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  • Lowes 1Q profit rises chilly spring hurts sales

    Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.Spring is the biggest season for home improvement retailers. While the weather was chilly in the quarter, the improving housing market has helped such businesses.Lowe's Cos. earned $540 million, or 49 cents per share, for the period ended May 3. That compares with ...

  • Search for survivors winds down in Oklahoma

    No survivors or bodies have been found in Moore since Monday, the day a mammoth tornado ripped through 17 miles of central Oklahoma and pummeled 2,400 ...

  • Tornado-ravaged Oklahoma residents start to pick up the pieces

    A man carries a drawer and a bag filled with clothes from Rachel Hernandez' home as residents of the Heatherwood Addition, on the south side of SE 4 and Bryant in Moore, Okla., returned to their homes Tuesday, May 21, 2013, to salvage any items after Monday's destructive tornado. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) MOORE, Okla. (AP) - With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin ...

  • Twister Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down

    By DAVID A. LIEB,Associated Press MOORE, Okla. (AP) - With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time."Parents had a gut-wrenching choice, and only a few minutes to make it. Trust the safety of the ...

  • Philly controller Alan Butkovitz wins Dem primary race

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz has faced down two challengers for the Democratic nomination in his campaign for a third term as the city's fiscal watchdog.Butkovitz beat tax-overhaul advocate Brett Mandel and attorney Mark Zecca in Tuesday's primary in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 9-1. He will take on GOP businessman Terry Tracy ...

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Mickey Blue Eyes

Because the gangster genre is one of the most durable of the American cinema, over the years it has been satirized and lampooned from just about every possible angle. Whether that be turning a gangster into a weeping basket case in need of psychiatric advice in "Analyze This," which opened earlier this year, or making a farce about the notion of the Mafia as family in "Married to the Mob" (1988), ... ...

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  • Pa. Primary Dems nominate new mayors in Pittsburgh Scranton Harrisburg

    By PETER JACKSON,Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Democrats nominated new mayors in Pittsburgh, Scranton and Harrisburg in the Pennsylvania primary election.They tapped veteran city Councilman William Peduto as their standard-bearer in Pittsburgh and city Tax Collector Bill Courtright in Scranton, but spurned Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson's re-election bid and chose bookstore ...

  • Penn States costs for Sandusky scandal soar over $44M

    STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State's costs for legal fees, consultants and other services connected to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal have topped $44.4 million, the university's latest bill shows.That total was through the end of February, according to a university website this week. It's up about $1.5 million from the previous bill released through the end of ...

  • ‘America’s Most Wanted’ fugitive arrested in Patton Township

    A man wanted for a killing in Washington, D.C., and featured on the TV show “America’s Most Wanted” has been arrested in Centre County.Patton Township police said Tuesday that Reynard Cook was arrested last week on charges of providing false identification to law enforcement and disorderly conduct.Cook was found to be wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service Arlington Office on ...

  • Sisters ejected from Pa. mall over cancer hats

    KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) -- Three sisters say they were kicked out of a suburban Philadelphia mall after refusing to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of breast ...

  • Family of girl abducted from Philly school to sue

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A lawyer for the family of a 5-year-old girl abducted from her Philadelphia elementary school says the family is planning to sue the ...

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