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Michael Rubinkam

@michaelrubinkam

I'm a Pennsylvania-based journalist who covers all sorts of stories for The Associated Press. Tips and story ideas welcome! Reach me at [email protected]

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Drilling under Pennsylvania's 'Gasland' town has been banned since 2010. It's coming back. (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/378d15…

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Witnesses to FBI hunt for Civil War gold describe heavily loaded armored truck, signs of a night dig (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/6b5fec…

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“What I witnessed … was one of the most intense, unbelievable gunfights I have ever witnessed.” Pennsylvania state troopers faced a weapon that “would defeat any of the body armor that they had available to them.”

Via The Associated Press: apnews.com/article/ec8fe1…

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Facing gaps in reading, districts tailor teaching youtu.be/UcI82DWednU Proud to have contributed to this nice video from AP's Michael Rubinkam

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A woman pulled alive from the rubble of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory after an explosion that killed seven co-workers recounted her brush with death and her miraculous survival to the The Associated Press.

“The only thing I wanted was to get out of there,” she said. bit.ly/3G8R6v7

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The court-ordered release of a trove of government photos, videos, maps and other documents involving the FBI’s secretive search for Civil War-era gold has a treasure hunter more convinced than ever of a coverup — and just as determined to prove it. apnews.com/article/ec6f92…

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ICYMI: Pennsylvania has quietly lifted its 12-year ban on natural gas production in Dimock, the rural community that gained notoriety after a driller was accused of fouling the water supply and residents were shown lighting their tap water on fire.
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One of Pennsylvania’s largest drillers will be allowed to extract natural gas from underneath a rural Pennsylvania community where it has been banned for a dozen years because of accusations it polluted the water supply. apnews.com/article/busine…

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Philadelphia police say the 'Boy in the Box' finally has a name, nearly 66 years after the body of the beaten, malnourished 4-year-old was found stuffed inside a cardboard box in a homicide case that stumped generations of detectives. apnews.com/article/philad…

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His name was Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
Police say DNA helped them learn the identity of a youngster known to generations of Philadelphians as the 'Boy in the Box,' whose battered body was found stuffed in a cardboard box in 1957.
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A regulatory agency responsible for the water supply of more than 13 million people in four NE states have banned ban gas drillers from dumping fracking wastewater in the Delaware River watershed and to make it difficult for them to take fresh water out. apnews.com/article/busine…

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Pennsylvania’s most active gas driller pleaded no contest to criminal charges, capping a landmark environmental case against a company that prosecutors say polluted a rural community’s drinking water 14 years ago and then tried to evade responsibility. apnews.com/article/ded36f…

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A public utility plans to deliver cleaning drinking water to Dimock, the rural Pennsylvania community that became notorious in the early days of the state’s drilling and fracking boom after residents were filmed lighting their tap water on fire. apnews.com/article/busine…

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