In the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a person sued in a civil action has20 daysto answer after the complaint and notice are served. If the defendant – the person sued for committing a civil wrong – wants to defend themselves against the claims, they must enter a written appearance personally...
I grew up what used to be known as the Steel Valley in western Pennsylvania, where the river that we depended upon for drinking water was polluted with everything from heavy metals and acids from strip mines to raw sewage. Yet somehow, when it came out of our taps, the water looked cry...
And in some cases, there are no warning signs of the danger posed by the abandoned operations. Some of these mines were simply left to fall into disrepair and neglect. This is where that possibility of falling into a mine shaft on your hiking trip comes in. What's more, abandoned mines...
However, Grewal is careful to set realistic expectations about what you might get with cooperation. "Now, this doesn't mean ... you'll always get to a no-penalty resolution or a declination. That's because all of this is highly fact-dependent." As in regular criminal cases, your coopera...
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey appears to be in grave danger in Pennsylvania. He trails Republican Dave McCormick by some 52,000 votes, and it's not clear there are enough outstanding votes in Democratic areas like Philadelphia for the three-term incumbent to catch...
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So how did Eve end up being humanity's most recent common ancestor? We'll look at that in this article, as well as some arguments lodged against the Mitochondrial Eve theory. But first, what are mitochondria and why do scientists use mtDNA to track lineage? Contents Origins of Mitochondria...
Harris, meanwhile, spent the day working to expand her own coalition. Not only did she rally in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with Republican surrogates like former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, she also engaged in an aggressive sit down with Fox News, disarming a talking...
"Students are tired of the math-science death march: two years of courses when what they really want to do is make stuff," says Khanjan Mehta, vice provost for creative inquiry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, which offers a variety of ways to pursue integrated s...
25, Ellen and William arrived safely in Pennsylvania, a free state, where they received assistance from the underground abolitionist network. The couple eventually settled in Boston before fleeing to England in 1850 to escape slave hunters looking to take them back to Georgia. In the 1870s, ...