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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Decades after Philadelphia’s Chinatown was bisected by a sunken expressway, city officials and federal lawmakers said this week that they secured a grant to reconnect the community by building a park over the six lanes of traffic. The $159 million grant to build a three-block-long park over the Vine Street Expressway [...]
MECCA, Calif. (AP) — When Limba Contreras moved to the desert community of Oasis, Calif., about 50 years ago, her family relied on a water cooler to keep temperatures inside their home comfortable. Other times, they sprayed each other with a hose outside. When the heat topped 100 degrees, however, the cooler was futile, and [...]
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks. The ski plane they study the wolves from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because [...]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach is trying to break up with spring break, but it's not yet clear whether spring break will take the hint. After three consecutive years of spring break violence, Miami Beach officials are implementing monthlong security measures aimed at curbing the violence, including parking restrictions for non-residents and closing [...]
The gnarled icon of the Old West — ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows — rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes and streets in suburban Salt Lake City. Crews this week continued to plow, load and haul carcasses [...]
The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in south Florida, now that families of all K-12 students regardless of income are allowed to use taxpayer-funded programs to pay for private-school tuition. Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, Florida was among nine states that expanded [...]
ALBION, Pa. (AP) — "You are the Lighthouse in someone's storm," reads the message above a mural of a sailboat bobbing on ocean waves under a cloud-dappled azure sky. It's an unexpected slogan for a prison wall. On a nearby door painted deep blue, a bright yellow Minion character offers "Ways to say hello," lists [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army is slashing the size of its force by about 24,000, or almost 5 percent, and, according to military officials, restructuring to be better able to fight the next major war. The service has struggled with recruiting shortfalls that made it impossible to bring in enough soldiers to fill all [...]
The first electric school buses in the United States began running a decade ago in three school districts in California, providing a ride that was less noisy, smelly and dirty than the diesel buses kids and parents were used to. Despite the availability of the technology since then, however, fewer than 1 percent of the [...]
WESTROZEBEKE, Belgium — It was the puddles of green sludge left by the tires of massive tractors in western Belgium's industrial farmlands that drew the attention of biological engineer Ineke Maes. The slime was destructive algae, the result of the excess of chemicals used by farmers to boost their crops, but at a high cost [...]