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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Channing Tatum Filming ‘Foxcatcher’ in Connoquenessing

Area residents are going crazy trying to get a glimpse of “The Sexiest Man Alive.” Plus, leave your Tatum sightings in the comment section below.

Most days, the borough of Connoquenessing is a quiet, suburban community —except for when there are movie trailers in the area. Oh yeah, and hordes of eager young girls trying to catch a glimpse of People Magazine’s newly minted “Sexiest Man Alive,” Channing Tatum. That’s right, Tatum has been in the Connoquenessing area all week filming Foxcatcher, a Hollywood movie starring Tatum, Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo. Based on a true story, the film is about John du Pont (Carell), a chemical fortune heir who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and went to prison for killing David Schultz (Ruffalo), a 1984 gold medal winning wrestler. Tatum Channing plays Mark, Schultz's younger brother. On Wednesday, there was security posted around …

A. Gullickson

1:35 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012

Agreed! Forget Tatum, Ruffalo's the REAL hero -- someone willing to take a stand for human rights!!! I hope while he's in the area he takes the opportunity to visit with our local victims of toxic fracking and to show solidarity with the fractivists who are working so hard to defend our clean air and water here in western PA. www.marcellusoutreachbutler.org and www.marcellusprotest.org   more ›

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Police: Connoquenessing Man Shoots, Kills Grandson

Austin Riddell was 19 years old. State police say he was arguing with his grandfather in the home they shared.

A 76-year-old Connoquenessing man is in Butler County Prison without bond Saturday after police charged him with killing his 19-year-old grandson. Larry Karnes, of Sunset Drive, was involved in a verbal altercation with Austin Riddell at their home Friday before fatally shooting him in the chest with a .22 caliber rifle, according to state police at Butler. Riddell was pronounced dead inside the home, which they shared, police said.   Karnes is charged with criminal homicide. He was arraigned before District Judge Kevin O'Donnell.

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