincent Kelley, 46, of Washington, Pa. Kelley and his friend Jared Cameron, 21, were shopping at the Giant Eagle ...
Pa. man guilty of third-degree in 2012 stabbing
A 20-year-old western Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of third-degree murder in the death of a 42-year-old woman last year. Mercer County District Attorney Robert Kochems says he and the victim's family agreed to reduce the charge from first-degree murder because of evidence that Anthony Argenziano ...
Pa. man jailed _ again _ in alleged teen tryst
A 41-year-old western Pennsylvania man awaiting trial on charges he concealed a 15-year-old girl in an apartment earlier this year has been jailed again on charges that he contacted the girl online and had even begun discussing marriage plans with the girl. Online court records don't list an attorney on ...
School buses vandalized in Philly; suspects sought
Police are searching for suspects after more than 20 school buses were vandalized in northeast Philadelphia. Investigators say bus drivers arrived for work Monday to find the buses with their windows smashed. Some of the vehicles also had their front ends damaged. Police believe the vandalism happened Sunday night, but ...
$10,000 in copper wire stolen from W. Pa. turbines
State police say $10,000 worth of copper wire has been stolen from two disassembled wind turbines being stored on property in southwestern Pennsylvania. Troopers from the Somerset barracks say 150 feet of one-inch thick coated wire was cut from the turbines, which are owned by AES Wind Generation of Dallas. ...
Police: Pa. teen killed by pellet gun shot himself
State police in central Pennsylvania say a 15-year-old boy who was killed by a pellet gun while playing with a friend accidentally shot himself. Investigators say Tristin "Ty" Yonkin was handling the air rifle when it went off and hit him in the chest at the friend's home in Porter ...
2 escaped prisoners still sought in Berks County
Police are still searching for two prisoners who escaped from a correctional facility in eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend. Authorities say the men left the Wernersville Community Correction Center around 4:45 p.m. Saturday after someone pulled a fire alarm to create a distraction. Now, police are searching for the pair, ...
Need an Organ? A Lab-Grown One May Work One Day
Some types of experimental lab-grown body parts are now implanted in people and working well, but challenges remain in creating complex structures. Researchers hope one day to ease chronic shortages of much needed organs. (June 17)
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