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  • Judge Ariz. sheriffs office profiles Latinos

    A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic known as stop, question and frisk, and whether changes are needed to department policy, training and ...

  • Game blog Brewers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates

    and answer some of your questions during every Brewers game this season. Tonight, the Brewers return to Miller Park after a day off to face the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have won four of seven games against Milwaukee this season including three straight last week in Pittsburgh. Marco Estrada (3-2, 5.44 ERA) is on the mound for the Brewers against Pittsburgh's A.J. Burnett (3-4, 2.57). Game ...

  • Company investigates explosion at Pa. steel plant

    ArcelorMittal spokesman William Steers told the Daily Local newspaper Friday that both the company and steelworkers' union are looking into the incident. Federal health and safety officials have also been ...

  • Teen gives dying father surprise at prom

    Trays of food resting on the kitchen table. Fresh-cut flowers. The smell of hairspray in the air. Sixteen-year-old Madison Dobas' house was filled with all of the typical signs she was heading to her first prom. But unlike most of the other teenagers who would be attending California Area High School's prom Friday night, Madison was also getting ready for something ...

  • Braddock marks five years since last murder

    As a result, Levi's Jeans featured the town in an ad campaign three years ago and donated $1 million to turn an abandoned church into a community ...

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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  • How safe is that bridge youre driving over

    Like millions of other Americans, Dan and Sally Sligh packed up their vehicle and headed out for a Memorial Day weekend trip. As they crossed the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River outside Seattle, Washington, the bridge gave way and their pickup truck plunged into the frigid ...

  • No bail for Philly parents in faith-healing death

    By MARYCLAIRE DALE,Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) - After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.But now they've lost an 8-month-old to what a prosecutor called "eerily similar" circumstances. And instead of another ...

  • Man will be tried for crash that killed Pa. chief

    A York County judge ruled that there's enough evidence to try Matthew Diehl. He is accused of fatally striking Loganville Fire Chief Rodney Miller while Miller directed traffic last ...

  • 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 ...

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