<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Pennsylvania</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/pa?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><description>Pennsylvania</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Army Soldier Is Convicted In Attack on Fellow Troops]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7210-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7210-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An Army sergeant who wanted to stop U.S. troops from killing his fellow Muslims was convicted by a military jury yesterday of murdering two colleagues and wounding 14 other soldiers in a chaotic grenade and rifle attack two days after the United States invaded Iraq.]]></description><author> Manuel Roig-Franzia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Redskins:  The Team We Love to Hail]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2992-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2992-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  There's a very good reason the Washington Redskins' fight song begins "Hail to the Redskins."]]></description><author> Don Podesta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Offers Probe of DeLay's Actions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5124-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5124-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[House Republicans offer to open an investigation into overseas travel and other activities by Majority Leader Tom DeLay as part of an effort to resolve a three-month impasse with the Democrats that has kept the ethics committee from functioning.]]></description><author> Mike Allen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Santorum, Politics Could Hardly Get More Personal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61804-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61804-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum is perhaps the most visible Senate Republican other than Majority Leader Bill Frist. He is ensconced in the most divisive issues in America's culture wars: homosexuality, abortion, the role of religion in public life, and most recently, the Terri Schiavo controversy.]]></description><author> Mark Leibovich</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeLay Seeks GOP Senators' Support]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47809-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47809-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) implored Republican senators Tuesday to stick with him while he addresses questions about his travel and his dealings with lobbyists, as House Democrats unveiled plans to try to make ethics a defining issue for the year.]]></description><author> Mike Allen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santorum Urges Majority Leader to Answer Critics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42422-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42422-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sen. Rick Santorum warns Tom DeLay Sunday that he needs to "lay out what he did and why he did it" if he is going to put an end to questions about his travel and dealings with lobbyists.]]></description><author> Mike Allen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Napa Valley, Bordeaux . . . and Brookeville?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31309-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31309-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[No sniffing, no swishing, no spitting  --  this is a Linganore wine tasting. So drink up,  and don't be a snob about it.]]></description><author> Elizabeth Williamson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NIH Agency Chiefs Criticize Federal Policy on Stem Cells]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32390-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32390-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Breaking with a tradition of deference to top administration officials, several institute directors at the National Institutes of Health went public yesterday with their distaste for  federal restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wounded Vets Tapped For New VA Program]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13972-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13972-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Experimental program at the Veterans Affairs Department provides skills, work experience and the prospect of a VA job for wounded soldiers whose injuries will force their exit from the military.]]></description><author> Christopher Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health Insurers Allege 'Rent-a-Patient' Fraud]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28484-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28484-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Twelve Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans from across the United States charged that a group of California-based surgery centers and medical management companies paid people as young as 12 to have unnecessary medical procedures.]]></description><author> Kristen Hallam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gizoogle.com, the Wizard of Izzle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21771-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21771-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gizoogle is the illegitimate, thugged-out cousin of Google that translates its search results into Snoop Dogg slang, or izzle-speak, a sort of <em>nuevo </em>pig Latin.]]></description><author> Stephen A. Crockett Jr.</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Gardener of Color]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19666-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19666-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sherry Santifer is one of the few minorities in the field of horticulture.]]></description><author> Adrian Higgins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tragic Ending]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12448-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12448-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Najai Turpin was looking for fame and fortune from NBC's reality boxing show "The Contender", but abruptedly ended his life amid unanswered questions last Valentine's Day.]]></description><author> Dan Steinberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting a Brave Faith on GOP 'Compassion']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2549-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2549-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Give Sen. Rick Santorum credit for persistence: The Pennsylvania Republican soldiers on with President Bush's "compassion" agenda even when Bush himself retreats.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commission to Study U.S. Prison Conditions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64109-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64109-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A high-level commission yesterday began a year-long examination of violence, sexual abuse, overcrowding and inhumane treatment in U.S. prisons, in  an investigation provoked in part by reports of misconduct by U.S. corrections officers assigned to serve in military detention centers overseas.]]></description><author> R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle of Judicial Nominee Resumes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62765-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62765-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A new hearing on a recycled nomination has not lessened the likelihood of a dramatic Senate showdown this spring over President Bush's judicial appointees, according to key senators.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allbrittons, Riggs to Pay Victims of Pinochet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53805-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53805-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Riggs Bank and two members of the bank's controlling Allbritton family agreed Friday to pay $9 million to victims of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for the bank's role in concealing and spiriting Pinochet's money out of Britain in 1999.]]></description><author> Terence O'Hara</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Life Lonely in the Center]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51838-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51838-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) is a most exotic and endangered species: a moderate in the United States Senate.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specter Predicts Turmoil May Grow From Impasse]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51617-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51617-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter blames both Republicans and Democrats for escalating the battle over federal judgeships.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Lawmakers Slow to Embrace Social Security Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47355-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47355-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/pa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary John W. Snow said Wednesday that the Bush administration has yet to sell American voters on its plan to revise Social Security, but a substantial number of Republican lawmakers are refusing to help -- either sitting on the sidelines or actively criticizing the plan.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item></channel></rss>