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Harsco Corp. further secured its strategy to move into emerging markets through its acquisition of ESCO Interamerica, one of Latin America’s leading engineering and equipment services providers. Full Story »

Lebanon police have charged Joseph Gooden, 23, of Lebanon, with robbery, aggravated assault, simple assault and receiving stolen property following an incident at 9:28 p.m. Sunday in the 400 block of Jones Street. Full Story »

View full size CHRISTINE BAKER, The Patriot-News/file Mayor Stephen R. Reed giving an address to the Harrisburg Rotary Club. Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed has less than two months left in his 28-year career leading the city. Full Story »

In addition to electing a new mayor last week, Harrisburg voters elect ed two new members to Harrisburg City Council and returned two veteran members. Full Story »

In almost 22 years as district judge for Susquehanna Twp. and Penbrook, Raymond Shugars said he is proudest of how he handled the young people who came before him. Full Story »

Thirty-one business throughout the region and area were recognized during the Business of the Year Awards event held Monday by Central Penn Business Journal at the Hilton Harrisburg. Full Story »

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 400 central Pennsylvania-area taxpayers who did not receive their 2008 refund checks in the mail because of various mailing address errors. Full Story »

View full size Dan Gleiter, The Patriot-News Helen Evans, left, of Steelton, is founder and president of The Resting Place, a Christian-based, nonprofit community center that will provide a safe haven, especially for youths ages 10-18. Resting Place is at 2400 N. Sixth St. in Harrisburg. Full Story »

Derry Twp. police charged Paul Stimeling, 46, of Crawford Court, Elizabethtown, with disorderly conduct and public drunkenness following an incident at 9:25 p.m. Nov. 1 on Mill Street. Police said he tried to talk to a 13-year-old girl in her yard, then followed her as she ran toward her house. Full Story »

The Juvenile Law Center is promoting an online questionnaire for children or their parents to tell their stories anonymously. Full Story »

Real estate taxes in Cornwall Borough will increase by two-thirds in 2010, according to the $1.5 million spending plan given preliminary approval Monday night by council. Full Story »

Submitted photo Carlisle Police are searching for Joel T. Klinger, 23, after he allegedly fondled a 12 year-old girl and stole prescription pill bottles. Full Story »

RICHMOND, Virginia — Unless Virginia's governor steps in, sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad will be executed Tuesday for attacks that terrorized the U.S. capital region for three weeks in 2002. Muhammad was sentenced to death for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas, Va., gas station during a spree that left 10 dead across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Full Story »

A bill to bar text messaging while driving in Pennsylvania is headed to the House floor. The bill won a unanimous vote of support Tuesday from the House Transportation Committee. Full Story »

A Dickinson College student was charged with disorderly conduct this morning after police said he threw a chicken sandwich at a convenience store employee. Full Story »

SCRANTON, Pa. — The mayor of Scranton is set to officially kick off his campaign for Pennsylvania governor. Chris Doherty plans to officially launch the campaign at noon today. Full Story »

Navy Captain Chris Vitt, Commanding Officer of the Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg will be the keynote speaker at a Veterans Day ceremony tomorrow at Sutliff Chevrolet in Harrisburg. Full Story »

A New Jersey woman was arrested Sunday morning after police said she tried to interfere with troopers who arrested her younger brother outside a home in the 300 block of East Fort Street in Shippensburg. Full Story »

A Delaware County man was arrested early Sunday morning on charges of resisting arrest and driving under the influence. Full Story »

A Marysville man was arraigned Monday on two counts each of simple assault and harassment after state police say he head-butted a 13-year-old boy, then assaulted a woman who called 911 to report the incident in the 100 block of South Main Street, Marysville. Full Story »

A mix of grassroots and "Astroturf" protesters from 49 groups from across Pennsylvania are expected to converge on the state Capitol Saturday. Full Story »

A 39-year-old Harrisburg man is sought in the city's third shooting this month. Bryan Bradley, of the 1200 block of North 17th Street, is wanted in an early Sunday shooting outside a nightclub in the 100 block of South Cameron Street, Mayor Stephen R. Reed said. Full Story »

One Army National Guardsman, just back from a nine-month tour in Iraq, realized he could no longer keep his "boy" -- his beloved dog, Rocky. The Guard might need the soldier to serve again, this time in Afghanistan. Full Story »

There are at least three generations of Americans who remember when sunny days were sweeping the clouds away, and when Big Bird, Ernie and Cookie Monster taught how to cope with the loss of a grandparent or a pet. Full Story »

He'd walk or hitch a ride to work at McDonald's and lived with his sister in a house on Chestnut Street. She's the granddaughter of the founders of Baker's diner and a Northern High School graduate who once rode horses in the rural hamlets tucked behind the main drag of Route 15 in Dillsburg. Full Story »