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Timeline is coming to your Facebook, if it hasn't already
Facebook has announced that in the coming weeks all its users will be switched over to a new display and many are not happy about it. The new display is called Timeline. Many Facebook users have already been switched over to the new system and a lot of people don’t like. So those who will soon be switched over, are
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UPDATE(2): Police looking for person of interest in John Harris shooting
UPDATE: Harrisburg Police continue their search for a person who they believe may be armed and dangerous. They say Jaquise Thomas is wanted for questioning in the shooting earlier this month at John Harris High School. At this time, cops don't even have an address listed for him. That's why they say they need the public's help to track him
Sandusky Scandal
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Jerry Sandusky asks judge to have contact with his grandchildren
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Former board member sues Second Mile over donation
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A businessman has sued a charity founded by the former assistant football coach at the center of the Penn State sex abuse scandal, saying he wants $250,000 returned because the project it was donated for is no longer planned. Former board member Lance Shaner and his wife sued in Centre County Court this week. They say
State
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Dickinson College president announces retirement
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — The longtime president of Dickinson College says he is going to retire. William Durden announced Thursday that the next academic year will be his last at the central Pennsylvania college. He'll step down on June 30, 2013. The 62-year-old Durden has been president of Dickinson since 1999. He is also a college alum, having graduated in
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New exhibit in Philly looks at van Gogh close-up
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A new blockbuster exhibition takes a close-up look at Vincent van Gogh's groundbreaking shift during the last four years of his life. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the debut city and only U.S. stop for "Van Gogh Up Close," on view from Feb. 1 to May 6. The exhibit features 45 landscapes and still lifes painted
National
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Panetta cites key intelligence on bin Laden raid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound last May. Panetta told CBS's 60 Minutes , in a profile to be broadcast on Sunday, that Shakil Afridi helped provide intelligence for
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Mistrial for officer in Katrina shootings probe
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the case against a retired police sergeant charged with helping cover up deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt ruled Friday that Justice Department prosecutor Bobbi Bernstein may have tainted the jury hearing Gerard Dugue's trial by mentioning the name
World
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Venezuela to shun World Bank arbitration decisions
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his government will ignore future decisions by a World Bank-affiliated arbitration body. Venezuela formally began its withdrawal from the Washington-based International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes this week. Chavez says any financial disagreements with foreign companies operating in Venezuela should be settled with local authorities and within the country's judicial
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Haiti president now says no pardon for Duvalier
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's president is backing away from a possible pardon for former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. President Michel Martelly says he will let justice run its course in the case of the man known as "Baby Doc." Martelly says he was misunderstood in a Thursday interview with The Associated Press when asked about Duvalier and responded that he
Entertainment
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Wrong Parker rumored for Steinem role
Sarah Jessica Parker will replace Demi Moore as Gloria Steinem in the Linda Lovelace biopic, not Mary Louise Parker. Earlier this week, insiders claimed Mary Louise Parker had landed the role of the feminist icon in Lovelace, but filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have confirmed to Entertainment Weekly magazine they've signed the Sex & The City star up for
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Beyonce is subject of new college course
Hip-hop fans can now study Beyonce thanks to a new course at Rutgers University. Lecturer Kevin Allred has signed up to teach politicizing Beyonce as part of the school's Women's and Gender Studies curriculum. The class offers New Jersey students the chance to watch the pop star's music videos and explore how the Single Ladies hitmaker's image and music has impacted
Business News
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Facebook IPO filing could come next week
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Wall Street Journal says Facebook could file regulatory papers for its initial public offering of stock as early as next week. The newspaper cites unnamed people familiar with the matter in saying that the social networking company could raise as much as $10 billion. Facebook's expected launch as a publicly traded company is the most
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Ford posts big profits
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford's stock price fell after weak sales in Europe and production losses in Asia hurt fourth-quarter earnings. Ford Motor Co. reported $13.62 billion in net income, but investors brushed off the result because most of that came from an accounting change. Excluding that change, earnings totaled $1.1 billion, or 20 cents a share, missing Wall Street