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Woman accused of embezzling $27K from Derry football boosters

A woman is accused of embezzling more than $27,000 from the Derry football boosters organization over a three-year span.According to police, Lori Nicely, the president of the boosters, is facing several charges, including theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.Authorities said another woman is accused of stealing more than $8,000 from the cheerleaders boosters organization during ...
Ravenstahl’s former bodyguard appears before federal grand jury

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's former bodyguard Fred Crawford testified for more than two hours before a federal grand jury on Tuesday afternoon.Crawford's testimony is part of an ongoing and wide-ranging investigation into city finances. Grand juries are secret and Crawford and his attorney, Bob Stewart, left the room without comment.The investigation has already led to the indictment of ...
Export man gets prison for child porn murder threat

A western Pennsylvania man who threatened to have a female U.S. postal inspector investigating him for child pornography possession gang-raped and murdered was sentenced Tuesday to 38 months in ...
Number one draft pick signs with Pirates

The Pirates announced the signing of their number one draft choice. The official release from the team follows. Look for coverage of the announcement and the introduction of Resse McGuire on Channel 4 Action News at ...
Chrysler relents agrees to recall 2.7 million Jeeps

Chrysler Group reversed course and agreed to a recall of 2.7 million Jeeps Tuesday, giving in to the government's request in the final hours before a ...

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Mondo Cane

Any way you look at it, "Mondo Cane" (which is pronounced "car-nay") is a patently silly piece of cinematic junk masquerading as an important anthropological documentary of strange and exotic parts of the world. The dead give-away to its exploitative nature is the condescending, inflated narration that immediately clues the viewer in to the fact that the filmmakers have no respect for the cultures ... ...

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Chrysler Agrees To Recall Jeeps Over Fire Risk

DETROIT (AP) -- Chrysler says it has resolved its differences with the government and will recall older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of a fuel tank fire. Earlier this month the company refused the government’s request to recall the Jeeps. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contended that the gas tanks could rupture if hit from the rear, ...
New law ensures crime victims and families can speak up during parole process

HARRISBURG -- Crime victims and their families on Tuesday earned the right to speak to the Board of Probation and Parole when it considers releasing a person who perptrated a crime against ...
Ravenstahls ex-bodyguard arrives at federal courthouse

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl makes a rare public appearance, but keeps mum on a federal investigation of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police that keeps hovering around his ...
Man armed with knife robs GetGo in East McKeesport

Police are investigating whether an armed robbery at an East McKeesport GetGo on Tuesday morning is related to a similar incident in nearby ...
Sesame Street unveils muppet with parent in jail

File photo: President of the Jim Henson Foundation, Cheryl Henson attends the 11th annual Sesame Street Workshop Benefit Gala on May 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Desiree ...

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Soon! Breathalyzer to detect and monitor diabetes

Chemists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a sensor technology that could significantly simplify the diagnosis and monitoring of diabetes through breath analysis alone.

Even before blood tests are administered, those with diabetes often recognize the condition's symptoms through their breath acetone-a characteristic "fruity" odor that increases significantly with high glucose levels.

The Pitt team was interested in this biomarker as a possible diagnostic tool.

"Once patients are diagnosed with diabetes, they have to monitor their condition for the rest of their lives," said Alexander Star, principal investigator of the project and Pitt associate professor of chemistry.

"Current monitoring devices are mostly based on blood glucose analysis, so the development of alternative devices that are noninvasive, inexpensive, and provide easy-to-use breath analysis could completely change the paradigm of self-monitoring diabetes," he noted.

Together with his colleagues-Dan Sorescu, a research physicist at the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and Mengning Ding, a Pitt graduate student studying chemistry-Star used what's called a "sol-gel approach," a method for using small molecules (often on a nanoscale level) to produce solid ma

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