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+936! Dow sets record for one-day gain
by The Associated Press Monday October 13, 2008, 4:19 PM
A pair of traders smile today on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street snapped back from last week's devastating losses.Wall Street has stormed back from last week's devastating losses, sending the Dow Jones industrials soaring a nearly inconceivable 936 points after major governments' plans to support the global banking system reassured distraught investors.
The Dow by far outstripped its previous record for a one-day point gain, 499, reached during the waning days of the dot-com boom in 2000.
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Harrisburg police investigate "suspicious" death
by JOE ELIAS, The Patriot-News
Monday October 13, 2008, 9:43 PM
Police investigate the death of a man Monday evening at an apartment in the 1800 block of Whitehall Street in Harrisburg.The death of man found Monday evening in an empty apartment near Reservoir Park is being investigated by Harrisburg police. The unidentified man's death was called "suspicious" in initial dispatches sending police to the apartment in a house in the 1800 block of Whitehall Street, near Regina Street.
Other residents of the building and neighbors said the victim was one of several people doing construction work in the apartment during the last few days. One woman who lives in the building and asked not to be identified said the men were working on the walls of the apartment.
Police can be seen searching the apartment in the 1800 block of Whitehall Street, Harrisburg, where the body of a man was found Monday evening.City detectives and forensic personnel spent several hours in the house and could be seen searching the room where the man was found with flash lights. They carried out several bags of evidence. Police said only that the death was under investigation and provided no further details last night.
Missing Fredericksburg boater's kin cling to hope
by BARBARA MILLER, Of The Patriot-News
Monday October 13, 2008, 9:18 PM
Bruce Weaver rode his bicycle to work every day, keeping him physically fit. So family members were surprised the Fredericksburg man was the one of six from the family to go missing after a "rogue" wave crashed into their fishing boat off the coast of Delaware.
It's also hard for Raymond Kreiser of Cleona to imagine that the life vest-wearing Weaver was last seen after about six hours in the choppy sea being hit by another wave and that he might not return.
The search of 473 square miles of ocean off of Delaware has failed to find Weaver after the Thursday morning accident.
New trial begins in beating death of West Hanover woman
by CARRIE CASSIDY, Of The Patriot-News
Monday October 13, 2008, 8:51 PM
A West Hanover Twp. man whose first trial in the beating death of his girlfriend ended with a mistrial is being retried in a Dauphin County courtroom.
Christopher W. Shenk, 53, is charged with third-degree murder and evidence tampering in the death of Leslie Kerstetter, 51. Jurors were selected Monday afternoon in Judge Scott A. Evans' courtroom by Deputy District Attorney Chris Dreisbach and defense attorney William T. Tully.
Both sides are expected to give opening statements today.
East Pennsboro students see the scar that cigarettes spawned
by DAVID WENNER, Of The Patriot-News
Monday October 13, 2008, 8:37 PM
Ron Girsch, an anti-smoking activist, hugs East Pennsboro Area High School freshman Susan Indovina after hearing that she lost her father to cancer this year. Her teacher Nadine Biller is at right.Ron Girsch, 67, began smoking when he was about 13. He smoked for 35 years until an X-ray showed a bottle-cap-sized spot on his lung.
His lung cancer triggered several things.
He quit smoking. Doctors cut a long, half-oval incision on the side of his chest and removed a lung.
And he began visiting local schools, hoping his experience -- and his scar -- would convince students to never to pick up a cigarette or any kind of tobacco. The Susquehanna Township resident has been at it more than 15 years.
PennDOT won't get frozen out of hiring plow drivers
by FRANK COZZOLI, of The Patriot-News
Monday October 13, 2008, 8:24 PM
PennDOT crews load salt into a snow plow in Harrisburg on March, 16, 2007.One thing Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation can't do without is heavy-equipment operators to treat the highways in what could be a snowy winter.
The freeze that has stopped most state agencies from hiring anyone has been waived for PennDOT which is hiring about 1,300 temporary plow operators and 300 more clerks to provide 'round-the-clock coverage.
"Obviously, winter operations and snow plowing truly come down to a matter of public safety," said department spokesman Steve Chizmar.
Continue reading "PennDOT won't get frozen out of hiring plow drivers" »Local teacher named Sylvan Teacher of the Year
by The Patriot-News
Monday October 13, 2008, 5:57 PM
A retired Susquehanna Twp. School District elementary teacher has been named national Sylvan Teacher of the Year for 2008.
Sylvan Learning Center Teacher of the Year John Wagner, 58, of Lower Paxton Township works with Nicholas Harty, 13, of Lower Paxton Township, a student in Sylvan's math essentials program, during their fifty minute session.Sylvan offers tutoring to pre-kindergarten through 12th grade children at more than 1,100 tutoring centers in the United States and Canada.
Police charge woman accused of cursing at elderly couple
by ELIZABETH GIBSON, The Patriot-News
Monday October 13, 2008, 5:42 PM
An Illinois woman, reportedly impatient with the parking job being performed in front of her, screamed and cursed at the driver, prompting police to cite her.
Jodelle K. Gerrard of McHenry, Ill., was charged with disorderly conduct after being accused of using obscene language at an elderly couple while the driver was trying to maneuver a truck into a Carlisle Commons parking space at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Cumberland business development centers will announce collaboration
by ELIZABETH GIBSON, Of Our Cumberland County Bureau Monday October 13, 2008, 2:49 PM
Zach Wicks of New Bloomfield ships music compact disc orders for Tasty CDs at the Murata Business Center in Carlisle. Murata and the Shippensburg University Small Business Development Center will announce details of a plan to expand their partnership during a news conference at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Murata, 453 Lincoln Street, Carlisle. The agencies provide business support to entrepreneurs such as Wicks.A Shippensburg University-based agency that encourages small business owners is partnering with a small-business incubator in Carlisle.
Details of the arrangement will be revealed during a news conference at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Murata Business Center, 453 Lincoln Street, Carlisle.
The Shippensburg University Small Business Development Center will have a greater presence at Murata with both offices benefitting from the collaboration, officials said.
Gun rights advocates might attend Lebanon woman's hearing
by BARBARA MILLER, Of Our Lebanon County Bureau
Monday October 13, 2008, 2:34 PM
Isabella Hain, 5, gives her mother, Meleanie Hain, a hug before heading onto the soccer field last month at Optimist Park in Lebanon. Before her gun permit was revoked, Meleanie Hain wore her weapon, a loaded Glock 26, in a holster to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game.Lebanon County officials are preparing for the possibility that gun rights activists will be showing up -- with their weapons -- for the Tuesday afternoon court hearing of a Lebanon woman who has drawn attention for wearing a handgun on her hip at her daughter's soccer game.
Meleanie Hain will have a hearing at 2:30 p.m. before Judge Robert Eby in Courtroom 1 on her appeal of Sheriff Michael DeLeo's revocation of her permit to carry a concealed weapon.
Road work this week in Cumberland County
by ELIZABETH GIBSON, Of Our Cumberland County Bureau Monday October 13, 2008, 2:06 PM
Traffic in four western Cumberland County locations might move a little slower to accommodate this week's road work schedule. State police said drivers should allow more time for trips near these areas:
Enola Road, between Brandy Run Road and Primrose Lane in Upper Mifflin Township.
Pine Road, between Route 34/Mount Holly Pike and Lebo Road in Dickinson and Penn townships.
Center Road, between Route 233 and Brick Church Road/Route 4019 in Lower Mifflin Township.
McClure's Gap Road, between Route 944 and 641 in North Middleton and Lower Frankford townships.
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