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  • Man injured in western Pa. domestic shooting dies

    HILLSVILLE, Pa. - State police say a western Pennsylvania man injured in a shooting stemming from a domestic dispute has died of his injuries. Troopers from the New Castle barracks said 50-year-old Joseph Lupo died early Thursday at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio. Lupo had earlier been reported killed in the Sunday night gunfire in a home in Mahoning Township, about 50 miles ...

  • Defense Sherry Leightys 1999 death was accidental

    HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. - A defense attorney says a central Pennsylvania man charged with homicide in the 1999 death of his daughter-in-law says the woman's death was accidental.Attorney Thomas Hooper has acknowledged that 65-year-old Kenneth Leighty of Altoona led authorities in Blair County to the remains of 23-year-old Sherry Leighty on his property last weekend.But he told The (Altoona) ...

  • Police Boy 6 kicked by pony on Pa. farm dies

    Lt. Jonathan Heisse said the boy approached a pony from behind and the animal became startled and kicked him in the throat, causing him to be unable to ...

  • Serena Williams reaches Italian Open final

    The top-ranked American overcame an early break of her serve to roll past Romanian qualifier Simona Halep 6-3, 6-0 Saturday to reach the Italian Open final and extend her career-best winning run to 23 ...

  • FILA approves new rules to keep wrestling in games

    Freestyle wrestlers Mehdi Taghavi Kermani, left, from Iran, and Kellen Russell from Ann Harbor, Mich., compete at an international wrestling exhibition at Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in New York. Kermani won the bout. The event dubbed "The Rumble on the Rails" marked the fourth straight year a New York City landmark was transformed into a wrestling meet to raise ...

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Life is Beautiful (La Vita é Bella)

The title of Roberto Benigni's "Life is Beautiful" ("La Vita Bella") is, like the similarly titled "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), both sincere and ironic at the same time. The title is not a simplistic aphorism, not an all-encompassing proclamation that life is beautiful, but rather a statement about a person's will to see life as beautiful, even under the worst conditions. Therein lies the iron ... ...

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  • Landing gear issue leads to planes belly landing

    NEWARK, N.J -- An airline official says a US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported.US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson tells The Associated Press that a turboprop plane that left Philadelphia shortly before 11 p.m. Friday landed safely at Newark with its landing ...

  • Report N Korea fires short-range missiles

    North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as ...

  • Mistakes cost Giants in 10-9 loss to Rockies

    Madison Bumgarner, the steadiest pitcher in the San Francisco Giants' rotation so far this season, finally had an off night and it was a doozy.Bumgarner botched a potential double play with an errant throw and gave up the first grand slam of his big league career in San Francisco's 10-9 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Friday night.The Giants had a season-high four errors in losing to ...

  • Afghan police chief shot dead outside home

    KABUL, Afghanistan -; An official says motorcycle-riding gunmen have shot dead a police chief who led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his ...

  • Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash

    FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast ...

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