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Guthsville Rod & Gun Club holds a Cowboy Action Shooting competition, the first of the season, where participants dress in garb from the 1880's and shoot weapons that pre-date 1900. Here, Taj Birtch aka "Stunt Girl Taj" prepares for her turn at shooting the targets during the competition, April 8, 2012. (Monica Cabrera/Allentown Morning Call/MCT)

Society devoted to Old West gunslingers

Andrew McGill The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.)

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 9:09am

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Barley Pop Bill showed no mercy. Those outlaws were fixing to steal his beer, and he went vigilante, blasting away with his double-barreled shotgun.

Not satisfied, he drew his twin Ruger Old Army revolvers and riddled the outlaws with lead. As the smoke cleared, he smiled.

Weren't nobody in Orefield, Pa., who'd be taking that brew bucket.

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Search begins for clues in deadly explosion

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 11, 2011 - 10:35am

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- The search for five victims of a massive explosion that rocked a Pennsylvania neighborhood reached its grim conclusion, but the search for clues about what caused the disaster that leveled two houses and burned many more has only begun.

Investigators and utility workers picked through the smoldering ruins of a rowhouse neighborhood Thursday, trying to determine whether an 83-year-old cast-iron gas main was the culprit in a thunderous explosion that killed five people.

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Natural gas explosion kills 5 people

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 6:31pm

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A natural gas explosion rocked a downtown neighborhood overnight, killing five people, leveling two houses and spawning fires that burned for hours through an entire row of neighboring homes.

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Girls testify in 'boobies' bracelet case

Christopher Baxter, The Morning Call

Last updated Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 4:59pm

PHILADELPHIA -- Two Pennsylvania middle school students testified Thursday in a federal court that they defied a school district ban on the popular "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets because they were proudly standing up for breast cancer awareness.

"I think the school took the meaning of the bracelets out of context," said Brianna Hawk, 13, one of two girls suspended in October for wearing the bracelets.

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'Boobies' bracelet case, a plural noun stands trial

Christopher Baxter, The Morning Call

Last updated Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 6:10pm

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- When a federal court in Philadelphia convenes Thursday, lawyers dressed in suits and armed with stacks of legal briefs are expected to appear before a judge, ready to do battle over a seven-letter plural noun that's hard to say without cracking a smile: boobies.

Go ahead, try it. Boobies.

The slang term for a woman's breasts stands trial in a free speech lawsuit between the Easton Area School District and two middle school girls, who were suspended in October for refusing to remove bracelets reading "I (Heart) Boobies!" in support of breast cancer awareness.

District administrators argue the word is lewd, vulgar and has no place in a middle school. Brianna Hawk, 13, and Kayla Martinez, 12, who are both represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, say the word is harmless and the district overreacted.

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