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  • Motorcycle safety stressed at press conference outside PNC Park

    The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Greater Pittsburgh Motorcycle Safety Council held a press conference on Sunday outside PNC Park to stress the importance of sharing the road with ...

  • Runners walkers support Special Olympics USA at 6K

    The Law Enforcement Torch Run committee for Special Olympics PA and the City of Pittsburgh Citiparks hosted the event with sponsors such as UPMC, Sheetz, Clear Channel and ...

  • 9 still hospitalized after trains crash

    Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured, some of them critically, authorities ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 19

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...

  • Pennsylvanians have reason to check their lottery tickets

    The grand prize ticket for the $600 million lottery drawing Saturday night was purchased in Florida; however, there were two tickets matching first five numbers bought in ...


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Hearts and Minds [DVD]

Hearts and Minds [DVD]

"We must be ready to fight in Vietnam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there."--President Lyndon B. Johnson In the nearly three decades since U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government fell to the communist North Vietnamese, there have been a plethora of expl ... ...

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  • Institute offers seminar on how to start pot business

    An institute is teaching a weekend course on how to start a marijuana business in the state.Washington Cannabis Institute is offering a seminar with attorneys and industry pros who have prepared a course for starting a pot business.The class will help those who want to start a business understand and comply with Initiative 502 regulations and licensing requirements. I-502 was passed by ...

  • Pittsburgh Career Fair - Tuesday May 21 2013

    If you can't make it the SHIM career fair, another will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, May 22, at the Millvale Community Center. The career fairs will include employers from UPMC, Goodwill, Giant Eagle, PNC Bank, The University of Pittsburgh, U.S. ...

  • Backstage Pass Halestorm At Stage AE

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Grammy Awards have come and gone this year, but you may not know that a rock band from right here in Pennsylvania took home some hardware. Halestorm won this year's Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Grammy for their song "Love Bites (So Do I)," off their second studio album "The Strange Case Of..." The band is comprised of singer/guitarist ...

  • Local ‘drummer boys’ plan march from Pittsburgh to Gettysburg

    Guibert entered the Civil War at 17, serving with the 74th Pennsylvania, a German speaking regiment, and the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served on the front line in several battles, including the first Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. He became known as "The Wizard of the ...

  • 1 killed in crash on Route 28

    Emergency dispatchers said crash involved a tractor-trailer and a motorcycle between the 16th and 31st Street Bridges in the northbound lanes of Route ...

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