Those who drive up and down George Street regularly enough have already learned the pattern: veer right -- then left -- then slow down as you roll between and into shallow pits left in the road during construction.   Full Story

MAHANOY CITY, Pa.—Seven parishes are now one in the Diocese of Allentown. Members of the former St.   Full Story

WASHINGTON—A fixed timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq could jeopardize political and economic progress, the Pentagon's top military officer said Sunday.   Full Story

ROME—A man beat his 4-year-old daughter's head against the stone base of a Rome monument in front of tourists and a police officer, leaving the child in a coma, police said Sunday.   Full Story

For a quite splendid tract of western shore land overlooking the Susquehanna, someone had a "vision." Then somewhere along the way that vision became skewed and someone sold someone else a bill of goods about the public benefit this vision would provide.   Full Story

CHICAGO—Barack Obama's office said Sunday he will give a speech on the U.S. partnership with Germany and trans-Atlantic relations in front of the gold-topped Victory Column, or Siegessaeule, in the heart of downtown Berlin.   Full Story

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Michelle Wie finished the third round of the State Farm Classic alone in second on Saturday—then was disqualified for failing to immediately sign her scorecard a day earlier.   Full Story

It took close to four decades for York to land another professional baseball team after the York Pirates left town in 1969.   Full Story

JACOBUS -- "It's not how you start, it's how you finish." That saying seems to perfectly describe the Jacobus baseball team.   Full Story

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RICHMOND, Va.—The 6,000 acres of tomatoes grown on Virginia's sea-swept Eastern Shore were never implicated in the national salmonella outbreak—they were still on the vine weeks after people starting getting sick.   Full Story