Publication: Pottsdown Mercury

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 8 mins ago - 1 reports

Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay...

The BSA could also take a hit financially. Many Scout units in conservative areas feared their local donors would stop giving if the ban on gay youth were lifted, while many major corporate donors were likely to withhold donations if the ban had rema ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Gay, Donor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

First reported 43 mins ago - Updated 39 mins ago - 1 reports

Google Inc

Google may face new antitrust probe over display...

The company said it would voluntarily remove restrictions on the use of its online search-advertising platform and offer companies the option of keeping their content out of Google’s search results.The FTC’s resolution of its search-practices probe came ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 43 mins ago]

Entities: Antitrust, Google Inc, Microsoft Corporation, Antitrust Law

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

California sees lower-than-expected prices for health insurance

California health officials on Thursday unveiled the likely rates that insurers will charge under the health-care law backed by President Barack Obama — and they are lower than expected, rebutting warnings by critics that many people will experience “rate ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Health Insurance, Peter Lee, Congressional Budget Office, Affordable Care Act

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Brazil drug traffickers fight back, order curfew...

His comments came as the state unveiled a series of measures, including new technology and pay incentives, for Sao Paulo police to meet ambitious new targets in crime reduction.In Rio, officials said Thursday’s curfew was an effort by drug traffickers ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Drug Trafficking, Brazil, São Paulo

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Montco authorities announce bust of national,...

PLYMOUTH — Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman announced the take down of a $14.5 million marijuana drug trafficking ring that spanned coast to coast during a Thursday morning press conference at the Montgomery County Fire Academy.Accompanied ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Jeffrey Frederick, District Attorney, Risa Vetri Ferman, Seth Williams

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

IRS Internal Revenue Service

IRS official at center of scandal refuses to resign, put on leave

WASHINGTON — Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the scandal over the agency’s extra scrutiny of conservative groups, was put on administrative leave on Thursday after she refused to resign, a U.S. senator said.Republican ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 11 hours ago]

Entities: IRS Internal Revenue Service, Resignation, Charles Grassley

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Richard Nixon

Gene Lyons: Three non-scandals

Having recently left the country for a few weeks of media deprivation therapy, I returned to find excited pundits comparing President Obama to Richard M. Nixon on the basis of three transparently bogus White House “scandals” that make Starr’s fabled “Whitewater” ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Gene Lyons, Richard Nixon, L. Jean Lewis, White House

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Limerick nuke plant hearing attracts Japanese...

A majority of speakers spoke scathingly of the NRC, calling the agency”cowardly” and a “lackey of the nuclear industry” and calling the document that was the subject of comment “delusional,” “shameful” and the result of “willful blindness” by the NRC ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Exelon Corporation, Coventry, Chris Conway, Gail Brown

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Govt dysfunction may be baked into the system

— Some 85 federal judgeships around the country remain vacant. (In many cases, Republican senators are breaking with tradition and refusing to even make recommendations to Obama for their own states.)These days, hardly anything can be approved in the ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Paul Light, Thomas E. Mann, Judgeship, Brookings Institution, New York University

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 reports

Recount of votes in close Montco elections starts Friday

NORRISTOWN — The seven close election contests in Montgomery County will be the focus of a Friday vote tabulation by county election workers.“The official count starts on Friday. The tabulators will go back over the tapes and check the absentee ballots ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Elections, D Stevens, Workers

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 reports

Details of manhunt for accused Pottstown killer revealed in court papers

NORRISTOWN – Accused Pottstown killer Maurice Laverne Andrews Jr. apparently relied on the help of others as he tried to avoid capture by authorities searching for him in connection with a March slaying, court papers revealed.“Detectives have learned ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Harrisburg (Pennsylvania, United States), Homicide, Corroboration

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 reports

Missing college student from Skippack found...

SKIPPACK — Pennsylvania State Police confirmed Thursday afternoon that Matthew Royer, the college student who has been missing for more than a week, has been found unharmed.The family does not want the location where Royer, 21, was found to be released ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - 22 hours ago]

Entities: University Of Rhode Island, Police

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“All the teachers started screaming into the room and saying, ` "Get into the hallway! We don’t want you to die!’ and stuff like that,” said sixth-grader Phaedra Dunn. “We just took off running.”"

Teachers credited with saving students in... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - May 22 2013]

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