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  • Armstrong Co. Firefighters Heading To Tornado-Ravaged Okla.

    FORD CITY (KDKA) — A group of firefighters from a small town in Armstrong County is heading to Oklahoma to help a community they have never seen and people they have never met. Lt. Josh "Tater" Adams, of the Ford Cliff Fire Department, told KDKA's Brenda Waters, "When the whistle goes off in Ford Cliff, they go, and this time the whistle has gone off in ...

  • McCutchen Pirates Defeat Cubs 4-2 For 4th Straight Win

    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Andrew McCutchen had three hits and two RBIs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates past the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Thursday for their fourth straight win. Leadoff hitter Starling Marte singled and scored in each of the first two innings as Pittsburgh built an early 4-0 lead. The Pirates moved a season-best 11 games over .500 with its 11th victory in 13 games. The Cubs lost their ...

  • Boy Scouts to drop ban on gay scouts

    The organization kept its ban on gay scout leaders, according to the Associated Press. About 1,400 Boy Scout leaders voted Thursday on whether to lift the ban on gay scouts during the organization's annual meeting in ...

  • Butler County eliminates jury commissioner position

    Jury commissioners mail letters and field phone calls from prospective jurors. Much of the work they did in the past has been replaced by computers, McCarrier said. The work will be done in the county's court administration ...

  • VA would have to report Legionnaires’ and other diseases under House companion bill

    Veterans Affairs health care facilities would have to report within 24 hours cases of Legionnaire's and other major infectious diseases to several agencies, patients and employees under companion legislation introduced Thursday by U.S. Reps. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair and Mike Doyle, D-Forest ...


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Movie Review

Love and Other Drugs

Love and Other Drugs

Love and Other Drugs is set against the backdrop of pharmaceutical sales in the late 1990s, just before the release of Sildenafil citrate, an enzyme inhibitor known to the general public as Viagra. The film is based loosely on a book titled Hard Sell: The Evoluti ... ...

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  • Corbett signs bill naming 31st Street Bridge after Millvale war hero

    Prom, a Millvale High School graduate, joined the Marines in December 1967. He started a tour of duty in Vietnam in June 1968. On Feb. 9, 1969, Lance Cpl. Prom, then 20, died defending his company from enemy fire near An ...

  • Anti-war activist heckles Obama over Gitmo

    President Obama had a run-in with a heckler on Thursday, when a founder of the anti-war group Code Pink interrupted a speech on drone policy and other national security ...

  • Family claims 8-year-old was left home alone after brother’s arrest

    The family of a Scottdale teen claims he was forced to leave his little sister alone when he was arrested for failing to mail in a traffic ticket.John Gardiner's mother, Nancy Brannagan, said he was babysitting his 8-year-old sister at the family home when a Westmoreland County constable arrested him for the violation stemming from an April citation for failing to observe a traffic control ...

  • 3-year-old learns to live with juvenile arthritis

    His mother, Ashley Mikula, said that when he was initially diagnosed, he could hardly walk sometimes "He would sit in a chair and cry and say, 'Momma, I hurt. Help it,'" Mikula said. The pain was first helped by steroid injections directly into his joints, his knees and an ankle. Because the injections are painful, pediatric rheumatologists give them to children under general ...

  • Security concerns raised for Pittsburgh Pride events

    They want to be assured that Pittsburgh Pride events will be given full attention when it comes to security, and they said that they will. The Delta Foundation said that for the first time the group is working with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, in addition to its regular partnership with Pittsburgh police. "We're taking the concerns, meeting with law enforcement and ...

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