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State has adopted a budget Education is major focus

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HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed a $50.8 billion budget that makes major new investments in education but fails to address skill games regulation or other pressing policy questions. The deal was cut behind closed doors, and its details were in flux until late Saturday, when committees in both chambers advanced bills during a rare weekend session. The full legislature took final votes Sunday, almost two weeks after the June 30 statutory deadline. It will put more than $900 million into education; provide a pension bump to thousands of retired school, state, and emergency ...

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Reserve Now: • Free Garden to Table workshop — 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 14, the LEAF, 131 W. Market St., Lewistown. Penn State Horticulturist Leah Fronk will discuss pests and garden problems. Handouts on how to make salsa, dill butter, drying herbs and preserving beets. Open to the public. Space is limited. To register, call (717) 899-6044 or email at rmassie@cpartnerships.com. Today • Job Club — 10 a.m. to noon, Mifflin County CareerLink, MCIDC Plaza Building 58. Attendees can search for jobs, tailor resumes, apply for jobs and learn how to get jobs. • UPS ...

Keystone Pipeline system's operator agrees to pay a $26.9M penalty over a major Kansas oil spill

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TOPEKA, Kan. — A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system's operator to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about $40 million more to prevent future accidents. The agreement would resolve allegations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Kansas that South Bow, based in Canada, violated U.S. and state clean water laws. The rupture dumped nearly 13,000 barrels of heavy crude oil into a creek running through a rural pasture in Washington County, Kansas, about 150 ...

Iran reports new attacks on military targets on its largest island near the Strait of Hormuz

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States attacked Iran on Sunday over an Iranian strike on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that set it ablaze and left a crew member missing. Iran responded with attacks on countries including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and Oman — the nation on the other side of the strait that Tehran has pressed to join in managing shipping traffic. The U.S. struck again later Sunday. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency cited the governor of Qeshm island near the strait as saying projectiles had been fired at military targets, with no casualties. ...