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  • 31st Street Bridge name change honors fallen soldier

    Reps. Dom Costa, D-Stanton Heights, and Adam Ravenstahl, D-Summer Hill, cosponsored the bill to rename the 31st Street Bridge as the William Raymond Prom Memorial Bridge. It passed unanimously in both ...

  • Elizabeth Borough water main break leaves several homes with flooded basements

    Four homes and an apartment building are experiencing flooded basements due to a water main break that occurred on the 900 block of Seventh Avenue Friday ...

  • Man in makeup busted for soliciting officer

    A police sting results in the arrest of a man soliciting prostitution.Tulsa police say a meeting was set up with Sonny Prego on a popular website. The suspect arrived to a motel in East Tulsa wearing makeup and offered to perform a sexual act on the undercover officer. Police say the officer then identified himself and Prego was taken into custody.He's currently in the Tulsa County Jail. ...

  • AUDIO Chilling interview with mother son who survived deadly tornado at Plaza Tower School

    Echo Mackey knew the tornado was coming, and her 7-year-old son Logan's school, Plaza Towers Elementary, stood directly in its path.She didn't hestitate, she tells KRMG. She just knew that if she or her son had to die, they were going to die together.Logan, for his part, still has vivid memories of what he saw and heard that day.We have posted our incredible, chilling interview with ...

  • Uniontown woman’s WAC service helped her meet life’s many challenges

    Carla Martin Vernon of Uniontown (right) is proud that her mother, the late Leona "Lee" Gilland Martin was a military trailblazer who served in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) during World War II. Vernon poses here with her daughter - Lee's granddaughter - Jessica Vernon Scott of Uniontown, along with photos of Lee and WW II WAC memorabilia. Vernon and Scott work both work at ...


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Movie Review

W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films [DVD]

From 1915 to 1945, William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W.C. Fields, starred in 40 films, 11 in the silent era and 29 in the sound era. Along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, he was one of the founding pioneers of cinematic comedy, a true original who blazed his own path. His physical presence on-screen was unique, with his absurdly bulbous nose and ... ...

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  • Judge agrees to step aside in death penalty proceeding

    In April, public defender Jeffrey Whiteko filed a series of pretrial motions seeking to have the death penalty removed and the trial moved to another ...

  • Smoking in school costs New Florence man more than a fine

    Michael Delgado, 19, of Osborn Street, was released Friday from the Westmoreland County jail after spending two nights there for refusing to pay $96 in fines and costs for twice smoking at the Eastern Westmoreland Career and Technology Center in Derry ...

  • Rankin teen charged in 16-year-old girl’s shooting death

    A 16-year-old from Rankin was arrested and charged with homicide Saturday for the Friday night shooting of another teenager after a confrontation over a robbery, police ...

  • Memorial Day events set in Westmoreland Fayette

    Monessen: A program is set for noon at the Monessen War Veterans Memorial in Monessen City Park. Highlights will include a two-bell ceremony by Mid Mon Valley Shipmates and presentation of a roll call. Principal speaker will be Chris Buckley, author of "Veterans of the ...

  • Bank sues to stop Jeannette’s $235000 payment in court case

    's legal entanglements have mounted with word that a bank has gone to court to block the city from paying a $235,000 court-ordered award to a local businessman. First National Bank is seeking to stop Jeannette from paying the money to businessman Frank Trigona for damages and legal fees stemming from Trigona's lawsuit alleging the city withheld occupancy permits for several of his ...

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