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  • Family friends remember 1-year-old during memorial

    There have not been any arrests in the case and family and friends plead for someone to come forward with any information that could aid police in the ...

  • Family Awarded Habitat for Humanity Home

    A life-changing day for a local family started with hugs, a walk up their brand news front steps and a ribbon cutting ceremony to dedicate the 73rd Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh home to Jackie Jackson and her sons in Observatory ...

  • Flooding kills 1 in San Antonio Texas

    Flood levels on the San Antonio River reached a new record at Loop 410, when water rose to 34.2 feet at 10 a.m. Saturday, said the National Weather Service. The previous record was 32.57 feet on October 17, 1998, the agency ...

  • Mike Fiers gets a shot against Pittsburgh

    RHP Mike Fiers (1-2, 5.93), who regressed this season after a good rookie year, starts today at 3 p.m. for Kyle Lohse (elbow) aganst the Pirates. Rickie Weeks and Jonathan Lucroy, who sat out the 2-1 victory Friday night, are back in the lineup. Here is the lineup that Pirates LHP Jeff Locke (4-1, 2.73) will face: RF Norichika Aoki SS Jean Segura LF Ryan Braun 3B Aramis Ramirez C Jonathan ...

  • Alvarez Locke Lift Bucs To 5-2 Win Over Brewers

    MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Pedro Alvarez hit two home runs, Andrew McCutchen also went deep, and Jeff Locke pitched six shutout innings to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. Neil Walker added a solo home run for the Pirates, who won for a second time in Milwaukee this season, but for only the ninth time since 2007 at Miller Park -- against 47 losses. Locke ...


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Be Cool

Be Cool

There are probably people in the world much like John Travlotas Chili Palmer in Be Cool, but surely no one is as calm, collected, and utterly unflappable as he is. Chili is a glorious fictional character, a walking checklist of suave characteristics dressed in an impeccable black suit. Point ... ...

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  • Thousands walk run last mile of marathon

    BOSTON -- Rosy Spraker was only a half-mile from the finish line of her seventh Boston Marathon when the bombs went off. She received her medal later in the mail at her Lorton, Va., home. But she couldn't bring herself to wear it until Saturday, when she and thousands of other athletes joined victims of the blast to run and walk the last mile of the ...

  • Jaxson’s Jog Raises Awareness About Common Birth Defect

    Hundreds of folks laced up their running shoes in North Park today for Jaxson’s Jog. They were running to raise awareness about a common birth defect. It's called a congenital diaphragmatic hernia and is found in developing fetuses. "Sixteen-hundred babies are born with this defect in the U.S. every year and only 800 survive," said Sarah Mayer, the race's director. ...

  • Hockey nut Inge torn by potential Wings-Pens clash

    Email MILWAUKEE -- Renowned hockey fanatic Brandon Inge is already fretting over what, for him, would be sweet misery. How will he possibly handle a Stanley Cup Final between his longtime rink favorites, the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins, the team he quickly adopted following his move to the Pirates? "I don't know what I'm going to do if it's between those ...

  • Karstens progress halted by shoulder discomfort

    Email MILWAUKEE -- Jeff Karstens went to Buffalo a couple of days ago. Now he is on his way back to Pittsburgh. But no one really knows where the right-hander is headed after he felt discomfort in his right shoulder Friday while playing catch, once again shutting down his on-and-off rehab from year-long shoulder discomfort. Instead of staying with Triple-A Indianapolis and taking the mound for ...

  • Pa. prisons could outsource mental health services

    HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Some Pennsylvania lawmakers are opposing a state Department of Corrections proposal to outsource mental health services at 27 state prisons in the ...

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