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Iraq launches operation to retake Tikrit from Islamic State
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Backed by allied Shiite, Sunni and Iranian fighters, Iraqi security forces launched a large-scale military operation Monday to recapture Saddam Hussein's hometown from the Islamic State extremist group, a major step in a campaign to reclaim territory in northern Iraq controlled by the militants....
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Iraq launches operation to retake Tikrit from Islamic State
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Backed by allied Shiite, Sunni and Iranian fighters, Iraqi security forces launched a large-scale military operation Monday to recapture Saddam Hussein's hometown from the Islamic State extremist group, a major step in a campaign to reclaim territory in northern Iraq controlled by the militants....
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Iraq's Tikrit: A Sunni bastion on the road to Mosul
The offensive launched Monday by Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militias and Sunni tribal fighters is aimed at capturing Tikrit, a Sunni city 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad that was captured by Islamic State militants during their lightning advance last summer....
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How Islamic is Islamic State group? Not very, experts say
CAIRO (AP) -- Three British schoolgirls believed to have gone to Syria to become "jihadi" brides. Three young men charged in New York with plotting to join the Islamic State group and carry out attacks on American soil. A masked, knife-wielding militant from London who is the face of terror in videos showing Western hostages beheaded....
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Pa. schools providing counseling after educator's death
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- Two central Pennsylvania school districts are providing students with grief counseling after an educator died over the weekend in an apparent murder-suicide....
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5 things to know for Monday in Pennsylvania
A daily look at late-breaking news, coming events and stories that will be talked about in Pennsylvania on Monday:...
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Governor ousts chairman of Philly's School Reform Commission
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Gov. Tom Wolf has removed the chairman of Philadelphia's School Reform Commission a week after the panel drew his ire for approving five new charter schools....
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16-year-old passenger killed in all-terrain vehicle crash
PETROLIA, Pa. (AP) -- Counselors were being brought in to a western Pennsylvania school district where a 16-year-old boy was killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash....
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Police: Man shoots friend at birthday party, flees to Ohio
SHARON, Pa. (AP) -- Police in western Pennsylvania were continuing to search for a man they described as "armed and dangerous" after the suspect shot another man at the suspect's own birthday party and then reportedly fled to Ohio....
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Car strikes boy riding pony through stop sign; animal dies
Police: Drunken, texting woman crashes into antiques shop
MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- Police say a driver was distracted and drunk when she slammed her car into a central Pennsylvania antique shop and pinned a customer against a wall....
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Teen driver killed in 3-car crash on snowy eastern Pa. road
TAMAQUA, Pa. (AP) -- A 17-year-old girl is dead after her car skidded in the snow and crashed head on with an SUV on Route 309 in Tamaqua....
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Pennsylvania schools opening late after latest winter storm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Schools across Pennsylvania are opening two hours late and more than 100 flights in and out of Philadelphia have been cancelled as the state thaws out from the latest winter storm....
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Covert 'body sculptor' says clients chose her over surgeons
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An aspiring hip-hop artist who boasts about her talent for underground "body sculpting" has one last chance to impress a jury before the panel weighs murder charges against her in a dancer's death....
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