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Cicada Live Cam Will Make You Cringe

Billions of cicadas are getting ready to awaken from a 17-year dormancy — and the Science Channel wants you to watch it happen live.


The network has installed a Cicada Cam in a terrarium to give an upclose look at the bizarre moment in nature.

Putting Together a Reality Team

Fantasy baseball has been a popular pastime for 30 years. Unfortunately, there tends to be too much "fantasy" and not enough dealing with the nitty-gritty reality of what it takes to fill a well-rounded roster at the major league level.

John Denny: The Forgotten Cy Young Award Winner

A friend of mine, Ross Moskowitz, is the director of Camp Westmont, a beautiful summer camp in the Pocono Mts. of Pennsylvania. It's the kind of place every kid should be able to attend at least once in their lives. He's also a baseball man.

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke: stimulus programme not creating 'bubbles'

Stock markets rise after Federal Reserve head tells Congress quantitive easing to continue and criticises government cuts

The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, denied on Wednesday that his $85bn-a-month stimulus programme was creating new financial bubbles, as he updated Congre

Governor Can"t Find A Single Latino In Pennsylvania To Work For Him

Tom Corbett (R-PA) brushed away a question about Latinos working in his administration during a roundtable discussion at The Union League in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday, telling the moderator, “If you can find us one let me know”: MODERATOR: Do you have staff members that are La

Fema uses 'Waffle House index' to take stock of Oklahoma tornado disaster

Head of US federal emergency agency devised three-level system as informal way of measuring impact of natural disasters

When the main US federal emergency agency arrives at the scene of a disaster-hit area, one of the first places it turns to is the local Waffle House and not just for its

Apple chief calls for US corporate tax to be cut to single digits

Tim Cook warns Congress that he would refuse to repatriate $100bn stashed offshore unless US slashed its 35% tax rate

Apple has called for US corporate tax rates be reduced to "single digits" after it admitted sheltering at least $30bn (£20bn) of international profits in Irish subsidiaries

Mayoral Candidate Charged for Defacing Signs with (Weak) Pussy Joke

It's Pussy versus Butts in a race to the bottom next Election Day in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's ninth-largest (and capital) city, and a renowned "broke-ass sinkhole of despair.

New York City struggles with plastic bag waste

The New York Times' Elisabeth Rosenthal reports that New York spends "$10 million annually to send 100,000 tons of plastic bags that are tossed in the general trash to landfills in South Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Report: Car thief caught in McDonald's drive-thru after placing order with owner

If you're going to drive a stolen car in a town of roughly 77,000 people - about the same size as Scranton, Pennsylvania or Ogden, Utah - you want to be very careful about where you drive that stolen car to eat.