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• Hounds Defeated by Red Bulls II in Brandt’s Debut, 0-1

  29-05-2016 23:21
  
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  HARRISON, N.J. — The Pittsburgh Riverhounds (1-5-3) could not overcome a slow start in head coach Dave Brandt’s debut, losing to the New York Red Bulls II (6-1-3), 1-0, at Red Bull Arena. Their second-straight loss on the road, the lone goal conceded by the Hounds came by way of Junior Flemmings in the eighth minute.
  Brandt saw his team let up several early chances off set pieces by New York in the first 20 minutes. For the most part, goal
  
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• Horse Tosses Rodeo Performer Off Back, Tramples Him To Death

  29-05-2016 23:04
  
  PILESGROVE, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey authorities say a horse tossed a rodeo performer off its back in front of a crowd of thousands and then trampled him to death.
  Nineteen-year-old bareback rider Coy Lutz was trampled Saturday night at the Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove, about 35 miles southwest of Philadelphia. The Howard, Pennsylvania, resident died shortly afterward at a hospital.
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• Couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide identified

  29-05-2016 21:24
  
  Pittsburgh police say a man and a woman were found dead in a Bloomfield home Saturday.
  
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• Graffiti, burglary occurs in Somerset County school

  29-05-2016 20:45
  
  State police out of Somerset investigated a burglary that occurred Thursday at the Meyersdale Area School District.
  
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• Flash flood warning issues for areas along Monongahela River

  29-05-2016 19:40 via post-gazette.com
  
  The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for parts of Allegheny County this afternoon after a storm cell sat stationary above an area that includes Swissvale, Homestead, Braddock and Rankin.
  
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• Flash Flood Warning Issued For Allegheny County

  29-05-2016 19:19
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The National Weather Service says a flash flood warning is in effect for Allegheny County until later Sunday afternoon.
  According to the National Weather Service, flash flooding is expected to happen between 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Sunday in central Allegheny County. They say doppler radar shows thunderstorms and heavy rain coming into the area Sunday afternoon.
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• Beer: The fight over where you buy it in Pennsylvania

  29-05-2016 19:17
  
  Beer-buying Pennsylvanians are seeing a growing number of options where they can pick up a six-pack or two, though Pennsylvania still remains home to some of the nation's most restrictive beer sales laws.
  
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• Man Driving ATV Crashes Into Police Car

  29-05-2016 18:21
  
  SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A man crashed his ATV into a police car while attempting to flee from officers in Sugarcreek Township Saturday afternoon.
  State police say an East Franklin Township police officer spotted 27-year-old Andrew Kijowski driving an ATV on State Route 4017 in Sugarcreek Township around 6 p.m. Saturday. When the officer attempted to stop him and inform him he was not allowed to be driving on that road, Kijowski attempted to flee.
  Kijowski then struck an East Franklin
  
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• Three Young Adults Arrested For Shooting Wayne Twp. Home

  29-05-2016 18:02
  
  WAYNE TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — Police arrested three young adults Saturday morning in Wayne Township for shooting at a home while people were inside.
  According to state police, an officer heard several gunshots fired in the 1500-block of West Lawrence Avenue around 6:40 a.m. Around that time, Ellwood City Police stopped 19-year-old Dylan Main, 19-year-old Devin Myers and 20-year-old Shaquone Lockett, who were all in a vehicle that was speeding away from the area. Officers found a semi-automatic r
  
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• Man Arrested For DUI After Wrong-Way Crash

  29-05-2016 17:26
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh police arrested a man early Saturday morning after a car crash on Route 28.
  The accident happened in the southbound lanes of Route 28 around 5:30 a.m. Police officials say a man was driving the wrong way and crashed into another vehicle. Paramedics had to extricate a man from the front passenger seat, and he was sent to Allegheny General Hospital in serious condition.
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• Worker Struck By Freight Train In Lawrence County

  29-05-2016 17:10
  
  LAWRENCE COUNTY (KDKA) — Authorities are investigating after a worker was struck by a freight train in Lawrence County Saturday afternoon.
  The accident happened shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday near Cherry Street and Industrial Road in New Castle. The worker was struck by a CSX train and suffered what New Castle firefighters and paramedics call a “traumatic” injury. The worker was flown to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio.
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• 3 men fire shots into home during 'ongoing dispute'

  29-05-2016 16:53
  
  Three men were arrested after shooting in to a home where a family of four, including a 3-year-old, was present on Saturday.
  
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• Man rushed to hospital after tractor-trailer overturns, traps him

  29-05-2016 16:40
  
  One person was injured when a tractor-trailer overturned in Westmoreland County Saturday night.
  
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• Man crashes ATV into police cruiser while fleeing officers

  29-05-2016 16:38 via post-gazette.com
  
  A man was hospitalized after he crashed his ATV into a police cruiser while fleeing authorities in Armstrong County.
  
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• Man arrested after wrong-way crash seriously injures 1

  29-05-2016 16:38
  
  A man was arrested after a wrong-way crash on Route 28 early Sunday morning.
  
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• 3 arrested in Lawrence County after shots fired into home in 'ongoing dispute'

  29-05-2016 16:33 via post-gazette.com
  
  Three men were arrested and imprisoned after firing shots into a home occupied by people with whom the men have an “ongoing dispute,” according to police in Lawrence County.
  
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• Body found in Point State Park may be suicide

  29-05-2016 15:46 via post-gazette.com
  
  Authorities are investigating what appears to have been a suicide in a wooded area in Point State Park, Downtown.
  
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• Body found in Point State Park

  29-05-2016 15:46 via post-gazette.com
  
  Authorities are investigating what appears to have been a suicide in a wooded area in Point State Park, Downtown.
  
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• War memorials, monuments abound in Pittsburgh, but some in danger of being forgotten

  29-05-2016 06:10 via post-gazette.com
  
  “Lest We Forget” begins the carved inscription atop the imposing gray granite monument where Sandusky Street meets the North Side’s Allegheny Commons, the city’s oldest park.
  
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• War memorials, monuments abound in Pittsburgh, but some are ever in danger of being forgotten

  29-05-2016 06:10 via post-gazette.com
  
  “Lest We Forget” begins the carved inscription atop the imposing gray granite monument where Sandusky Street meets the North Side’s Allegheny Commons, the city’s oldest park.
  
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• Jobs decline helps to make Ford City Trump Country

  29-05-2016 06:09 via post-gazette.com
  
  FORD CITY, Pa. — Between Ford City Memorial Park and 13th Street, the Armstrong Trail carries you past the old tunnel through which thousands once streamed to industrial worksites along the Allegheny River. It passes the town clock, whose four different faces show four different times. And then the former rail line runs alongside blocks of abandoned concrete pads.
  
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• Resume of new Pittsburgh Public Schools superintendent contains discrepancies but turning things around is his hallmark

  29-05-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. — The new superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools has spent most of his career in a sprawling, diverse district in South Florida, where he has staked a claim on turning around troubled schools.
  
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• Obituary: The Rev. Kenneth Bailey / Presbyterian Bible scholar, author of 'Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes'

  29-05-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  His writings shaped a generation’s worth of Sunday sermons on the Prodigal Son, and they challenged the old Christmas-pageant trope of the barnyard birth of Jesus.
  
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• News Obituary: Kenneth Bailey / Described 'Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes'

  29-05-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  His writings shaped a generation’s worth of Sunday sermons on the Prodigal Son, and they challenged the old Christmas-pageant trope of the barnyard birth of Jesus.
  
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• New Pittsburgh Public Schools superintendent: Turning things around his hallmark

  29-05-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. — The new superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools has spent most of his career in a sprawling, diverse district in South Florida, where he has staked a claim on turning around troubled schools.
  
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• New Pittsburgh City Schools superintendent: Turning things around his hallmark

  29-05-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. — The new superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools has spent most of his career in a sprawling, diverse district in South Florida, where he has staked a claim on turning around troubled schools.
  
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• Dan’s Top 5 List: Your Favorite Pittsburgh Shortstops

  29-05-2016 06:00
  
  In honor of Clint Barmes retirement last week,The Fan wants you to rank your favorite Pittsburgh shortstops.
  Select 5!Take Our PollThe results to Dan’s Top 5 List will be revealed on Saturday, June 4, brought to you by Coldwell Banker Real Estate. List your home with Coldwell Banker.
  
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• Airman defended his country by never dropping a bomb

  29-05-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  Second Lt. Mitchell Higginbotham never bombed an enemy position in World War II. But he struck a blow for freedom just the same.
  
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• Local World War II Airman Interred In Sewickley Cemetery

  29-05-2016 05:37
  
  SEWICKLEY (KDKA) — A solemn, but patriotic tribute to a military hero this Memorial Day weekend.
  Mitchell Higginbotham was one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. Saturday, he was laid to rest at Sewickley Cemetery.
  Inside a casket draped with the American flag lies a war hero, whose contributions to the U.S. military are legendary, whose bravery is celebrated in his hometown of Sewickley.
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• Tractor-trailer truck overturns on Turnpike exit at Irwin interchange

  29-05-2016 05:25 via post-gazette.com
  
  A westbound ice-cream truck exiting the Pennsylvania Turnpike at the Irwin Interchange overturned  about 10 p.m. Saturday, entrapping the driver and forcing state police to close the ramp.
  
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• Obama Academy actress captures third Kelly Award

  29-05-2016 04:53 via post-gazette.com
  
  Marnie Quick of Pittsburgh Obama Academy was crowned Best Actress for the third straight year at Pittsburgh CLO’s Gene Kelly Awards, sending the senior to the National High School Musical Theater Awards for the third time. She will be joined in New York June 27 by first-time Best Actor winner Devin Moore of Chartiers Valley High School.
  
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• Darvish Wins 1st Start Since 2014 As Rangers Top Pirates 5-2

  29-05-2016 04:39
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – Yu Darvish struck out seven in five strong innings in his first start in the majors in almost 22 months, and the Texas Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 on Saturday night.
  The Japanese right-hander allowed three singles with a walk in his return from last year’s Tommy John surgery, ending Pittsburgh’s five-game winning streak.
  Adrian Beltre had a two-run homer in the first inning off Juan Nicasio (3-3) to become the fourth third baseman with at lea
  
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• Community holds benefit for man injured in Salem Township gas line explosion

  29-05-2016 04:26
  
  James Baker is still in the hospital, recovering from his injuries
  
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• Homicide-suicide leaves two dead in Bloomfield

  29-05-2016 03:25 via post-gazette.com
  
  A husband called 911 Saturday afternoon warning that there would be two dead people inside the residence in Bloomfield.
  
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• Apparent murder-suicide leaves two dead in Bloomfield

  29-05-2016 03:25 via post-gazette.com
  
  A husband called 911 Saturday afternoon warning that there would be two dead people inside the residence in Bloomfield.
  
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• Additional 12 Million Vehicles Recalled For Defective Airbags

  29-05-2016 03:01
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — After more than a year of announcing recalls, 12 million more vehicles are being recalled due to defective Takata airbags.
  CBS News reports that Honda recalled more than 4.5 million vehicles Friday, and Fiat Chrysler recalled 4.3 million.
  Earlier this week, Toyota recalled 1.6 million vehicles.
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  The faulty airbags have been responsible for at least 11 deaths, including the death of on
  
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• Veterans Sites In California, Kentucky, Virginia Damaged

  29-05-2016 02:21
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) – Memorials to veterans in a Los Angeles neighborhood and a town in Kentucky, as well as a Civil War veterans cemetery in Virginia, were damaged as the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, officials said.
  A Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area of Los Angeles has been extensively defaced by graffiti. The vandalism occurred sometime during the past week, KCAL/KCBS-TV reported. The homespun memorial painted on a block-long wall on Pacific Avenue lists the names of America
  
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• Man arrested after firing weapon in Lawrence County

  29-05-2016 00:44
  
  A man was arrested in Lawrence County Saturday after reports of a shooting.
  
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• Spaghetti Dinner Held To Benefit Pipeline Burn Victim

  29-05-2016 00:34
  
  SALEM TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — It was one month ago that a gas pipeline ruptured in Westmoreland County, sending a fireball into the air.
  For the Salem Township community, that memory is still fresh. A benefit dinner was held Saturday evening for a man who was severely burned in the explosion.
  Hundreds of people attended the event at the Slickville Volunteer Fire Department. The dinner helped to raise money for 27-year-old James Baker, who suffered burns over 75 percent of his body after the expl
  
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