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WASHINGTON He was by turns caring and contentious, a man quick to say "I am blessed" in casual greeting yet one who seemed to stew in discontent that he could not always keep to himself.

SHARON, Pa. An 11-mile stretch of eastbound Interstate 80 is closed in western Pennsylvania because of two crashed tractor-trailers.

PITTSBURGH For just this weekend, a neighborhood in this city that has lain dormant in boxes and under plastic coverings for nearly a decade, is coming back to life.

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn't stop crying.

PITTSBURGH Ryan Clark may be saying everything he needs to say with his growing silence.

PHILADELPHIA The city's largest transit union on Friday was reviewing a new contract proposal that Gov. Ed Rendell hoped could end a four-day-old strike that has idled subways, trolleys and buses and snarled the commutes for thousands of people.

EASTCHESTER, N.Y. Yankees manager Joe Girardi capped off a victorious evening by helping a car crash victim in suburban New York.

FORT HOOD, Texas An Army psychiatrist who had recently completed training in treating traumatic stress disorder opened fire Thursday on a group of soldiers preparing for deployment to Iraq, killing at least 12 and wounding 31.

WASHINGTON Buoyed by two major endorsements, House Democratic leaders on Thursday predicted swift passage of President Barack Obama's historic health overhaul initiative. The president himself declared, "We are closer to passing this reform than ever before."

FORT HOOD, Texas At least seven people were killed and 20 wounded in two shootings Thursday at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, the Army said.

Giant Food Stores today provided additional information about products that are part of a recent recall of fresh ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination.

A 41-year-old Huntingdon man has died after being hospitalized for five days with injuries from a crash on state Route 64 Halloween night.

MOUNT UNION, Pa. Federal, state and local officials have arrested 11 people on drug charges at a central Pennsylvania housing project that grew out of the investigation of a double murder in January.

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. A Punxsutawney police officer has been fired nearly three months after a man died in a police cruiser about five hours after he was picked up for public drunkenness.

CLAIRTON, Pa. The Allegheny County fire marshal says a fire that killed three children near Pittsburgh began as a grease fire on a stove that another resident of the house tried to extinguish.