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  • Pens Down Sens 6-2 Move Onto Eastern Conference Finals

    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Eight playoff wins down, eight to go for Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins. James Neal had a hat trick and the Penguins finished off the lifeless Ottawa Senators 6-2 on Friday night in Game 5 of the Eastern conference semifinals to take the best-of-seven series 4-1. Kris Letang, Evgeni Malkin and Brenden Morrow also scored, and Tomas Vokoun made 29 saves as ...

  • Penguins’ fans as young as five months brave cold to watch Game 5

    Payton Kaiser, 5 months old, with her father, Richard, 26, of Mt. Washington, watched the Penguins game on the Trib Big Screen on Friday outside of the Consol Energy ...

  • Neals hat trick leads Penguins back to conference finals

    The Pens eliminated the Ottawa Senators Friday night with a 6-2 victory in Game 5 of their semifinals series. continued his hot streak with a hat trick, while Brenden Morrow, Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin also scored for the ...

  • Donations for Oklahoma top $20 million

    The Red Cross has received more than $15 million in donations and pledges so far for the town of Moore, which was struck by a tornado Monday that killed 24, injured more than 300 and destroyed thousands of ...

  • Pittsburgh Jazzlive International Festival

    Artists From 2012 Festival The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is proud to present the third annual JazzLive International Festival (PJLIF) on June 7-9, 2013. ...


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Movie Review

Patch Adams

Patch Adams

"Patch Adams" would have been a much better movie if it had been more about its real-life subject and less about Robin Williams. Don't get me wrong--Williams is a fine actor, and in the right project with the right director, he can be sheer dynamite. Unfortunately, "Patch Adams" is not the right project for him because it's too much of what we've already seen before in better movies like "Good Mor ... ...

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  • Local Doctor Suffering From Huntington’s Disease Denied Cab Ride

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A local doctor battling a disease that impairs his speech and movement says he was denied a taxi ride because the driver thought he was drunk. For Dr. Andrew Tomasi walking is a struggle, and sometimes, so is talking. He was struggling with both a couple nights ago when he tried to get a cab in Shadyside. "Since I have a neurological disease, it kinda makes me ...

  • Police Probe Fatal Shooting In Rankin

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Rankin. The incident happened around 7:45 p.m. in the 500-block of Kenmawr Avenue in the Hawkins Village housing complex. At least one person was dead at the ...

  • Male wounded in Rankin shooting

    Police and paramedics were called at 7:42 p.m. for a report of a male shot in the playground along Kenmawr Avenue in the Hawkins Village housing complex, county emergency dispatchers ...

  • Lowes employee pinned between box truck tractor-trailer

    Union Township police said the 32-year-old man had finished moving appliances from the box truck to the tractor-trailer at the store on West State Street when the box truck drifted backward, pinning him between the two ...

  • Police search for armed men in womans shooting

    The men were last seen at Corey Avenue and Second Street, and one may have gone into a building on Holland Avenue, according to a tweet on Allegheny ...

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