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• Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline launches interim suspension proceeding in Eakin case

  10-12-2015 23:52
  
  The special court hearing charges that state Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin violated rules of judicial conduct in his personal email exchanges has now set a hearing to consider suspending Eakin from the bench. Judge Jack Panella, a state...
  
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• AG Kathleen Kane saga heading for the big screen

  10-12-2015 23:35
  
  The saga of Kathleen Kane has dominated headlines for more than a year. Now, the twists and turns of the attorney general's case will be fodder for a feature-length documentary.
  
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• Significant number of Americans support Trump proposal to ban entry to Muslims: Poll

  10-12-2015 23:27
  
  A new poll out Thursday finds that a plurality of Americans support the proposal by GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to temporary ban entry to Muslims.
  
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• Another day, another shooting incident erupts in Harrisburg

  10-12-2015 23:11
  
  At least 15 shots were sprayed in the uptown neighborhood.
  
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• Near record warmth spells good news for heating bills, golfers

  10-12-2015 22:43
  
  We could be in for record-breaking warmth this weekend, which spells savings on heating costs and perfect conditions for outdoor activities like golf and holiday shopping.
  
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• Harrisburg council can't find budget cuts; tax hike looms

  10-12-2015 22:31
  
  Harrisburg council members reviewed Mayor Eric Papenfuse's budget proposal and could not find areas to cut to avoid tripling the local services tax in 2016.
  
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• Cheers! Pa. Senate passes expansion of wine, liquor sales in Pennsylvania

  10-12-2015 22:00
  
  Pennsylvania's iron-fisted control over wine and liquor sales could soon be loosening following the passage of sweeping liquor reforms on Thursday.
  
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• Bill to restore Pennsylvania's slumping horse racing revenue moves forward

  10-12-2015 20:57
  
  A proposal that aims to save Pennsylvania's horse racing industry from declining revenue is close to making its way through the Pa. General Assembly and to the governor's desk.
  
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• Postal worker gets federal prison for marijuana-by-mail scheme

  10-12-2015 20:39
  
  Investigators say Edward Kline II received more than 80 pounds of pot.
  
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• Temperatures could rise into the 70s

  10-12-2015 20:37
  
  Temperatures could possibly rise as high as 71 on Saturday and 70 on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service in State College.
  
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• News editor who solicited sex from 'teen' wasn't misled into pleading guilty, court says

  10-12-2015 20:19
  
  George Lundskow was an editor at the Annapolis Capital Gazette in Maryland when he was arrested by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office in 2013.
  
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• 21-year-old Lancaster County man arrested in rape of woman, police say

  10-12-2015 19:21
  
  The woman, who knew Todd A. Somerfield, reported the incident to police Wednesday, according to a Thursday news release from Manheim Township police.
  
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• Elizabethtown College takes on challenge of discussing race on campus

  10-12-2015 19:19
  
  The answer to an anonymous act of racism on campus this fall was to develop a project where identity was captured by six words.But is was clear, Professor Richard Newton recalls, that "students wanted to have a discussion about identity on campus."
  
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• Here's how Harrisburg police took down the man suspected of killing Rayon Braxton

  10-12-2015 18:54
  
  Just before 6 p.m. Wednesday, police learned that Jerren Stuckey's silver Volkswagen Passat was parked unoccupied on North Third Street in downtown Harrisburg, not far from Harrisburg Hospital.
  
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• Liquor reform bill heads to the Pa. Senate amid concerns of privatization, expanded sales

  10-12-2015 18:53
  
  Plans to expand liquor sales at grocery stores and restaurants but keep Pennsylvania's existing state liquor stores cleared a major hurdle Thursday.
  
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• Chesapeake vows to fight 'baseless allegations' about Marcellus gas royalty payments

  10-12-2015 18:50
  
  The suit, filed Wednesday in Bradford County court, accuses Oklahoma-based Chesapeake of cheating landowners out of natural gas royalty payments by what is alleged to be "a bait-and-switch."
  
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• WGAL 8 'Coats for Kids' telethon benefits Salvation Army

  10-12-2015 18:28
  
  Last year the telethon raised more than $223,284 for Susquehanna Valley branches of the Salvation Army.
  
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• Unbuckled passenger killed in van, dump truck collision in foggy York County

  10-12-2015 17:53
  
  The York County coroner's office ID'd the 32-year-old man killed in the crash on Thursday.
  
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• Man charged in Rayon Braxton murder has history of violence

  10-12-2015 17:52
  
  Jerren Stuckey was 16 when he assaulted a cop. He also has done state prison time for robbery.
  
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• Gov. Wolf celebrates Obamacare health coverage expansion

  10-12-2015 17:42
  
  The state is still enrolling people, and figures upwards of 100,000 more people are eligible.
  
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• Racist photo at Pa. college; boy sticks classmates with medical needles; shoplifter hits baby: Daily Buzz

  10-12-2015 17:40
  
  Welcome to the Daily Buzz, a quick and compelling rundown of the stories people are talking about right now.
  
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• Several days remain for holiday open house, tours at Governor's Residence

  10-12-2015 16:46
  
  Holiday activities at the Residence will run through Dec. 16.
  
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• 7 college football players charged after allegedly seeking revenge at the wrong house

  10-12-2015 16:46
  
  Lehigh University football players have been charged in an off-campus break-in meant as revenge, police say.
  
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• Former Dauphin County nursing home bought by Brooklyn firm

  10-12-2015 16:35
  
  TL Management said it operates at more than 100 locations.
  
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• Crash cleared after clogging commute on I-81: videos

  10-12-2015 16:01
  
  The crash occurred on I-81 northbound just before 9 a.m. Thursday at the bridge over the Conodoguinet Creek in Silver Spring Township.
  
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• F&M student disciplined after throwing beer can that splashes Afghan refugees

  10-12-2015 15:58
  
  School officials are emphatic that the children were not targeted because of their background and that this was not a hate crime.
  
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• Fred Waring part of fabric of Special Collections Library: Unseen Penn State

  10-12-2015 15:30
  
  Penn State's Pattee and Paterno Library contains more than stacks of books, rows of desktop computers and mobs of sleep-deprived students. Deep in the enclaves of the library's Special Collections rooms are 25 million materials that offer a glimpse into worlds...
  
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• Crash slowing traffic along I-81 north in Cumberland County

  10-12-2015 15:20
  
  The accident occurred just before 9 a.m. Thursday, near mile marker 56, about a mile south of Exit 57, the exit for Route 114 in Silver Spring Township.
  
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• Career resolutions for 2016: A live chat with Sylvia D. Hepler

  10-12-2015 15:06
  
  We'll be talking with career development specialist Sylvia Hepler at noon today on job and management tips for 2016. Come join us!
  
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• Rocks, footballs on Eric Barron's bookshelf: Unseen Penn State

  10-12-2015 14:30
  
  Tucked around a corner of 201 Old Main is the Office of the President at Penn State University. The office decor remains the same from president to president, current president Eric Barron said, with little having changed over the years....
  
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• York County coroner called to crash scene

  10-12-2015 14:26
  
  The crash was first reported around 6:55 a.m. Thursday morning, according to York County 911.
  
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• Dense fog advisory issued for the Harrisburg area, central Pennsylvania

  10-12-2015 14:21
  
  The advisory is in effect until 10 a.m. Thursday for Franklin, Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Cumberland, Dauphin, Adams, York, Lebanon and Lancaster countries.
  
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• Judge tosses 'ethnic intimidation' charge against Penn State student: Justice?

  10-12-2015 13:39
  
  A Penn State student who allegedly threatened a fellow classmate, later admitting to police that his aggression was solely because he believed the other student to be of "Middle Eastern or Asian descent," is no longer facing a felony.
  
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• Millersville U. students charged; Boy fired shotgun at intruder: Overnight police report

  10-12-2015 13:35
  
  Here's what you may have missed in police and court-related stories from around the midstate on Wednesday.
  
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• What you don't see at Beaver Stadium: Unseen Penn State

  10-12-2015 13:30
  
  On Saturdays, most fans at Beaver Stadium aren't dining with President Eric Barron in the president's box. None, if any, are thinking about the stadium's massive scoreboards -- unless they're watching a review of the last play -- or visiting the...
  
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• Pa shoplifter allegedly hits baby during getaway

  10-12-2015 13:19
  
  A simple case of shoplifting could have turned into an unimaginable tragedy.
  
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• Nondescript building contains nuclear reactor: Unseen Penn State

  10-12-2015 13:00
  
  Most students living in Eastview Terrace don't realize that less than a half mile away, below 70,000 gallons of water, glows the core of one of the first research nuclear reactors in the world.
  
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• Furor over 'racist' photo at Pa. college

  10-12-2015 13:00
  
  Students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania are learning a hard lesson in racial insensitivity and political controversy after a racially-charged image taken inside the university's library has gone viral on social media.
  
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• Man charged with huffing in restaurant bathroom, police say

  10-12-2015 12:59
  
  On Monday, officers found Harold Mirabito Jr., 31, of Enola, on the floor of the bathroom of the Subway restaurant along the 100 block of South Enola Drive, police said.
  
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• Boy, 7, sticks fellow students with hypodermic needles at Pa. school

  10-12-2015 12:43
  
  Pa. police still don't know how or why a 7-year-old boy had hypodermic needles at school But they do know what he did with them, sticking at least five of his classmates with the medical needles.
  
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• Underground steam tunnels keep Penn State sidewalks clean in winter: Unseen Penn State

  10-12-2015 12:30
  
  Winding below Penn State are a series of tunnels that hold the university's secret to clearing snow off the sidewalks in winter.
  
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• Missing East Pennsboro Twp. girl found and is safe: Police

  10-12-2015 12:28
  
  Hanna Masters was found and returned home, according to a news release from the police on Thursday morning.
  
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• Thursday Patriot-News deliveries delayed

  10-12-2015 11:59
  
  While most deliveries should be complete by 12:00 p.m., some routes will finish later today and into this evening.
  
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• More mild temperatures for the midstate on Thursday and into the weekend

  10-12-2015 11:28
  
  High temperatures will become gradually warmer each day through Sunday, when the high is expected to be 63, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• After the split, some detente in Pennsylvania state budget talks

  10-12-2015 05:35
  
  One day after House Republicans tried a different path, legislative leaders are expected to get back together Thursday to make a new stab at resolving final issues on spending, liquor and pension reform.
  
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• Harrisburg police arrest suspect in killing of Rayon Braxton

  10-12-2015 04:31
  
  The arrest Wednesday came on the same day Braxton, 25, was buried. Braxton was preparing for an event inside rented space of a warehouse near 18th and Derry streets when he was fatally shot Nov. 27.
  
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• Sweeping liquor reform bill advances toward full Senate and uncertain future

  10-12-2015 04:19
  
  Sweeping liquor reforms that would keep the existing state stores but expand sales at grocery stores and restaurants advanced Wednesday toward a full state Senate vote.
  
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• Power restored to more than 4k midstate customers: PPL

  10-12-2015 03:47
  
  There were no reported outages as of 9:45 p.m.
  
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• Spring-like temperatures push into midstate

  10-12-2015 02:16
  
  Thursday will be partly sunny, with a high of near 56.
  
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• Rocking retirement: Dauphin County sends off row officers with rocking chairs

  10-12-2015 02:14
  
  When Dauphin County's Sheriff Jack Lotwick and County Controller Marie Rebuck received their public send-off Wednesday at the county commissioners meeting, they each received a rocking chair.
  
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