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  • Man accused of chaining stepson to table after refusing to eat

    Authorities say a western Pennsylvania man allegedly chained his 11-year-old stepson to the dinner table after he refused to eat the food on his ...

  • Dallas man gets death for drowning 2 sons in creek

    DALLAS -; A father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek was sentenced to death on ...

  • Obama U.S. will keep deploying drones

    Drone strikes are a necessary evil, but one that must be used with more temperance as the United States' security situation evolves, President Barack Obama said in a counterterrorism speech ...

  • Yeadon native charged with killing husband in N.J. being investigated for 1993 death of prior husband

    Loretta Tokash Doyle Burroughs goes before judge in New Jersey, charged in death of her husband. The death of a previous husband in Delaware County is now being investigated. (Image courtesy of Atlantic City Press) YEADON – Police have reopened the investigation into the 1993 death of Joseph Doyle as his widow stands charged with the murder of her third husband in New Jersey.Loretta ...

  • Distraught mom becomes face of killer Oklahoma tornado

    In this May 20, 2013 file photo, LaTisha Garcia carries her 8-year-old daughter, Jazmin Rodriguez near Plaza Towers Elementary School after a massive tornado carved its way through Moore, Okla., leaving little of the school and neighborhood. This picture, published on hundreds of front pages around the world, has become one of the enduring images from the storm. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki,File) ...

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My Own Private Idaho [DVD]

My Own Private Idaho [DVD]

For his third feature film, writer/director Gus Van Sant was finally able to bring to the screen a story he had been trying to tell for years about Portland street hustlers. His critical and commercial success with Drugstore Cowboy (1989) had made him a name in the bur ... ...

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  • A growing role for the president Americas consoler in chief

    President Barack Obama greets Gov. Dannel Malloy during his arrival at the start of an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. (Stephen Dunn/The Hartford Courant/AP) When President Barack Obama travels to Oklahoma on Sunday to meet with the survivors of Monday's tornado, it will mark the third time this year that he has journeyed to a patch of ...

  • Defense Ex-Pa. judge cooperating in coke case

    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania judge who abruptly resigned last year was charged Thursday with stealing cocaine from evidence in cases before him, and his attorney said the former jurist is cooperating with the ...

  • Mayor’s defeat may spell end of ‘Monessen Rising’

    A controversial plan to transform Monessen's blighted neighborhoods into an art colony may have been dealt a death blow when its chief proponent, the city's mayor, was trounced in Tuesday's primary ...

  • From top to bottom IRS officials not cooperating with lawmakers on targeting tactics

    WASHINGTON -- Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned on Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the ...

  • School board postpones Ligonier Valley roof replacement

    After working for more than 300 days without a contract, teachers asked Ligonier Valley school directors to invest in the district's ...

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