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  • Greensburg Community Days attendees may notice security changes

    In light of recent national tragedies, City of Greensburg and Westmoreland County leaders met to discuss festival plans and make security changes. "We're trying to make sure we cover every aspect of possibilities for this year," said Les Harvey, City of Greensburg emergency management director. "Kind of create, we hope, an atmosphere so the families who come in can feel ...

  • New flag program to alert community of air quality conditions

    "Making that flag visible, making that forecast visible, can really help people cater or change their activities outside so they're not affected as much," said Karrie Kressler, of ...

  • After vote on gay youth Scouts face more turmoil

    FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 photo provided by the family, Wes Comer holds the Boy Scout uniform of his son, Isaiah, outside their home in Knoxville, Tenn. Comer, whose family attends an Apostolic Pentecostal church which considers homosexuality sinful, had been wrestling with whether to pull his eldest son out of the Scouts if the no-gays policy was abandoned. "To be honest, ...

  • Woman feared Iowa kidnapping suspects release

    Investigators have discovered the blood of a missing 15-year-old Iowa girl on the truck of a registered sex offender suspected of kidnapping her Monday, diminishing the chances of finding her alive, a lead investigator said ...

  • Is cyber war just a scare tactic

    Former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta talks to the media after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Oct. 10, 2012. ATLANTA, Ga. - A growing legion of cyber war hawks contends that the world faces a mounting threat of hacker-driven cataclysm. These hawks warn of downed power grids, contaminated water supplies and derailed trains - at the hands of ...

Movie Review

The Great Dictator [Blu-Ray]

The Great Dictator [Blu-Ray]

While it is not the greatest of his feature films, Charlie Chaplins tragicomic The Great Dictator is certainly his bravest, if not one of the bravest films ever made. A blatant satire of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, it was a lone cinematic cry for humanity to stand t ... ...

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  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 24

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...

  • State AG settles cent. Pa. mobile home park suit

    STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- The state attorney general's office says the owners of a central Pennsylvania mobile home park have agreed to pay more than $26,000 to settle a lawsuit over relocation expenses due to residents who had to move after the park ...

  • Devin Hamilton named associate publisher in DuBois

    DUBOIS, Pa. (AP) -- An Ohio newspaper executive has returned to his home state of Pennsylvania to become associate publisher of The Courier-Express in ...

  • Papenfuse may face rematch for Harrisburg mayor

    HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The runner-up in Harrisburg's Democratic mayoral primary could get another shot at Democratic nominee Eric Papenfuse, this time as a ...

  • Judge orders Philadelphia faith-healing couple held in sons death

    By Dave Warner PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia couple charged with murder after their baby died without medical care must be held in jail whether or not they make bail, a judge ruled on Friday. The couple, Herbert and Catherine Schaible, believe in faith healing, and those who share their beliefs might be willing to harbor them if they decide to flee, Judge Benjamin Lerner told a ...

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