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UPPER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Lehigh County — Declining state support for the agricultural research and outreach programs operated by Penn State will hurt the residents of Pennsylvania and the country as the need for that work grows.

UPPER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Lehigh County — The tuition increase Penn State students will see in the fall is smaller than that of other universities, but it will still mean a jump of about $700 for in-state freshmen and sophomores at University Park. University trustees voted Friday to approve a 2011-12 budget and tuition increases that range from 2.9 percent at the Commonwealth Campuses to 4.9 percent for in-state undergraduates at University Park.

The executive director of the Downtown State College Improvement District has resigned to take a position in New Jersey, the DID board announced Friday.

Penn State is buying another property near the west end of campus.

UNION TOWNSHIP -- Fire destroyed a large garage and its contents, including a motor home, farm machinery and tools, Friday afternoon.

WASHINGTON Former Sen. Rick Santorum raised $582,000 for his Republican presidential bid and has less than a quarter million dollars banked heading into next month's crucial straw poll in Ames, Iowa.

BANGOR, Pa. A Pennsylvania teacher is facing an assault charge after police say she threw a book at a misbehaving student and angrily pushed him against a door.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett will receive a report approved Friday by his commission on Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry that recommends a range of ways the state can help the industry find new customers, as well as a requirement that the industry help government pay for the cost to regulate it and fix the damage it causes to the environment.

PITTSBURGH A natural gas drilling company says it's no longer distributing a children's coloring book featuring a hard hat-wearing dinosaur that's been criticized by a Massachusetts congressman and lampooned by Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert.

Penn State President Graham Spanier today presented a proposed 2011-12 budget to university trustees that would raise tuition an average of 3.8 percent, with a 4.9 percent increase for in-state students attending the University Park campus.

PITTSBURGH Officials have confirmed an outbreak of salmonella poisoning at a high-security federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania that sickened more than 300 inmates and staff who ate tainted chicken last month.

A group of recent Penn State graduates and members of nonprofit groups painted five pianos and placed them throughout downtown Wednesday night.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. Police say they've recovered two stolen boats and a camper in central Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Two former Altoona police officers were charged Thursday with assault for a tavern bathroom fight that left a bystander seriously injured and for their alleged attempts to cover it up.