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  • 2 Charged In Fatal Knoxville Shooting

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Police have arrested two suspects in the shooting death of a Knoxville man. Khamal Fooks, 18, and Rayshon Shields, 21, are charged with criminal homicide and robbery in the death of 54-year-old Roger Griffin. The shooting happened around 4:30 a.m. Friday at a home on Zara ...

  • Militaries’ growing use of ground robots raises ethics concerns

    A Samsung subsidiary plans to deploy sentry robots to the tense South Korean border. The machines will be equipped with machine guns and cameras, thermal imaging and laser range finders capable of detecting intruders up to 2 1/2 miles ...

  • Humans will retain key role in robot use

    The unmanned robot, built to go over terrain too rugged even for a Humvee, has become, in the words of NREC Director Tony Stentz, a ...

  • 57 W.Pa. hopefuls missed filing deadline data show

    A dozen Western Pennsylvania judicial campaigns are among 57 statewide that missed a deadline for filing complete contribution and expense reports, state elections data ...

  • Sewage plant may go near trail

    Haven said Buffalo Township just finished clearing trees and brush from the land for possible use as a recreational area. "We'd rather it not be a sewage plant if they can go across the ...


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Movie Review

Crazy in Alabama

"Crazy in Alabama" is composed of two distinctly different narratives that run parallel to each other throughout the film, until at the end they are tenuously linked by the theme of "freedom." Either one of these narratives could possibly constitute its own movie. But, for better or worse, "Crazy in Alabama" insists on using both of them and trying to show us how they connect. The fact that the c ... ...

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  • ‘Father Miro’ receives award

    The Pittsburgh chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation bestowed its most prestigious cultural award to Father Miro at the organization's 29th annual Polonian of the Year luncheon last weekend at the DoubleTree hotel in Green ...

  • Astros score twice in 11th to even series

    Jason Castro led off the 11th inning with a double and scored the go-ahead run on a close play at the plate as the Houston Astros topped the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 on Saturday ...

  • Winning numbers for largest Powerball jackpot are ...

    CNN - The winning numbers for the largest multistate Powerball jackpot are: 22, 10,13,14, 52 and the Powerball number is 11. Saturday's jackpot is a record $600 million. It marks the largest in Powerball history, surpassing a $587.6 million jackpot split by winners in Arizona and Missouri in November. The jackpot has a cash value of $376.9 million. The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. ...

  • Trib reporter’s Iraq stories win top Pa. press award

    Tribune-Review investigative reporter Carl Prine received a Best of Show award on Friday from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors for "Rules of engagement," his investigation into the deaths of two deaf, unarmed teenage brothers by American soldiers in ...

  • 68-year-old Daniel Gallatin killed in the crash May 7th

    A woman is now facing a homicide by vehicle charge after a crash that killed a volunteer firefighter, and investigators say she was texting while ...

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