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A fight that erupted over snow shoveling allegedly led to a Pennsylvania man shooting two of his neighbors to death, authorities said. The fatal gun violence occurred in Plains Township, about 15 miles southwest of Scranton after 2 feet of snow blanketed the area, officials said. Just before 9 a.m. on Monday, Plains Township police officers responded to a report of shots fired in a residential neighborhood and discovered 50-year-old James Goy and his 48-year-old wife, Lisa Goy, lying dead in the street in front of their home, according to a joint statement by Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis...

All in all, we ended up getting about 20 inches of snow. I'm having the time of my life. I love snow. I've spent about 12 hours shoveling snow over the past two days. I think it's the best workout ever. I feel great. I've accomplished more in the last two days than in all of my 32 years working for the federal government.

Earlier this week, Matt Molinari and his friend Eric Schnepf, both seniors in High School, were going door-to-door advertising their snow shoveling services in advance of the storm. School was out, and instead of sitting inside and playing XBOX, these two young entrepreneurs felt the fire of enterprise and decided to turn their down time into an actual dime. However, Molinari and Schnepf apparently didn’t realize that in order to make a dime you have to pay a quarter — to the state. When the two boys were out trying to rustle up some business during what they saw as...

New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Goldman Sachs Chairman & CEO Henry Paulson; New York Gov. George Pataki; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY; James Gill, Chairman of the Battery Park City Authority; and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, left to right, toss ceremonial shovels of dirt at the ground breaking of the $2.4 billion Goldman Sachs world headquarters, in lower Manhattan, Tuesday Nov. 29, 2005. Goldman Sachs' decision in August to build its world headquarters across from the World Trade Center site, hinged on agreements by state and city leaders to finance the project with...