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    New York City police recruits to watch a play for training
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    New York City police recruits to watch a play for training
    MARK KENNEDY 
    Oct 17, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Police Department is turning to a new tool in its effort to teach its future officers about tolerance and understand...
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    US urges Turkey to uphold due process in journalist case
    News, World
    US urges Turkey to uphold due process in journalist case
    DESMOND BUTLER 
    Oct 17, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — In August, Mohammed Rasool was helping two Western journalists with a dangerous assignment along Turkey's border with Iraq. Cities i...
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    Susan Cheever chronicles drinking in America in new book
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Susan Cheever chronicles drinking in America in new book
    LEANNE ITALIE 
    Oct 14, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — Drinking, and not drinking, is as old as America itself, from the beer-loving pilgrims on the Mayflower and Paul Revere's boozy horse ...
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    Planned Parenthood to forgo payment in fetal tissue programs
    Nation, News
    Planned Parenthood to forgo payment in fetal tissue programs
    DAVID CRARY 
    Oct 13, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — Responding to a furor over undercover videos, Planned Parenthood says it will maintain programs at some of its clinics that make fetal...
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    Iran says Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian convicted
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    Iran says Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian convicted
    AMIR VAHDAT 
    Oct 12, 2015
    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post journalist who has been detained in Iran for more than a year on charges including espionage, h...
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    Monument to honor King planned for Georgia’s Stone Mountain
    Nation, News
    Monument to honor King planned for Georgia’s Stone Mountain
    Oct 12, 2015
    STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — Planning is underway to place a Liberty Bell replica atop Stone Mountain near Atlanta as a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luth...
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    Syrian troops gain as Putin defends strikes
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    Syrian troops gain as Putin defends strikes
    SARAH EL DEEB and LYNN BERRY 
    Oct 11, 2015
    BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops backed by Russian airstrikes advanced against insurgents in the center of the country as President Vladimir Putin defended...
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    Nobel Peace Prize boosts struggling Tunisian democracy
    News, World
    Nobel Peace Prize boosts struggling Tunisian democracy
    PAUL SCHEMM, BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and KARL RITTER 
    Oct 10, 2015
    TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — It was the fall of 2013 and Tunisia's newfound democracy was in grave danger. The assassination of a left-wing politician had pr...
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    Strong emotions as Obama visits grieving Oregon town
    Nation, News
    Strong emotions as Obama visits grieving Oregon town
    GOSIA WOZNIACKA 
    Oct 10, 2015
    ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Gun-rights activists and others gave voice to strong emotions on Friday when President Barack Obama came to meet privately with ...
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    Pope turns bishops’ attention to family crises in Mideast
    News, World
    Pope turns bishops’ attention to family crises in Mideast
    NICOLE WINFIELD and DANIELA PETROFF 
    Oct 09, 2015
    VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis directed the attention of the world's bishops to real-world crises Friday by denouncing the escalation of conflicts i...
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    The Latest: Scholar wonders about Putin reaction to Nobel
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    The Latest: Scholar wonders about Putin reaction to Nobel
    Oct 08, 2015
    STOCKHOLM (AP) — Latest news from the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature. ___ 7:15 p.m. A Russian literature scholar says it will be interestin...
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    Fact Check: GOP candidates take aim at Chicago gun laws
    Politics
    Fact Check: GOP candidates take aim at Chicago gun laws
    DON BABWIN 
    Oct 06, 2015
    CHICAGO (AP) — The mass shooting at an Oregon community college last week has thrust the debate over the nation's gun laws to the center of the presid...
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    Oregon shooter’s mother wrote about guns in online forum
    Nation, News
    Oregon shooter’s mother wrote about guns in online forum
    GOSIA WOZNIACKA and ALINA HARTOUNIAN 
    Oct 06, 2015
    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of the Oregon gunman who killed nine in a college classroom apparently wrote about her love of guns in an online foru...
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    Time Out defends Meryl Streep T-shirt in ‘slave’ row
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Time Out defends Meryl Streep T-shirt in ‘slave’ row
    Oct 06, 2015
    LONDON (AP) — Time Out magazine has defended its use of a slogan including the word slave on a T-shirt worn by Meryl Streep to promote the movie "Suff...
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    European data sharing pact with US ruled invalid
    Business, News
    European data sharing pact with US ruled invalid
    PAN PYLAS 
    Oct 06, 2015
    LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Facebook and thousands of other companies could find it vastly more complicated to do business in Europe after a court ruled that pe...
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    Familiar, divisive social issues on Supreme Court agenda
    Nation, News
    Familiar, divisive social issues on Supreme Court agenda
    MARK SHERMAN 
    Oct 05, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is starting a new term that promises a steady stream of divisive social issues, and also brighter prospects for co...
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    San Francisco’s last gun store closing doors for good
    Nation
    San Francisco’s last gun store closing doors for good
    PAUL ELIAS 
    Oct 04, 2015
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The only gun store in San Francisco is shuttering for good, saying it can no longer operate in the city's political climate of in...
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    Law firm labeled hate group leading Kim Davis’ crusade
    Nation
    Law firm labeled hate group leading Kim Davis’ crusade
    CLAIRE GALOFARO 
    Oct 04, 2015
    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kim Davis' lawyer stood onstage in a Washington D.C. hotel and pointed to a photo on the screen. It showed 100,000 people packe...
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    Vatican upends Davis affair with news of audience with gays
    News, World
    Vatican upends Davis affair with news of audience with gays
    NICOLE WINFIELD 
    Oct 03, 2015
    VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican turned the tables on the Kim Davis affair Friday: Not only did it distance Pope Francis from her claims that he endors...
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    ‘We began to run’: Students describe horror of shooting
    Nation, News
    ‘We began to run’: Students describe horror of shooting
    JEFF BARNARD and GOSIA WOZNIACKA 
    Oct 02, 2015
    ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Armed with multiple guns, a 26-year-old man walked into a morning writing class at a community college in this rural Oregon town...
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    Toss the bags, Break the Chains
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    Toss the bags, Break the Chains
    June 17, 2025
    Break the Chains (BTC) Coalition invites the public to its 9th annual BTC Festival on the town square in Coudersport on June 28. The cornhole tourname...
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    Cool down and connect
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    Cool down and connect
    June 17, 2025
    Port Allegany's Heart and Soul will host an Ice Cream Social for an opportunity to cool down and connect. This sweet summer gathering will be held Sun...
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    No Era edition Thursday
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    No Era edition Thursday
    June 17, 2025
    Due to the federal Juneteenth holiday, there will be no edition of The Era on Thursday, June 19. The paper will resume Friday. The newsroom can be rea...
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    No shortage of mud
    Local News
    No shortage of mud
    June 17, 2025
    The 28th Penn’s Woods Jamboree will return to the Bradford area Friday and Saturday. With the amount of rain seen regionally this spring, there should...
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    Local organizations receive grants for America 250PA
    Local News, PA State News
    Local organizations receive grants for America 250PA
    June 17, 2025
    America250PA has announced recipients of the second round of its Semiquincentennial Grants, which include funds for the Bradford Area Alliance and Lum...
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    Vote on a name for the Pitt-Bradford panther
    Local News
    Vote on a name for the Pitt-Bradford panther
    June 17, 2025
    The University of Pittsburgh has announced the six finalist names for its panther mascot in honor of National Mascot Day. Voting is open to anyone who...
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