http://www.centredaily.com/state/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Centredaily.com en-us Copyright 2011 Centredaily.com State 60 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:54 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive Workbench support@centredaily.com http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035722/perry-supports-english-as-official.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035722/perry-supports-english-as-official.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:31 EST Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Friday he would like English to be made the national language of the United States, agreeing with a frustrated voter who railed over the presence of multiple languages in everyday American life. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035699/gingrich-allies-airing-30-minute.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035699/gingrich-allies-airing-30-minute.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:31 EST Newt Gingrich is getting a little help from his friends. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035693/caucuses-looming-paul-to-spend.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035693/caucuses-looming-paul-to-spend.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:31 EST Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is at or near the top of polls in Iowa, where he's drawing big crowds and has an enviable campaign organization. But with Iowa's caucuses on Tuesday, the Texas congressman plans to head home for the weekend, the latest evidence of an unconventional approach to winning the GOP nomination. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035665/santorum-focuses-on-turnout-after.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035665/santorum-focuses-on-turnout-after.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:16 EST Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum pushed back Friday against criticism from a rival for his pursuit of funding for home-state projects during his tenure in Congress. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035661/spokesman-says-cain-withholding.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035661/spokesman-says-cain-withholding.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:46 EST Don't expect Herman Cain to endorse any of the Republican presidential candidates before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035650/newt-gingrich-weeps-mitt-romney.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035650/newt-gingrich-weeps-mitt-romney.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:31 EST Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wept Friday as he recalled his late mother's end-of-life illnesses, a moment of poignancy in a notably negative Republican presidential Iowa caucus campaign with four unpredictable days yet to run. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035646/court-delays-border-crossing-pollution.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035646/court-delays-border-crossing-pollution.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:26 EST A federal court Friday put on hold a controversial Obama administration regulation aimed at reducing power plant pollution in 27 states that contributes to unhealthy air downwind. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035648/paul-might-not-support-rivals.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035648/paul-might-not-support-rivals.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:06 EST Ron Paul says he might not support his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035640/pa-paralegal-charged-in-143k-client.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035640/pa-paralegal-charged-in-143k-client.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:51 EST A suburban Philadelphia paralegal hired to administer family estates is charged with stealing $143,000 from clients. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035631/romney-son-jokes-about-obamas.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035631/romney-son-jokes-about-obamas.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:56 EST One of Mitt Romney's sons has an answer for those who say his father should release his tax returns. He jokes that President Barack Obama should go first and release his birth certificate and other records. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035571/iowa-race-shifts-from-persuasion.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035571/iowa-race-shifts-from-persuasion.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:26 EST In the race for Iowa, Republican presidential candidates are shifting from persuading people to mobilizing them to attend Tuesday's caucuses. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035488/underwater-cannon-may-help-protect.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035488/underwater-cannon-may-help-protect.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:06 EST Scientists struggling to protect native Great Lakes fish from a greedy predator called the round goby are taking a page from the playbook of stores that pipe classical music through loudspeakers to chase away loitering teens. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035486/w-pa-man-jailed-in-death-of-woman.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035486/w-pa-man-jailed-in-death-of-woman.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:46 EST A man is jailed on charges he was driving drunk when he struck and killed a southwestern Pennsylvania woman and injured her husband as the couple changed a tire. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035477/west-penn-allegheny-reports-52m.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035477/west-penn-allegheny-reports-52m.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:31 EST Auditors say the West Penn Allegheny Health System lost $51.8 million in the most recent fiscal year, which ended June 30. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035470/correction-taser-lost-eye-story.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035470/correction-taser-lost-eye-story.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:21 EST In a story Sept. 16 about a man who lost an eye after being hit by a stun gun, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Meadville Police Chief David Stefanucci said there were no written reports about the incident. Stefanucci said he did not have the reports in front of him while speaking with a reporter and later said reports were filed. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035466/pittsburghs-business-with-banks.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035466/pittsburghs-business-with-banks.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:16 EST Pittsburgh City Council has failed to override the mayor's veto of a bill that would require banks that do business with the city to invest in its neighborhoods. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035445/judge-grants-bail-to-jailed-w.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035445/judge-grants-bail-to-jailed-w.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:51 EST A judge says a western Pennsylvania county councilman who spent Christmas in jail after being convicted of driving with a suspended license for the seventh and eighth times can be released if he posts bond. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035443/pro-huntsman-group-jabs-at-romney.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035443/pro-huntsman-group-jabs-at-romney.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:07 EST Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman on Friday urged New Hampshire voters to stand up to the status quo and reject Mitt Romney, while a group of his supporters prepared a new television ad calling Romney a chameleon willing to do anything to get elected. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035397/coroner-w-pa-mans-death-was-suicide.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035397/coroner-w-pa-mans-death-was-suicide.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:19 EST A coroner says an armed southwestern Pennsylvania man who led officers on a chase before they fatally shot him committed "suicide by cop." http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035393/authorities-abortion-doctors-charged.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/30/3035393/authorities-abortion-doctors-charged.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:06 EST Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus.