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  • Penguins invite small fan with big memory to playoff game

    Four-year-old Macin DeFazio has been garnering almost as much attention as his favorite team these days for his ability to rattle off the names and numbers of Penguins players with ...

  • FBI executes search warrant in ricin letter case

    SPOKANE, Wash. -; The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant Saturday in the case of two letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at a post office in Washington ...

  • Man sentenced in 1994 eastern Pa. slaying

    EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- A man called one of the commonwealth's 10-most-wanted fugitives has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison in the stabbing death of a man during a game of dominoes nearly two decades ago in eastern ...

  • Grandparents providing more care for grandkids

    ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, MAY 18 - Brynn Elicker, 2, of West York, puts a puzzle piece on her grandfather, Rich Funke, as her cousin Rylan DeNunzio, 1, of Palmyra, and grandmother Kelly Funke play at the Funke's home in Dover Township Thursday, May 9, 2013. Rylan was spending a week with his grandparents while his parents were away, and Brynn was being babysat while her mom worked. (AP ...

  • Driver dies in Mercer County crash

    The driver of a car in Mercer County was killed early Saturday morning after losing control of the vehicle and crashing on Route 358 in Perry ...

Movie Review

Life is Beautiful (La Vita é Bella)

The title of Roberto Benigni's "Life is Beautiful" ("La Vita Bella") is, like the similarly titled "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), both sincere and ironic at the same time. The title is not a simplistic aphorism, not an all-encompassing proclamation that life is beautiful, but rather a statement about a person's will to see life as beautiful, even under the worst conditions. Therein lies the iron ... ...

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  • Loyalhanna parents denied contact once baby born

    Assistant District Attorney Judy Petrush said Elizabeth Mae Fair, 21, is due to give birth in the next month and asked that Fair and Christopher Lawrence Peterman, 30, be denied contact with the ...

  • Judge snookered by service dog claim

    A Bucks County district judge says he fell for a dog owner's story that her wiener dog had a right to be in the courtroom with her for medical reasons. Now Judge Daniel Baranoski is warning his county colleagues to be on the lookout for similar phony service dog ...

  • Design studio hopes to add to Pittsburgh’s social spaces

    While there's boundless appeal to city living -- great views, walkable communities, scads of culture -- oftentimes, city spaces don't offer much in the way of outdoor ...

  • Free van service in East Pittsburgh to end in June due to funding cuts

    At least one resident in East Pittsburgh is concerned after receiving a newsletter that stated Work Line, a free van service that helps people get to their jobs, will be ending its service at the end of June because of funding cuts.Marti Holmes said ending this service will force her and a lot of other people to walk up a steep hill and at least 200 steps to get alternate ...

  • Incumbent-less race lets Burgh his reset button

    "We can have the re-establishment of Pittsburgh right now, in this race, rather than waiting until someone wins" in November, said Joseph Sabino Mistick, a law professor and longtime Pittsburgh political ...

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