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• Driver of car that plunged into Allegheny River on Thursday has died

  18-06-2016 23:56 via post-gazette.com
  
  A West View-area man who plunged his car into the Allegheny River in the Strip District on Thursday has died, officials said.
  
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• Colorado Mother Pulls Mountain Lion Off Her 5-Year-Old Son

  18-06-2016 23:24
  
  ASPEN, Colo. (AP) – Authorities say a mother fought off a mountain lion that attacked her 5-year-old son in Colorado on Friday night.
  The sheriff’s office said the boy’s mother heard screaming while he was playing outside in the front yard with his older brother. The mother ran outside, where she saw the animal on top of her son and she dragged the boy away.
  The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office said the boy suffered face, head and neck injuries and was in fair condition at
  
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• Driver pulled from submerged car in Allegheny River dies

  18-06-2016 23:15
  
  A man died Saturday afternoon after River Rescue pulled him from his car, which was in the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh’s Strip District Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Tornado confirmed west of Morgantown, Fayette County in Thursday's storms

  18-06-2016 22:28
  
  The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh confirmed the presence of two EF0 tornadoes during Thursday’s storms.
  
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• Funerals, Fear And Uncertainty Loom As Orlando Grieves

  18-06-2016 22:26
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – People marched down Orlando streets with rainbow flags and others lined up to wait hours for a “One Pulse” tattoo on Saturday as supporters tried to boost the somber city’s spirits while more victims of last weekend’s nightclub shooting were buried.
  Across from Cathedral Church of St. Luke, where Christopher Andrew Leinonen’s funeral was held, hundreds lined the street holding “We Support You” and other signs. The 32-year-old L
  
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• Obama Says Climate Change Already Damaging National Parks

  18-06-2016 21:44
  
  YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) – President Barack Obama said Saturday that climate change is already damaging America’s national parks, with rising temperatures causing Yosemite’s meadows to dry out and raising the prospect of a glacier preserve without its glaciers someday.
  “Make no mistake. Climate change is no longer just a threat. It’s already a reality,” Obama said from a podium, with Yosemite Falls, one of the world’s tallest at 2,425 feet, as
  
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• Teen accidentally shot in head while reloading gun at target practice

  18-06-2016 21:32
  
  A teen was accidentally shot in the head when his small-caliber gun fired while he was reloading it during target practice in Allegheny Township.
  
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• Parents ‘Overwhelmed’ By Support After Gator Kills Toddler

  18-06-2016 21:24
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – The parents of a Nebraska toddler killed by an alligator at Florida’s Walt Disney World said Saturday they are overwhelmed by the support they have received since the death of their son.
  Matt and Melissa Graves of Omaha, Nebraska, said in a statement they appreciate the support and love from friends in their community and around the country.
  “Melissa and I continue to deal with the loss of our beloved boy, Lane, and are overwhelmed with the support and love
  
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• Salem Township pizzeria struck by vehicle towing backhoe

  18-06-2016 21:15
  
  An SUV struck a Salem Township pizzeria Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Car crashes into Elmer's Aquarium in Monroeville

  18-06-2016 20:57
  
  A car crashed through the entrance of Elmer’s Aquarium in Monroeville Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Annual River Sweep picks up 42 tons of trash, 3-foot stuffed bear

  18-06-2016 20:52
  
  The 26th annual River Sweep took place Saturday at 15 cleanup sites across multiple counties.
  
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• Oakmont To Get US Open Again In 2025

  18-06-2016 19:14
  
  OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) – The USGA didn’t even wait for this U.S. Open to end before announcing Oakmont will get another one.
  USGA president Diana Murphy announced during the telecast Saturday that the U.S. Open will return to Oakmont in 2025. It will be the 10th time Oakmont hosts the U.S. Open in a span of just under 100 years.
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  Murphy also says Shinnecock Hills on Long Island will host the 2026 U.S. O
  
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• Chelsea Clinton Gives Birth To Second Child, Son Aidan

  18-06-2016 19:01
  
  NEW YORK (AP) – Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is a grandmother twice over.
  Chelsea Clinton announced Saturday that she has given birth to her second child, son Aidan.
  The 36-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and current presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lives in New York.
  She and her hedge fund manager husband Marc Mezvinsky have a 20-month-old daughter, Charlotte. Both Charlotte and Aidan were born at Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital.
  
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• Police: Pennsylvania Couple Gave Daughter To Man As Thanks

  18-06-2016 18:25
  
  FEASTERVILLE, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania couple is accused of child endangerment after police said they gave away their 14-year-old daughter to a man who helped them financially. The friend has been charged with sexually assaulting the teen, who had two children with him.
  Officials acting on a tip Thursday found 51-year-old Lee Kaplan at his Feasterville home, along with 12 girls ranging in age from six months to 18 years.
  According to an affidavit, the girl’s father, Daniel Stoltzfus
  
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• Officers Investigating After 18-Year-Old Shot In Head

  18-06-2016 17:05
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh police are investigating after an 18-year-old was shot in the head in Uptown early Saturday morning.
  The shooting happened shortly before 4 a.m. near the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Stevenson Street. Paramedics transported the victim, who is from Wilkinsburg, to UPMC Mercy. Police say he was last reported to be in stable condition.
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• Ex-police chief convicted of gambling away federal funding

  18-06-2016 16:27
  
  A former police chief in southwestern Pennsylvania has been convicted of using about $10,000 from a federal Drug Enforcement Administration fund at a casino.
  
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• Democrats take leap of faith into budget talks with GOP

  18-06-2016 16:18
  
  House Democrats this month helped pass bills that advanced a couple long-sought Republican priorities - scaling back traditional public pension benefits and breaking state-control over wine sales.
  
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• Man shot in head in Uptown

  18-06-2016 16:12
  
  Police are investigating a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood that occurred early Saturday morning.
  
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• Wilkinsburg man shot in the head in Uptown

  18-06-2016 15:10 via post-gazette.com
  
  A Wilkinsburg man was hot in the head early this morning in Uptown, police reported.
  
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• More than 100 people pledge to end domestic violence

  18-06-2016 13:25
  Allegheny County had the highest amount of domestic violence fatalities in Pennsylvania for the third year in a row in 2015, according to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence's 2015 Domestic Violence Fatality Report. On Friday afternoon, Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald joined their names to more than 1,200 signatures in the hopes of changing that.
  
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• Furry Tails: Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month

  18-06-2016 06:37
  
  It’s kitten season.
  It’s a time when animal shelters, locally and all across the country, overflow with stray kittens desperately in need of good homes.
  Here in Pittsburgh, shelters like the Animal Rescue League and Western Pa. Humane Society do their part to care for the cats. Taking them in, finding them foster homes, working to spay and neuter them.
  But the numbers can just be overwhelming.
  That’s why Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month is so important.
  According to statistics from th
  
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• Local education innovator honored at White House

  18-06-2016 06:34 via post-gazette.com
  
  WASHINGTON — Gregg Behr has been working to inspire Pittsburgh-area parents, teachers, artists, librarians, museum curators and others to create a seamless education network that’s built around the way 21st century children learn.
  
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• Suspect in distributing tainted heroin expected to plead guilty

  18-06-2016 06:33 via post-gazette.com
  
  An accused Pittsburgh drug dealer who backed out of a plea deal to federal charges that his fentanyl-laced heroin killed two people last year has changed his mind again.
  
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• Port Authority to sell Robinson land to developer

  18-06-2016 06:32 via post-gazette.com
  
  Port Authority is on the verge of selling nearly 8 acres of property from a failed attempt to set up a multi-modal facility in Robinson to a Washington County developer.
  
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• Long-planned sermons on gun violence take on new urgency

  18-06-2016 06:09 via post-gazette.com
  
  When a group of Christian organizations teamed with the Allegheny County Health Department in recent months to ask pastors to talk in their sermons Sunday about preventing gun violence, they were thinking mainly about the relentless beat of killings and other assaults, injuries and trauma affecting the families and neighborhoods of the victims.
  
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• Police cadets complain after training academy floods

  18-06-2016 06:02
  
  The Pittsburgh Fraternal Order of Police is upset after they said storms and flooding left raw sewage in police buildings on Washington Boulevard.
  
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• Soldier coming home after nearly seven decades

  18-06-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  It’s been more than 65 years since Richard Davis left his home in Black Lick, Indiana County, and was taken prisoner in the Korean War, never to be seen alive by his family again.
  
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• More than 50 shots fired in 3 shootings across Pittsburgh Friday

  18-06-2016 05:41
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• Business Owner Frustrated Over Repeated Flash Flooding On Washington Blvd.

  18-06-2016 05:26
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A low-lying section of Washington Boulevard has been a flash flooding trouble spot for years now.
  It was again late Thursday night and again early Friday morning.
  Joe Nichols says he’s sick and tired of the high water woes.He owns a welding business along the flood-prone road, near the century-old Larimer Avenue Bridge.
  Not only does his property get flooded when there’s a heavy downpour, but Nichols says two broken pipes near or under the crumbling bridge a
  
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• Pa. Game Control Board Launches Campaign To Keep The Underage Out Of Casinos

  18-06-2016 05:13
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Normally, casinos want as many visitors as possible, but they don’t want everyone.
  The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has launched a new effort to keep out those who aren’t old enough to be there.
  You’re not allowed on the gaming floor until you’re 21 in Pennsylvania.
  So the Gaming Control Board has a started the “What’s Really at Stake?” campaign on billboards and social media to teach young people what could happen if they&
  
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• Possible homicide suspect still at large following police pursuit

  18-06-2016 04:55
  
  A possible homicide suspect eluded police Friday night after a traffic pursuit through multiple Pittsburgh neighborhoods, police said.
  
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• Officer Hurt, Suspect Gets Away After Chase Ends In Shadyside

  18-06-2016 04:53
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh Police are looking for a possible homicide suspect after a chase through East Liberty Friday night that ended in Shadyside.
  According to Pittsburgh Public Safety officials, it all started around 9:50 p.m. along Friendship Avenue when an officer on patrol spotted the suspect who he believed was wanted on a warrant.
  The suspect was driving a black Pontiac Bonneville near Harriet Street.
  The officer tried to pull the car over, but the driver took off, and the of
  
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• Police chase turns to search after man jumps from his car in Shadyside

  18-06-2016 04:18 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh police were searching for a man who jumped out of his car as officers chased him tonight and disappeared behind houses near Fifth and Morewood Avenues in Shadyside.
  
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• Officer hurt as suspect eludes police following car chase and then foot pursuit

  18-06-2016 04:18 via post-gazette.com
  
  A man wanted on a warrant eluded capture by Pittsburgh police Friday evening after leading officers on a car chase through the East End then ditching his car and running away.
  
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• Officer hurt as suspect alludes police following car chase and then foot prusuit

  18-06-2016 04:18 via post-gazette.com
  
  A man wanted on a warrant eluded capture by Pittsburgh police Friday evening after leading officers on a car chase through the East End then ditching his car and running away.
  
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• Furry Tails: Stanley Is Waiting For A Forever Home

  18-06-2016 03:33
  
  Are you looking to bring a pet into your home? Local animal shelters are a great place to find a furry companion. So, as part of Furry Tails, I’ll be doing an ongoing feature on adoptable pets from local animal shelters once a week. If you have room in your heart and are looking to bring a lovable ball of fur into your home, maybe one of these guys is meant to be a part of your family!_____________________________________________________
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• Teen accidentally shot in face while reloading gun at target practice

  18-06-2016 03:28
  
  A teen was accidentally shot in the face when his small-caliber gun fired while he was reloading it during target practice in Allegheny Township.
  
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• Westmoreland teen shot in head

  18-06-2016 03:20 via post-gazette.com
  
  A 15-year-old boy was shot in the head Friday night in Westmoreland County, officials said.
  
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• Google pledges $1 million for Children's Museum to develop "makerspaces"

  18-06-2016 03:15 via post-gazette.com
  
  The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh has received a $1 million pledge from Google to help it develop ”makerspaces” at educational institutions across the nation, including schools and other youth-serving organizations.
  
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• USGA offering free shuttles from downtown to U.S. Open for weekend spectators

  18-06-2016 02:55
  
  The USGA will offer spectators complimentary shuttle service from the North Side T Station in downtown Pittsburgh to and from the U.S. Open Championship on Saturday and Sunday. 
  
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• Gallery: Say No More Initiative

  18-06-2016 01:32
  Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, said, "it is time to reflect and make sure we say no more." Kate Koenig Alison Hall, Executive Director of Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, shared a story about a first-year college student who was sexually assaulted at a college party.
  
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• Teenager Shot In The Head In Allegheny Township

  18-06-2016 01:12
  
  ALLEGHENY TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A teenage boy was rushed to the hospital after emergency officials say he was shot in the head late Friday afternoon in Westmoreland County.
  According the emergency dispatchers, the 15-year-old victim was taken by a medical helicopter to a local hospital.
  It happened around 5:20 p.m. along Melwood Road in Allegheny Township.
  A part of the road had to be shut down near Pounds Turkey Farm so the helicopter could land, but it has since been reopened.
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• Report: Person Shot In Allegheny Township

  18-06-2016 01:12
  
  ALLEGHENY TWP. (KDKA) — A person has been shot in Allegheny Township, according to reports.
  According to the Tribune-Review, authorities have shut down a portion of Melwood Road near Pounds Turkey Farm so emergency crews can land a helicopter to take a shooting victim to the hospital.
  There are reports that the victim is a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head.
  This is a developing story, stay with KDKA and KDKA.com for more information. 
  
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• Homewood man to stand trial on rape charges

  18-06-2016 01:12 via post-gazette.com
  
  A Homewood man will stand trial on charges he repeatedly raped a young girl over a four-year period.
  
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• Baby Sloth, Butterflies Featured At The National Aviary

  18-06-2016 00:52
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Sky Deck bird shows have taken wing again at the National Aviary.  But this year there’s something new, and a bit slower paced.  Valentino the two-toed sloth has grown a bit since he was flown to Pittsburgh four months ago.
  “He weighed about one and a half pounds when he arrived, and he weighs about four and a half, five pounds now,” said Aviary director Cheryl Tracy.
  She also introduced a screened-in Butterfly Garden.
  “It’s 
  
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• Prominent local doctor was passenger killed in plane crash

  18-06-2016 00:42
  
  Prominent Pittsburgh-area doctor identified as the second victim in a plane crash near State College.
  
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• Pregnant “Teacher Of The Year” Murdered, Asst. Principal Charged

  18-06-2016 00:35
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A Baton Rouge school’s assistant principal faces a murder charge in the death of a pregnant co-worker who allegedly threatened to expose their extramarital affair, police said Friday.
  Robert Javontie Marks, 39, already was jailed on a kidnapping charge when police arrested him Friday on new charges of first-degree murder and first-degree feticide in the death of 40-year-old Lyntell Washington.
  Washington’s body was found in a roadside ditch June 14 in Ib
  
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• Arrieta Goes 6 Innings For 11th Win, Cubs Beat Pirates 6-0

  18-06-2016 00:22
  
  CHICAGO (AP) – Jake Arrieta pitched two-hit ball over six innings, Matt Szczur homered, Albert Almora Jr. had three hits and the Chicago Cubs beat the struggling Pittsburgh Pirates 6-0 on Friday.
  Arrieta (11-1) struck out 11 and walked three as the Cubs started the weekend series on a strong note after dropping two of three at Washington.
  Szczur hit a two-run homer in the first inning on Francisco Liriano’s second pitch of the game.
  Almora had an RBI double during a three-run sixth t
  
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• Nick Bonino shears beard after post season triumph

  18-06-2016 00:14
  
  The beard of Pittsburgh Penguins center Nick Bonino took center stage in a Giant Eagle parking lot Friday.
  
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• Strip District’s Altar Bar To Return To Its Original Roots As A Church

  18-06-2016 00:09
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It’s known for its rock music in a small venue.
  “I hear that the Altar Bar is the loudest club in the U.S.  Is that true?” Michael Sweet of Stryper shouted to the crowd Thursday night.
  Loud or not, Altar Bar in the Strip District is about to return to its original roots as a church.
  “We’re very excited about the possibility of seeing the church reclaimed even back to a space for worship and ministry,” the Rev. Kurt Bjorklund told
  
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