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  • 3-year-old learns to live with juvenile arthritis

    His mother, Ashley Mikula, said that when he was initially diagnosed, he could hardly walk sometimes "He would sit in a chair and cry and say, 'Momma, I hurt. Help it,'" Mikula said. The pain was first helped by steroid injections directly into his joints, his knees and an ankle. Because the injections are painful, pediatric rheumatologists give them to children under general ...

  • Security concerns raised for Pittsburgh Pride events

    They want to be assured that Pittsburgh Pride events will be given full attention when it comes to security, and they said that they will. The Delta Foundation said that for the first time the group is working with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, in addition to its regular partnership with Pittsburgh police. "We're taking the concerns, meeting with law enforcement and ...

  • IRS replaces official in tea party controversy

    In this May 22, 2013, photo, Lois Lerner listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday, May 23, 2013, that he ...

  • Study No higher cancer rate at Conn. Pratt plant

    HARTFORD, Conn. -; An 11-year study of the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in the state ended Thursday with university researchers saying they found no statistically significant elevations in the rate of cancer among ...

  • Jodi Arias jurors deadlock New jury to be chosen

    An Arizona jury Thursday said it was unable to reach a unanimous agreement and would be unable to decide what penalty Jodi Arias should receive for killing her ...

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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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  • Colonial member Palmer has 1st-round lead with 62

    Ryan Palmer watches his tee shot on the fourth hole during the first round of the Colonial golf tournament, Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Forth Worth, ...

  • Phanatic joins phun as teacher student honored

    LINWOOD, N.J. -- Hundreds of students dressed in red and white were met by a big, green visitor Thursday afternoon at Seaview Elementary School. The Phillie Phanatic was greeted with cheers and danced with students as part of a Phillies pep rally at the school. The celebration was to honor third-grader Ethan Levine, who won the New Jersey Education Association's "Educators who inspire ...

  • Burnett Bucs looking to stay tough on Crew

    Miller Park hasn't been kind to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Since opening in 2001, the Pirates have won just 32 of 102 games at the home of the Milwaukee Brewers. Additionally, the Bucs, who haven't enjoyed a winning season in 20 years, have gone 28-72 against the Brewers over the last seven seasons, including an 8-46 record during that span at Miller Park. But after winning the last ...

  • 8 charged in alleged high-grade pot ring in Pa.

    NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say they've broken up a multimillion-dollar drug ring that trafficked in high-grade ...

  • Suspect surrenders in foundry evacuation

    Matthew Devon Smith, 28, didn't verbally threaten workers at Perma-Cast Inc. when he entered the foundry at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, but seeing him carrying an assault rifle and a handgun frightened them, township police Chief John Otto ...

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