Russell Frank
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Irvin Moore’s Goal: A Penn State Diploma at 80
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Some students take a gap year after high school. Irvin Moore took a gap half-century. It wasn’t by choice. Moore went to prison on a murder charge at the age […]
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A Refugee Builds a New Life in State College, but Misses Her Old Life in Ukraine
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What does it mean to have a normal life? To Oleksandra Pyrozhok, it means that she and her husband Stanislav are together, have jobs and have their own apartment. To […]
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No Decision Yet on Subu Vedam’s Plea for a New Trial
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BELLEFONTE – Having spent 42 of his 62 years in prison, Subu Vedam is probably used to waiting. After remotely watching a two-hour hearing of his petition for a new […]
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After 42 Years, Another Day in Court for Subu Vedam
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Maybe you’ve seen the yellow yard signs around town: “WE’RE FOR INTEGRITY/ #FairTrialFor Subu.” Subu is Subramanyam Vedam, four decades into a life sentence for the murder of his boyhood […]
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Bivens in the Big Leagues: It Just Gets Better
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Wait a second, you may be thinking. Didn’t you write about Spencer Bivens in your last column? I did, but the story of the State College kid who arrived in […]
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‘It’s About Not Giving Up.’ State College Area’s Spencer Bivens Gets Call to the Bigs
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Spencer Bivens has played baseball for the Rogers State Hillcats, the Lions de Savigny de-sur-Orge, the Steel City Slammin’ Sammies, the Washington Wild Things, the Lexington Legends, the West Virginia […]
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Yes Mow June
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Now that we’re all mowing our lawns again, I thought I’d dig up some fun and un-fun facts about the green carpets beneath our feet. Fun Fact No. 1: We […]
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‘It May Have Started as a Battle’: On the Site of the Bear River Massacre
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PRESTON, IDAHO – Just north of Preston, the town where “Napoleon Dynamite” was filmed, past Polar Bear Burgers and Shakes, past the Pop’n Pins bowling alley, past The Hangout, the […]
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Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Mindless Chants Have Got to Go
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Protests are messy affairs. They sprawl beyond the intentions of their organizers, attracting reformers and revolutionaries (and counterrevolutionaries); rebels with related and unrelated causes (I remember “Save the Whales” signs […]
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What Is a Spring Day If Not a Poem in Your Pocket?
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As I walked up the mall last Wednesday, a sign caught my eye: “Free Poems.” Adjacent was a folding table on which were displayed a plate of cookies; pens and […]