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Former Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin signs copies of her book yesterday at Sam's Club in South Strabane.
A college student home for the weekend might expect a warm bed and a hot meal. That had to wait for Addie Witt, who drove east Friday night from Ohio's Otterbein College to join her father, Kerry Witt, on a chilly parking lot sleepover next to the cinder block wall of a Sam's Club in Washington County. (Today)
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Beer cans litter the grave of Revolutionary War hero Arthur St. Clair in St. Clair Park in Greensburg.
Bankrupted by the country he helped create and forgotten by a history he set on its course, Arthur St. Clair lies on a hillside in Greensburg, discarded beer cans littering his patriot grave. (Today)
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Ramona Searles stands on the corner in front of Homewood's Mac Can Do bar on Brushston Avenue.
The drab, faded, red facade of the Mac Can Do bar squats at the intersection of Homewood's Brushton Avenue and Kelly Street, one of the most violent corners in Pittsburgh. (Today)
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Investigators from the Allegheny County fire marshal's office examine the scene of an overnight fire in the 5200 block of Poe Way in Lawrenceville. One man died in the blaze.
One man died early yesterday in a raging Lawrenceville house fire that spread to an adjacent home and across a narrow alley to two other houses before firefighters arrived. (Today)
The state Department of Education recognized 1,939 public schools statewide with Keystone Achievement Awards for making adequate yearly progress ??? known as AYP ??? for two consecutive years, 2007-08 and 2008-09. (Today)