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The Karen Prunzik Broadway Dance Studio mini-rockettes performed at Market Square, Downtown, as part of Light Up Night festivities.
Pittsburghers still like to see the light
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Dan and Janet Lohr first pulled on their parkas and headed to Light Up Night when their daughter, Mary Beth, was small enough for Dan to hoist into the air for a prime view of the illuminating (Today)
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Hillel Academy students Ben Kohane, left, and Daniel Sax did their part to improve the Three Rivers Heritage Trail on the South Side on Tuesday. Both are 10th-grade students at the academy.
At School: Hillel Academy students carefully study 'Heart of Darkness'
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When Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh chose Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" for all high school students to read, students immediately noticed it was short, just 72 pages. (Today)
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Pennsylvania's jobless rate rises
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The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania continued to creep up in October, gaining one-tenth of 1 percentage point compared with September, to reach 5.8 percent. (Today)
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Army veteran Larry Babitts, of Boiling Springs, Pa., salutes the flag-draped casket of Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll yesterday at the Capitol in Harrisburg.
Knoll remembered as 'woman of steel, compassion'
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HARRISBURG -- Gov. Ed Rendell, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Rep. John Murtha eulogized Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll yesterday as a pioneer in Pennsylvania politics and "a woman of steel but also a woman of compassion." (Today)
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Death of witness prompts dismissal of homicide charge
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Homicide charges were withdrawn yesterday against a North Side man, primarily because a key witness to the slaying has been killed. (Today)
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