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State police are looking for the driver of a car who may have witnessed a two-vehicle crash on state Route 26 near the Howard Borough/Howard Township line about 9:36 p.m. Thursday.

State police responded to a three-vehicle crash that injured one driver on U.S. Routes 220/322 near Clems Barbeque in Worth Township about 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

High gas prices are prompting police in one Blair County borough to resume daily bike patrols.

A spokeswoman for Kennywood Entertainment says the family-owned amusement park chain has approved its sale to a Spanish firm that manages dozens of amusement, animal and water parks in the United States and Europe.

A tractor-trailer crash has a portion of Interstate 80 eastbound in Clinton County shut down.

Penn State men’s basketball assistant coach Hilliary Scott has accepted the head coaching position at Division III Lynchburg (Va.), the school announced on its Web site Thursday.

Investigators have concluded that two military helicopters were vandalized on the production line at a Boeing factory near Philadelphia, the Defense Department said Thursday as it offered a reward in the case.

Joe Paterno was taken by ambulance to Mount Nittany Medical Center at 10:30 a.m. Thursday where he was treated for dehydration, said Guido D'Elia, spokesman for Penn State Football.

Municipal workers in Schuylkill County are removing 20 years' worth of garbage from an elderly woman's home and yard.

A Philadelphia woman separated from her family by the Nazis is preparing for a reunion with a brother she hasn't seen in 66 years.

LIFEGUARDS at state parks?

David Wells, who has been active for years with the Downtown State College Improvement District, has been named interim executive director of the district.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health issued a warning to consumers not to drink two dietary supplements that is being investigated in connection with more than 100 cases of acute poisoning nationwide, including some in Pennsylvania.

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Consumer prices slowed in April despite the biggest jump in food costs in nearly two decades. But with oil near record levels, Americans should brace for more pain at the pump in coming months.

Two Somerset County men are charged with trying to steal live power lines that were still attached to a transformer and utility poles.

An Allentown man is facing a 15- to 40-year state prison sentence in the 2007 suffocation death of his 5-month-old daughter.

State police in Clearfield County say someone spray painted swastikas on three goats.

In a case that has implications for beer drinkers across Pennsylvania, lawyers for beverage distributors urged the state Supreme Court to bar takeout sales of six-packs unless a retailer allows the beer to be consumed on the premises.

A judge says a man only recently arrested in a 14-year-old stabbing should have come forward at the time.

A western Pennsylvania man who killed and dismembered his roommate after arguing about the victim's pot smoking was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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