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High School Junior Runs for School Board

By Susanna BairdApr 28th 2011 – 1:11PM

Connor Kurtz, self-described fiscal conservative, aims to win himself a seat on the Daniel Boone Area School District school board. He won't be able to vote for himself in the primary next month, however, because he's only 17. The Amity Township, Pa., junior turns 18 in September and can legally run in the November...

Pennsylvania Teen Helps Deliver Surprise Sister

By Susanna BairdApr 21st 2011 – 12:39PM

A Pennsylvania teenager helped deliver a surprise Monday morning. With help from 911 dispatcher Shawn Pistorius, the 13-year-old boy helped his mom through the birth of his new sister. His mother didn't even know she was pregnant. "She had told me she didn't know she was pregnant, but she thought she was having a baby,"...

Cops: Weight-Loss Doctor Told Patients to Burn Calories With Orgasms

By Ben MuessigApr 13th 2011 – 6:25PM
Montgomery County District Attorney

Montgomery County District Attorney

A Pennsylvania weight-loss doctor has been accused of sexually assaulting his patients and telling at least one victim that having an orgasm in his office could help her shed pounds. Investigators in Conshohocken say 64-year-old Arie Oren assaulted at least six women, ages 24 to 59, in his Weight Control medical office...

Professor Brings Strippers into Classroom

Apr 13th 2011 – 5:59PM

Only a few weeks after an infamous live sex toy demonstration rocked Northwestern University, a professor at La Salle University in Philadelphia was suspended for bringing strippers to perform lap dances during a seminar. Much like the incident at Northwestern, the March 21 performance at La Salle was done in an...

11-Year-Old Steers Car to Safety After Mom Suffers Seizure

By Susanna BairdApr 12th 2011 – 1:50PM

Thanks to her quick-thinking daughter and the song "Happy Birthday to You," Dana Encapera and her fellow motorists stayed safe Friday. Dana and 11-year-old Sage Encapera took a mother-daughter shopping trip to Uniontown, Pa., Friday afternoon, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh. As the 36-year-old mother drove home to...

Background on pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a US state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, and the Great Lakes Region.

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