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  • Saturday morning low temp tied record set in 1925

    The low of 34, set around 6:30 a.m., matched the low temperature last set on May 25, 1925. Friday's high of 51 set record for the coldest high temperature on May 24. The previous record was 52 degrees in ...

  • Amber Alert Issued For Missing Teen

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - State Police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing teen. Police say they are looking for 17-year-old Cassidy Bowers of Pottsville, Pa. She was last seen Saturday morning around 6 a.m. and is believed to have been abducted by 20-year-old Stephen Campion Jr. after he assaulted someone. Bowers is described as having shoulder length black hair, brown eyes and is about 5 ...

  • 6Local Church’s Madonna Statue Smashed Destroyed

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - One person was arrested after the Madonna statue at a local church was smashed and destroyed. A witness said they saw a person smash the statue around 6 a.m. at the St. Pamphilus Church located on Tropical Avenue in Beechview. No word on who the suspect is or why they smashed the ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 25

    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: Baltimore Orioles: 1. ...


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Movie Review

W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films [DVD]

From 1915 to 1945, William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W.C. Fields, starred in 40 films, 11 in the silent era and 29 in the sound era. Along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, he was one of the founding pioneers of cinematic comedy, a true original who blazed his own path. His physical presence on-screen was unique, with his absurdly bulbous nose and ... ...

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  • 31st Street Bridge name change honors fallen soldier

    Reps. Dom Costa, D-Stanton Heights, and Adam Ravenstahl, D-Summer Hill, cosponsored the bill to rename the 31st Street Bridge as the William Raymond Prom Memorial Bridge. It passed unanimously in both ...

  • Elizabeth Borough water main break leaves several homes with flooded basements

    Four homes and an apartment building are experiencing flooded basements due to a water main break that occurred on the 900 block of Seventh Avenue Friday ...

  • Man in makeup busted for soliciting officer

    A police sting results in the arrest of a man soliciting prostitution.Tulsa police say a meeting was set up with Sonny Prego on a popular website. The suspect arrived to a motel in East Tulsa wearing makeup and offered to perform a sexual act on the undercover officer. Police say the officer then identified himself and Prego was taken into custody.He's currently in the Tulsa County Jail. ...

  • AUDIO Chilling interview with mother son who survived deadly tornado at Plaza Tower School

    Echo Mackey knew the tornado was coming, and her 7-year-old son Logan's school, Plaza Towers Elementary, stood directly in its path.She didn't hestitate, she tells KRMG. She just knew that if she or her son had to die, they were going to die together.Logan, for his part, still has vivid memories of what he saw and heard that day.We have posted our incredible, chilling interview with ...

  • Uniontown woman’s WAC service helped her meet life’s many challenges

    Carla Martin Vernon of Uniontown (right) is proud that her mother, the late Leona "Lee" Gilland Martin was a military trailblazer who served in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) during World War II. Vernon poses here with her daughter - Lee's granddaughter - Jessica Vernon Scott of Uniontown, along with photos of Lee and WW II WAC memorabilia. Vernon and Scott work both work at ...

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