Matthews International News

Matthews International Corp., North Shore, said profit dropped 23 percent to $15.6 million, or 52 cents a share, for the fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept.

Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:46 When 20 or so Hill District residents attended the regularly scheduled Dinwiddie Community Alliance meeting, they expected to hear from Hill House CEO Evan Frazier that construction would soon begin on a grocery and retail center anchored by a Kuhn's market.

Pittsburgh-based Fort Street Entertainment is winding up preproduction on its revenge/horror shocker REVENGE IS HER MIDDLE NAME, an ode to the gruesome drive-in flicks of the 1970s.

Chaz Rough is shown with his iPhone app at his YogaMazing studio. While Chaz Rough sleeps, someone around the world is buying the iPhone/iPod application created for his YogaMazing brand of yoga lessons.

After news of the vandalized grave broke, Paul Chait and his staff at Floral Hills Memory Gardens could hardly keep up with the telephone calls.

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Cremations increasing, funeral industry squeezed Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:19 "The economy has impacted people's willingness to spend on funerals and memorial services, and we see that being translated to lower-priced products being sold," said Joseph Bartolacci, president and CEO of Matthews International.

Carnegie Mellon University's Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews and Jose M.F. Moura received a three-year $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to identify inexpensive ways to track energy consumption in buildings.

Matthews International Corporation announced that Alvaro Garcia-Tunon was elected to the Company's Board of Directors.

Steven Nicola, chief financial officer of Matthews International Corp., and Joseph Bartolacci, president and CEO, stand with some of the bronze plaques made with their digital technology.

It's pitch black in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room. The hum of a warming projector comes from somewhere in the dark.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well. You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

State police say a western Pennsylvania high school teacher reported her cell phone was missing soon after she supervised three students during a detention class.

Number of reported child abuse cases increases The number of reported child abuse cases within the local school district increased by more than fifty percent.

A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police.

It's that time of year again. The leaves are turning color. The air is getting crisp.

Hot flashes can range from irritating to debilitating, but they may also be a sign of something worse: As women go through menopause, hot flashes may signal a higher risk of heart disease and heart attacks, according to new data presented Friday at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society in San Diego.

The news that Thom Yorke had come to Los Angeles and formed a temporary supergroup with Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers was surprise enough to most Radiohead fans.

The beleaguered U.S. dollar isn't getting much love these days, except from one small but powerful group: deep-pocketed institutional traders, who are piling into dollars with ever greater enthusiasm because it is so weak and cheap to borrow.

Re "Hysteria and fear" : When you say that Glenn Beck is not a real talk show host, do you mean a real talk show host like Chris Matthews or Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and let's not forget the fair and balanced Keith Olbermann? If you think these four are fair and balanced, I've got a bridge I would like to sell you.