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Obama's and Biden's promises to end coal-fired electrical generation may spell doom for Pittsburgh's Three Rivers as we know them today. Consider: These rivers, the Allegheny, Monongahela and the headwaters of the Ohio are maintained in a navigable (i.e. boat-able) condition for commercial tow traffic. Not for the benefit of recreational boaters, nor for supplying water to municipal water systems, or for hydrolectric power generation. These are but incidental benefits. According to the Port of Pittsburgh Commission, from 1998 through 2006, an average of 47.5 milion tons of commodities were moved annually on the Three Rivers. An average of 35.2...

"Canadian officials want to know why a wheelchair-bound man waited for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency waiting room before dying from a bladder infection..."

State police believe some people are so angry with the current state of the country that they took their frustrations out on a veterans' cemetery in Westmoreland County. Burned flags, broken holders and anti-American writing now litter the Hillview Cemetery in Hempfield Township...

WASHINGTON — The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Army’s bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned.Among the pool of suspects are three scientists — a former deputy commander, a leading anthrax scientist and a microbiologist — linked to the research facility, known as USAMRIID.