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Drake’s Pa. oil well idea changed world

TITUSVILLE, Pa. — The oil boom that began 150 years ago in this small northwestern Pennsylvania town changed the world and made countless people rich, but not the man who found the way to successfully extract black gold from the earth.

Museum brings back Woodstock memories

BETHEL, N.Y. – Forty years later, a museum sits atop the hill where “the” concert was held in 1969. Over the hill an amphitheater has been built to house concerts in state-of-the-art fashion. Commercialization has come to Woodstock.

Remembering Woodstock

Today’s youth are not nostalgic about past. By the time they got to Woodstock, they were stoned out of their minds… and that was that.

‘Cash for clunkers’ program puts a brake on used car sales

HANOVER TOWNSHIP – Business is slow at Mark Nemetz’s West End Road used car lot. Could be the economy. Could be the season. More likely, he thinks, it’s the $3 billion federal “cash for clunkers” incentive program aimed at getting less fuel-efficient vehicles off the road. One side effect is that it’s also taking perfectly good vehicles out of commission. Some of those cars and trucks likely were destined one day for the tens of thousands of used car lots throughout the country.

Federal probe in NEPA not over yet

When former U.S. Attorney Martin Carlson stood before a room packed with reporters in January to announce charges against two Luzerne County judges, he stressed the investigation into corruption in Luzerne County was not over.

Music & memories

WILKES-BARRE – Carol Hussa has an original shirt from Woodstock.

Three days of peace and music

BETHEL, N.Y. – Ricky Barney was a 17-year-old self-proclaimed “stoner” from Plymouth in 1969 when he went to Woodstock.

Clinton seeks release of Americans in Iran

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pressing Iran to release Americans who are detained or have gone missing there.

Classics cars may be cruising to finish line

ROYAL OAK, Mich. — Jack Beller’s blue 1966 Corvette has the classic big-block engine and the enormous carburetor that make putting the keys in the ignition a roaring ode to muscle car history.

Egyptian crews capture pirates

CAIRO — The crews of two Egyptian fishing vessels that overpowered pirates off the Somali coast have sailed into Red Sea waters on their way home along with eight of their former captors, an Egyptian official said Saturday.

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