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Man awakes to find stranger sleeping next to him in bed

Seattle police said a man woke up in the morning to find a strange man sleeping next to him in his bed.Police were called to the 1400 block of East Howell Street around 6:19 a.m. last week where the victim told them he woke up and found a man lying next to him in bed.The victim told police he woke the man up, ordered him to leave, and pushed the man out of his home, but the man stood at the door ...
Free evening parking in the city could become permanent

City Council will soon vote on an ordinance that could permanently make evening parking on Pittsburgh streets free.At the end of June, free parking after 6 p.m. is set to expire, but it will become permanent if City Council votes to adopt the proposed ordinance.Councilman Corey O'Connor supports the move towards limited parking meter enforcement.O'Connor said, "You go to Garfield, ...
Woman charged with running over young mother in love triangle

, 28, is facing a number of assault charges as well as criminal attempted homicide after state police in Greensburg say she intentionally ran over Katelin Hiltabidel in an East Huntingdon Township yard Tuesday ...
Thousands of tea party activists rip IRS at rally

Thousands of tea party activists gathered Wednesday outside the Capitol in loud protest of the Internal Revenue Service, seeking to keep the beleaguered agency's scandal afloat nearly six weeks after the news first ...
2-Vehicle Crash In Forest Hills Sends 1 To Hospital

FOREST HILLS (KDKA) — One person was taken to the hospital after a crash this afternoon in Forest Hills. The two-vehicle accident happened just before 4 p.m. at Ardmore Boulevard and Filmore ...

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Cría cuervos [DVD]

Set during the Franco regime and shot while the fascist general was on his deathbed, Carlos Saura's Cra cuervos is a dream-like evocation of the shifting lines between fantasy and reality, living and dying, past and present. It has many similarities to Ingmar Bergman's Cries a ... ...

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Drivetime “Yo Vinnie Whaddya Drivin’ This Week” 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited V6

"Yo Vinnie! Waddya Drivin' This Week?" is a first look/first impression of the review vehicle I am driving this week for a future "Drivetime Road ...
Army National Guardsman sues Target claims he was fired while preparing for deployment

Andrew Lanier remembers well the date that Target fired him from his stock job at its North Fayette store: Oct. 31, 2011. That's the day he learned his mission was canceled, after two weeks of training at Ft. Picket, Va., as part of his preparation for deployment to ...
City police investigating whether officer who gave ride to mayor’s ex-bodyguard broke any department regulations

Acting Pittsburgh police Chief Regina McDonald on Wednesday launched an internal investigation into whether a Zone 2 police officer broke any department regulations when he gave a ride to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's former bodyguard after he testified before a federal grand ...
Four Keys For Bruins In Game 4 Of Stanley Cup Final

BOSTON (CBS) — This just in: Winning a Stanley Cup is difficult. Most of the current Bruins roster knows that firsthand, as two years ago they had to erase 2-0 and 3-2 deficits against Vancouver. They, of course, did that, forcing a Game 7 in Vancouver and winning 4-0 to earn that title. This year, it’s too early to say whether or not their season will have the same end result, but ...
Girl airlifted from scene of ATV accident in Butler County

A girl was flown to an area hospital Wednesday afternoon after an ATV accident in Butler County.Officials said the incident was reported about noon Wednesday near Main Street in Prospect.Emergency crews and firefighters were called in to help rescue the girl who struck a tree.A firefighter who assisted in the rescue told Channel 11 News that the girl was wearing a helmet at the time of the ...

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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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