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    Arizona copper mine stirs debate pitting profits vs religion
    Nation
    Arizona copper mine stirs debate pitting profits vs religion
    RYAN VAN VELZER 
    Jul 04, 2015
    SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — Outside of an aging mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, a copper company has burrowed a shaft 1.3 miles into the high...
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    Gimmicks and technology: California learns to save water
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    Gimmicks and technology: California learns to save water
    GILLIAN FLACCUS 
    Jul 04, 2015
    RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (AP) — Billboards and TV commercials, living room visits, guess-your-water-use booths, and awards for water stinginess ...
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    Federal report: Polar bears in peril due to global warming
    Nation
    Federal report: Polar bears in peril due to global warming
    MARK THIESSEN 
    Jul 04, 2015
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Polar bears are at risk of dying off if humans don't reverse the trend of global warming, a blunt U.S. government report file...
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    VA hospital that once treated Civil War veterans could close
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    VA hospital that once treated Civil War veterans could close
    KEVIN BURBACH 
    Jul 04, 2015
    HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — Perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills, a veterans hospital built of thick blocks of pink sandstone and topped with r...
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    BP to pay record $18.7 billion to states affected by spill
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    BP to pay record $18.7 billion to states affected by spill
    KEVIN McGILL, REBECCA SANTANA and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN 
    Jul 03, 2015
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than five years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history fouled beaches, coated seabirds in thick goo and threatened...
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    California: Record water savings shows big cuts possible
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    California: Record water savings shows big cuts possible
    FENIT NIRAPPIL 
    Jul 02, 2015
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Water use in drought-stricken California plunged by record levels in May, and Gov. Jerry Brown's administration cited that a...
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    Tunisia: 8 people suspected of direct links to beach attack
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    Tunisia: 8 people suspected of direct links to beach attack
    BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA 
    Jul 02, 2015
    TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Eight people are in custody in Tunisia, suspected of having direct links to a deadly beach attack that killed 38 people, but fou...
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    Gulf states reach $18.7B settlement with BP over oil spill
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    Gulf states reach $18.7B settlement with BP over oil spill
    KEVIN McGILL and REBECCA SANTANA 
    Jul 02, 2015
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP and five Gulf states announced a record $18.7 billion settlement Thursday that resolves years of legal fighting over the environ...
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    Western wildfires: Flames plague hot, dry Washington region
    Nation, News
    Western wildfires: Flames plague hot, dry Washington region
    The Associated Press 
    Jul 01, 2015
    New flames ignited in drought-stricken Washington state, not far from where a destructive wildfire reduced homes to rubble. Crews also are battling bl...
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    Greeks struggle with daily grind as foreigners head to beach
    News, World
    Greeks struggle with daily grind as foreigners head to beach
    GREGORY KATZ 
    Jun 30, 2015
    ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Gamal Takaway has turned up the hustle, to no avail. The popular waiter who goes by the nickname Jimmy often steps out into the ...
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    APNewsBreak: Tunisia beach killer trained with museum gunmen
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    APNewsBreak: Tunisia beach killer trained with museum gunmen
    BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA 
    Jun 30, 2015
    TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The young college student that murdered 38 tourists in a Tunisian seaside resort was in a jihadi training camp in western Libya ...
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    National Park Service: Boy bitten by shark on NC Outer Banks
    Nation, News
    National Park Service: Boy bitten by shark on NC Outer Banks
    Jun 28, 2015
    WAVES, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a 17-year-old boy is the latest victim of a shark attack off North Carolina's coast, the second attack in as many day...
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    Conservationists: New China policy could save elephants
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    Conservationists: New China policy could save elephants
    CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA 
    Jun 27, 2015
    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Conservationists hail it as a possible game-changer in the struggle to curb the slaughter of elephants: an unexpected pledge by a ...
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    Western wildfires: Southern California fire roars to life
    Nation, News
    Western wildfires: Southern California fire roars to life
    The Associated Press 
    Jun 27, 2015
    Wildfires are chewing through parched parts of the West, including a resurgent blaze in California that forced residents of some desert communities to...
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    Unchecked pollution befouling majestic Lake Titicaca
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    Unchecked pollution befouling majestic Lake Titicaca
    CARLOS VALDEZ 
    Jun 26, 2015
    BAHIA DE COHANA, Bolivia (AP) — Gulls swept down to feast on hundreds of dead and dying giant frogs floating in the rancid waters along a southeastern...
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    Heat wave subsides in Pakistan as death toll reaches 860
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    Heat wave subsides in Pakistan as death toll reaches 860
    ADIL JAWAD 
    Jun 26, 2015
    KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The devastating heat wave that struck southern Pakistan last weekend is slowly subsiding but the toll was still climbing Thur...
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    9 killed when plane crashes on sightseeing trip in Alaska
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    9 killed when plane crashes on sightseeing trip in Alaska
    MARK THIESSEN 
    Jun 26, 2015
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Eight cruise ship passengers and their pilot died on a sightseeing excursion in Alaska when their small plane crashed in remo...
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    California oil spill gushed like hose ‘without a nozzle’
    Nation, News
    California oil spill gushed like hose ‘without a nozzle’
    MICHAEL R. BLOOD and BRIAN MELLEY 
    Jun 26, 2015
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters investigating a reported petroleum stench at a California beach last month didn't take long to find a spill — oil was ...
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    Emerging Israel gas deal ignites fierce debate
    News, World
    Emerging Israel gas deal ignites fierce debate
    DANIEL ESTRIN 
    Jun 25, 2015
    JERUSALEM (AP) — When natural gas was discovered a few years ago off the shores of resource-poor Israel, it was heralded as nothing short of a miracle...
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    Western wildfires: California fire grows, forces evacuations
    Nation, News
    Western wildfires: California fire grows, forces evacuations
    The Associated Press 
    Jun 25, 2015
    Wildfires are charging through several dry Western states, including a blaze in California that showed new life after burning for a week and forced so...
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    Transit funding bill moves in Pennsylvania, again
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    Transit funding bill moves in Pennsylvania, again
    By CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    August 7, 2025
    HARRISBURG — With days to spare, the House Transportation Committee voted for the fifth time on a piece of legislation that would secure mass transit ...
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    Bipartisan support for geothermal energy in House
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    Bipartisan support for geothermal energy in House
    By CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    August 7, 2025
    HARRISBURG — While cuts in the federal budget resolution have dealt a blow to some renewable energy sources, the door is left open to develop others. ...
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    How one Pennsylvania department uses AI to handle cases
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    How one Pennsylvania department uses AI to handle cases
    By CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    August 7, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Last week, the Department of Labor & Industry announced it had upgraded its Unemployment Compensation, or UC, virtual assistant, a move t...
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    Projects to hit St. Marys traffic Monday
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    Projects to hit St. Marys traffic Monday
    August 7, 2025
    CLEARFIELD — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced that work to repair a railroad crossing on South Michael Street (Route ...
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    Local oil purchasers decrease prices
    Business, Local News
    Local oil purchasers decrease prices
    August 7, 2025
    Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Wednesday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil P...
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    Bear joke backfires into big surprise
    Outdoors
    Bear joke backfires into big surprise
    By WADE ROBERTSON 
    August 7, 2025
    My grandfather was hunting black bears with a bunch of his wood savvy cronies near Railroad Run in the late 1950’s. Lunchtime found the hungry crew ba...
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