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  • Pittsburghs bridges getting better but still need work

    Although Pennsylvania continues to lead the nation in structurally deficient bridges, the number of state-maintained bridges in that category has fallen from 5,600 in August 2010 to fewer than 4,500 in the most recent count. Similar progress has been made locally. In a five-county area that includes Pittsburgh, the number of deficient state- and locally maintained bridges has fallen from 1,246 ...

  • Garcetti elected Los Angeles mayor over Greuel

    Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti gets a kiss from his wife Amy Wakeland, as they vote early Tuesday morning, May 21, 2013, in Los Angeles. Garcetti faces Wendy Greuel in the mayoral runoff ...

  • Chester police probe morning shooting

    CHESTER – Police and paramedics are responding to a shooting at the Ruth L. Bennett Homes.The shooting occurred in the 1000 block of Hunt Terrace.Additional details are not yet ...

  • King of Prussia Mall boots 3 sisters over profane anti-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 cancer.Zakia Clark and Tasha Clark had been at the King of Prussia Mall on Sunday shopping for funeral dresses with a third sister, Makia Underwood. Their mother died last week after battling the disease.Zakia and Tasha ...

  • Penn State basketball Lions set for foreign tour

    UNIVERSITY PARK - The Penn State men’s basketball team will get an early jump on the 2013-14 season with a foreign tour that will see the Nittany Lions play three games and visit cities in Belgium, England and France.The Nittany Lions will get 10 practices to prepare for the foreign tour, which will take place August 10-17. Game dates and opponents are still being finalized. Penn State ...

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The Man Who Wasn't There

Classic film noirthose American crime films made in the darkness of the neurotic postwar years that the French recognized as genius but the homefront could only see as B-movies that weren't well litalmost always centered around an ordinary man who got in over his head. Like shadowy inversions of the American dream, they dolled out poetic justice for everyday Joes who thought they could get ahead ... ...

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  • Authorities work to identify Pa. child shooters

    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Allegheny County medical examiner's office has been working to identify a 19-month-old boy fatally shot during a backyard picnic in Pittsburgh, along with two young women who were ...

  • Interactive before-and-after images of Oklahoma tornado devastation

    A vicious tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday, tearing through businesses, homes and schools and leaving widespread destruction in its path.Below are before-and-after slider images of the devastation. Glide your cursor to the right and left to see how the tornado affected parts of the ...

  • Man sues manufacturer Philadelphia shop over sex gel

    PHILADELPHIA-A competitive martial artist is suing a Philadelphia sex shop and the makers of a gel he says burned and scarred his genitals. The Philadelphia Daily News reports ...

  • EU bid to label Hezbollah wing terror group

    BRUSSELS (AP) -- Two officials say Britain has launched a bid to formally have the European Union declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist ...

  • Lowes 1Q profit rises but results miss Street

    Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.But the home improvement chain's quarterly performance missed Wall Street's expectations. Its shares dropped more than 4 percent in premarket trading Wednesday.Spring is the biggest season for home improvement retailers. While the weather was chilly in the ...

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