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$25 for $50 Worth of Home Technology from The Sharper Image

Without high-tech gizmos, depressed utility belts would fill their pockets with cotton balls and passive-aggressively drop superheroes’ trousers. Keep your crime-fighting pants fashionably fastened with today’s Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of home technology from The Sharper Image ’s online store. Today’s Groupon can be applied toward shipping costs , which start at $9.95 for packages under 5 pounds delivered via FedEx. The Sharper Image’s catalog of high-tech gadgetry streamlines lifestyles with sleek designs and multiple functions combined in one device. The instant wine chiller ($39.99) breathes cool life into warm wines, fastening to the top of bottles and chilling the liquid with its icy interior tubes and stories of haunted casks. The voice-alert barbecue thermometer ($49.99) communicates wirelessly with a distant meat thermometer, conveniently announcing temperature and readiness like a proud stork on a delivery. Awake to conveniently positioned digital digits with the ceiling-lighting projection clock ($39.99) or dismiss distracting desk clutter with the multipurpose space-saving Internet phone ($49.99), which displays time and temperature, interfaces with chat clients such as Skype, doubles as a computer speaker, and triples as a footrest. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Fancy Hamburgers Are burgers happier when they involve sadness? Read more…

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Staal scores twice to give him 100 career goals; Penguins beat Devils 4-1

PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The wrong player was charged with the crime, and the true offender went free and tied the game.

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Suspect Gets Trial In Squirrel Hill Man’s Slaying

A man accused of killing an elderly man in Squirrel Hill on April 5 will go to trial after police said he confessed to the crime.

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City task force reduces crime by targeting nuisance properties

The noise, the crime and the chaos that once enveloped the Reed Roberts housing complex in the Hill District have all but vanished within the past few months, resident Darlene Hart said yesterday.

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City task force reduces crime by targeting nuisance properties

Zach Duke Signs Contract With Diamondbacks

Zach Duke Signs Contract With Diamondbacks — Fri Dec 03 12:52:00 UTC 2010 PHOENIX (KDKA/AP) — Former Pittsburgh Pirates left-hand pitcher Zach Duke, who was traded from the Pirates to the Arizona Diamondbacks… by Pirates via 93.7 The Fan Pittsburgh Read the rest of this story… 07.52 about: Arizona Diamondbacks KDKA Law Crime left-hand pitcher Pittsburgh Pirates Sports Zach Duke at: Arizona Diamondbacks

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Pa. woman wants house arrest in officer’s death

Pa. woman wants house arrest in officer’s death — Tue Nov 30 12:55:16 UTC 2010 YORK, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania woman convicted of vehicular homicide in the death of a police officer is seeking house arrest because her unborn child has been diagnosed with a developmental problem.Joanna Seibert’s attorney says his client is… about: attorney Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia David Tome Ed Spreha Joanna Seibert Law Crime Northern York Regional Police officer police officer Police officer WHTM-TV WKBNStateNewsPennsylvania at: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Children’s Hospital

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Small-town Pa. mayor arrested for hospital protest

Small-town Pa. mayor arrested for hospital protest — Tue Nov 30 03:06:59 UTC 2010 PITTSBURGH (AP) — A small-town mayor upset about the closing of a hospital in his community has been arrested at the hospital’s corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh.Pittsburgh police say Braddock Mayor John Fetterman was charged Monday with defiant tre… about: Braddock Hospital John Fetterman KDKA-TV Law Crime mayor Pittsburgh Medical Center small-town mayor The skyscraper University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Medical Center US Steel Tower WKBNStateNewsPennsylvania at: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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Federal defendant represents himself, wins mistrial

Federal defendant represents himself, wins mistrial — Thu Nov 25 01:47:45 UTC 2010 A 28-year-old East Pittsburgh man and convicted robber, taking the unusual step of representing himself in a federal criminal trial, argued his way to a draw today, achieving a mistrial on charges that he possessed a firearm despite a past felony. about: Conviction Crime and Justice Felony Injustice Pittsburgh Trial War Conflict

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Katherine Mallon of McCandless Township

Katherine Mallon of McCandless Township — Wed Nov 24 06:40:08 UTC 2010 Katherine Hoeveler Mallon, 89, of McCandless Township, died Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. She was the beloved wife of John B. Mallon; loving mother of John B. (Pamela) Mallon Jr., Kevin H. (Krista) Mallon and Kerry M. (James) Cassidy; proud grandmother of 11… about: Clara Wishart Death Death Care Funeral Funeral Services James Hemphill Hoeveler John B Mallon John B (Pamela) Mallon Jr Katherine Hoeveler Mallon Katherine Mallon Kerry M (James) Cassidy Kevin H (Krista) Mallon Law Crime McCandless Township St Sebastian and St Alexis Church Suburban General Hospital at: Suburban General Hospital

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Firefighters Investigate Separate Allegheny County Blazes

Firefighters Investigate Separate Allegheny County Blazes — Mon Nov 22 12:59:18 UTC 2010 Firefighters are investigating separate house fires in Allegheny County. about: Allegheny Allegheny County Counties Law Crime at: Allegheny County

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