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The PE Sneak Peek: Sept 2

Here's a look at the stories that have our reporters laboring on Labor Day: * Hit by calls for a boycott, the Bloomsburg Fair softens its no-guns policy. But carrying a gun could still be a problem. Read the details. * Rumors swirl about a ride under construction at Knoebels. Park management is unamused. * A flash flood in one area carries a crop of pumpkins downstream. * The cat wailing at a woman's door had been shot. Now the feline is being nursed back to health. * An official is angry after one corporation pulls out of a floodwall project. Find out what it means for the big picture.

Crash on Pa. highway kills 6, including 2 kids

KANE, Pa. (AP) -- An SUV crossed into oncoming traffic on a rural northwestern Pennsylvania highway and smashed head-on into another vehicle, killing six people, including two children, authorities said Sunday. A Jeep Liberty driven by 36-year-old Kathy Douglas of Kane crossed the center line at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday and hit an approaching Pontiac Bonneville in the Allegheny National Forest, killing her daughter and nephew as well as four people in the sedan, state police said.

Landmark gay marriage hearing approaches in Pa.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- For two months, an elected court clerk in the Philadelphia suburbs has been giving something to same-sex couples they have not been able to get anywhere else: a Pennsylvania marriage license. Now a court has to decide whether the clerk has singlehandedly added Pennsylvania to the growing list of states that formally sanction same-sex marriages or whether he has been acting illegally and must be stopped.

Pa. boy injured in shooting involving brother

HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) -- State police say two young brothers in western Pennsylvania were involved in a shooting that sent one of the boys to the hospital with serious injuries. Police say the shooting occurred about 1 p.m. Sunday at the Hampton Township home in western Pennsylvania where the two boys live. The injured boy was flown to Penn State Hershey Medical Center. No other details were released.

Woman, pet kangaroo find new home at zoo

WYNNEWOOD, Okla. (AP) -- Christie Carr wants her young ones to cooperate when they sit down for a family portrait, but at times it's so difficult that she has to tell young Irwin to go to his bedroom. He obeys and hops to it. Irwin may sleep in a bed, wear boy's clothes on occasion and eat Twizzlers, but he's not human. He's a red kangaroo, nursed back to health after he was partially paralyzed from running into a fence a few years ago.

4 kids dead after fire in home near Pa.-N.Y. border

ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) -- A fire tore through a home, spewing flames from the windows and killing four children, neighbors said. The four victims had been pulled from the burning upstate New York home by firefighters and medics but died later. The blaze swept through the two-story home, on a tidy block in the riverside city of Elmira, south of New York's Finger Lakes near the Pennsylvania border, on Friday night. Fire officials said the building was engulfed in flames when they arrived.

Man run over by Pa. asphalt roller, hospitalized

MONROEVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- A construction worker who lost control of an asphalt roller and fell off it on Friday was run over by it but was freed from beneath it and airlifted to a hospital. The man lost control of the heavy vehicle he was driving in Monroeville, 15 miles east of Pittsburgh, Monroeville police Chief Steven Pascarella said. Officials at the scene said they believe a hydraulic hose on the roller broke, sending the roller jerking forward.

Syrians bracing for possible US strike

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Edging toward a punitive strike against Syria, President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing "limited and narrow" action as the administration bluntly accused Bashar Assad's government of launching a chemical weapons attack that killed at least 1,429 people -- far more than previous estimates -- including more than 400 children. No "boots on the ground," Obama said, seeking to reassure Americans weary after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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