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News: Pa. folks: Cadets graduate from Mansfield University Police Officers' Training Academy
A number of new community police officers in the Northern Tier graduated recently from the 24th Mansfield University Municipal Police Officers' Training Academy. The program is a required 750-hour course to obtain certification...
The Next Page: Berlin ... 20 years wall-free
When the Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989, David Francis was just a kid in Pittsburgh. Two blocks south of my office is historic Checkpoint Charlie, the militarized access point formerly dividing East and West Berlin. That was...
A ministry to orphans
Mary Blandino was reading her Bible seven years ago when James 1:27 stopped her cold. "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress ... ."
WIPO Commitee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright
As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in known for a very rigid course combating counterfeiting and piracy in general, it comes as a surprise that during a meeting of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement,...
Flag football leagues are more about meeting new people
By Nicholas Tolomeo, Special to the Post-Gazette Eric Singer throws in a city league flag football game in Polish Hill. Three games are ready to kickoff at three different fields, opening Week 6 of the Pittsburgh Sports...
Many illegal immigrants deported in 'a cloud of uncertainty'
HIDALGO, Texas -- Pablo "Paul" Peralta-Cruz stepped up to the U.S.-Mexico border just as the sun was falling to the horizon last month, casting a dull light over one of the busiest international crossing points in southern Texas.
Sunday Forum: Confessions of a serial texter
Phone rings: "Hello? According to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, I am a "menace to society." According to Mr. LaHood, nearly 6,000 people were killed and more than half a million were injured on America's roads last year...
Recession makes it easier for businesses to donate time than money
By Joyce Gannon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette For the first 14 years that it provided free admissions to sports and cultural events for low-income and at-risk children, Tickets for Kids Charities relied entirely on donations. A...
Kickback case looms for former Dick's VP
A former Dick's Sporting Goods executive is facing criminal charges for insider trading as well as for more than $2 million in payments that prosecutors say he and associates received in connection with the development of new...
One nation's intake of U.S. deportees burgeons
Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette GUATEMALA CITY -- Marta Munoz-Lopez strode through the room with a steely determination, her voice booming with the passion of an evangelical minister. The crowd, seated in plastic...
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