Friday, August 27, 2010
Teen in custody after leading police on chase in Selinsgrove
SELINSGROVE -- A juvenile will be charged as an adult after leading police on a chase through Selinsgrove in a stolen vehicle. Selinsgrove Police say around 2:20a.m. Friday they were making a routine traffic stop when the vehicle fled. The vehicle was driven by 17-year-old Edwin Alequin Jr. of Reading.
Alequin led police on a chase through Selinsgrove, crashing into an embankment at University Ave. and 18th Street. He then put the vehicle in reverse, hitting a police car. The vehicle chase ended at the Pine Meadows Apartment complex. That's when Alequin and another person fled the scene on foot. Police found Alequin hiding in an apartment. It was found that he was driving a stolen vehicle.
Alequin was arraigned before District Judge Jeffrey Mensch and is in Snyder County Prison on $50,000 bail. He faces a number of charges including felony aggravated assault, receiving stolen property and fleeing and eluding police.
Selinsgrove State Police were assisted by State Police from Lewistown and Stonington, along with a helicopter from Montoursville. Selinsgrove, Shamokin Dam and Sunbury Police also assisted. Police are still searching for the person that fled the vehicle with Alequin. Anyone with information is asked to call 374-8145. (Sara Bartlett)
Abundant frosh at S-U
SELINSGROVE – It’s a record breaking freshman class preparing to start classes at Susquehanna University. More than 640 first-year students were welcomed to campus on Thursday, with close to 2,300 students expected to start classes on Monday, which is about a 4% increase over last year.
This is Susquehanna University’s 153rd academic year and applications were up 5% over the last year. Admissions director Chris Markle says the community works hard to make the students feel welcome when they arrive in Selinsgrove.
New students will be introduced to the community on Saturday through the 18th annual SU GIVE day of volunteerism. Hundreds of students, faculty and staff will be placed at dozens of off-campus sites throughout the region, including hospitals, retirement homes, parks, churches and animal shelters to do volunteer work. (Ali Stevens)
New Bucknell Prez snips ribbon at downtown bookstore
LEWISBURG – Bucknell University President John Bravman cut an orange and blue ribbon Friday afternoon, and officially opened the downtown Barnes & Noble, that will also serve as the student bookstore.
Dozens of community members responsible for coordinating, building and financing the $10 million dollar project were on hand for the start of what is being billed as a grand opening weekend.
Bucknell University students also attended, including Brad Brown. The senior from Milton called the day an exciting one, and says the new store give students another reason to go to an already vibrant downtown area. Barnes & Noble will manage the store, which was paid for largely by state and local grants. (Matt Farrand)
Shikellamy marina main launch closed for triathlon Sunday
SUNBURY – Weekend boaters bound for Lake Augusta are reminded Shikellamy State Park’s main boat launching area will be closed Sunday to accommodate for the Riverstock Triathlon. The main launch near the park office will remain closed until at least 2 p.m. on Sunday.
Alternate launch facilities are available at the Hanover Street boat launch in Northumberland, and the point boat launch ramp next to Northumberland Sewer Plant. Fireworks are also scheduled at the park Saturday night. Visitors can view the fireworks from the main marina park area. (Ali Stevens)
Six people charged in a drug bust will face their charges in court
SHAMOKIN – Six people charged with drug offenses have waived their rights to a preliminary hearing and will face charges against them in court. The six people were charged during a drug bust on July 22nd in the Shamokin Area.
They include 29-year-old Boyd Lahr, an inmate at the Northumberland County Prison, 38-year-old Heidi Rugh of Shamokin, 36-year old Alba Wehr of Coal Township, 21-year-old Rodney Cossari of Kulpmont, 24-year-old Jonathan Gregory of Coal Township and 22-year-old Christina Hepner of Shamokin. 14 people were arrested in that drug bust. (Ali Stevens)
One day in jail for a man who threatened a health care worker
DANVILLE – A man who threatened a Geisinger Health Plan employee in Danville will have to spend 24 hours in prison and a year on probation. 64-year-old William Noble of Tunkhannock is accused of calling an employee on May 14th and after getting upset, told the person that he was going to visit the office and said, “somebody is going to die.”
Noble pleaded guilty to making terroristic threats. Noble was on the phone with GHP for two hours that day and claims that he “just blew up” that day. The employee took the threat seriously and called police and the building was locked down. Noble was arrested at his home in Tunkhannock. He must report to the Montour County Prison today to serve his 24-hour sentence. (Ali Stevens)
Major rate hike approved for Danville sewer customers
DANVILLE -- A more than 60 percent increase in sewer rates was approved by the Danville Municipal Authority this week. Effective October 1st, sewer rates in Danville will increase 62 to 63 percent for homes and businesses due to a state-ordered $24-million upgrade of the Danville sewage treatment plant.
Increases for residential customers are expected to be about $107, while businesses can expect a $164 increase. Restaurants will have an increase of more than $214. Upgrades at the sewer plant are expected to cost about $18-million. (Ali Stevens)
Sunbury's skyline changed Thursday
SUNBURY -- What was said to be the tallest structure in Sunbury was brought down Thursday. Salvage and demolition crews imploded two smoke stacks and a boiler house at the Knight-Celotex property. One structure was 250' tall, the other 180' tall. John Koehler of Winchester Blasting Services in Knoxville, Tennessee says the demolition was challenging, but it went well.
He says it was difficult to control that much force, since there was steel in the structure that was an inch and a half thick. He says that takes a lot of energy, but the smoke stacks and building flattened exactly how they envisioned. The structures have quite a history, originally being built in 1898 as a textile mill. In 1955 it was most known as a board mill. The plant was shut down in Fall 2008.
Bruce Rea, of Scrap Trading, LLC says the property does have a future. Moran Industries of Watsontown plans to buy the property and develop it into a logistics site. They may use the railway perhaps for Marcellus Shale or other gas industry business. (Sara Bartlett)
Northumberland County Courthouse air test results
SUNBURY -- Air quality test results in the Northumberland County Courthouse have come back saying the air is safe. Chief Clerk Kymberley Best says that means the work environment in the courthouse is safe, and air-scrubbing fans will be uninstalled.
Best says test results for surface bacteria will be in next week. The issue started about four months ago when six employees in the Register and Recorder's office suffered respiratory problems. All six of the employees have filed workmen's compensation claims.
Best says she understands concerns, but they are doing their best to find out the source of the employees' illnesses. She says they are relieved to find out that the air quality is in normal limits, and will wait for the surface test results to take further action. (Sara Bartlett)
'Tour de Cure' raises awareness of diabetes
SUNBURY -- The radio stations of Sunbury Broadcasting Corporation, in connection with Sunbury Community Hospital, continue to bring awareness of diabetes during 'Stop Diabetes Month.' Tomorrow (Saturday) is a chance to take a walk for awareness.
The 'Tour de Cure' will take place starting at the hospital. Dr. Bradly Stark, family practice physician at Sunbury Community Hospital, says knowledge is key when dealing with a disease like diabetes. Dr. Starks will be at tomorrow's walk, there will also be information and advice about diabetes.
All are invited to the 'Tour de Cure,' which will stroll through Sunbury. Registration is at 8:00a.m., with the walk beginning at 9:00a.m. at the corner of 11th and Line Street in Sunbury. The suggested donation is $5.00 and all money raised will go to the American Diabetes Association. More information is available at www.wkok.com. (Sara Bartlett)
Superintendent miffed by "Race to the Top" award decision
LEWISBURG -- The superintendent of the Lewisburg Area School district says he's disappointed that Pennsylvania was not among states to be awarded a portion of more than $4.3 billion dollars in federal money for education. Dr. Mark DiRocco says he's perplexed that the "Race to the Top" grants were awarded on a competitive basis.
Dr. DiRocco says the decision was made by the federal Department of Education, and notes that they already have established protocol that could have equitably distributed money to every district in the nation. Governor Ed Rendell expressed similar disappointment after nine other states and the District of Columbia were awarded the second round of "Race to the Top" grants last week.
Meantime, the failure of Congress to pass a measure that would have given the commonwealth $250 million dollars to subsidize education is causing some districts to again look at their annual budgets. However, Dr. DiRocco says the Lewisburg District made up for the expected $28,000 shortfall by not hiring an additional elementary school teacher originally in the 2010-2011 budget. (Matt Farrand)
High school home game fee waived by university
LEWISBURG -- The Lewisburg Area High School football team is getting a break from the high cost of using Bucknell's Christy Mathewson Memorial Stadium. The Green Dragons will continue to use the university's field as its site for home games, but will only have to cover costs as needed for security and traffic control.
The university had previously charged the district $1,000 per home game for use of the stadium. Booster clubs will also be allowed to make money through the sale of food at stadium concession stands for the first time. Superintendent Dr. Mark DiRocco credits Bucknell for approaching the district with the revised plan. The school board approved it Thursday night. (Matt Farrand)
New Berlin teen charged with selling pot prior to deadly Mifflinburg shooting
MIFFLINBURG -- A New Berlin woman has been charged for supplying marijuana to teens shortly before a deadly shooting in Mifflinburg. 18-year-old Kali Kenton admitted to police that she sold one gram of marijuana to both 17-year-old Anthony Hernandez and a 16-year-old boy May 8th. Shortly after, Hernandez was shot and killed by 18-year-old Alexander Shoemaker of Mifflinburg.
Police say around 1:15a.m., Kenton went to 733 Walbash Road after receiving a call from the 16-year-old. She sold the marijuana to the teens and then left the residence. It was around 1:25a.m. that police were called to the scene for a report of a shooting.
Hernandez was taken to the hospital where he later died of a single gunshot wound to the chest. Shoemaker has been charged with the shooting and could face up to seven years in prison is found guilty.
Kenton also told police later in the day May 8th, that friends visited her at her New Berlin home and returned drug paraphernalia that was used by the teen boys.
She later destroyed all of the items according to police. Kenton faces two felony charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. She also faces misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance and corruption of minors. (Sara Bartlett)
Danville woman escapes fire
DANVILLE -- A Danville woman sustained no injuries after escaping through a second story window following a fire Wednesday night. 44-year-old Julie Dent was awakened around 11:30p.m. after the blaze shattered a window.
The fire broke out at 25 Old Valley School Road, and a state police fire marshal said it started near a set of stairs. There were electrical wires found in the area. The fire was accidental. Damage is estimated at $100,000. (Sara Bartlett)
A fire damaged a home and the lone occupant got out safely
SHAMOKIN – A man in a burning home—got out safely Thursday—by climbing out of a second story window. The blaze heavily damaged the Randy Slodysko home at 131 South Second Street in Shamokin.
The Shamokin News Item reports that Slodysko climbed onto a second story porch roof and got down from the roof safely. He was out of the home as volunteer fire fighters arrived. He was awakened around 3am according to the newspaper’s account.
The fire cause is thought to accidental and electrical in origin. The house was heavily damaged. Volunteers from Shamokin, Coal Township, Kulpmont and Overlook responded. There were no injuries in that Shamokin fire Thursday morning.
Northumberland County crop farm gets preservation distinction
HARRISBURG -- A crop farm in Northumberland County has been added to the state's nationally recognized farmland preservation program. The Ileen Ranck farm received the designation. The action keeps the land in agricultural use and protects it from development.
The 86-acre farm is one of 40 throughout the state that was added by the Pennsylvania Agricultural Land Preservation Board this week. To date, the farmland preservation program has preserved over 440,000 acres on over 4,000 farms in the state. Both figures are the highest of any state in the U.S. (Sara Bartlett)
Updates from GSV United Way on Leaders & Lawmakers
UNDATED -- The Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way is progressing and looking forward to helping more and more people in the future. To date, they help fund 30 non-profits as well as focus on regional problems through their Priorities for Impact program.
Keri Albright, President and CEO of the Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way, says they are now help fund a collaboration between Clinical Outcomes Group and Susquehanna Valley Women in Transition.
Priorities for Impact focuses on six problems identified in the Valley, including lack of public transportation, issues facing at-risk teens, lack of quality early childhood education, issues focused on diversity, poverty and drug and alcohol abuse. Albright says when giving to United Way, donators are helping not only the nonprofit groups, but helping with these issues as well.
Albright gave more updates on the Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way, and talked about the struggle of nonprofits in the current economy on our Leaders & Lawmakers program Thursday. You can download the program online at www.wkok.com. (Sara Bartlett)
A rate increase request, filed by PPL, is advancing
ALLENTOWN – It won’t be until this fall that we know how much PPL’s electric rates will be going up but we know they will be going up. PPL and the state Public Utility Commission have reached a private, tentative agreement on the proposed increases in distribution rates. The amount of the increase on which the two sides now agree, is not yet being disclosed.
PPL was seeking an approximately $7 per month increase in the average residential rate. While the utility and the PUC have a tentative agreement, it still needs to be approved by an administrative law judge and the full commission.
PPL’s distribution division wants the rate increase to offset the nearly one billion dollars in system improvements they’ve made in the past five years. In addition, they say they will continue improvements totaling $1.5 billion in the future.
This rate increase, which will take effect next year, comes on the heels of a 30% increase in residential generation rates, which took effect in the beginning of 2010.
Judge Ranck to be remembered in Northumberland County Court
SUNBURY -- A special session of Northumberland County court will be held next week to honor the late Judge Samuel Ranck. In accordance with tradition, President Judge Robert Sacavage appointed a memorial committee of the Northumberland County Bar Association to prepare a resolution that will be presented at the services.
Members of the Bar and court-related personnel will also offer recollections of the judge, who served more than 30 years on the bench. Ranck died last month at the age of 82. His family will attend during the ceremony Tuesday, August 31st at 11:30a.m. The public is invited to attend in courtroom one at the Northumberland County Courthouse. (Sara Bartlett)
Golf Tourney a huge success
LEWISBURG -- Though no one made a hole-in-one to win a new car, the Evangelical Community Hospital golf classic was a huge success. Last week's event raised more than $30,000 for Evan's pre-hospital services. Nearly 230 golfers played and participated in a silent auction, along with many contests. This is the 24th year for the golf tournament. (Sara Bartlett)
Professor seeking study participants
LEWISBURG -- An assistant professor of psychology at Bucknell University is looking for volunteers. Ruth Tincoff is conducting a study on just how babies understand and how they connect words with their meanings. She is seeking local families with babies who are 4 months to 2-years-old. Appointments will take about a half-hour and will be arranged at the family's convenience.
The study includes two parts. The first, parents sitting with their child as they watch a video. The second, parents playing games with their child while they act out words such as 'sit' and 'hug.' Tincoff is looking at cognitive skills and a child's ability to adapt to information their parents give them. Anyone interested in participating in the study is asked to call 577-1828. (Sara Bartlett)
Latest Pennsylvania news, business and entertainment
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - A former community college administrator from northeastern Pennsylvania has been ordered to jail following his conviction on charges he stole $17,000 and computer equipment from the school. Former Luzerne County Community College administrator Peter Moses was sentenced Thursday to four to 23 months in prison. He was convicted last month of stealing at least $17,000 in cafeteria deposits and two laptops that were to be used in the school's Educational Conference Center. In a victim impact statement, school officials said the thefts may have led potential students to rethink enrolling there. Moses was fired following his arrested in September 2008. Defense attorney William Ruzzo says the sentence was too harsh compared to other public corruption cases prosecuted recently in the county. He says he plans to appeal.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A bomb squad was dispatched to a Philadelphia construction site after someone found what turned out to be a nonfunctional replica of a torpedo. A transportation department archaeological team found two men sitting on the finned tube drinking beers on Friday morning. PennDOT spokesman Charles Metzger says the men told the team they had found the would-be munition. The dig team called police, who sent out a bomb squad. Chief Inspector Joseph Sullivan says officers soon determined there was no danger, but it wasn't until later that X-rays showed it was hollow and likely a novelty. The construction site is near an Interstate 95 interchange project in the city's Kensington neighborhood. It's close to the location of an old shipyard where warships were built during World War II. Police say no charges are expected.
YORK, Pa. (AP) - A central Pennsylvania man is in custody after police say he rammed his pickup through the entrance to the underground garage at a county court building. Police in York say 38-year-old Brian Oatman drove his truck through the garage's metal security door and abandoned it before it struck a concrete pillar. They say he then walked to the York County Judicial Center's front desk and turned himself in. Lt. Gene Fells says Oatman was trying to speak to someone, possibly a judge, about what Fells called "family issues." Fells says Oatman was depressed. Oatman had been in prison for a probation violation but was released earlier this month. His father says his behavior could be the result of a "psychotic episode" caused by drug use. Oatman is being held on a probation detainer. Criminal charges are pending.
McCANDLESS, Pa. (AP) - An elderly horse is safe after it had to be rescued from a muddy bog on a western Pennsylvania farm. The 35-year-old quarter horse named Sonny was rescued Thursday from the muddy patch of a field in McCandless, about nine miles north of Pittsburgh. Patty Quatchak had come to feed the horses when she noticed Sonny missing. She said Sonny had gotten himself half-submerged in a bog, with the mud up to his face. Quatchak contacted an animal response team from nearby Washington County, which gave Sonny IV fluids and used a pulley to free him from the muck. Veterinarian Chelsey Giardina says Sonny suffered only a small cut during the ordeal and should be fine.
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) - Officials are planning archery and shotgun hunts in a Philadelphia-area state park to its deer population. Officials this week announced plans to permit archers to hunt in some parts of Ridley Creek State Park starting September 18. The hunts will continue until the end of January and include a one-week shotgun hunt in December. Park manager Roger McChesney says the park has anywhere between 80 and 140 deer per square mile. That's well above the concentration of 20 or so he says is considered healthy. McChesney says the deer feed on saplings and strip ground cover needed by other animals. Last year, a planned hunt at nearby Valley Forge National Historical Park was called off after two animal rights groups filed suit.
EASTON, Pa. (AP) - A quotation attributed to Adolf Hitler that made its way into a high school yearbook in Pennsylvania has left students, parents and educators mortified. The principal of Easton Area High School, Michael Koch, says the material got through several layers of editing because of the sheer number of quotes peppered through the 272-page yearbook. The saying, appearing with Hitler's name below it, was, "And in the last analysis, success is what mattered." It has been attributed to Hitler in at least one history book, published in 1963. Koch says the district will replace the page with an edited version if parents and students ask. The Express-Times of Easton first reported the story Wednesday.
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Updates on the latest in business:
Dow: 10,136.00, up 150.23
S&P 500: 1,063.04, up 15.82
NASDAQ: 2,152.22, up 33.53
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen is suing nearly a dozen major technology companies, including Google Inc. and Apple Inc., alleging that they infringed on four Web technology patents held by his company Interval Licensing LLC. Interval said Friday it filed the suit in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington against 11 companies. Others named in the suit include Facebook, eBay Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Interval owns patents from Interval Research, which was a technology research and development company that Allen started with David Liddle in the early '90s. Interval said that the patents it believes are being violated are key to how e-commerce and search companies work.
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Harley-Davidson Inc. says Kansas City is one of the proposed cities where the motorcycle company might relocate some production. Company spokesman Bob Klein said Friday a number of alternate sites remain on the table. He declined to say which other sites, or how many, are being considered. Klein says he's confirming Kansas City because a union leader revealed the site to members in a letter. Harley-Davidson has been a Milwaukee institution since it was founded 107 years ago. But the company has threatened to move its Wisconsin production - and up to 1,630 jobs - to another state if local unions don't agree to a number of cost-saving concessions. The company says it expects to make its decision by mid-September.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Meatpackers, feeders and hundreds of ranchers from around the country are attending a workshop to discuss proposed federal rule that aim to preserve competition in an industry increasingly dominated by a handful of corporate giants. Friday's workshop in Fort Collins, Colo., is one of five the administration set this year to hear about competition in an increasingly consolidated industry. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the trend will ultimately hurt consumers. Meanwhile, he says hog and cattle farmers are worried about whether there's a future in farming. The proposal would make it easier to file lawsuits against meat processors by stating that farmers don't need to prove industry-wide anticompetitive behavior. Producers, however, sharply disagree on whether the rule would help or hurt.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - These Pennsylvania lotteries were drawn Friday:
Mega Millions
Estimated jackpot: $133 million
Midday Big 4
4-7-1-2
Midday Number
9-9-0
Midday Quinto
4-8-0-6-2
Powerball
Estimated jackpot: $25 million
Treasure Hunt
01-12-16-21-28
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Mexican TV network: car explodes next to office
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A major Mexican television network says a car has exploded in front of its offices in a northern state where officials are investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants. The Televisa network reports that the explosion happened early Friday in front of its offices in the capital of Tamaulipas, the same state where the bodies were found earlier this week on a ranch believed to be operated by drug traffickers. Televisa says that none of its employees was injured, but the explosion damaged the building and knocked out its signal in the city. It was felt for blocks. Tamaulipas has become one of Mexico's most violent battlegrounds for drug cartels fighting over territory.
No Auto-tune
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Maybe we wouldn't be hearing all that "pitchiness" on "American Idol" if they electronically corrected the singers' voices. But, Idol's producers have issued a statement saying: "We have never, nor would we ever, use Auto-Tuning during the 'American Idol' competition." Fans of Simon Cowell's show in Britain, "The X Factor," are accusing that show of using pitch-correction software to alter some performances. The show's producers are admitting that some post-production was used to fix differences because of the various microphones used during filming.
Chinese man with no arms plays piano with toes
SHANGHAI (AP) - A Chinese pianist says his goal is to be so good that people won't notice his arms are missing. Liu Wei plays the piano with his toes. And he plays well enough to have won a standing ovation when he performed on "China's Got Talent" earlier this month. As he puts it, "Nobody ever decreed that to play the piano you must use your hands." The 23-year-old also uses his feet to eat, dress, brush his teeth and use a computer. He says whatever other people do with their hands, he does with his feet. Liu was 10 when he lost his arms after getting electrocuted playing hide-and-seek. He started playing the piano when he was in his late teens. Now, he says, he would like to be seen just as a pianist.
Beck plans rally on anniversary of King's 'Dream' speech
WASHINGTON (AP) - Glenn Beck's rally on the anniversary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech is drawing criticism, protests and questions about his intentions. Beck insists the event Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial is not about politics, even though Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will attend. Beck is a popular figure among tea party activists and a polarizing Fox News Channel personality. The event's website says the rally is to pay tribute to America's military personnel and others "who embody our nation's founding principles of integrity, truth and honor." It urges citizens to attend and "help us restore the values that founded this great nation." Beck says the timing of the event is merely a coincidence.
MLK niece to join Glenn Beck at Lincoln Memorial
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Rev. Alveda King is defending her participation in Glenn Beck's rally at the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow on the 47th anniversary of her uncle's "I Have a Dream" speech. Beck's critics say the conservative talk show host's "Restoring America's Honor" event shouldn't be staged where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic speech in 1963. But the civil rights leader's niece plans to speak at the rally and "sing in the choir" at Beck's separate event for clergy, titled "America's Divine Destiny," tonight at the Kennedy Center. Yesterday, some black ministers accused Alveda King, who campaigns against abortion in the black community, of "hijacking the dream" -- a charge she rejects as laughable. King insists her uncle did not support abortion, and she says the dream he spoke of is in her genes. A nearby civil rights march tomorrow will be led by the Rev. Al Sharpton.
NO SHOW WORKER
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - How this for a job? Get paid for 12 years, without ever showing up for work. City officials in Norfolk, Va., say they've fired a worker who's been collecting salary and benefits for a dozen years without ever working. The employee, who had been on the payroll of the community services board, isn't being named. The board provides medication, counseling and psychiatric services to about 6,000 people. The agency's 300 employees have an average salary of about $35,000. The board is an independent agency, receiving funding from the city, state and federal governments.
EMMY AWARDS ARE SUNDAY - WILL "GLEE" STOP "30 ROCK"
LOS ANGELES (AP) - We'll find out Sunday if "Glee" or any of the other shows nominated for outstanding comedy will stop "30 Rock's" win streak at three in a row. "Glee" started out Emmy season with 19 nominations, the most for any comedy or drama. "30 Rock" comes into Emmy season with 17 nominations. Other shows up for best comedy are first-time nominees "Modern Family" and "Nurse Jackie," along with "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and previous one-time winner "The Office." When the Emmys air Sunday on NBC, they'll be live in all time zones.
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