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A 19-year-old man and two boys, ages 8 and 9, were fatally shot outside a house in Lebanon, Pa., on Tuesday night, the police said.A 33-year-old man was also shot and was recovering from surgery on Wednesday, Lebanon's mayor, Sherry Capello, said at a news conference.The 8-year-old and 9-year-old were both public school students in Lebanon, a city of about 26,000 residents about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

During his 26 years as a managing partner of Gibsons Restaurant Group, Gregg Horan helped open restaurants, like Gibsons and Hugo's Frog Bar and Fish House, which became, as he calls them "institutions and community centerpieces.""They became gathering places for daily events or for special occasions," Horan says.

The Loop: Kaleena Bliss, a Seattle chef hot off a pair of TV cooking competition victories, is relocating to Chicago to take over as executive chef at the Chicago Athletic Association (CAA) hotel on Wednesday, March 1, according to a rep.She'll almost exclusively focus on operations at Cindy's, the hotel's rooftop restaurant with sweeping views of Millennium Park.

Ever wonder why railroad tracks in America meander but English tracks ordinarily run straight?What was the traditional breakfast drink in Europe before coffee came along?How did the introduction of gas mains transform family life?Why did the Confederate battle flag become so enduring a symbol?Who was missing when the United States military ceremonially declared victory in Iraq?

Five years ago, Duangphet Promthep survived a harrowing test of human endurance under rock and in darkness the 13-year-old captain of a Thai soccer team that had been trapped before being rescued from a flooded cave in an effort that became a global drama.He moved to England last year after securing a scholarship to a soccer academy that promoted its high-level program and international student population.

Three bodies found in the Detroit area this week were identified by authorities Friday as those of three rappers who were missing for almost two weeks, according to Michigan State Police.The missing men Armani Kelly, 28, Dante Wicker, 31, and Montoya Givens, 31 were associates whose January 21 performance at a Detroit club was canceled, police have said.

GLOUCESTER, England The coronation of King Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort, on Saturday will involve many of the same ancient traditions that have been followed for nearly a thousand years.But some things will be new: The royal horse-drawn carriage will have air-conditioning.There will be an official coronation emoji issued by Buckingham Palace.

Three Colorado 18-year-olds are accused of killing a 20-year-old woman by throwing rocks at her car and have been charged with first-degree murder in connection with her death, the sheriff's office said Wednesday.Joseph Koenig, Nicholas "Mitch" Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak, all from Arvada, Colorado, were allegedly driving around throwing "large landscaping rocks" at several cars last Wednesday night, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

Charges have been dismissed against a reporter who was arrested last week while covering a news conference on the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Dave Yost, the Ohio attorney general, said in a statement on Wednesday.On Feb. 8, the reporter, Evan Lambert, had been waiting for the news conference about the status of the derailment, about 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, to start at 3 p.m.

Giorgio Chiellini knew everything about LAFC 's opponent in the round of 16 game in the CONCACAF Champions League except how to say the Costa Rica team's name."I know the name," he said."I was worried and scared about the bad pronunciation."It was a veteran move by Chiellini, 38, the ultimate veteran: Mispronounce the team's name and it can be misconstrued as a sign of disrespect.

That the parrots of Los Angeles are loud is an indisputable fact.The voluble squawks, warbles and trills of the colorful non-native birds (descendants of those originally imported from Mexico as pets that were freed or escaped) have been part of the SoCal soundtrack for more than half a century.The volume of their vocalization has been chronicled in the pages of The Times as far back as the early 1960s, and it's the rare account of the feathered fauna that doesn't mention the cacophony that accompanies a pandemonium of parrots (yes, that's the appropriate collective noun for a group of them).

Spring runs of a large minnow numbering in the millions have nourished Pomo Indians since they first made their home alongside Northern California's Clear Lake more than 400 generations ago.The Clear Lake hitch glinted like silver dollars as they headed up the lake's tributaries to spawn, a reliable squirming crop of plenty, steeped in history and tasty when salted and dried like jerky.

Many San Francisco Bay Area residents were given several seconds' warning before shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck under the mountains east of San Jose this week.The activation of the U.S. Geological Survey's ShakeAlert system is the second time in six weeks that Bay Area residents got a warning before they felt shaking.

A painting by British street artist Banksy amidst destroyed buildings in Borodianka on Saturday.The image shows a young boy tossing a man to the floor.Both are in martial arts attire.The man is widely assumed to be Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a judo enthusiast.Natalie Keyssar for NPR BORODIANKA, Ukraine  The Russian troops who pulverized this small town are gone.

At the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, a remote abbey beside the Chama River in northern New Mexico, some two dozen Benedictine monks begin their days in darkness.At 3:30 a.m. one Sunday this past winter, a bell summoned the monks to vigils, the night prayer.Under a clear sky full of stars, they made their way in silence from their cloister cells to an adobe chapel.

Local Both were small earthquakes, but many people felt them.New England experienced two minor earthquakes this weekend, one off the coast of Nantucket and the other in the middle of New Hampshire.The first happened just before 3 p.m. Saturday about 3 miles northwest of Nantucket Harbor (41.326°N - 70.126°W), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).