TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News It is what The Hershey Co. didn’t say about its planned job cuts that generated so much angst and fear among the blue-collar workers who make the candy. The company yesterday announced that 1,500 jobs will be cut within three years, but workers don’t know which ones. The company …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News At 12:53 p.m. Wednesday, I text messaged the recent Middletown Area High School graduate who had advertised a student ticket to Saturday’s Penn State-Notre Dame game for sale on Facebook. “$100 for ND ticket?” I thumbed on my cell phone. The face value for her ticket is $25. “Who’s …
TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News Could the key to saving lives come 120 characters at a time on a tiny screen? That tiny screen — that of a cell phone — is usually on hand for an estimated 90 percent of college students. E-mails might be quick, but the shootings at Virginia Tech showed …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News Hauling a duffel bag full of clothes, a 14-year-old runaway from Steelton boarded a Greyhound bus from Harrisburg to New York City on Friday. He didn’t have the paperwork that Greyhound requires for children traveling alone. Police and his mother said he was never asked for identification. But he …
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TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News SHANKSVILLE — Richard Guadagno and Mark Bingham never chose to be an unforgettable part of state and national history. Nor did the residents of tiny Shanksville in Somerset County expect their town to become one of the country’s most vivid symbols of patriotism, selflessness and courage. Like the rest …
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Tweet(NOTE: This is a compilation of my posts in a blog that had several reporters contributing around the state. It originally had links in it, but they were lost in translation.) Santorum HQ gets the party started Not heeding the polls or pundits who had largely declared the U.S. Senate race over before it started, …
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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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