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  • Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million

    That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...

  • McMurray and Stenhouse race into All-Star Race

    Drivers exit Turn 4 approaching the start line to begin the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Showdown auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Saturday, May 18, ...

  • Angels hold on for 12-9 win over White Sox

    Alberto Callaspo hit a three-run homer in Los Angeles' five-run seventh inning, and the Angels beat the White Sox 12-9 on Saturday to end Chicago's four-game winning ...

  • Pirates hold ceremony for Honorary Bat Girl

    Email PITTSBURGH -- When Maria Heddleston found out she was going to be honored by the Pirates for her perseverance through breast cancer, her 7-year-old son John didn't give his mother any congratulations. "He said, 'Do I get to meet Andrew McCutchen?" Heddleston recalled, laughing. The Pirates held a pregame ceremony on Saturday for Heddleston, their winner of MLB's ...

  • Hughes returns to Pirates with improved delivery

    Email PITTSBURGH -- Fellow passengers on a commuter flight to Pittsburgh late Friday night may have been a bit freaked out. Jared Hughes, the soft-spoken Pirates reliever with the hard edge on the mound, was watching the Bucs-Astros game and getting his game-face on. The connecting flight had been delayed, but the 4-4 game at PNC Park appeared to be heading into extra innings. "I had to ...

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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens [DVD]

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens [DVD]

Made several years before the creation of the horror film genre or the more specific vampire film genre, F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens was a groundbreaking gothic film whose creative camerawork and dark cinematography is still copied in the movies of today. Nosferatu was an unauthorized reworking of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, wh ... ...

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  • Phils get their fill of Arroyo Reds in shutout

    CIN@PHI: Utley makes a nice stop on a grounder PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies' offense was not great during the past week as the team won four of five games, but it got the job done. Saturday, though, it was non-existent. Powered by a three-run homer from Ryan Hanigan, a four-hit day by Joey Votto -- who reached base six times -- and 7 2/3 innings of shutout work by Bronson Arroyo, the ...

  • Opposite-field hit may be good sign for McCutchen

    Email PITTSBURGH -- Situational hitting, consistent pitching and good defense breeds success. The Pirates have had all three this season. On Friday night, Pittsburgh got 4 1/3 shutout innings from its bullpen, a timely two-run homer from Pedro Alvarez to tie the game in the eighth and a good piece of situational hitting in the ninth. Center fielder Andrew McCutchen singled to the opposite ...

  • Winter bee deaths devastate keepers

    Problems that decimated the nation's largest commercial hives are affecting backyard beekeepers, who say losses of bees this past winter were the worst ...

  • Nuclear plant evacuation plan raises concerns

    "It's pretty obvious the accident (Thursday) exposed the weakness in the evacuation from a nuclear accident," said Epstein, founder of the TMI Alert watchdog ...

  • Zoning restrictions threaten reopening of coke facility

    The waterfront property includes a coke processing plant owned by ArcelorMittal, which is challenging the zoning restrictions, contending they could prevent the company from restarting the ...

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