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  • Pennsylvanians have reason to check their lottery tickets

    The grand prize ticket for the $600 million lottery drawing Saturday night was purchased in Florida; however, there were two tickets matching first five numbers bought in ...

  • Institute offers seminar on how to start pot business

    An institute is teaching a weekend course on how to start a marijuana business in the state.Washington Cannabis Institute is offering a seminar with attorneys and industry pros who have prepared a course for starting a pot business.The class will help those who want to start a business understand and comply with Initiative 502 regulations and licensing requirements. I-502 was passed by ...

  • Pittsburgh Career Fair - Tuesday May 21 2013

    If you can't make it the SHIM career fair, another will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, May 22, at the Millvale Community Center. The career fairs will include employers from UPMC, Goodwill, Giant Eagle, PNC Bank, The University of Pittsburgh, U.S. ...

  • Backstage Pass Halestorm At Stage AE

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Grammy Awards have come and gone this year, but you may not know that a rock band from right here in Pennsylvania took home some hardware. Halestorm won this year's Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Grammy for their song "Love Bites (So Do I)," off their second studio album "The Strange Case Of..." The band is comprised of singer/guitarist ...

  • Local ‘drummer boys’ plan march from Pittsburgh to Gettysburg

    Guibert entered the Civil War at 17, serving with the 74th Pennsylvania, a German speaking regiment, and the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served on the front line in several battles, including the first Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. He became known as "The Wizard of the ...


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Hearts and Minds [DVD]

Hearts and Minds [DVD]

"We must be ready to fight in Vietnam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there."--President Lyndon B. Johnson In the nearly three decades since U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government fell to the communist North Vietnamese, there have been a plethora of expl ... ...

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  • 1 killed in crash on Route 28

    Emergency dispatchers said crash involved a tractor-trailer and a motorcycle between the 16th and 31st Street Bridges in the northbound lanes of Route ...

  • Process Analyzer Sampling System Training - Pittsburgh PA May 20th – 24th

    A Five Day Training Course Hosted by Control Analytics, Inc. Efficient. Stable. Accurate.Process analyzer sampling systems are critical to your facility's production control and automation, and an optimized system combines these three traits to provide exceptional analysis performance. Having personnel on-site who can evaluate and determine if aproblem is being caused by an analyzer or by ...

  • Report N. Korea fires fourth missile

    North Korea fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, according to South Korea's semiofficial news agency Yonhap, citing a South Korean military ...

  • Wexford Starlite Car Cruise Gets Ready To Roll

    PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – Get ready to rev your muscle car or vintage cruiser because the Wexford Starlite Car Cruise is really to roll for the summer. Roger Van Scoy joined KDKA's Rob Pratte to talk about the popular car cruise just north of Pittsburgh. "It started about 13 years ago when Jay Passavant, the founding pastor out at Northway (Christian Community Church), ...

  • Locke aims to continue Pirates strong run

    Pittsburgh has been here before. A little more than a quarter of the way through the season, the Pirates sit at 25-18, having won seven of their last nine games heading into Sunday's series finale against the Astros. The last two years, Pittsburgh has started strong only to stumble late in the season and fall short of making the postseason. Clint Hurdle wants to avoid a similar fate this ...

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