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  • Pirates pitching trio moving forward

    Email PITTSBURGH -- Pirates pitchers have found their groove in May, leading baseball in ERA, opposing batting average and strikeouts in the month entering Wednesday's game. And there is even more help on the way. Charlie Morton threw 80 pitches over four innings Tuesday for Double-A Altoona, giving up two hits, two walks and two unearned runs. Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said Morton, ...

  • Pirates to support Penguins in road stretch

    Email PITTSBURGH -- Pirates players will proudly don Penguins jerseys when they travel to Milwaukee and Detroit this weekend, and they are more than happy to represent their city doing so. Support for their fellow athletes is running rampant through the clubhouse as the Penguins look to advance past the Ottawa Senators in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. "There's a ...

  • All joking aside Bucs have chemistry

    Email PITTSBURGH -- Bryan Morris could not take the heat for much longer. After finishing his pregame run, the Pirates' reliever crawled into closer Jason Grilli's life-size Chewbacca costume and hid in his teammate's locker. When Grilli entered and sat down, Morris popped out, causing the 36-year-old Grilli to jump up from his chair. The costume of the furry "Star ...

  • Lazy River Is Newest Attraction At Idlewild SoakZone

    LIGONIER (KDKA) — With the Memorial Day weekend upon us, many of the area’s favorite summertime attractions are getting ready to open for another season, and that includes SoakZone at Idlewild Park. The rides were getting the once over and the park a general cleaning. The Thomas and Friends Stage is waiting for a second run, and the lifeguards at the wave pool were making sure the ...

  • Woman leaves dogs to die in Sharpsburg home

    After at least a week of not seeing a woman or her dogs, a smell coming from the home alerted residents in a Sharpsburg neighborhood to a problem.Their neighbor is accused of abandoning her Altmeyer Avenue home and leaving her dogs to die.Complaints of the smell of rotting flesh led police to the home, and what they found was gruesome."This is by far one of the worst houses I've been ...


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Movie Review

Straw Dogs (1971) [Blu-Ray]

Straw Dogs (1971) [Blu-Ray]

Sam Peckinpahs Straw Dogs is a great and troubling masterpiece, a film of such simultaneous depth and crudeness that it has elicited some of the most conflicting responses of his or any other filmmakers career. For every critic who found it the work of a great and terrible genius, there ... ...

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  • Wpxigiant Eagle Pens Playoff Game Ticket Giveaway

    Giant Eagle's limited-time 20-cent fuelperks! promotion , WPXI and Giant Eagle are giving away --TO 10 LUCKY FANS -- a pair of tickets to Friday's Pittsburgh Penguins playoff game!!!Giveaway entries will be accepted until noon Friday (May 24, 2013). Shortly thereafter, the winners will be randomly selected and then notified. That night, they'll be at CONSOL Energy Center cheering ...

  • Judge finds loophole to allow military couple to wed

    A military couple got married Wednesday in Greensburg under unusual circumstances, unsure if they were going to able to tie the knot.Navy Petty Officer Matthew Silva, of Connecticut, and Air Force Senior Airman Bianca Braun, of tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., got married in the presence of a judge who made sure they were allowed to get married under Pennsylvania law.According to state law, people ...

  • White powder found at elementary school determined to be heroin

    Parents of students at the school previously received a letter explaining a student found packets of white powder while clearing out an unused desk on May 14. The substance was then sent for ...

  • Dollar Bank Representatives Discuss Reverse Mortgages

    PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – Maria Chick and Randy Davis, of Dollar Bank, joined KDKA Radio’s Robert Mangino in studio to discuss reverse mortgages. Davis wanted people to know that, ';the older you are the more you get.'; Reverse mortgages are based on the value of the house and the age of the person. It is also based on the person’s credit. Reverse ...

  • Pittsburgh Flood Response Unit Undergoing Extensive Training

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – You probably never think of them, until you need them. An elite team of rescuers is training in our area and what they do could end up saving your life. We are talking about the Pittsburgh Flood Response Unit and they endure some pretty grueling elements. The tactical group is unique. It’s a collaboration between Pittsburgh Police, Fire and EMS. Since April, ...

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