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  • Authorities in Washington Co. busy investigating 2 bomb threats bank robbery

    Police said students at Bentworth High School were sent home Wednesday because of a bomb threat.Authorities said a threat was called into the school Wednesday morning and arrangements were made to send students home early.The school is currently shut down as emergency crews investigate.California High School was also evacuated Wednesday morning because of a bomb threat, police said.California ...

  • Investigators say man robbed same liquor store he failed at in 2004

    Police said a Monongahela man who didn't succeed in robbing a liquor store in 2004 should have thought twice about trying again to rob the same store earlier this month.Richard Heinzelman, 48, is jailed on charges he robbed the same Charleroi state store he spent two to four years in prison for robbing nearly nine years ago.Authorities said Heinzelman was one of two men who robbed the store ...

  • Basements scarce in tornado-prone Okla. city

    It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them -- even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most ...

  • Police Man Chained 11-Year-Old Boy To Dinner Table Who Refused To Eat

    CANONSBURG (KDKA) - Police say a man chained up an 11-year-old boy so that he couldn't move from the table when he refused to eat his dinner. North Strabane police say 38-year-old Joshua Smith told the boy he was going to finish eating his dinner, and when he didn't, he chained him up so he couldn't leave. Police say officers had to cut the chain off the boy's right leg ...

  • Cost-wary clients push law firms

    Law firm chiefs nationwide overwhelmingly say theyre pressured on pricing, but few have changed how they charge clients, according to a new study. Altman Weil, consultants based in Newtown Square, Pa., surveyed 791 U.S. law firms with 50 or more lawyers in March and April 2013; 238 responded, including 37 percent of the nation's 250 largest firms. While some 96 percent of law firm leaders ...


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2046

2046

When Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 arrived famously at the tail end of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, added at the very last minute, it was in an incomplete state. Although it had been in production for nearly three years, with multiple rewritings and reshoots, Wong Kar-Wai had not finished editing it an ... ...

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  • Man caught after fleeing police in McKees Rocks

    A man was arrested Wednesday morning after trying to flee from police in McKees Rocks.Channel 11's Renee Kaminski reported that a woman called 911 after L.G. Street, against whom she has a protection from abuse order, showed up at her home.Authorities told Kaminski that when police showed up at the Helen Street home, Street answered the door and as he was being taken into custody, he ran ...

  • Reward offered in bald eagle killing

    The Pennsylvania Game Commission and The Humane Society of the United States are offering more than $5,000 for information on whoever fatally shot a bald eagle in western Pennsylvania earlier this ...

  • Emergency responders called to Bentworth High School

    The Observer-Reporter reported that the school was evacuated and students were sent to the elementary school for undisclosed reasons. California Area High School was also evacuated, due to a bomb threat, the newspaper ...

  • Cops Man Robs Same Store He Robbed In 2004

    CHARLEROI, Pa. (AP/KDKA) – Police say a southwestern Pennsylvania man who didn’t succeed in robbing a liquor store in 2004 should have thought twice about trying again to rob the same store earlier this month. Online court records don’t list an attorney for 48-year-old Richard Heinzelman, of Monongahela, who is jailed on charges he robbed the same Charleroi state store he ...

  • Family Searching For Answers After 1-Year-Old Killed

    EAST HILLS (KDKA) – Marcus White was a happy 19-month-old baby, who was loved by everyone. However, last night, three gunmen opened fire at the picnic he was at and he was killed. Two young women, ages 19 and 20 were also wounded. Police said they were not the intended targets and the search for the gunmen continues. The family of the toddler said they want the men to turn themselves ...

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