Pennsylvania
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Gosnell spared the death penalty
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Kermit Gosnell, convicted of killing three babies who were born alive, has agreed to give up his right to an appeal and will be spared a potential death sentence.
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Kermit Gosnell guilty of killing three babies, acquitted of fourth murder charge
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Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty after Kermit Gosnell, the notorious Philadelphia abortion doctor, was convicted Monday on three counts of first-degree murder.
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Pottsville, Pa. house fire kills six people, including four kids (Video)
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A late-night house fire in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Pottsville killed six people, four of them of which were children.
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Brenda Heist found 11 years after disappearing from Pennsylvania (Video)
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Morgan Heist, who learned last week that Brenda Heist had surfaced in the Florida Keys, said the news has made her recall with bitterness the years of mourning she endured when she assumed her mother was dead.
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Kermit Gosnell abortion trial: Philadelphia doctor testifies
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Dr. Charles Benjamin testified Monday against Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is charged with killing a patient and seven babies.
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Chris Knafelc jumps on Pa. subway tracks to save a man (Video)
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Surveillance cameras captured the moment a man fell onto the tracks in a Philadelphia subway station and another man jumped down to save him. Called a hero by police, Chris Knafelc says, "I can't imagine not helping someone in that situation."
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Axe body spray sends student to hospital after exposure, school bans it
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Freedom High School in Bethlehem says one of its students was recently taken to a hospital after being exposed to Axe Body Spray. Now, officials are asking students to stop using it as a cologne or fragrance
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Bus crash that killed Pa. coach being investigated
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Police are investigating what caused a bus carrying a college women's lacrosse team to veer off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and crash into a tree, killing head coach Kristina Quigley, her unborn child and the driver.
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Pa. lacrosse team bus crashes; pregnant coach dies
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A tour bus carrying a college's women's lacrosse team to a game went off the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday and crashed into a tree, killing a pregnant coach who was a Baltimore native and the driver and sending others to hospitals, authorities said.
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Megan Thode sues Lehigh University over C+ grade
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Getting a lower grade than you wanted for a college class is always cause for concern. For a student in Pennsylvania, it's cause for a $1.3 million lawsuit.
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Melissa Ketunuti case: Jason Smith charged with slaying
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The exterminator - a man with no significant criminal record - got into an argument with the doctor, then strangled her, bound her body and set it ablaze in an apparent attempt to get rid of the evidence.
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Corbett plans to sue NCAA over Penn State sanctions
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett says he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over sanctions imposed against Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.
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Anton Geiser, former Nazi guard, dies at 88
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Attorney Adrian Roe says 88-year-old Anton Geiser died over the weekend and was buried Monday in Hermitage, about 75 miles north of Pittsburgh.
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Sheena Monnin ordered to pay $5 million
CommentA contestant who claimed the Miss USA contest was fixed has been ordered to pay the pageant $5 million for defamation.
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Elizabeth Derkosh, mother of boy killed at zoo, won't be charged
Elizabeth Derkosh put her son on top of a railing to view a pack of African painted dogs in early November. The boy fell off and the animals immediately pounced. He bled to death.
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Thomas Grant to stand trial for allegedly shooting girl dressed as skunk
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A Pennsylvania man who apparently shot a young relative after mistaking her costume for a skunk has been ordered to stand trial on charges of assault and reckless endangerment.
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Graham Spanier accused of perjury, endangering children in Penn State sex abuse case
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Penn State's ex-president, Graham Spanier, has been charged with perjury and endangering children, but his attorneys say Gov. Tom Corbett is trying to divert attention from the three-year investigation into Jerry Sandusky that began when the governor was attorney general.
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Jerry Sandusky moved to prison housing death row inmates
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Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on Wednesday was sent to serve his child molestation prison sentence at an institution in far southwestern Pennsylvania that includes most of the state's death row inmates.
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