Over the objections of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh area senators, the state Senate voted Tuesday to make it a felony for someone to cause the death or injury of an officer,
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Bookshop Offutt s brooding and bloody country noir (after
Country Dark) takes readers to the hollers of rural Kentucky, where meth and Oxycontin ravage the population, and havoc is wrought by long-festering family feuds. Mick Hardin, a traumatized veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now working as an Army intelligence agent, teams up with his sheriff sister to solve the murder of Nonnie Johnson after her body is discovered deep in the woods. In the process, they find themselves pitted against coal tycoon Murvil Knox; a meddling agent FBI agent who fingers an obvious patsy in disturbed outsider Tanner Curtis; roughneck brothers Bobby and Billy; and a pair of bumbling henchmen sent by arch-criminal Charley Flowers. Soon Hardin is up to his ears in intrigue and trying to keep a low profile as he interrogates suspects including local miscreant Fuckin Barney; Knox s hapless nephew Delmer Collins; Nonnie s vengeful son, Frankie; and the earthy Old Man Tucker, who found No
Photo essay: Joe Biden s long road to the presidency
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By: Tanner Curtis, Antonio de Luca, Thomas Kaplan and Umi Syam When Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, it was a moment of political triumph that had been decades in the making. His long career in public office spanned eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, but the nation s highest office always eluded him. Now, Biden, 78, finally joins their ranks.
The story begins with an Irish Catholic family in northeastern Pennsylvania. Biden was born in 1942, the eldest son of Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. and Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden. He was also a son of Scranton, Pennsylvania, which would become central to his political identity. The Biden family moved to Delaware when he was 10 years old.