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  • Grillis first blown save spoils Lockes start in loss

    PIT@CIN: Walker makes great throw home to nab Cozart CINCINNATI -- Pirates starter Jeff Locke kept his unbeaten streak alive Wednesday at Great American Ball Park. Closer Jason Grilli couldn't say the same about his own impressive run, blowing his first save of the season en route to a 2-1 loss to the Reds in 13 innings. After Locke threw seven scoreless innings and Mark Melancon gave ...

  • Natrona idea takes wing

    Artist Stevo Sadvary, of Stowe Township, applies pieces of tile to a birdhouse mosaic at the Natrona Community Park and Playground in Harrison on Wednesday, June 19, ...

  • GOP senator’s proposal doesn’t have formula by which state stores could be shuttered

    The plan by Republican Sen. Chuck McIlhinney of Bucks County allows nearly 14,000 existing liquor licensees to buy permits to sell wine and liquor. Those licensees range from beer distributors to restaurants and grocery stores with eat-in facilities, which can sell ...

  • Plan would keep state sole liquor wholesaler

    A liquor privatization bill state Sen. Charles McIlhinney Jr., R-Doylestown, proposed would allow private companies to sell wine and spirits but would preserve Pennsylvania's role as the state's sole wholesaler. So, before a customer buys a bottle of wine from a local business, the business owner first would buy that bottle from the state, under McIlhinney's ...

  • FBI targets ‘hacktivist’ in rape case

    A Kentucky man who drew attention to the Steubenville, Ohio, juvenile rape case said on Wednesday that the FBI is targeting him because he and other online activists seek social justice through a network of technologies that the government designed to spy on ...


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The Naked Prey [DVD]

The Naked Prey [DVD]

In Hollywood of recent years, action film has come to be synonymous with bloated: bloated budgets, bloated narratives, bloated special effects, and, of course, bloated egos both in front of and behind the camera. From Michael Bay's incoherent action headrushes to Gore Verbinski's screen ... ...

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  • Study Traffic jams siphon $1B a year from region’s drivers

    In a study released on Thursday, TRIP, a Washington-based transportation research group, says congestion costs Pittsburgh-area motorists a combined $1 billion a year in lost time and wasted ...

  • Arnold bicycle reunion doesn’t work as hoped

    Hans Unruh, 10, of New Kensington inspects one of 50 bicycles in the Arnold City Hall basement on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to make sure it is the one stolen from his grandmother's yard last year. The city is trying to reunite owners with their lost or stolen ...

  • Man held for trial in sex assault

    Bengel agreed and ordered the felony charges against Pollick -- indecent assault, endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors and unlawful contact with a minor/sexual offenses -- be bound over for ...

  • Leechburg board picks interim school chief

    Prazenica will fill the vacancy left by the departure of Superintendent Jim Budzilek, whose last day at Leechburg Area will be July 31. He starts Aug. 5 as superintendent of the Mars Area School District in Butler ...

  • Newsmaker Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti

    Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, a hematologist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, received a $2 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to develop an online tool for patients and families with sickle cell disease to determine the best course of treatment according to their condition and desired ...

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