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  • State Police Reportedly Find Missing 2-Year-Old Boy

    SWISSVALE (KDKA) — State police have reportedly located a young boy after he was reportedly taken by his mother in Swissvale this evening. The 2-year-old boy went missing around 8 p.m. He and his 23-year-old mother had last been seen in a silver, older-model, four-door vehicle with a Pennsylvania license ...

  • Fix Your Disc With Dr. Rafferty

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Dr. Richard Rafferty of the Disc Institute of Pittsburgh was with KDKA Radio’s Robert Mangino to discuss back health. Most back issues are treated wrong, and that is because they treat the pain not the problem. Rafferty addresses the disc that causes the pain and he uses newly-developed technology. The discs in our back are an a-vascular structure, which means ...

  • Burrell Township supervisors consider using block grant for waterline extension

    A waterline extension in the Fairfield Heights section of Burrell Township has been mentioned by township supervisors as a likely use for the municipality's 2013 community development block ...

  • Acme church to host yard sale this weekend

    Acme United Methodist Church, 3016 Route 31, Acme, is holding a two-day yard sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Vendors are invited to come join them and set up a table to sell free of charge. Spaces are first come, first served. There is no need to reserve the space, and you can come as early at dawn to set up. Bring your own tables, food, and whatever else you will need to sell. ...

  • United School District eyes 8-mill tax hike

    Property owners in the United School District could face an 8-mill tax hike next school year, based on a tentative 2013-14 budget the school board approved ...


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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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  • Blairsville monument planned for local residents lost in wartime action

    The Blairsville area certainly wasn't exempt from the sacrifice. Vietnam veteran Bill Orr is currently compiling a list of those who died in battle or went missing in action and were from Blairsville, Black Lick, Torrance, Brenizer, Strangford and other areas with a Blairsville mailing address. So far, he has 75 ...

  • Pittsburgh Laurels Lances

    Lance: To Bill Peduto. The Democrats' newly minted nominee for Pittsburgh mayor -- and given the Democrats' large registration edge, likely Pittsburgh's next mayor -- says we need government to empower people and innovation. And here we thought government derives its power from the people and that the private sector is the best catalyst for innovation. Silly ...

  • Indiana County approves firm for conducting reassessment

    The Indiana County Commissioners last week settled on a provider for the county's massive property tax reassessment project in what commissioner chairman Rodney Ruddock called "probably the most important decision the county commissioners have made in 10 ...

  • 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 ...

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