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  • Game humane groups offer $5K in bald eagle death

    The Pennsylvania Game Commission and The Humane Society of the United States are offering more than $5,000 for information on whoever fatally shot a bald eagle in western Pennsylvania earlier this month.The wounded eagle was found by people riding all-terrain vehicles on May 10 in northern Cambria County, about 70 miles east of Pittsburgh. The bird died before it could be treated for a single ...

  • Teke Family Tell Their Story On The Fan Morning Show

    PITTSBURGH (93-7 The Fan) — ROOT Sports Pirates analyst Kent Tekulve, his son Chris, and his daughter-in-law Joanna joined The Fan Morning Show on Wednesday to promote the March of Dimes’ ';March For Babies.'; When Chris and Joanna had their first child on the way, they expected a picture perfect pregnancy. Never did they dream of any complications of a premature birth ...

  • Donora Man Sentenced For Having Sex With Boy And Family Cat

    DONOROA (KDKA) - A Donora man was sentenced on charges he raped a 10-year-old boy and also had sex with the family cat. The Observer-Reporter reports 31-year-old Damien D. Milchak pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child, indecent assault, corruption of a minor, having sex with the boy, and the ...

  • Game 4 Preview Penguins Vs. Senators

    OTTAWA (KDKA) - The Pittsburgh Penguins will look to take a commanding 3-1 series lead when they take on the Ottawa Senators in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. While the case could certainly be made that the Penguins should be looking for the sweep tonight, you have to give the Senators credit for overcoming adversity in Game 3. The Penguins were awarded a power play with 1:27 ...

  • American Eagle Outfitters revenue profit cool with weather

    American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) is based in the South Side of Pittsburgh. American Eagle Outfitters Inc. reported lower revenue and profit in the first quarter, thanks to cooler weather that hurt sales of its seasonal clothing. The Pittsburgh-based retailer had net income of $27.97 million, or 14 cents per share, in the quarter ended May 4. That compared to $39.7 million, or 20 cents per ...


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Movie Review

2046

2046

When Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 arrived famously at the tail end of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, added at the very last minute, it was in an incomplete state. Although it had been in production for nearly three years, with multiple rewritings and reshoots, Wong Kar-Wai had not finished editing it an ... ...

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  • Pittsburghs GiftCards.com buys Giftly

    Jason Wolfe, GiftCards.com. Green Tree-based GiftCards.com is acquiring San Francisco-based digital gifting startup Giftly and exploring ways, including VC funding, to amp up its growing mobile commerce. With this deal the company not only gains Giftlys resources, it will also have a San Francisco presence. The move allows GiftCards.com to further build out a gifting platform across commerce ...

  • Several departments respond to massive fire at Venango Co. glass plant

    Firefighters from several departments were called to battle flames at a Venango County glass plant Tuesday night.The blaze was reported at B and B Glass in Oil City just after 8 p.m.Officials said no injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire remains under ...

  • Couple credited with saving people from Bellevue blaze

    A quick-thinking couple is being credited with helping save several people's lives after a fire ripped through a Bellevue apartment building Tuesday night.Susie Ross told Channel 11 News that she and her boyfriend noticed flames at an apartment building on Lincoln Avenue about 7 p.m."We were driving down across the bridge and my boyfriend said, 'Look. There's a fire on the ...

  • Pittsburghs bridges getting better but still need work

    Although Pennsylvania continues to lead the nation in structurally deficient bridges, the number of state-maintained bridges in that category has fallen from 5,600 in August 2010 to fewer than 4,500 in the most recent count. Similar progress has been made locally. In a five-county area that includes Pittsburgh, the number of deficient state- and locally maintained bridges has fallen from 1,246 ...

  • Medicine Cabinet Dangers What Every Parent Needs To Know

    Some children are better at sharing toys than others, but all children are champs when it comes to sharing germs. Despite your best instructions about not using each other's sippy cups and covering mouths when coughing, all kids come down with colds at one time or another. Bed rest and lots of T.L.C. may be the best medicine you can offer a sick child, but medications will often be reached ...

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