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  • Police Suicide bomb hits heart of Afghan capital

    A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police ...

  • AAA expects slight increase in highway travel for Memorial Day

    With state gas prices lower than this time last year, AAA is predicting a slight increase in highway travel nationwide for Memorial Day weekend.Shawn Kaup, AAA director of marketing and public relations for the Central Penn region, expects the state to fall in line with national projections and expects a slight increase in the number of cars on the road this weekend.“Memorial Day is ...

  • Local West Penn Power customers remain without power

    After losing power Wednesday night from storms, 36 West Penn Power customers in Centre County remained without electricity as of 7:30 p.m. Thursday.According to the company, 87 customers in Clearfield County, 46 in Blair County and five in Huntingdon County were without power at the same ...

  • Two women plead guilty in Penn State hazing case

    BELLEFONTE - Two young women pleaded guilty Thursday for their roles in assaulting a Penn State freshman in a hazing ritual last year.Bianca Jeanty, who prosecutors said was the primary aggressor, told a Centre County judge she used “poor judgment” when she attacked the young woman.Jeanty and her co-defendant, Felicia Ragsdale, who also took part in the hazing, pleaded guilty during ...

  • Police search for little Bigfoot stolen in W. Pa.

    BEAVER FALLS, Pa. - Police in one western Pennsylvania community are searching for Bigfoot - but this quest has a better chance of success than most.That's because the Bigfoot being sought by the North Sewickley Township police actually exists - though police say the 28-inch statue of the Yeti has been missing from the planting bed in front of Mary Fabian's home since at least ...

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Kagemusha [Blu-Ray]

Kagemusha [Blu-Ray]

By 1980, as he was entering the fifth decade of his career as a film director, Akira Kurosawa was probably best known outside of his native Japan for his samurai films, including Seven Samurai (1954), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961), and Sanjuro (1962). W ... ...

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  • Senators begin uphill climb in Pittsburgh to save season

    PITTSBURGH (AP) Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson isn't quite ready for the traditional season-ending handshake. Yet he knows if the Senators can't find a way to slow down slow down the Pittsburgh Penguins, it's coming soon. The Penguins grabbed a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals with a 7-3 rout on Wednesday night, leading Alfredsson to offer ...

  • UK fighter jet scrambled to divert civilian plane

    LONDON (AP) -- A British fighter jet was launched to divert a civilian plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Pakistan to England after an incident on board, British officials said ...

  • SEPTA Engineer shortage leads to canceled trains

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The transit agency serving the Philadelphia area says it's had to cancel some regional rail trains on weekends because of a shortage of ...

  • Pittsburgher outlining potholes with spray paint

    But one motorist fed up with potholes - and the damage he says they've done to his vehicles - is taking matters into his own hand: one holding a spray-paint ...

  • Pittsburghs WTAE names Wolfertz new president GM

    WTAE-TV says Charles Wolfertz III will take the reins, replacing Michael Hayes who last week was promoted to senior vice president and group heat of Hearst Television Inc., based in New ...

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