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5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Miss Pennsylvania Winner Alysa Bainbridge 5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Miss Pennsylvania Winner Alysa Bainbridge
5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Miss Pennsylvania Winner Alysa Bainbridge Berks County native Alysa Bainbridge was crowned Miss Pennsylvania Saturday, June 18. The ceremony was held at York's Appell Center for the Performing Arts, where 23-year-old Bainbridge performed a lyrical dance and was presented with a $12,000 scholarship. The former Miss Greater Reading will represent the Keystone state at the Miss America Competition in December at the Mohegan Sun Casino & Resort in Uncasville, CT. Here are five things you may not have known about the Leesport native: She graduated from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Arts in Communic…

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Opioids Drive Highest Number Of OD Deaths Ever In US, While NJ Holds Steady, CDC Reports Opioids Drive Highest Number Of OD Deaths Ever In US, While NJ Holds Steady, CDC Reports
Opioids Drive Highest Number Of OD Deaths Ever In US, While NJ Holds Steady, CDC Reports Call it a statistical oddity: Despite an historic spike in drug overdose deaths across the United States last year, the total reported for New Jersey ticked up barely 1% over 2019 – compared with an increase of more than 32% in New York, over 17% in Pennsylvania and more than 10% in Connecticut, the CDC reported. More than 93,000 people across the country died from drug overdoses amid last year’s COVID-19 pandemic, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. That total represented a 29.4% increase from the 72,151 deaths projected nationwide for 2019, according to an annual…

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by Jerry DeMarco