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  • 68-year-old Daniel Gallatin killed in the crash May 7th

    A woman is now facing a homicide by vehicle charge after a crash that killed a volunteer firefighter, and investigators say she was texting while ...

  • Power still searching for first victory at home

    Tampa Bay's Adrian McPherson's seven touchdowns led the Storm to a 62-34 win over the Pittsburgh Power tonight at CONSOL Energy Center in front of 4,625. McPherson was 20-22 for 240 passing and six touchdowns and added 29 rushing yards and a touchdown on the ground. McPherson's ...

  • Hounds play to a draw against Dayton

    The Pittsburgh Riverhounds fall to the Dayton Dutch Lions at Highmark Stadium Saturday night. A game summary was provided by the team in the following ...

  • Coach K return to US team no longer ruled out

    Mike Krzyzewski is no longer ruling out a return as coach of the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team.Though the Duke coach had repeatedly said he wouldn't be back after last summer, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo says they spoke about a week ago and there has been "movement" toward a return.Krzyzewski told Sports Illustrated in a story Saturday that "there's ...

  • Devon Alexander tops Lee Purdy in non-title bout

    ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander earned a convincing victory over Lee Purdy at Boardwalk Hall on Saturday night in a non-title bout.Referee David Fields stopped the fight on the advice of Purdy's corner at the end of the seventh round.Alexander (25-1, 14 KOs), from St. Louis, was supposed to be making his first defense of his title, but Purdy (20-4-1, 13 KOs) ...

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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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  • Two men arrested for slaying of Knoxville man

    Shields, Fooks and Griffin were inside a Knoxville home shortly before 4:30 a.m. Friday, and Griffin wanted to buy heroin, according to a police complaint. Shields and Fooks drew guns, and Shields took some money from Griffin, police ...

  • IRS ignored biggest groups

    The nation's tax agency has admitted to inappropriately scrutinizing smaller Tea Party organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, and senior Treasury Department officials were notified in the midst of the 2012 presidential election season that an internal investigation was under way. But the IRS largely maintained a hands-off policy with the much larger, big-budget organizations on ...

  • Campaign makes push for organ donations

    Of 118,022 people nationwide on the waiting list for transplants, 81.5 percent are waiting for kidneys, according to the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, the federally established agency that oversees the nation's transplant waiting list. In Pennsylvania, 78 percent of 8,363 people on the waiting list need ...

  • $6M in Centax payouts planned

    According to court documents, more than $23.5 million sat in bank accounts as of October for Centax-related collections and for collections by Centax spinoff Don Wilkinson Agency Inc., which also ceased to operate. The exact amount collected and owed to local taxing bodies may never be known because of the sheer volume and the disorganization of the records, Cordaro ...

  • Munhall officer brought compassion calm to job

    Retired Munhall police Officer Thomas Hilla always told his comrades that once they made an arrest and did their job, they had to let the rest of it ...

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