http://www.mail.com/locations/2786-pennsylvania.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/2786-pennsylvania.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2098714-bernard-waber-childrens-author-dies-age-91.html NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died. Waber died May 16 at his Long Island home after a long illness, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Monday. He was 91. Waber's "warmth, energy, artfulness, elegance, and abiding respect for children were... Mon, 20 May 2013 22:11:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2098714-bernard-waber-childrens-author-dies-age-91.html 2013-05-20T22:11:07Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2096682-phillies-ruiz-howard-set-mri-exams.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz and first baseman Ryan Howard will have MRI exams Monday. Ruiz will miss Monday's game at the Miami Marlins after straining his right hamstring Sunday in a 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Ruiz, who said he felt a "pop" while running the bases in the second inning, didn't make the trip but hopes to rej... Sun, 19 May 2013 21:38:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2096682-phillies-ruiz-howard-set-mri-exams.html 2013-05-19T21:38:54Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2094730-penguins-take-control-vs-senators-crosby.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dan Bylsma has spent more than four years watching Sidney Crosby be Sidney Crosby. The Pittsburgh Penguins coach doesn't think his captain has ever been better than he was during a 4-3 victory over Ottawa on Friday night that put Pittsburgh in firm control of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Recording his second car... Sat, 18 May 2013 07:17:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2094730-penguins-take-control-vs-senators-crosby.html 2013-05-18T07:17:30Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092518-pa-coffee-leads-to-hatchet-hitchhiker-arrest.html ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker. An employee at a Starbucks in Philadelphia is credited with recognizing 24-year-old Caleb "Kai" McGillvary, whose fledgling celebrity took a turn toward notoriety when authorities announced this week that he was wanted in... Sat, 18 May 2013 04:41:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092518-pa-coffee-leads-to-hatchet-hitchhiker-arrest.html 2013-05-18T04:41:21Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2094616-crosby-leads-penguins-to-4-3-win-senators.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Ottawa Senators have plenty of respect for Sidney Crosby. As they're quickly learning, perhaps a little too much. Working in wide-open swaths of ice left by Ottawa's tentative defense, the Pittsburgh superstar needed just over one period to complete his second playoff hat trick and lift the Penguins to a 4-3 victory Friday night in G... Sat, 18 May 2013 03:42:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2094616-crosby-leads-penguins-to-4-3-win-senators.html 2013-05-18T03:42:12Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2090788-late-fade-wall-street-wal-mart-disney-slump.html NEW YORK (AP) — Signs of a slowing economy combined with comments from a Federal Reserve official helped pull the stock market down Thursday. There was plenty of discouraging news. Applications for unemployment benefits rose last week and manufacturing slowed in the mid-Atlantic region. Wal-Mart sank after warning that its customers were spending less at ... Thu, 16 May 2013 22:10:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2090788-late-fade-wall-street-wal-mart-disney-slump.html 2013-05-16T22:10:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2089430-gosnell-case-fuels-bitter-us-abortion-debate.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — One of the last people seated in the witness box at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's murder trial was a character witness for a co-defendant, and had nothing to do with Gosnell's abortion clinic. But the woman happened to be six months pregnant, and nearly waddled to the stand. If the jury had any doubts about the second- or third-trimester aborti... Thu, 16 May 2013 06:32:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2089430-gosnell-case-fuels-bitter-us-abortion-debate.html 2013-05-16T06:32:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2088828-deer-smashes-pa-bus-windshield-takes-short-ride.html JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A deer has taken a ride on a western Pennsylvania bus. The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat newspaper (http://bit.ly/14nGOx0) reports the white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus being driven Tuesday evening in Johnstown, about 65 miles east of Pittsburgh. The deer hopped around frantically near ... Wed, 15 May 2013 22:42:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2088828-deer-smashes-pa-bus-windshield-takes-short-ride.html 2013-05-15T22:42:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086516-jurors-pa-abortion-doc-greedy-lost-way.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dr. Kermit Gosnell proved a serene but solitary figure in the courtroom during his long murder trial, in contrast to the chaotic life he built as an inner-city doctor, abortion provider and father of six. Jurors who convicted him this week of killing three babies born alive at his run-down West Philadelphia clinic thought he began his ... Wed, 15 May 2013 21:19:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086516-jurors-pa-abortion-doc-greedy-lost-way.html 2013-05-15T21:19:31Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2088142-carlos-zambrano-phils-agree-to-minor-league-deal.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a need of a lift in the rotation, the Phillies are taking a chance on Carlos Zambrano. The three-time All-Star agreed to a minor league contract with Philadelphia on Wednesday and will report this week to Clearwater, Fla., for extended spring training. Zambrano is known as much for his volatile outbursts and dugout confrontations wi... Wed, 15 May 2013 18:54:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2088142-carlos-zambrano-phils-agree-to-minor-league-deal.html 2013-05-15T18:54:40Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2086620-penguins-jump-senators-series-opener-4-1.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — The formula for beating the Pittsburgh Penguins is not difficult. It's the doing it for 60 minutes part that's tricky. The Ottawa Senators did everything they thought they needed to do against the Penguins in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Tuesday night. They carried play for long stretches, put steady pressure on Pittsburgh... Wed, 15 May 2013 07:19:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2086620-penguins-jump-senators-series-opener-4-1.html 2013-05-15T07:19:55Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2086242-penguins-top-senators-4-1-to-take-series-opener.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Ottawa Senators know there is little margin for error if they want to upset the Pittsburgh Penguins. If they don't slow down Pittsburgh's potent power play, they'll have a difficult time against Sidney Crosby and the rest of the Penguins. Paul Martin and Chris Kunitz scored power-play goals and Pascal Dupuis added his sixth goal of t... Wed, 15 May 2013 03:45:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2086242-penguins-top-senators-4-1-to-take-series-opener.html 2013-05-15T03:45:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2083552-convicted-pa-abortion-doctor-life-prison.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies born alive at his rogue clinic dodged a possible death sentence on Tuesday in a hasty post-verdict deal with prosecutors. Dr. Kermit Gosnell waived his right to appeal in exchange for a sentence of life without parole. Gosnell, 72, was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in a cas... Wed, 15 May 2013 02:12:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2083552-convicted-pa-abortion-doctor-life-prison.html 2013-05-15T02:12:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2085636-stolen-us-historical-documents-returned-to-owners.html BALTIMORE (AP) — At a table in the library of the Maryland Historical Society, an investigator with the National Archives pulls file folder after file folder from a cardboard box and hands them to library director Patricia Dockman Anderson. An FBI agent sits nearby. Item No. 451: an invitation to meet Vice President Hubert Humphrey in Hawaii in 1966. Item... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:45:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2085636-stolen-us-historical-documents-returned-to-owners.html 2013-05-14T21:45:41Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2081884-4-kids-2-adults-dead-pa-fire-mothers-day.html POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Fire tore through a family's home on Mother's Day, authorities said, killing four young children, their father and another relative while their mother was across the street doing laundry at a friend's house. The blaze broke out around 11:55 p.m. Sunday at the single-family home in Pottsville, in eastern Pennsylvania. Firefighters la... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:36:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2081884-4-kids-2-adults-dead-pa-fire-mothers-day.html 2013-05-14T02:36:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2082926-autopsy-nj-hostage-taker-shot-woman-stabbed.html TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The woman whose decomposing body was pulled from a New Jersey home following a tense, 37-hour standoff died from stab wounds and blunt force trauma, authorities said Monday. Police identified the woman as Carmelita Stevens on Sunday — the same day officers stormed her South Trenton home to rescue three of her children from a registere... Mon, 13 May 2013 23:29:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2082926-autopsy-nj-hostage-taker-shot-woman-stabbed.html 2013-05-13T23:29:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2082558-philly-abortion-doctor-guilty-3-babies-deaths.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, "house of horrors" clinic. In a case that became a grisly flashpoint in the nation's abortion debate, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was also found guilty of... Mon, 13 May 2013 21:44:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2082558-philly-abortion-doctor-guilty-3-babies-deaths.html 2013-05-13T21:44:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2077628-pennsylvania-student-charged-nude-pope-parody.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Carnegie Mellon University student was charged Friday with indecent exposure by campus police after a Catholic bishop complained about her parading nude from the waist down while dressed as the pope. A male student who was nude also was charged, but it wasn't immediately clear what he was doing during the Pittsburgh school's spring fin... Fri, 10 May 2013 19:56:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2077628-pennsylvania-student-charged-nude-pope-parody.html 2013-05-10T19:56:07Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2076094-crosby-delivers-penguins-take-command.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby picked up the touch pass from Jarome Iginla near center ice and sprinted toward the New York Islanders' net. Broken jaw or no broken jaw, the Pittsburgh Penguins' captain had only one destination in mind. It hardly mattered three Islanders — defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky and Thomas Hickey and goaltender Evgeni Nabokov — were... Fri, 10 May 2013 07:40:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2076094-crosby-delivers-penguins-take-command.html 2013-05-10T07:40:29Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2075652-penguins-drop-islanders-4-0-to-regain-series-lead.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tomas Vokoun had forgotten what it was like to start in the playoffs. Tyler Kennedy wondered if he'd ever get the chance again. That's never an issue for Sidney Crosby, who followed the lead of his decidedly less-heralded teammates to establish a bit of order to the Pittsburgh Penguins' first-round series with the New York Islanders. ... Fri, 10 May 2013 03:10:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2075652-penguins-drop-islanders-4-0-to-regain-series-lead.html 2013-05-10T03:10:45Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2070468-nyc-council-oks-sick-days-plan-key-step.html NEW YORK (AP) — In a significant victory amid a push for paid sick time laws around the country, city lawmakers voted Wednesday to make businesses provide the benefit to an estimated 1 million workers who don't have it now. Saying they hoped that requiring sick leave in the nation's largest metropolis would set an example, City Council members positioned ... Thu, 09 May 2013 01:05:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2070468-nyc-council-oks-sick-days-plan-key-step.html 2013-05-09T01:05:38Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2072326-psu-coach-obrien-expecting-transfers.html NEW YORK (AP) — Penn State has 67 scholarship players on its football roster and coach Bill O'Brien sees no reason why that will change significantly by the time the season starts Aug. 31. O'Brien said Wednesday he doesn't expect a second wave of departures from the Nittany Lions, even though NCAA sanctions still allow his players to transfer without sitt... Wed, 08 May 2013 23:59:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2072326-psu-coach-obrien-expecting-transfers.html 2013-05-08T23:59:54Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2071880-penguins-turning-to-backup-vokoun-game-5.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma insists he still believes in Marc-Andre Fleury, that the issues for the reeling Penguins go far beyond the struggles of their Stanley Cup-winning goaltender. Still, that didn't stop Bylsma from making a switch he hopes will shift momentum in Pittsburgh's highly entertaining but slightly bewildering fi... Wed, 08 May 2013 18:57:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2071880-penguins-turning-to-backup-vokoun-game-5.html 2013-05-08T18:57:48Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2070156-streits-2-goals-lift-isles-2-2-series-tie.html UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Leads aren't safe in the wild first-round playoff matchup between the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh. Suddenly, neither are the top-seeded Penguins. Through four games of the best-of-seven series, both teams have two wins. The latest big momentum shift has swung sharply in the direction of the No. 8 Islanders. John Tavares scored... Wed, 08 May 2013 03:40:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/2070156-streits-2-goals-lift-isles-2-2-series-tie.html 2013-05-08T03:40:45Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2068710-pa-teen-wins-august-wilson-monologue-competition.html NEW YORK (AP) — A 17-year-old from Pittsburgh has won the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, performing a section of the playwright's "King Hedley II" with powerful skill. Tambi Gxuluwe, who attends West Mifflin Area High School, took the first place trophy Monday night by beating out 14 other students during the finals at Broadway's August... Tue, 07 May 2013 16:18:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2068710-pa-teen-wins-august-wilson-monologue-competition.html 2013-05-07T16:18:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2065162-pa-abortion-trial-jury-continues-deliberations.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia jury reviewed laws addressing murder and manslaughter without reaching a verdict Monday in the high-profile case of an abortion provider accused of killing a patient and four babies who prosecutors say were born alive, then killed with scissors in unorthodox, late-term abortions. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, ran the Women's M... Mon, 06 May 2013 20:46:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2065162-pa-abortion-trial-jury-continues-deliberations.html 2013-05-06T20:46:15Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2064926-phillies-halladay-to-tests-sore-shoulder.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Roy Halladay appears headed to the disabled list, and the Philadelphia Phillies can only hope the discomfort he feels in his right shoulder is nothing serious. Halladay was roughed up Sunday by the Miami Marlins in a 14-2 defeat, his second poor outing in a row. After the game, the two-time Cy Young Award winner acknowledged he has bee... Sun, 05 May 2013 23:52:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2064926-phillies-halladay-to-tests-sore-shoulder.html 2013-05-05T23:52:47Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2064838-halladay-hurt-hechavarria-7-rbis-marlins.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Adeiny Hechavarria hit a grand slam and a bases-loaded triple off an ailing Roy Halladay, driving in seven runs for the Miami Marlins in their 14-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday. After the game, Halladay acknowledged he has a sore right shoulder. He said he will undergo tests this week in Los Angeles and be examined ... Sun, 05 May 2013 22:14:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2064838-halladay-hurt-hechavarria-7-rbis-marlins.html 2013-05-05T22:14:54Z