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Fiscal Cliff Averted, Presidential Boulevard Hit and Run, Corbett To Sue NCAA

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/02/13 8:50 am | updated: 01/02/13 8:50 am

Congress has started its climb back up the "fiscal cliff." After House Republicans relented to the Senate's plan, the House Tuesday night passed the bill 257-167 with GOP and Democratic support to avoid a fiscal cliff. President Obama thanked all parties involved in the negotiations. The bill, he said raises taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans while preventing a middle class tax hike that could have sent the economy back into a recession.

Philadelphia's first homicide happened shortly after midnight this New Yearâ€™s Day. Police are asking for the publicâ€™s help identifying a hit and run driver. It happened at about 2:45 Tuesday morning as the victim was crossing the northbound lanes of City Avenue, near Presidential Boulevard. The victim, police later identified as 50-year-old Patrick Coyle, lived and worked at the Presidential City Apartments.

Gov. Tom Corbett said Tuesday he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over sanctions imposed against Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. The Republican governor scheduled a news conference for Wednesday on Penn Stateâ€™s campus in State College to announce the filing in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg. The sanctions, agreed to by the university in July, included a $60 million fine that would be used nationally to finance child abuse prevention grants. State and federal lawmakers have raised objections to the money being spent outside Pennsylvania.

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