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  • Pirates give up 4 solo homers lose to Reds 4-1

    Zack Cozart and Todd Frazier hit upper-deck homers off Liriano, and the Cincinnati Reds moved a season-high 15 games over .500 by beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1 on Monday ...

  • Keisel reels them in

    got to mix two of his favorite things, fishing and helping the kids at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, when he hosted a fishing event at Alpine Hunting and Fishing Club on Monday. Among those having the opportunity to fish with Keisel were patients from the hospital. Keisel hosts his annual Sheer 'Da Beard event to benefit Children's Hospital, is a frequent visitor ...

  • Judge delays hearing in

    WEST NEWTON - A homeless man who tried to elude police June 4 by swimming across the Monongahela River showed up for a preliminary hearing Monday without an ...

  • Apollo-Ridge teachers lock up 5-year deal

    The five-year agreement, which begins Aug. 2, gives teachers an average annual raise of less than 1 percent over the life of the contract, and requires a deductible for health ...

  • BVA will refinance bond issue

    The issuance of the general obligation bonds, not to exceed $5,250,000, will pay off the outstanding bond, go to various capital improvement projects and pay the cost of issuing and insuring the new ...


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Movie Review

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Who hasn't looked at a ten-year-old picture of himself and cringed at the sight? Those terrible clothes, that ridiculous haircut. What was I thinking? you ask yourself. How could it have possibly been socially responsible to go out into public looking like that? This phenomenon is the central joke of "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," a hilarious spoof of James Bond movies and the Swin ... ...

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  • Youth civic groups clean up city

    She said the city recently received a $124,000 bid for the work, which is not included in the current budget. She said city leaders are attempting to determine if any of the work can be done by the street ...

  • Rise Against rises again with ‘RPM10’ reissue

    It's hard to believe a decade has passed since Chicago's Rise Against exploded onto the punk scene with breakthrough sophomore release "Revolutions Per Minute." That game-changing album is getting a deluxe reissue to commemorate the anniversary and "RPM10" is worth the upgrade. In addition to the original 12 songs, 10 bonus tracks of demos will thrill Rise ...

  • ‘True Blue’ archetype for modern jazz

    Elaine Elias, a Brazilian singer of the modern era, takes an earnest shot at interpreting the mid-century musician's work and, in my opinion, comes close to hitting the ...

  • Banker split time between career kids

    Between her career in banking and her other job raising two kids, she "never took a break," said her brother, Hugh Fitzpatrick McGough of ...

  • VA said to defy calls for records

    Congressmen on Monday accused Department of Veterans Affairs leaders of defying their requests for information about how a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak occurred at the VA ...

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