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  • Jay Haas Duffy Waldorf top Senior PGA leaderboard

    Rocco Mediate hits off the 11th tee during the first round of the Senior PGA Championship golf tournament at Bellerive Country Club, Thursday, May 23, 2013, in St. ...

  • Burrell Township supervisors consider using block grant for waterline extension

    A waterline extension in the Fairfield Heights section of Burrell Township has been mentioned by township supervisors as a likely use for the municipality's 2013 community development block ...

  • Acme church to host yard sale this weekend

    Acme United Methodist Church, 3016 Route 31, Acme, is holding a two-day yard sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Vendors are invited to come join them and set up a table to sell free of charge. Spaces are first come, first served. There is no need to reserve the space, and you can come as early at dawn to set up. Bring your own tables, food, and whatever else you will need to sell. ...

  • United School District eyes 8-mill tax hike

    Property owners in the United School District could face an 8-mill tax hike next school year, based on a tentative 2013-14 budget the school board approved ...

  • Blairsville monument planned for local residents lost in wartime action

    The Blairsville area certainly wasn't exempt from the sacrifice. Vietnam veteran Bill Orr is currently compiling a list of those who died in battle or went missing in action and were from Blairsville, Black Lick, Torrance, Brenizer, Strangford and other areas with a Blairsville mailing address. So far, he has 75 ...

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8 Mile

8 Mile

Practically the only white man to have made it big in the world of hip-hop, Eminem has been a scandal magnet for the last five years, quickly rising to the top of the pop-culture heap, embodying anger and turmoil and bravado in his undeniably creative and powerful music. Putting him in the lead role of a major film was a risk, even when it's one that tells a story mirroring his own life in so man ... ...

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  • Pittsburgh Laurels Lances

    Lance: To Bill Peduto. The Democrats' newly minted nominee for Pittsburgh mayor -- and given the Democrats' large registration edge, likely Pittsburgh's next mayor -- says we need government to empower people and innovation. And here we thought government derives its power from the people and that the private sector is the best catalyst for innovation. Silly ...

  • Indiana County approves firm for conducting reassessment

    The Indiana County Commissioners last week settled on a provider for the county's massive property tax reassessment project in what commissioner chairman Rodney Ruddock called "probably the most important decision the county commissioners have made in 10 ...

  • Hamlin takes Coca-Cola 600 pole with record lap

    Danica Patrick looks on as crew members work on her car during practice for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Thursday, May 23, ...

  • Authorities seize 1000 drug-laced candies in Pa.

    SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities say they confiscated more than 1,000 pieces of drug-laced candy during a house search in northeastern ...

  • Boy Scouts to drop ban on gay scouts

    The organization kept its ban on gay scout leaders, according to the Associated Press. About 1,400 Boy Scout leaders voted Thursday on whether to lift the ban on gay scouts during the organization's annual meeting in ...

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