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2011 |
| Nov.11 |
Penn State coach ordered on leave Assistant football coach Mike McQueary has been placed on administrative leave and will not attend the team's final home game
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2013 |
| Feb.26 |
Drinkers sue over 'watered-down' Bud Beer drinkers in the US have filed a $5m lawsuit accusing Anheuser-Busch of watering down its beer
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2010 |
| Dec.27 |
US airports reopen after blizzard 
New York: Airports have reopened in the north-eastern US after blizzards caused some 7,000 flights to be cancelled over the busy post-Christmas travel period | |
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2016 |
| Jun.16 |
Philadelphia to bring in 'soda tax' to fight obesity Philadelphia has introduced a levy on carbonated sugary drinks, despite a multimillion-dollar campaign by the beverage industry to block it
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2014 |
| Feb.13 |
Comcast buys Time Warner Cable Philadelphia: Comcast has confirmed a deal to acquire Time Warner Cable for about $45bn, creating a company that could control 3/4 of the US cable industry | |
2013 |
| Feb.14 |
Warren Buffett in $28bn Heinz deal Pittsburgh: Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company and private equity firm 3G have agreed to take over the food company, famous for its ketchup | |
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2003 |
| Nov.30 |
US climbdown on steel 'imminent' Washington: Bush is heading for the steel town of Pittsburgh to raise election funds ahead of ditching the tariffs to avoid a trade war
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2014 |
| Jan.29 |
Obama tours for minimum wage rise
Pittsburgh: President Barack Obama is taking his campaign for a minimum wage rise to the streets, visiting local businesses after his State of the Union...
2009 |
| Sep.25 |
Obama hails 'tough regulations' Pittsburgh: US President Barack: The world's leading nations have agreed 'tough new regulations' to prevent another global financial crisis
| Sep.24 |
G-20 to supplant G-8 on world stage Pittsburgh: Leaders of the G-20 summit will announce that the group will become the new permanent council for international economic cooperation
G-20 — is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies: 19 countries, plus the European Union
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G-20 leaders meet to bolster economy Pittsburgh: Leaders representing 90% of the world's economic output were gathering, hoping to bolster the global economy | |
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2014 |
| Jun.1 |
Philadelphia Inquirer's Lewis Katz dies in plane crash
Map of Hanscom Field USA Boston: Lewis Katz has been killed in a plane crash near Boston. a private jet that burst into flames as it was trying to take off from Hanscom Field airport
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2016 |
| Feb.3 |
Bill Cosby: US judge allows sex assault case US prosecutors can proceed with a sexual assault charge against comedian Bill Cosby, a judge has ruled
2015 |
| Dec.30 |
Bill Cosby charged with indecent assault
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania have filed the first sexual assault charges against US comedian Bill Cosby, 78
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2014 |
| Jul.4 |
US billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife dies aged 82 Pittsburgh: Publisher and influential conservative has died less than two months after he had announced he had an untreatable form of cancer
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2012 |
| Dec.27 |
US chipmaker faces huge patent fine Pittsburgh: Marvell Technology faces having to pay one of the biggest ever patent damage awards