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Authorities Stress Boating Safety Following Fatal River Accident
Patch.com
By Larissa Dudkiewicz Officials with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, US Coast Guard and US Army Corps of Engineers discuss recreational boating safety. With National Safe Boating Week underway, authorities are stressing caution after a jet ...
Boaters warned to beware damsTimesonline.com

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Authorities Stress Boating Safety Following Fatal River Accident
Patch.com
By Larissa Dudkiewicz Officials with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, US Coast Guard and US Army Corps of Engineers discuss recreational boating safety. An Aliquippa woman was killed and a Robinson Township man injured following a jet ski ...

New York Times
Big Purses, Sore Horses and Death
New York Times
But there was no secret why Mr. Gill had made Penn National the hub of his operation: the hefty purses. Now, Melodeeman's death threatened to upend it all. The next morning, Thomas Clifton, a veteran jockey, complained to the state racing commission's ...

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Truck Driver Charged with Route 18 Fatality
Patch.com
By John Saccenti A Pennsylvania truck driver has been charged with causing a crash that killed a Monmouth County man and injured the victim's wife and daughter on the Old Bridge section of Route 18. According to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office ...

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Oil workers' road deaths rise amid long shifts, sleep-deprived drivers
Denver Post
Sleep deprivation among oil field truckers is resulting in more highway fatalities, due in part to oil field exemptions from highway safety rules that allow truckers to work longer hours. (Dino Colombo via The New York Times) After working 17 hours ...

Pa. man gets 3-6 years for 2 DUIs, 1 fatality
WYTV
INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man will spend three to six years in prison for two drunken driving arrests in 12 days — the second coming in a crash that killed another motorist. Twenty-one-year-old Michael Doucette will also spend four ...

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Pike builders group offers safety course
Pocono Record
Pike County Builders Association will present a 10-hour Construction Safety Course, through the partnership with Pennsylvania Builders Association and Occupational Safety and Health Administration training academies and instructors, to its members and ...

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Pa. man gets 3-6 years for 2 DUIs, 1 fatality
WJAC Johnstown
On May 7, 2011, Pennsylvania State Police said Doucette's sport utility vehicle crossed the center line of Route 286 in Center Township, Indiana County, killing 55-year-old Cloyd Ribblet Jr., of Clarksburg, whose pickup truck burst into flames.

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New York Times
Deadliest Danger Isn't at the Rig but on the Road
New York Times
In 2009, Mr. Roth's employer was penalized in New York, Pennsylvania and Utah for violations like “requiring or permitting” its oil field truckers to drive after working for 14 hours, the legal limit. Over the past decade, more than 300 oil and gas ...

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Springtime Alert: Do Not Disturb Young Wildlife
MarketWatch (press release)
The last human rabies fatality in Pennsylvania was a 12-year-old Lycoming County boy who died in 1984. Wildlife rehabilitators, who are licensed by the Game Commission, are the only ones that are permitted to care for injured or orphaned wildlife for ...

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