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Fox bites elementary school children

A fox bit two children at a Covington elementary school Wednesday.The incident happened around 11:45 a.m. at Rocky Plains Elementary School, according to Newton County Animal Control spokeswoman Teri Kay Hooson. She said two 6-year-old boys were bitten at the playground. Around 50 kindergarten students were at the playground at the time, a Newton County School official said.One boy has a ...
Miller making no promises in return from torn ACL

Injured Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Heath Miller is pleased with his recovery from a devastating knee injury but says it's too early to tell when he'll ...
Movie Review Fast Furious 6

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MSA sending safety equipment to tornado-ravaged Oklahoma

MSA (NYSE: MSA) is donating safety equipment to workers in Oklahoma cleaning up after Monday afternoon's deadly tornado. The team at Mine Safety Appliances' Murrysville factory are putting in extra effort Wednesday on a shipment of 600 hard hats and other donations for workers as the cleanup begins from Monday's deadly tornado in Moore, Okla. The hard hats that are in production are ...
Officials Orlando man shot by FBI was about to sign Boston murder confession

A 27-year-old Orlando man who was shot and killed by an FBI agent was being questioned in a triple-murder that may have involved one of the Boston bombing suspects, Orlando TV station WFTV has learned.Ibragim Todashev, who was shot and killed at a condominium complex, was "about to sign a statement" admitting to a role, along with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in ...

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Fina Torres' Woman on Top is an example of a quirky, potentially charming romantic fantasy that simply tries too hard. Torres, working from an offbeat script by first-time scribe Vera Blasi, piles on the quirk from start to finish, but it never amounts to much. ...

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Surveillance photos of armed bank robber released

Investigators have released surveillance photos of a man they say robbed a Bentleyville bank Wednesday morning at gunpoint.Authorities said the man robbed the PNC Bank on Wilson Road about 10 a.m.The man is described as being in his 20s or 30s, standing about 5 feet 10 inches tall and a thin to medium build. He has a beard and a moustache, and was wearing a baseball cap, hooded sweatshirt and ...
Search warrants yield several arrests stolen gun heroin

Authorities in Washington County arrested several people Wednesday while executing drug-related search warrants.Washington County District Attorney Eugene Vittone said Avery Turner, 22, was arrested at the Ramada Inn Washington while in possession of 184 stamp bags of heroin and a stolen gun.Police said Turner was charged with possession with intent to deliver heroin and a violation of the ...
Obama to visit Oklahoma on Sunday

President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Oklahoma on Sunday, the White House announced. At least 24 were killed in the mammoth ...
Police Searching For Washington Co. Bank Robbery Suspect

BENTLEYVILLE (KDKA) - Police are investigating after an armed man robbed a bank in Washington County Wednesday morning. According to police, the incident happened at the PNC Bank in the 100-block of Wilson Road in Bentleyville just before 10 a.m. A man with a gun walked into the bank wearing a baseball cap with a hooded-sweatshirt and jeans. He is described as being in his 20s or 30s and being ...
Bomb Threats Prompt Evacuations At 2 Washington Co. Schools

WASHINGTON (KDKA) - Two Washington County high schools were evacuated Wednesday morning because of bomb threats. According to emergency dispatchers, both the Bentworth and California High Schools were been evacuated around 11 a.m. Students at Bentworth were sent to the Elementary Center and will be sent home early. Bomb-sniffing dogs are going through the cars in the parking lot. Also going ...

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Rick Santorum hospitalized with gastrointestinal illness

Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum has cancelled a trip to Iowa after being hospitalized over the weekend for dehydration and gastrointestinal illness, The Hill has reported.

Virginia Davis, a spokesperson for Santorum's political action committee Patriot Voices, said in a statement that while travelling in South Carolina on Saturday, the Republican became ill and was admitted to the hospital for a gastro-intestinal illness and dehydration.

Santorum, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, was scheduled to give the keynote address at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's Annual Spring Kickoff on Monday, the Huffington Post reports.

According to a press release, Santorum was planning to address how the Republican Party should continue to focus on social as well as economic issues going forward.

Santorum won the Iowa caucuses in January 2012, and his scheduled return to the Hawkeye State has sparked some speculation that the Republican is eyeing another presidential bid. (ANI)