A woman from northeastern Pennsylvania begins her trial today on charges of piercing the bodies of three stray cats so that she could sell them online as “Gothic Kittens”.
Holly Crawford, 35, of Ross Township, PA stands accused of cruelty to animals and criminal conspiracy.
Crawford’s home, located just outside of Wilkes-Barre, was raided in December 2008 [...]

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UPDATE: Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter in 2010.
Don’t feel like traveling all the way to Pennsylvania and standing out in the freezing cold to see what Punxsutawney Phil has to say on this Groundhog Day 2010?
The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club invites you to text the word “Groundhog” to 247365. When Phil eventually [...]

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Jon Gosselin has filed a countersuit against TLC, in which he claims that the network’s producers violated PA child labor laws while filming Jon & Kate Plus 8.  He also claims that they are keeping him from working.
Gosselin is seeking more than $5 million in the lawsuit.  It was filed on Thursday right here in [...]

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A woman in Ross Township, PA was killed by her pet black bear while she cleaned its cage, according to authorities. Police report that the 350-pound-bear mauled Kelly Ann Walz to death on Sunday evening.
A Pennsylvania state Game Commission spokesperson says that Walz kept the bear locked up in a steel & concrete cage near [...]

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Jon Gosselin has reportedly wiped nearly all of the money out of a bank account that he and Kate own jointly, leaving her with only $1,000. Reports indicate that Jon withdrew over $200,000 from the account.
Kate Gosselin is not taking this lying down. She has just hired a top-notch lawyer, Marty Singer, to [...]

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A 36-year-old teacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with an underage student. Heather Zeo, a mother of three, teaches at North Penn High School in Pennsylvania.
During a courtroom appearance, the student described how the relationship progressed from flirting on Facebook to sexual intercourse. Prosecutors state that Zeo participated in a “calculated [...]

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A Pennsylvania newspaper is in some hot water today, having accidentally run a classified ad calling for President Barack Obama’s assassination.
Warren Times Observer Publisher John Elchert says the ad appeared in the paper on Thursday.   It read, “May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!”
The four presidents were all assassinated.
Elchert tells [...]

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