Rescue crews had responded to a two-car accident with five injuries, but state police still could not confirm those numbers Sunday. HONESDALE — Carbon monoxide poisoning was the cause of death for an 11-year-old boy Friday in a house fire in Wayne County, according to Coroner Carole R. NEWFOUNDLAND — State police in Honesdale are looking for a man who robbed Joe’s Kwik Mart on Route 191 on Saturday night. A man walked into the store, showed a “short, pump-style shotgun with a wooden stock” and ordered the clerk to give him money, police said. PLAINS TOWNSHIP — A Tunkhannock man was arrested for driving under the influence and several other offenses early Sunday after he led police on a chase along Interstate 81. HERSHEY — Nearly 80 state police officers were promoted last week at ceremonies at Founders Hall of the Milton Hershey School. read more

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For instance, there’s the newest large building downtown, the Community VNA Building on Morey Street, notable not only as the headquarters for a major health agency, but as a community center with its well-used class- and meeting rooms. Just a few steps away is the Attleboro Arts Museum, with its well-attended exhibits, arts classes and such community gatherings as its annual poetry slam and fund-raising auction. And almost as easily as you can go from one boutique to another in a mall, you could walk from the museum to City Hall, the new county registry of deeds office, the police station and the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum. While this sub-section of the downtown also includes such retail businesses as a Salvation Army store - the likes of which have been downtown renewal building blocks in both Woonsocket, R. read more

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Researchers in the Penn State College of Medicine are making progress toward a safer treatment for acne. Isotretinoin is the most powerful treatment for acne on the market today but is linked too a significant list of side effects, most notably severe birth defects in the children of pregnant women using the drug. It is generally used as a last option for acne treatment because of both the usual success of less powerful topical drugs and oral antibiotics and its dangerous side effects, she said. Thiboutot and her colleagues examined isotretinoin’s effects on the gene lipocalin 2 and the protein it encodes, neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL). Penn State students seemed optimistic about the possibility of a new acne treatment drug’s release as the result of Thiboutot’s research. read more

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