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• Central PA college among campuses with 'dangerous' anti-gay policies

  29-08-2016 23:28
  
  A Lancaster-based college makes the list of 102 campuses deemed to have anti-LGBTQ policies and cited as "dangerous."
  
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• Man robs Harrisburg market at gunpoint

  29-08-2016 23:23
  
  The clerk handed the suspect, who had a heavy Spanish accent, about $60 in cash, before he fled the store, according to police.
  
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• School buses collide in Hampden Township

  29-08-2016 23:11
  The accident was reported in the area of Good Hope Road and Shasta Way at 4:25 p.m.
  
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• School bus carrying students crashes in Hampden Township

  29-08-2016 23:11
  The accident was reported in the area of Good Hope Road and Shasta Way at 4:25 p.m.
  
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• Mondelez gives up on Hershey Co. takeover bid

  29-08-2016 22:37
  
  Snaking giant Mondelez has given up its bid to acquire the Hershey Co., according to CNBC.
  
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• East Pennsboro hopes to use split schedule to offset days lost to mold outbreak

  29-08-2016 22:16
  
  It's still unclear when the high school will be ready.
  
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• 5- to 10-year jail term stands for brutal, 'senseless' attack on Harrisburg cab driver

  29-08-2016 22:00
  
  William Martinez-DeJesus claimed his punishment is too severe.
  
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• Man stabbed in Lebanon

  29-08-2016 21:58
  
  The victim was walking home when he was stabbed in the right buttocks and thigh area, police said.
  
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• Traffic backup reported on I-83 north

  29-08-2016 21:15
  
  Traffic is reportedly backed up for several miles due to construction on I-83 north south of York.
  
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• Turkey Hill robber sought by police

  29-08-2016 21:03
  Lebanon police are looking for a man who robbed the Turkey Hill Mini Market on Maple Street early Monday.
  
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• Harrisburg grocer's killer again loses appeal of his 35-year-to-life prison term

  29-08-2016 20:58
  
  Ronald Briley was 14 when he shot Chong Kwak during a 1996 robbery. He was charged with murder when Kwak died after spending nearly 16 years in a coma.
  
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• Harrisburg mayor weighs in on fatal police shooting, says he wants body cameras

  29-08-2016 20:52
  
  Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse's comments Monday to reporters after a news conference for the city's annual Kipona festival represented his first public comments about the police shooting that killed Earl Shaleek Pinckney.
  
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• Gov. Wolf: Don't jail people for small amounts of marijuana; DA: We don't

  29-08-2016 20:16
  
  Prosecutors are working to keep any sort of drug possession cases from going to jail, Ed Marsico said, although drug dealers are another matter.
  
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• Middletown High School still has that new school smell

  29-08-2016 19:59
  
  Too bad the web doesn't do scratch-and-sniff, yet, because Middletown's new high school building really does have a new school smell as they open for classes Monday
  
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• Readers share their 2016 first day of school photos

  29-08-2016 19:51
  
  We asked PennLive readers to share photos of their children and grandchildren heading back to school today and were inundated with some fantastic pics.
  
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• Kidnapping case against Middletown man sent to county court

  29-08-2016 19:51
  Noah Thomas forcibly took a woman to Louisiana, police say.
  
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• Tightrope walkers will tempt the Susquehanna River at expanded Kipona Festival this year

  29-08-2016 19:50
  
  Harrisburg officials provided details of the 2016 Kipona Festival at a news conference Monday. The three-day festival is set for Sept. 3-5.
  
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• Court voids drunken driving conviction of Corvette driver who was pulled over for revving engine

  29-08-2016 19:45
  
  The officer lacked legal justification to make the traffic stop, a divided Superior Court panel found.
  
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• East Pennsboro schools deal with mold; here's what they face

  29-08-2016 19:31
  
  Experts say molds are present in every building.
  
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• Fire rips through 100-year-old church

  29-08-2016 18:57
  
  The cause remains under investigation.
  
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• Pa. court OKs 20-year jail term for robber who stole Air Jordan sneakers

  29-08-2016 18:45
  
  Abraham Cordoba argued that his sentence was excessive.
  
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• Man charged with having sex with miniature horse

  29-08-2016 17:16
  
  A witness reported seeing a vehicle parked near the barn, and the driver went inside for a short time, then left.
  
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• Convicted child rapist gets same sentence after mandatory minimum term vacated

  29-08-2016 16:40
  
  Judge David Ashworth once again ordered Samuel Santiago to serve 20 to 40 years in state prison for the repeated rape and sexual assault of a girl beginning when she was 4 and continuing for nine years.
  
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• Former Pa. Treasury Department worker gets house arrest for accessing child porn at work

  29-08-2016 16:37
  
  John Dudash, 65, told the judge he still doesn't know why he did it.
  
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• First day of school for Hummelstown students

  29-08-2016 16:13
  
  Hundreds of students started the first day of the 2016-17 school year at Nye Elementary in Hummelstown, Aug. 29. Predominately a walking school district most students arrived on foot with their parents and lined up under signs, with their teachers...
  
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• Harrisburg chicken restaurant closed after selling heroin bags: police

  29-08-2016 16:09
  
  Undercover police have charged the owners of Kennedy Fried Chicken on the 2000 block of North 6th Street after they say they purchased heroin bags at the restaurant.
  
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• Gas leak forces evacuation of Lebanon County neighborhood

  29-08-2016 15:35
  A contractor working on Wheatstone Lane near Short Road struck a gas line about 8:30 a.m. Monday.
  
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• Harrisburg police seek suspect in mosque break-in

  29-08-2016 15:24
  
  The man can be seen on security footage loadin the stolen items onto a greenish-colored bike that was waiting at the main entrance on Division Street.
  
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• Mold removal completed at East Pennsboro High School, several district schools remain closed

  29-08-2016 15:20
  
  East Pennsboro Township Officials are working on alternative scheduling as several schools remain closed due to mold and air-quality issues. An informational meeting is set for tonight.
  
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• Mold removal completed at East Pennsboro High, but several schools remain closed

  29-08-2016 15:20
  
  East Pennsboro Township Officials are working on alternative scheduling as several schools remain closed due to mold and air-quality issues. An informational meeting is set for tonight.
  
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• Bald eagle loses talons to trap, won't be returned to wild

  29-08-2016 14:29
  
  The first-year hatchling was apparently caught in the fur trap in Franklin County and managed to free itself, but lost a talon on each foot in the process, wildlife rehabilitator Wendy Looker said.
  
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• Missing Pa. girl, 14, considered 'endangered'

  29-08-2016 14:14
  
  A 14-year-old girl from Berks County, missing since Thursday, could be in danger, according to police.
  
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• Crash cleared on Pa. Turnpike

  29-08-2016 13:46
  The crash that was slowing westbound traffic early Monday morning has been cleared.
  
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• Police searching for SUV involved in Saturday shooting

  29-08-2016 12:18
  No one was injured, but police say the passenger of a dark green SUV fired a shotgun and damaged a house and vehicle Saturday in Union Township, Berks County.
  
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• Trump to give 'major speech' on illegal immigration: 'We're going to see what happens'

  29-08-2016 12:15
  
  Donald Trump on Sunday night said he will deliver a "major speech" on illegal immigration during his campaign stop Wednesday in Arizona.
  
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• Woman held woods, beaten over two days, escapes

  29-08-2016 11:54
  Police in Schuylkill County are looking for Christopher E. Benjamin, 34, whom they say held a 31-year-old woman and her 4-year-old son in a wooded area for two days and repeatedly beat her.
  
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• Woman held in woods, beaten over two days, escapes

  29-08-2016 11:54
  Police in Schuylkill County are looking for Christopher E. Benjamin, 34, whom they say held a 31-year-old woman and her 4-year-old son in a wooded area for two days and repeatedly beat her.
  
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• Hot, humid start to workweek to be followed by cool down

  29-08-2016 11:27
  
  High temperatures will reach the upper 80s and lower 90s early this week, but should drop down into the lower 80s by midweek, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Early Monday crash slows Pa. Turnpike traffic

  29-08-2016 11:13
  Traffic is slow moving due to a crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike between the Reading and the Lebanon-Lancaster exits.
  
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• Above average temps for start of workweek, cooling expected late week

  29-08-2016 03:20
  
  Temperatures well above average in thepper 80s and low 90s are projected through Wednesday, said Kevin Fitzgerald, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in State College.
  
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• Man handcuffed himself to victim, beat her with brick during domestic dispute: police

  29-08-2016 02:45
  
  James Dale Foster is accused of attacking a woman last week leaving the woman seriously injured.
  
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• Pa. crime photos of the week: Wife accused of stabbing hubby for drinking her last beer, more

  29-08-2016 01:01
  
  A picture is worth a thousand words. And there is a story of alleged crime, heartbreak, even stupidity behind each one of the photos from this week in Pa. crime.
  
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• Tim Kaine to campaign in Pennsylvania this week: When, where, how to see him

  29-08-2016 00:00
  
  Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine will make three campaign stops in Pennsylvania this week.
  
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