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Covers:  Addiction and recovery, crime, education, business. I prefer issues impacting rural areas, especially the economically challenged.
I'm mostly on Twitter only for Sixers updates.
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Making amends on the edges of The Badlands

Making amends on the edges of The Badlands

Daily Item — Social ills that mark the symptoms of heroin and opioid addiction are hidden no better in the shade of the elevated rail line above Kensington Avenue than they are in the daylight illuminating side streets crisscrossing Northeast Philadelphia. Men and women point to bruises on their cheeks and foreheads from scraps the night before.
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Sunbury man's struggles in wake of doctor's arrest highlight depth of opioid crisis

Sunbury man's struggles in wake of doctor's arrest highlight depth of opioid crisis

Daily Item — A burning, stabbing pain shoots through the neck of Scott Dietrich, and he's all out of pain pills. "Like a hot iron right up the middle of your spine," said Dietrich, 58, of Sunbury. The former construction worker is classified permanently disabled as a result of the severe narrowing between five cervical vertebrae.
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Valley trio among baseball's elite

Valley trio among baseball's elite

Daily Item — Long are the odds to become a professional baseball player. Longer still are the odds to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. An estimated 18,900 players found their way into a Major League Baseball lineup since the first professional ball club was established in 1869.
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Putting a face to recovery: New Columbia woman tells of addiction, sobriety

Putting a face to recovery: New Columbia woman tells of addiction, sobriety

Daily Item — Enough light shone through the empty cardboard box inside which Tricia Dauberman hid in wait to surprise her son, allowing glimpses of the dark-haired almost 5-year-old as he approached cautiously. Tricia's been caught in a box in many respects for too long - illness, stigma, self-doubt and a warped sense of survival among the many symptoms caused by an addiction to heroin.
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Opioid addiction driving foster placements

Opioid addiction driving foster placements

Daily Item — It's no coincidence the rise in children ordered into foster care came amid the spike in the ongoing heroin and prescription opioid crisis in Pennsylvania and nationwide. Each child welfare professional interviewed by The Daily Item cited opioid addiction as one of the driving factors.
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Finding Foster Families: Officials struggle to meet demand

Finding Foster Families: Officials struggle to meet demand

Daily Item — Jerod Waller slides a backpack weighted with college texts from his shoulders, no doubt relieving the 19-year-old's thin frame. Waller's a freshman at Bloomsburg University. He's already chosen a dual major, English and Art. He plans to pursue a master's degree in instructional technology once he earns his undergraduate degrees.
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Family struggles with overdose death

Family struggles with overdose death

Daily Item — Teresa Stoker gently pulls a sterling silver necklace from beneath the neck of her gray sweatshirt and holds it out beyond her chin. Ashes of 27-year-old Mark Stoker are piled inside a tiny cylinder, strung next to an imprint of her youngest son's right thumbprint.
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Sounds of jackhammer tell tale of search

Sounds of jackhammer tell tale of search

Daily Item — The staccato whack of a jackhammer sounded faint from inside the basement of a Front Street home Wednesday, where investigators picked away at a thick cement wall in search of the remains of Barbara Miller. To the rear of 751 N.
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Inspired by tragedy, teens fight to change gun culture

Inspired by tragedy, teens fight to change gun culture

Daily Item — Seventeen people went to a Florida high school last month and didn’t live to see the school day through. The murder of 14 students and three staff members in Parkland has inspired a national a youth movement demanding change to America’s gun culture in hopes Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will be last of a lengthening list of mass shootings at schools, college campuses and other soft targets.
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