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Heavily Armed Pennsylvania Teen Arrested on Charges of Aiding ISIS
Sam Biddle · 12/17/15 05:46PMMother Learns of Son's Death Only After Smelling His Decomposing Body
Nalea J. Ko · 08/03/14 09:26AMWatch This Guy Drink From A Flower Vase on Live TV
Aleksander Chan · 05/23/14 12:10PMIn the middle of a live broadcast from Pennsylvania state representative Patty Kim's victory party in Harrisburg, a man in the background casually and enthusiastically drinks from a vase of flowers. Turns out it's part of a weird, elaborate local TV rivalry.
Hamilton Nolan · 08/27/13 01:25PM
Hilarious Failed City Harrisburg, PA Has Some Cowboy Hats for Sale
Hamilton Nolan · 07/19/13 02:17PMMayoral Candidate Charged for Defacing Signs with (Weak) Pussy Joke
Caity Weaver · 05/20/13 02:33PMHarrisburg, Pennsylvania Is a Broke-Ass Sinkhole of Despair
Hamilton Nolan · 02/01/13 10:45AMIn 2011, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania went bankrupt. Municipally bankrupt. The city is broke, tapped, in penury, scraping by on nada. Personal bankruptcy is tragic, and corporate bankruptcy is financially significant, but there is something especially pitiful about municipal bankruptcies. An entire city of thousands, whose leadership has failed them. It's like watching a scrappy but flailing football team losing in a particularly bloody way.
Pennsylvania's Capital Declares Bankruptcy
Jim Newell · 10/12/11 01:02PMHarrisburg Mayor Stages Hunger Strike Over City's Budget Woes
Seth Abramovitch · 06/22/11 12:54AMLinda Thompson — the mayor of the fiscally hurting Harrisburg, Pa. — has attempted everything from budget slashing to layoffs to bankruptcy filings to get the state capital's finances back on track. Nothing has worked. So now she's taking a different approach: She's staging a three-day hunger strike, hoping at some point during her calorically-deprived hallucinations, God will point the way towards an economic recovery.