TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR AND BARBARA MILLER Of The Patriot-News If you’re looking for detailed answers on The Hershey Co.’s planned layoffs — and who isn’t? — rumors and barstool chatter will have to suffice for now. There’s plenty to go around. The Hershey Co. announced plans last week to trim 1,500 positions from its work …
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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 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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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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