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  • Police Man shoots kills ex-girlfriend turns gun on himself in Reserve Twp.

    A woman was shot and killed Tuesday by her ex-boyfriend, who then turned the gun on himself in a Reserve Township house, police said.According to Allegheny County Police, the 27-year-old woman's mother found her and the ex-boyfriend in a bathroom of the Spring Garden Road home.Investigators said the mother heard the shower running, and after not seeing her daughter for a while, attempted to ...

  • Man 76 killed in multivehicle crash

    Two other drivers -- a 73-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman -- were flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va., with moderate injuries, police ...

  • Flash flooding stalls cars pushes others downstream

    She said flooding dumped several feet of water into her basement two years ago, and that sewers often fill up quickly from the runoff. The flooding along Constitution Boulevard has since receded, but debris remained in the ...

  • Walker questions intent of Chapmans chin music

    Email CINCINNATI -- In the ninth inning of Monday's 4-1 loss to the Reds, Neil Walker led off against Cincinnati closer Aroldis Chapman. With the count even at two balls and two strikes, Chapman buzzed a 100-mph fastball right past the chin of Walker, who barely evaded it and fell to his back. Walker popped up and struck out swinging on the next pitch, and that was the end of it. Except ...

  • Eligible to return Gomez makes second rehab start

    Email CINCINNATI -- Injured right-hander Jeanmar Gomez was expected to make his second rehab start Tuesday with Triple-A Indianapolis as he recovers from a right forearm strain and inflammation. The goal, manager Clint Hurdle said, was for Gomez to throw 65-70 pitches in about five innings. "We want to make sure he gets up and down five times," Hurdle said. "Unless the pitch ...


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Movie Review

Memento

In Memento, writer/director Christopher Nolan puts us directly into the experience of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a man who is seeking vengeance for the rape and murder of his wife. Leonard's mission is one of romantic vengeance; he is sure that actions have meaning in and of themselves, something that is of absolute importance because, even if he gains the revenge he so desires, he will ... ...

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  • Andy Warhol Bridge to be covered in knitted blankets in August

    Council on Tuesday approved the Knit-the-Bridge public art project, which involves more than 1,200 people in knitting groups at schools, nursing homes and even the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center preparing blankets to cover the former Seventh Street Bridge that spans the Allegheny ...

  • Cross-state turnpike trip likely to hit $50 by 2021

    The cash toll for a cross-state trip on the Pennsylvania Turnpike is expected to reach about $50 by 2021, state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said Tuesday as he urged lawmakers to halt the spiraling debt resulting from the massive contributions the turnpike is required to make toward the state's other transportation ...

  • Federal judge frees Geneva College from government requirement on health coverage

    A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the government from requiring a private college in Beaver County to include coverage for abortifacients in the health insurance plan for its ...

  • Pittsburgh’s Schwartz’s is reborn as a Living Market on the South Side

    'We're linking the urban and suburban 'Food Not Lawns' movement with the urban core and our inner core, our inner health,' says Elisa Haransky-Beck, of Monroeville, of transforming the South Side's Schwartz's Market, which was once a mainstay grocery, into a food and art market. Mr. Beck's grandparents were Morris and Helen Schwartz, who moved their ...

  • Strong storms move east Better weather to follow

    Severe Weather Team 11 Meteorologist Kevin Benson said that strong thunderstorms, with severe potential, moved through the Channel 11 News viewing area late Tuesday afternoon and persisted into the early evening.Severe thunderstorm warnings that had been issued for Allegheny, Armstrong, Fayette, Washington and Westmorelandcounties were allowed to expire. There is, however,an active flood ...

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