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Should an 11-Year-Old Boy Go to Jail for Life?

Jordan Brown is set to be tried as an adult for a crime committed when he was 11. He might go to jail for life. America's exceptional like that.

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Pennsylvania School Levies Insane Fines for Ditching

How would you like to get a $27,000 fine if your kid missed school? That's what's going down in Lebanon, PA—and a lawsuit plans to stop it.

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World's Largest Baseball Bat?

Is Elysburg, Pennsylvania home to this wonder of the world?

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This Is What North America's Largest Indoor Living Wall Looks Like

Kim Wilkie designed and installed the 4,000-square-foot wall in Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens, where you'll find 47,000 living plants.

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In Praise of Staying Put

There's something very American about mobility. We like our freedom to roam, to follow opportunity, to move westward as the...

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A Community of Ovens

For most of us, cooking is more or less a solitary event. Kitchen stoves, office microwaves, and dorm room toaster ovens fry, zap and roast our...

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Mr. Mayor

John Fetterman is remaking a deserted rust-belt town for a new creative class. This summer, across the street from a sprawling steel mill, 800 people gathered in a renovated Catholic schoolhouse in Braddock, Pennsylvania, for the opening of the city's newest arts venue. On its face, there was nothing..