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  • Our values won Obama says in Berlin

    U.S. President Barack Obama followed in the footsteps of past U.S. leaders with a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate that a senior administration official said would ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear ...

  • Baltimore Harrisburg men face robbery charges after Burnham break-in

    BURNHAM - Two men face robbery-related charges after a home break-in Tuesday afternoon.Mifflin County Regional Police Department said Demont C. Hodo, of Baltimore, and Donnie Wright, of Harrisburg, went into a residence on South Walnut Street, Burnham, at 4:46 p.m., produced a firearm and robbed the resident of approximately $1,300.Police say the men fled in a vehicle, which was described by the ...

  • Police Car-buggy crash sends five to hospitals

    REEDSVILLE - Police say a crash Tuesday evening involving a car and a horse-drawn buggy sent five people — including four members of one family — to hospitals with injuries.Dorothy Yoder, the driver of the buggy, was flown to Hershey Medical Center. Her three children, who were passengers in the buggy, were taken to Lewistown hospital, Mifflin County Regional Police Department said ...

  • Fire at Pa. titanium plant causes $3.5M in damage

    MORGANTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Investigators say a fire earlier this week at a titanium-manufacturing plant in eastern Pennsylvania caused $3.5 million in damage and has been ruled ...

  • 5 things to know for Wednesday in Pa. news

    Council's first public hearing into the June 5 collapse will be held today. The hearing will focus on inspections and licensing issues related to the building demolition that led to the ...

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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  • US Steel gets delay on Pa. coke emission goals

    CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) -- United States Steel Corp. has gotten more time to meet county air pollution standards following a $500 million revamp of its Clairton Coke Works near ...

  • NY man arrested in shelter faces Pa. sex sentence

    ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- A New York man is scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge in Erie on charges he crossed state lines hoping to have sex with underage girls in northwestern ...

  • Western Pa. couple found fatally shot in bathroom

    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A 25-year-old woman was found fatally shot in a running shower and her ex-boyfriend has died of a gunshot wound in what police are calling a murder suicide in a Pittsburgh ...

  • Pa. school can exclude morning-after pill coverage

    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A federal judge says a Christian college in western Pennsylvania can exclude coverage for birth control like the morning-after pill and the week-after pill when it offers a health insurance plan to its ...

  • Suspended Pa. teacher jailed pending porn trial

    ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- A suspended northwestern Pennsylvania high school teacher must remain jailed until trial on federal charges that he possessed and created child pornography, including images of one boy he's accused of molesting and other yet-to-be identified ...

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