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Ex-coach ordered to pay victim $751,257
Former Pottsville Nativity High School track coach Daniel M. Shields Jr. was ordered Thursday to pay $751,257 in compensatory and punitive damages to a Schuylkill County girl he molested and secretly videotaped undressing. A headline in Friday's editions...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Sexual Assault, Allentown
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Schuylkill County man to face trial in arson cases
Of The Morning CallA Schuylkill County man charged with setting three fires in the county, including two blazes that caused more than $1.3 million in damages, will face trial in county court. John M. Yerusavage, 31, of Auburn was returned to county prison Friday under...Tags: Fires, Court Preliminary, Arson, Trials, Hinduism
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Man going to court in Schuylkill arson case
A Schuylkill County man charged with setting three fires in the county, including two blazes three days apart that caused more than $1.3 million in damage, will face trial. John M. Yerusavage, 31, of Auburn was returned to county prison today under $250,...Tags: Fires, Court Preliminary, Arson, Trials, Hinduism
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Berks Co. - Road work
PennDOT reports lane restriction on the following roads in Berks County: Route 61 in Perry, Windsor and Tilden townships; and Hamburg, between Interstate 78 and Buttonwood Street, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 22-Oct. 24 for milling and paving. There will be no...Tags: Landforms, Lehigh County, Maxatawny Township, Caves and Caverns, Road Transportation
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Teen charged in fatal beating loses court battle
Of The Morning CallA school district didn't intentionally fail to give adequate home instruction to a Schuylkill County teen facing trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant, a county judge said. Judge John E. Domalakes Jr. declined to force the Shenandoah...Tags: Michael A O'Pake, People, Murder, Teen-agers, Computing and Information Technology
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Market woes eroding Schuylkill's pension fund
Schuylkill County's pension fund has lost about 13 percent -- nearly $11.5 million -- since the end of August, forcing county commissioners to forego cost-of-living increases this year for 456 county retirees. Just to ''keep the retirees and their...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Retirement
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Special events add thrills to season
Scream Mountain: Haunted ski lodge and haunted hayride. Through Nov. 1. $25-$5. Sun.-Thurs., 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 6:30-10:30 p.m. Spring Mountain, Spring Mount Road, Upper Salford Township, 610-287-7900. http://www.springmountainadventures.com ....Tags: Mount Hope, Lehigh County, Death and Dying, Public Holidays, Nazareth
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Schuylkill teen charged in fatal beating is upset with at-home learning deal
Of The Morning CallA Schuylkill County teen facing trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant told a county judge Tuesday that Shenandoah Valley School District broke an agreement to give him home instruction for his senior year, and he asked that it be forced to...Tags: Racism, Michael A O'Pake, People, Prosecution, Demographics
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Financial crisis affects Schuylkill pension fund
Schuylkill County's pension fund has lost nearly $18 million since the end of August, dropping it to $76.2 million and leaving county commissioners unable to give the 456 retirees cost-of-living increases this year. Just to be able to "keep the...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Retirement, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy
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Coal region blood-disease cluster ID'd
Of The Morning CallIt took officials five years to determine there was, indeed, a cluster of cases of a rare blood cancer in a 20-mile swath of Schuylkill, Carbon and Luzerne counties from Tamaqua to Hazleton. And now that the incidents of polycythemia vera, or PV, have...Tags: Cancer, Arlen Specter, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Diseases
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Schuylkill County plans no 2009 tax rate increase
Special to The Morning CallSchuylkill County commissioners plan to enact a 2009 budget with no tax increase, the board's chairman said Monday after the sixth and final hearing on the spending plan. And at least some of that financial position can be credited to school districts...Tags: Sales, Property, State Budgets
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Kline Twp., Schuylkill Co. - I-81 road work
PennDOT reports lane restriction on the following sections of Interstate 81 in Kline Township, Schuylkill County: Northbound, between Routes 54 and 309, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 6-9 for pothole patching. Southbound, between McAdoo and Mahanoy City, 8 a.m....
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