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  • Free van service in East Pittsburgh to end in June due to funding cuts

    At least one resident in East Pittsburgh is concerned after receiving a newsletter that stated Work Line, a free van service that helps people get to their jobs, will be ending its service at the end of June because of funding cuts.Marti Holmes said ending this service will force her and a lot of other people to walk up a steep hill and at least 200 steps to get alternate ...

  • Incumbent-less race lets Burgh his reset button

    "We can have the re-establishment of Pittsburgh right now, in this race, rather than waiting until someone wins" in November, said Joseph Sabino Mistick, a law professor and longtime Pittsburgh political ...

  • Defense Pa. womans 1999 death was accidental

    HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- 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 ...

  • Accrued sick time weighs on Pittsburgh budget

    It stung when Pittsburgh police lost the right to amass a treasure chest of unused sick days and cash them in upon retirement for a five-figure ...

  • 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 ...

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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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