TweetBy DANIEL VICTOR The Lion’s Roar Jim Dearing, Chebie Bateman and Lee Patchen know with unwavering certainty that they live in the town where Memorial Day began. But they live in three different towns. “As far as I’m concerned and the people of Boalsburg are concerned, it did start here,” said Dearing, of Boalsburg, Pa. …
TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Centre Daily Times UNIVERSITY PARK — When highly touted football prospects such as quarterback Pat Devlin and wide receiver Vidal Hazelton visit campus, Penn State junior Brad Wilson does what he can to help urge them to become Nittany Lions. But Wilson created an unfair advantage for Penn State when he distributed …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News After a horse collapsed 20 yards past the finish line during the fifth race at Penn National Race Course on Saturday night, about 25 jockeys huddled and made an unprecedented decision. They declared they would no longer ride in any race that included a horse owned by Michael Gill, …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News You’d never expect that leaving the new Yankee Stadium after the home team won the World Series would have an atmosphere roughly similar to leaving a nonconference Penn State football game or a Broadway play. But most in the businesslike crowd leaving Game 6 couldn’t be bothered to high-five …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News On Tuesday, Kathryn Leitzell, 61, opened the envelope from the U.S. Social Security Administration and read the disappointing news: She is dead. Yet she feels very much alive. She rides her exercise bike every day, she put up Easter decorations for her grandchildren in the Swatara Twp. home she’s …