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Concert on Sunday to benefit Arnold park
The group will sponsor "Rockin' Roosevelt," a benefit concert to raise money for summer playground attendants for the park at the corner of Drey Street and Constitution ...
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Craftsman’s skill nature ensured loyal following
The business was well-regarded, and loyal customers followed when Mr. Manchini moved his shop from New Kensington to Creighton, East Deer ...
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Stark divide for coroner
The race in the primary for Armstrong County Coroner is between two candidates with vastly disparate backgrounds: One has served as deputy coroner for the past four years, and the other won't be able to be certified as a coroner until after the general election in ...
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Budget issues top borough candidates’ concerns
Kittanning Borough Council candidates seeking nomination in the May primary are looking to move past recent bickering to focus on the budget -- which continues to have implications for street repairs and expenditures in the police ...
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Owners pledge to revitalize Century III
A new day may be dawning for Century III Mall, after Moonbeam Capital Investments LLC closed a deal to purchase the West Mifflin retail complex for $10.5 million. Moonbeam senior vice president Shawl Pryor said his firm 'is committed to providing our retailers and customers a comfortable (and) pleasant shopping ...
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Duquesne youngsters could end up at W. Mifflin
"Discussions with West Mifflin Area have resumed in regard to the enrollment of K-6 students for the 2013-2014 school year," court-appointed Duquesne City School District receiver Paul B. Long said in an email on Friday to faculty members and administrative ...
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Students worked toward ‘life goals’
"It's more than just a piece of paper. It's an accomplishment," Mary Swink of McKeesport said. "I can work toward my goals now. I want to go to college and be a ...
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District merger not on radar for Apollo-Ridge school board candidates
Apollo-Ridge School District has only about 1,400 students, but none of the district's candidates for school board see a need to merge with any other ...
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Moon Area school superintendent to retire
Milanovich started her education career in 1975 as a teacher in Moon Area's Bon Meade Elementary School; before accepting her current position, she was superintendent of the Baldwin-Whitehall School ...
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Write-ins necessary in some borough council elections
Two Republicans in West Mifflin are seeking multiple jobs. John Koczka and Jay Goonetilleke are running for council and the GOP tax collector nod, while Koczka also is running for mayor. Democrats running for council include incumbent Michael Olack, former councilmen C.L. Jabbour and Kenneth Ruffing, West Mifflin Area High School athletic director Scott Stephenson, returning candidates Dan Davis ...
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Hempfield man gets 5 to 10 years in prison for firing at troopers in what lawyer called an ‘anomaly’
Ryan, 45, was sentenced Friday in Westmoreland County court to serve five to 10 years in a state prison followed by 10 years of probation in connection with a standoff at his Antler Lane home overnight on Oct. ...
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Lincoln police chief maintained strong ties to community
Lupinacci was hired as a rookie police officer by the borough in 1999 and was chief for the past 2 years. He's spent the last 18 months fighting the cancer that he'd been diagnosed with on his 50th ...
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TIF for Summerset development sought
Developers of the last phase of a Squirrel Hill housing development are seeking approval of a $24 million tax-increment financing plan to complete the ...
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Wabash Tunnel hours to be permanently restricted
The Wabash Tunnel will be off limits to motorists during overnight hours when it reopens early next month, officials said, partly because of drunken ...
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Agency Charters ignore most records requests
HARRISBURG -- Charter schools, funded with about $1.1 billion a year in tax money, ignored citizens' requests for records about 87 percent of the time and didn't participate in nearly three of four appeals to the Office of Open Records, agency records ...
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Two Allegheny County bars were scheduled to be closed Friday for failing to pay county’s drink tax one pays up
Two Allegheny County bars were scheduled to be closed Friday for failing to pay the county's 7 percent drink tax, Treasurer John Weinstein ...
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Belle Vernon family suing VFD over crash
A Belle Vernon family alleges in a lawsuit that a Rostraver Central Volunteer Fire Department truck did not have its siren activated and ignored a red light when it slammed into a sport utility vehicle on July ...
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Review Bellamy puts the blues in RB
Austin, Texas-based newcomer Candace Bellamy puts the "blues" in rhythm & blues on stellar debut "In My Lane." After singing in her high school and college choirs, Bellamy put music on hold to study medicine. She operated a successful practice for several years, but music kept calling her back. So she moved to Austin and set about forging a new career path. This ...
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Lawrence County man involved in domestic dispute dies of self-inflicted gunshot wounds
Joseph Lupo, 50, died in St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio, where he was taken following the shooting that occurred at 11:15 p.m. Sunday in Mahoning, state police said. His wife, Caroline Lupo, 50, is recovering from her wounds, troopers ...
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Man shot in leg in Hill District
Police were called around 5 p.m. for a report of a man shot in the leg along Bedford Avenue, emergency dispatchers said. Paramedics told dispatchers they were taking a 22-year-old man to UPMC Mercy, Uptown, with a wound of the inner ...
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Former pharmacist sentenced to prison for illegally possessing firearm
A federal judge on Friday sentenced a former Oakland pharmacist to 188 months in prison for illegally possessing a shotgun that police found inside his ...
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Twins pen loses lead in 3-2 loss to Red Sox in 10
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - For the second time in two weeks, the Minnesota Twins scored enough to win against Boston’s unbeaten ace, Clay ...
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Four children and two adults killed in Pennsylvania house fire
Water service had been shut off two weeks before a tragic Mother's Day house fire took the lives of four children and two adults in the small town of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Those killed in the May 12 fire have been identified as Eric Brown, 30 and his four children: Elijah, 2; Emily, 3; Jeremiah, 7; and Joy, age 8. Another adult, Kristina Thomas, 26, also died in the fire. Kristina was ...
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Rockies end 10-game skid vs Giants with 10-9 win
Jordan Pacheco hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the fifth and Carlos Gonzalez added a solo homer, helping the Colorado Rockies hold on for a 10-9 win over San Francisco on Friday night that snapped a 10-game skid against the Giants.Pacheco laced his first homer of the season to left on a hanging slider from Madison Bumgarner (4-2), who failed to protect an early four-run lead.Jorge De La Rosa ...
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Mariners downed by Indians Kipnis 6-3 in 10
Eric Wedge got the lefty-on-lefty matchup that he wanted in the 10th inning, but not the result.Jason Kipnis belted a two-out, three-run homer off Seattle reliever Lucas Luetge, giving the streaking Cleveland Indians a 6-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.Luetge (0-1) left an 0-1 slider over the plate, which fellow left-hander Kipnis hammered 365 feet over the wall in right ...
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Philadelphia expands recycling, but not all is well
Philadelphia is expanding the range of recyclable products its accepts in the refuse disposal systems and in effort to increase recycling rates and save money for the city council during current lean times. But, there is a concern among environmentalists that increased recycling may actually have negative side effects.
Recycling across the country is not entirely mainstreamed yet, according to figures from 2007 to 2008 (the most recent available), just 11% of all the USA’s garbage was recycled. Environmentalists point to figures such as these for the reason why landfills are running out, pollution is increasing and the environment is suffering. Read more
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