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  • Arias jury foreman Decision gut-wrenching

    A day after a jury deadlocked on whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to death for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, the jury foreman described the decision process as tense and ...

  • Mother Accused Of Using Son To Steal From Store

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  • Frost Advisory Issued For Saturday

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Despite earlier summertime weather, a frost advisory will go into effect for Pittsburgh Saturday. The National Weather Service has set the advisory from 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. Saturday morning, with temperatures between 32 and 35 ...

  • Police searching for man who tried to lure girl into truck in Homewood

    The incident began shortly before 8:45 a.m. near the intersection of North Lang Avenue and Monticello Street as the 12-year-old girl was walking to a bus stop, according to police spokeswoman Diane ...

  • Heinz Endowments part of grocery goal in Hazelwood

    Bob Vagt knows you cant put a time limit or a dollar amount on a relationship, whether with a person or an entire neighborhood. As the president of Heinz Endowments, he took his time in a recent phone interview when I asked him to give some metric to help me understand the level of commitment his organization is making to Hazelwood as the recipient neighborhood for the group's initial ...


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Movie Review

Floating Weeds / A Story of Floating Weeds [DVD]

Floating Weeds / A Story of Floating Weeds [DVD]

For auteurist critics, A Story of Floating Weeds (Ukigusa monogatari), Yasujiro Ozus 1934 film about a traveling troupe of actors, is considered the moment in which he came into his own, both aesthetically and thematically. He was already a prolific fi ... ...

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  • Teaching kids the meaning of Memorial Day

    President Richard Nixon declared Memorial Day a federal holiday on the last Monday in May. Cities all around the U.S. will hold their own celebrations to pay respect to the men and women who have died in wars or in the service of their country.Teaching the meaning of Memorial Day to your children can be a challenge. To many Americans, Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer and is an excuse ...

  • Former PTO president accused of pocketing $23K

    A former president of the parent teacher organization at a Bethel Park middle school is accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the PTO's bank account.According to police, Heidi Schnupp is accused of pocketing and forging signatures worth about $23,000 when she was the president of the PTO at Neil Armstrong Middle School.Authorities said Schnupp, 42, apologized and admitted to ...

  • Mother accused of using 9-year-old sons to help rob convenience store

    A mother is facing several charges after police said she used her 9-year-old children to help commit a crime.Authorities said Christine Petrarulo brought her two sons with her into a Butler Township convenience store and asked if one of them could use the bathroom.According to police, when the clerk went to unlock the bathroom, Petrarulo took money from the register and hid it in her other ...

  • Cartoonists are landing in Pittsburgh

    "We knew Pittsburgh was becoming a geek hub -- it already was a cartoon hub -- and the idea was to get beyond a local entity and become a national entity," Wos said. "So this was an important part of that, to be able to bring the nation's top artists to Pittsburgh and say, 'This is a great city' and have them come start a cycle of maybe coming back every five years, ...

  • On The Field LeVeon Bell

    talked after an OTA session:How do you feel after a few days of practice?I feel good. I went out there and had a great practice today. It just feels good to be back out on the field and practicing with the veterans. I'm doing good and had a good day of practice.Is anything overwhelming?No, not really. There are a lot of things that are kind of eye-opening. The first practice when I was ...

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