GED test changes take effect January second
Ashley Leonard of New Castle passed the GED math section on November 28 after earlier attempts. Starting January 2 all GED testing will be done by computer through the Pearson Vue Center, ending the paper and pencil method Leonard used.
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New Castle
Ashley Leonard
Lawrence County Community Action Partnership
Leonard
CareerLink
Pearson Vue
New Castle Police Launch Website and Most Wanted List
New Castle police have launched their own site at www.newcastlepd.com featuring a most wanted list with photos and other services. Citizens can submit tips pay tickets download forms and learn police procedures online while officers wear a new emblem and patch reflecting the 1875 incorporation.
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New Castle
Salem
AT&T settles for 3.5 million over scam calls claim
Lancaster attorney Rebecca Lyttle notes AT&T reached a 3.5 million settlement after admitting some callers engaged in scammer activity in a whistle blower case tied to a New Castle call center. The firm also says AT&T reimbursed the FCC over 18 million for failing to curb theft via stolen credit cards affecting disability services.
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Constance Lyttle
Mercer
At&t
New Castle
Lancaster, Pa
Rebecca Lyttle
Ued
Federal Communications Commission
Corbett seeks job search tied to Pennsylvania Medicaid
Gov. Tom Corbett proposes a Medicaid expansion plan that would require able bodied, working poor Pennsylvanians to search for work to qualify for government funded health coverage. Officials say the aim is to encourage healthy choices and reduce costs while noting this is a request for flexibility rather than a nationwide standard. The administration cites Arkansas as a precedent for obtaining federal approval to alter expansion terms.
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Tom Corbett
Pennsylvania
Corbett
Amish school shooter kin finds forgiveness and healing
Terri Roberts, mother of the gunman, spends time weekly with Rosanna, a 13 year old Amish girl in a wheelchair who eats through a tube. Roberts shares how forgiveness transformed her grief seven years after Charles Roberts stormed an Amish schoolhouse killing five and injuring others.
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Strasburg, Pa
Terri Roberts
Rosanna
Roberts
Charles Carl Roberts
Lancaster
Obituaries and memorials for six local residents
Obituaries list six residents including Bridget P Owens 78 of West Charles Street Rhoda Rosenberg 93 of Reading Alma Shoaf 92 of New Wilmington Dion Taylor 46 of White Plains Geraldine Anangst 88 of Edinburg and Lois Winkler 85 noted on page A5 with brief memorial details
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Bridget P. Owens
West Charles Street
Rhoda M. Rosenberg
Reading
Alma Jean Shoaf
New Wilmington
Dion Lamont Taylor
White Plains
N.Y
Geraldine V. Anangst
Edinburg
Lois M. Winkler
New Castle
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