PHILADELPHIA—A piece of one of Martha Washington's dresses is for sale. The Raab Collection, a Philadelphia historic documents dealer, said Wednesday that it's selling the 5-inch by 9-inch piece of silk brocade for $40,000.
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WAYNESBURG, Pa.—A toothless woman who told police she robbed a southwestern Pennsylvania bank because she needed money for new dentures has been ordered to stand trial and remains jailed, though her attorney is trying to get her moved to a mental health facility.
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INDIANA, Pa.—Two suspended female western Pennsylvania Jail guards have been ordered to stand trial in connection with alleged sexual assaults involving three female inmates.
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WILMINGTON, Del.—A trial for the Newark woman accused of selling her baby and the Philadelphia man she allegedly sold the infant to for $15,000 has been postponed.
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PITTSBURGH—Four western Pennsylvania congressmen are pushing a bill that would prevent the Air Force from closing the 911th Airlift Wing near Pittsburgh, but are hoping to persuade Air Force officials to keep it open during a meeting on Thursday.
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PITTSBURGH—A judge is set to rule on whether a Pittsburgh-area man is guilty of involuntary manslaughter and other charges in a crash on Interstate 376 that killed three of his friends nearly two years ago.
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WASHINGTON, Pa.—A Pennsylvania woman who submitted nearly $100,000 worth of fake cancer treatment insurance claims for herself and her husband must repay the money while she serves nearly nine years on probation.
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ERIE, Pa.—The city of Erie will pay nearly $207,000 to a firefighter who was wrongly dismissed following a 2006 suicide attempt in which she set clothes on fire in a bathtub.
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WASHINGTON, Pa.—A southwestern Pennsylvania woman who submitted $94,000 worth of fake cancer treatment insurance claims for her and her husband must repay that money while she serves nearly nine years on probation.
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QUINCY, Pa.—A Pennsylvania man cited for shooting a horse and leaving its carcass in a state forest says he had taken the animal for a final ride when it collapsed and had to be put down.
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BRENTWOOD, Pa.—Officials at a Pittsburgh-area school district say three students have been disciplined and the superintendent says he's reviewing video from a recent high school game to determine if anyone else will be punished for racial slurs directed at a predominantly black basketball team.
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CALIFORNIA, Pa.—A state-owned university in southwestern Pennsylvania plans to lay off 11 of its 116 nonunion management employees so save money in the face of looming budget cuts proposed by Gov.
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GREENSBURG, Pa.—Police believe whoever stole two pythons from a private school in western Pennsylvania is keeping them as pets because nothing else was taken.
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WASHINGTON—A jubilant Rick Santorum is leveraging victories in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri to increase pressure on Mitt Romney, labeling him "a well-oiled weather vane" who often shifts his positions.
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PITTSBURGH—Pittsburgh police are warning food delivery drivers to take precautions after three of them were robbed at gunpoint in four days in the same neighborhood.
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PITTSBURGH—Investigators are looking into the possibility a child playing with matches sparked a fire that killed two people in Pittsburgh's Friendship neighborhood.
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In a study conducted by The York Dispatch that involved 16
high schools in York County and one in Adams County, there were a total of 9,807 student-athletes in grades 9 through 12 in the 2010-11 school year.
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