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  • Search for survivors winds down in Oklahoma

    No survivors or bodies have been found in Moore since Monday, the day a mammoth tornado ripped through 17 miles of central Oklahoma and pummeled 2,400 ...

  • Transformer problem causes outage

    A substation problem in Elizabeth Township left approximately 1,800 West Penn Power customers -- including nearby Blaine Hill Volunteer Fire Co. hall, where battery power was needed to keep election machines going -- without service for just more than two hours on Tuesday afternoon. The fire hall also was hosting a benefit dinner for a kidney ...

  • Krivacek cruises in Duquesne

    Duquesne Controller Elizabeth Kracinovsky and Councilwoman June Wilson are all smiles as Mayor Phil Krivacek gives a thumbs up on positive election ...

  • Elizabeth Twp. gives chief administrative leave

    There was no discussion about McNeilly before the board went into executive session when the meeting was adjourned. The commissioners had Solicitor Pat McGrail tell McNeilly that he is on paid administrative ...

  • Emaciated horses found in Butler County

    State police said an animal cruelty investigation is underway after ten emaciated horses were found living in poor conditions at a location in Clearfield Township, Butler ...


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Kristen Scott Thomas must truly relish starring in long, melancholy romantic epics opposite quiet, brooding leading men. In 1996, she starred opposite a quiet, brooding Ralph Fiennes in "The English Patient," a film that teetered on the edge of greatness. In 1998, she starred opposite a quite, brooding Robert Redford in "The Horse Whisperer," an unmemorable, but certainly watchable romance. And n ... ...

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  • Jefferson Hills attorney tops field for district justice

    Jefferson Hills attorney Guy Reschenthaler has won both party nominations for the magisterial district judge's seat Pat A. Capolupo is ...

  • North Versailles candidates mull options

    "I thought it was a good race," said Snyder, 43, "and I want to congratulate all of the candidates and their families. I think they all ran first-class ...

  • Endorsed school candidates prevail

    Endorsed McKeesport Area school board candidates Scott Smith, Patricia Maksin and Tom Maglicco gather at an election night reception at the Viking Restaurant and Lounge. They, as cross-filed candidates, earned Democratic and Republican nomination for school ...

  • Restore Charleroi team prevails

    John Mollenauer reacts to winning in the Charleroi mayors race. , as Deborah Kruell-Buck,Karen Kosh, Jennifer Vargo, and Larry M. Celaschi check the incoming numbers for charleroi council winners. On Tuesday, ...

  • 5 advance in school board race

    Three Connellsville Area School Board incumbents and two newcomers won the chance on Tuesday to have their names placed on the ballot in the November general ...

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