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SUNDAY: It's a question that has been on many people's mind: What remains in the ground at the site of the proposed Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Center?
SUNDAY: Meet the stars of the new "Indiana Jones" sequel - Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf./USA Weekend
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's junta seized U.N. aid shipments today meant for a multitude of hungry and homeless survivors of last week's devastating cyclone, forcing the world body to suspend further help.
The aid included 38 tons of high-energy biscuits and arrived in Myanmar today on two flights from Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates.
For the record, Pennsylvania has never had a Governor Wallace.
No donor by that name has bequeathed money to Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and no President Wallace has reigned over the campus.
It was social sciences professor Florence Wallace whose name was put on the Wallace Hall dormitory. The university trustees decided in 1973 to honor her - an Ordinary Joe, by today's building-naming standards, but a teacher who meant far more than lessons and chalkboards to her students.
Business is brisk at the inn, and reservations are suggested for the dining venues as Indiana braces for its busiest weekend of the year - the combination of IUP's commencement at Miller Stadium Saturday and the traditional Mother's Day observance on Sunday.
With an audience of about 8,000 graduates and guests expected - approximately 1,650 degrees are to be presented - the commencement alone taxes the university's traffic flow and parking facilities .
Couple these developments with the ongoing construction and you have a bustle of significant proportions. Thus, the usual suggestion from campus officials that local traffic, when convenient, avoid the campus area from mid-morning to mid-afternoon.
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military today denied Iraqi government claims that the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was captured and said a man with a similar name had been arrested in the northern city of Mosul.
Iraqi authorities had announced Thursday that police commandos captured Abu Ayyub al-Masri in a raid in the northern city of Mosul.
Written by Anthony Fucinari, Gazette Sports Writer
Friday, 09 May 2008
Administrative problems have forced the Indoor Football Association, including a team called the Indiana Wolverines, to delay the start of the season,which had been set for Saturday. The Wolverines had planned to play their home games at S&T Bank Arena.
"The season is pushed back," said Larry Macon, the Chicago entrepreneur who assembled the league. "Our goal is to be kicking off June 7."
WASHINGTON - They're trapped in loans they can't afford and saddled with more debt than their homes are worth.
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners ensnared in a double-whammy of subprime mortgage rate resets and plummeting house values could be helped under a plan passed by the House on Thursday.
WASHINGTON - Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released today.
A teen who has been depressed at some point in the past year is more than twice as likely to have used marijuana as teens who have not reported being depressed - 25 percent compared with 12 percent, said the report by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Oil prices surged past $125 per barrel today on the eve of the U.S. driving season as a weakening U.S. dollar drove investors to snap up commodities.
Light, sweet crude for June delivery rose as high as $125.12 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at midday before falling back to $124.86 by early afternoon in Europe.
On Thursday, the contract rose to a record close of $123.69 a barrel.
CHICAGO - There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own.
An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year - a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by.
PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Steelers and USA Football will hold a coaching school for youth football coaches from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at the Steelers' headquarters at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex.
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