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Trump administration coal plan could have big impact on Pennsylvania

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The Wharton School of Business on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
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Flu season is off to an early start this year. Experts say it’s time to get a flu shot, if you haven’t already, because numbers could peak even more around the holidays.

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Watching over the land in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest

First Nations communities in British Columbia are training indigenous people to manage local natural resources.

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Delaware archaeologists find groundbreaking human remains

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Students walk past Samuel Paley Library on the Temple University campus, where a student died of a drug overdose on Dec. 1.
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DEP Eyes New Land For Abandoned Mine Cleanup

9 years ago

*** FILE *** Dr. Christian Barnard of South Africa, Dr. Michael DeBakey of Huston, Tex. center, USA, and Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz of Brooklyn, N.Y., right, confer Dec. 24, 1967 in Washington, before appearing on the CBS television program
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Pa. DHS lags on efforts to provide residential treatment for mentally ill defendants

The state has fallen behind on federal court settlements requiring it to provide residential psychiatric treatment to those deemed incompetent to stand trial.

9 years ago

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Delaware's ecological task force is attempting to eliminate non-native and invasive plant species.

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