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FRINGE returns for a second thrilling season that will continue to explore the unexplained phenomena and terrifying occurrences linked throughout the world - known simply as "The Pattern" - in pursuit of a larger, more shocking truth. Set in Boston, the FBI's Fringe Division formed when Special Agent OLIVIA DUNHAM (Anna Torv) enlisted the help of institutionalized "fringe" scientist WALTER BISHOP (John Noble) and his son, PETER (Joshua Jackson), to save her partner and lover from a mind-bending death. Through unconventional and unorthodox methods, the FRINGE team imagines and tests the impossibilities while investigating unbelievable events, macabre crimes, and mystifying...

BEAVER — Beaver County Judge Harry Knafelc left no doubt Friday as to what he thought about John Noble taking a gun to a presidential campaign rally in Beaver on Aug. 29. “It was inappropriate, and it was foolish,” Knafelc said, “but not every foolish or stupid act is a crime.” So moments after a jury said Noble, 51, of Industry, was not guilty of a misdemeanor charge of disrupting a meeting, Knafelc said Noble was not guilty of a summary count of disorderly conduct. Noble’s wife, Janet, said moments after a celebration began outside Knafelc’s courtroom, “Being a Pennsylvanian...

<p>A jury in Beaver County has found a man not guilty on a charge filed against him last year after he brought a handgun to an Obama rally.</p> <p>The jury this morning returned the verdict on a charge of disrupting a public gathering in favor of John Noble, 51, of Industry.</p>

A Beaver County jury adjourned yesterday without reaching a verdict in the trial of a man charged with disrupting a public meeting for taking a gun to an Obama rally in Beaver last year. John Noble, 51, of Industry, openly carried his Glock pistol to the Aug. 29 outdoor rally in a park across from the Beaver County Courthouse. At the rally, Mr. Noble was carrying a Bible and handing out pro-gun fliers. The jury went home for the day at 4:15 p.m. after deliberating for nearly five hours. "This is the first time that I've received a request from...