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  • Ex-Penn State assistant wants firing decision date

    HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A former Penn State assistant football coach who testified in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case is disputing the university's assertion that he was fired as part of a routine changing of the guard under a new head football ...

  • Saturday morning low temp tied record set in 1925

    The low of 34, set around 6:30 a.m., matched the low temperature last set on May 25, 1925. Friday's high of 51 set record for the coldest high temperature on May 24. The previous record was 52 degrees in ...

  • Quick long-term fixes in works for Wash. bridge

    In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, a rescue boat approaches the scene where a pickup truck and a car fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridgeThursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, ...

  • Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois Missouri News Sports

    By THOMAS ADAMSON CANNES, France (AP) - A French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival. To rousing applause, director Rithy Panh collected the award at a ceremony Saturday night, expressing his gratitude to be able ...

  • Grizzlies coach defends flagrant foul but not flop

    The Grizzlies want to make sure everyone know that just because Tony Allen was fined $5,000 for flopping by the NBA, doesn't mean that the key foul he drew in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals wasn't a ...

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Rosetta [Blu-Ray]

The title character of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardennes Rosetta is a young woman fighting on the margins of society, struggling against her unfairly appointed place in life with all of her might and getting nowhere. She is, in her own way, ferocious and relentless, but because the world is s ... ...

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  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 25

    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: Baltimore Orioles: 1. ...

  • French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris

    PARIS (AP) -- France's military spokesman says a soldier has been stabbed in the throat in the French commercial district of La Defense outside ...

  • Scouts decision to allow gay youths galvanizes critics supporters

    Former Cub Scouts den leader Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted from Scouting because she is openly gay, wears a button on her uniform shirt that reads "We Support All Boy Scouts" as she responds to a reporters question Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Grapevine, ...

  • Dye agrees to meet with NCAA investigators

    CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Miami senior Dyron Dye has agreed to meet for a third time with NCAA investigators, who want to know why there are discrepancies between what he told them in 2011 and what he wrote in a recent affidavit to support a former Hurricanes assistant coach.And according to that affidavit, Dye's explanation is simple. He claims he said what the NCAA told him in 2011 was ...

  • Pennsylvania native strives to fly from worlds wonders

    Jon Potter didn't need to be asked twice. When a guard pointed to the top of the Bent Pyramid, Potter quickly climbed up through cracks in its limestone face. The 22-year-old Lawrenceville native carried the equipment of a small ...

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