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• Would you ride in a self-driving Uber? Here's what Pittsburghers say

  18-08-2016 23:43
  
  Uber will make self-driving cars available in Pittsburgh. Would you ride in one? Answers range from curiosity and interest to skepticism and concern for safety.
  
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• Police: Amish man drives buggy drunk, with friends on roof

  18-08-2016 23:34
  
  State police say a man was driving under the influence while two of his four passengers rode on the roof of his buggy in Indiana County.
  
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• Pedestrian struck by car outside PNC Park dies

  18-08-2016 23:33 via post-gazette.com
  
  One of the two pedestrians struck by a car in the North Shore as they were leaving a Pirates game at PNC Park earlier this month has died, officials said.
  
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• Rio Olympics Medalist From Mt. Lebanon Meets Rescue Dog Named After Her

  18-08-2016 23:29
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Leah Smith of Mount Lebanon inspired many when she stunned at the Rio Olympics, winning a gold medal for the women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay and a bronze medal for the 400-meter freestyle.
  At the Western Pa. Humane Society, there is a pooch named after Smith who undoubtedly agrees she did us all proud.
  On Thursday, the swimmer met her namesake, a 1-year-old pit bull who came to the shelter as a stray.‘Leah,’ the pup, will be av
  
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• Photos: Local Olympic Medalist Meets Rescue Dog Named After Her

  18-08-2016 23:29
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Leah Smith of Mount Lebanon inspired many when she stunned at the Rio Olympics, winning a gold medal for the women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay and a bronze medal for the 400-meter freestyle.
  At the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, there is a pooch named after Smith who undoubtedly agrees she did us all proud.
  On Thursday, the swimmer was met her namesake, a one-year-old pit bull who came to the humane society as a stray.‘Leah,&rsqu
  
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• Local locks looking for big bucks

  18-08-2016 22:59
  
  Action News Investigates reported some locks in Western Pennsylvania were falling apart. On Thursday, Sen. Bob Casey said progress was being made replacing a critical lock in Charleroi.
  
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• Meth lab discovered in Salem neighborhood

  18-08-2016 22:57
  Police cruisers blocked off the 600 block of North Ellsworth Avenue around noon Thursday, while a search was conducted at a home. Police Chief J.T. Panezott says officers found what he described as a small meth making operation in one of the apartments of the home.
  
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• Angie’s List: Unapproved Coolants Being Used To Recharge AC Units

  18-08-2016 22:56
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Just as summer really heats up, Angie’s List is warning consumers to be on the lookout for companies or technicians using unapproved refrigerants to recharge their air conditioners. Potential risks include damaging your HVAC system or even causing a fire.
  For more than 60 years, most home air conditioning systems have used a refrigerant known as R-22, commonly known as Freon. But the Environmental Protection Agency is phasing that out in favor of a more efficient
  
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• Man, 80, hit by car after Pirates game dies

  18-08-2016 22:48
  
  A car hits a man and his wife while a large crowd is leaving a Pirates game on the North Shore. After several days in the hospital, the man has died.
  
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• New charges filed for suspected Wilkinsburg mass shooter

  18-08-2016 22:39 via post-gazette.com
  
  A week and a half after a Wilkinsburg mass shooting, one of the suspects — who had not yet been publicly identified — was stopped by a police officer for speeding and lied about his identity, according to court paperwork.
  
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• 80-Year-Old Man Hit By Car Outside PNC Park Dies

  18-08-2016 22:33
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An elderly man who was hit by a vehicle after a Pirates game earlier this month died at the hospital on Thursday.
  80-year-old William Gallagher was one of two people struck near the T station on West General Robinson Street, between Tony Dorsett Street and Mazeroski Way, around 11 p.m. on Aug. 9.
  He was taken to Allegheny General Hospital where he passed away.
  Witnesses identified the other person who was struck as a female and described a frightening sce
  
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• Netflix Series Filming In Pittsburgh Announces Another Casting Call

  18-08-2016 22:28
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Another open casting call has been announced for “Mindhunter,” the new Netflix series being filmed in right here in Pittsburgh.
  The call has already started and continues through the weekend.
  If you’re interested, you can sign up online or come to the Little Italy Days Festival in Pittsburgh. The Marinella Hume Casting booth is located between Ella and Gross Streets.
  They will be there Thursday, Friday and Saturday (Aug. 18-20) from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p
  
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• 13-Year-Old Collapses In Roller Coaster Line At Kennywood

  18-08-2016 22:18
  
  WEST MIFFLIN (KDKA) — A 13-year-old was rushed to the hospital Thursday afternoon after he collapsed in line for a ride at Kennywood.
  According to a statement from park officials, the boy suffered some kind of medical issue while in line for the Jack Rabbit.
  Emergency responders quickly took the teen to UPMC Children’s Hospital.
  Officials say the boy did have a pulse when the ambulance left the park.
  It is not clear what led to the medical emergency.
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• Report: Steelers James Harrison To Meet With NFL Over Al Jazeera Accusations

  18-08-2016 22:08
  
  PITTSBURGH (93-7 The FAN) – After giving James Harrison an ultimatum to either meet with them or be suspended, the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker has reportedly agreed to an interview with the league over accusations that he has used performance enhancing drugs.
  Sources: 4 to meet with NFL on steroid claims https://t.co/cD9PSv34Cb
  — Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) August 18, 2016Harrison has been very vocal with the NFL and, up until this point, was only willing to meet with the league
  
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• Munhall man charged with drug conspiracy resulting in death

  18-08-2016 22:05 via post-gazette.com
  
  A Munhall man has been charged with delivering fentanyl that killed someone.
  
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• US Says $400M Payment To Iran Was Contingent On Release Of Prisoners

  18-08-2016 22:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department says a $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on the release of American prisoners.
  Spokesman John Kirby says negotiations over the United States’ returning Iranian money from a decades-old account was conducted separately from the prisoner talks. But he says the U.S. withheld delivery of the cash as leverage until the U.S. citizens had left Iran.
  Both events occurred Jan. 17.
  Kirby spoke after The Wall Street Journal reported that the
  
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• Surveillance Video Shown In Trial Of Mom Accused In Toddler’s Death

  18-08-2016 21:57
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — How did strangled three-year-old Adrionna Williams end up near a mound of dirt and debris on an abandoned road last year? Bit by bit, prosecutors are trying to point a finger at her mother, Adrienne Williams.
  Adrienne Williams is accused of suffocating her daughter, Adrionna, and dumping the child’s body in ravine in June of 2015. The prosecution claims the 26-year-old from Wilkinsburg suffocated her daughter because the girl needed help cleaning herself afte
  
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• Teen collapses in line for Kennywood Park coaster

  18-08-2016 21:39
  
  Pittsburgh's Action News 4 has confirmed that a male teen collapsed in line for the Jack Rabbit roller coaster inside Kennywood Park this afternoon.
  
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• Local mom can't attend kindergarten orientation after thieves steal wheelchair ramp

  18-08-2016 21:28
  
  A Youngwood woman is unable to leave her home during the day after someone stole the aluminum wheelchair ramp on her front porch.
  
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• Coroner: Man, ex-wife dead in Butler County murder-suicide

  18-08-2016 21:27
  
  A deputy coroner says a man and his ex-wife were found dead in a Butler County home's basement in an apparent murder-suicide.
  
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• Police: Man Stole $8,000 From Elderly Woman In Maintenance Work Scam

  18-08-2016 21:10
  
  MONROEVILLE (KDKA) — Monroeville Police are investigating after a man allegedly took thousands of dollars from an 88-year-old woman through home improvement fraud.
  According to a criminal complaint, two men arrived at the victim’s home on Greenleaf Drive in Monroeville on Aug. 10 and offered to seal her driveway. The woman agreed and gave the men a check, which they filled out and cashed for $3,700 after they completed the job.
  On Aug. 17, the pair returned and told the woman she nee
  
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• Report: 2 Dead In Apparent Butler Co. Murder-Suicide

  18-08-2016 20:35
  
  BUFFALO TWP. (KDKA) — Two people were found dead in Butler County on Thursday, due to an apparent murder-suicide.
  According to the Tribune-Review, police were called to a home in Chesterfield Estates, a housing plan of Route 228 in Buffalo Township.
  The Butler County Coroner’s Office confirmed they discovered the bodies of two adults.
  Reports indicate there may have been children removed from the home, who were unhurt.
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• Coroner: Man, Ex-Wife Dead In Butler Co. Murder-Suicide

  18-08-2016 20:35
  
  SARVER, Pa. (AP/KDKA) – A deputy coroner says a man and his ex-wife were found dead in a Pennsylvania home’s basement in an apparent murder-suicide.
  John Hanovick, of the Buffalo County Coroner’s office, says he pronounced the 43-year-old woman and 44-year-old man dead at 10:45 a.m. Thursday.
  He says the two are divorced and the woman had been living at the home with her two children.
  Hanovick says the woman had multiple gunshot wounds and the man had a single gunshot wound. Po
  
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• 5 Facing Charges In Amish Buggy DUI Incident

  18-08-2016 20:12
  
  CANOE TWP. (KDKA) — State police reported an underage DUI incident involving five Amish men last month in Indiana County.
  According to ExploreClarion.com, the incident happened around 11 p.m. on July 8 in Canoe Township.
  Police say they stopped an Amish buggy in the area of Sunset and First Streets because an officer noticed two male subjects on the roof of the buggy.
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• Wolf tabs ex-Allegheny County prosecutor for attorney general

  18-08-2016 19:19
  
  Pitt law grad Bruce Beemer is chosen to lead the beleaguered attorney general's office after two years of turmoil, infighting and scandal under Kathleen Kane.
  
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• NWS confirms tornado in Donora

  18-08-2016 18:56
  
  Damage was still being surveyed Thursday after a tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 to 85 mph touched down in Washington County.
  
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• Who killed Joan? Cops take new look at girl's death after party

  18-08-2016 18:29
  
  Almost 40 years later, a new appeal is made for information in the Joan Rasperger case in Westmoreland County. Friends last saw her at a field party in June 1977.
  
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• ‘The Taz Show’ Set To Air Sunday Night After Major WWE Event

  18-08-2016 18:29
  
  Bryan Altman, CBS Local Sports
  Immediately following the WWE’s marquee event of the summer, one of the wrestling world’s most popular former wrestlers and one of the biggest wrestling podcast personalities in the world will take center stage for a special three-hour live show to break down all of the action from the big event. 
  A special edition of the “The Taz Show: Bodyslams and Beyond”, starring Taz himself, will air live Sunday night from 11 p.m. to 2 a
  
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• ‘The Taz Show’ Set To Air Live Immediately After SummerSlam On Sunday Night

  18-08-2016 18:29
  
  Bryan Altman, CBS Local Sports
  Immediately following the WWE’s marquee event of the summer, SummerSlam, one of the wrestling world’s most popular former wrestlers and one of the biggest wrestling podcast personalities in the world will take center stage for a special three-hour live show to break down all of the action from SummerSlam 2016. 
  A special edition of the “The Taz Show: Bodyslams and Beyond”, starring Taz himself, will air live Sunday night from
  
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• Homicide trial of toddler's mother is halted

  18-08-2016 18:27 via post-gazette.com
  
   
  
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• Governor’s Attorney General Pick Is Kane’s Ex-Chief Deputy

  18-08-2016 18:24
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is nominating Kathleen Kane’s former top deputy to step in as attorney general for the remaining months of her term.
  Wolf announced Thursday that he had tapped Bruce Beemer for the job. He must still get the approval of two-thirds of the Senate.
  Wolf hired Beemer last month as inspector general. Beemer would return to the attorney general’s office until a successor is picked by voters in November and sworn in Jan. 17.
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• Duquesne Brewing announces another batch of Paterno Legacy beer

  18-08-2016 18:22 via post-gazette.com
  
  A local brewing company today said it will have additional supplies of the second can in its Joe Paterno Legacy Series, after the initial batch for 2016 remembering the legendary Penn State University football coach sold out in three days.
  
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• Judge halts homicide trial for undisclosed 'legal matters'

  18-08-2016 18:21 via post-gazette.com
  
  The homicide trial of a Wilkinsburg mother charged in the death of her 3-year-old daughter was abruptly halted this morning for undisclosed “legal matters.”
  
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• You can ride in a driverless Uber in Pittsburgh. You'll have a chaperone though.

  18-08-2016 18:17
  An Uber automated-vehicle taking a test-drive on the 31st Street Bridge in Pittsburgh in May. Later this month, Uber will start ferrying customers around Pittsburgh in decked-out driverless Volvos, with chaperones in the front seat ready to take over at tricky spots, according to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek. It would be the first time regular U.S. customers will be able to hail a relatively driverless ride, though other companies and cities are promising similar small-scale projects soon.
  
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• Donora Residents Dealing With Aftermath Of Tornado

  18-08-2016 18:17
  
  DONORA (KDKA) – A tornado touched down in the middle of a storm late Wednesday afternoon in Donora.
  Trees were toppled and the roof of a building was blown off.
  While the tornado was only classified as an EF0, it’s little consolation for the people whose homes were damaged.
  The National Weather Service said the tornado made a one-mile track through Donora. Some homes and businesses were damaged and a massive tree was brought down along Castner Avenue.Cleanup in Donora began early Thu
  
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• Brazilian Police Say Lochte, U.S. Swimmers Were Not Robbed

  18-08-2016 17:25
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Brazilian police said Thursday that swimmer Ryan Lochte and U.S. teammates were not robbed after a night of partying, and that the intoxicated athletes instead vandalized a gas station bathroom and were questioned by armed guards before they paid for the damage and left.
  The robbery that was or wasn’t has become the biggest spectacle outside of the Olympic venues in Rio, and given American Olympians a black eye in Brazil after an otherwise remarkable run at the
  
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• Brazil Police Official: Lochte Made Up Story About Robbery

  18-08-2016 17:25
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A Brazilian police official is telling The Associated Press that American swimmer Ryan Lochte fabricated a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro.
  The official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about an ongoing probe.
  He said that around 6 a.m. on Sunday, Lochte, along with fellow swimmers Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen, stopped at a gas station in Barr
  
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• Man Charged With Murder Sticks Out Tongue At Victim’s Family

  18-08-2016 17:18
  
  EASTON, Pa. (AP/KDKA) – A man expected to plead guilty to murder in Pennsylvania shocked the court by declaring his innocence, sticking out his tongue at the victim’s family and saying “ha ha ha ha” several times.
  Jeffrey Knoble Jr. told a judge Thursday that he was “an innocent man” and was forced to take a guilty plea. He then turned to the victim’s family and began taunting them.
  Knoble is accused of shooting 32-year-old Andrew White in the back of th
  
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• Uber rides will now be in self-driving cars - and free

  18-08-2016 17:03
  
  The company will begin hauling passengers in self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh. The autonomous fleet will transport riders just like normal Uber vehicles.
  
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• Teen Girl Headed To Pittsburgh Concert Goes Missing

  18-08-2016 16:59
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A 17-year-old girl has gone missing while traveling for a concert.
  Olivia Grace Miller left State College the evening of Aug. 10, headed by bus for a Snoop Dogg concert in Pittsburgh.
  She is described as white, standing 5’5”, weighing 130 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes and a tattoo on the back off her neck.
  Miller’s sister posted on Facebook that the family is not sure if she made it off the bus, because her phone has been shut off.According to th
  
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• Eagles take on the Steelers tonight at Heinz Field

  18-08-2016 16:54
  
  Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, running backs Le'Veon Bell and DeAngelo Williams and wide receiver Antonio Brown will not play in Thursday's intra-state preseason contest against the Philadelphia Eagles
  
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• Uber To Use Autonomous Cars To Haul People In Next Few Weeks

  18-08-2016 15:33
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Ride-hailing service Uber says it will start hauling passengers with self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh in next several weeks.
  The company says its autonomous Ford Fusions will have human backup drivers but will transport passengers just like normal Uber vehicles.
  Uber has a self-driving research lab in Pittsburgh and is working on autonomous technology.
  Also Thursday, Uber and Volvo announced a $300 million deal for Volvo to provide SUVs to Uber for autono
  
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• Uber to use self-driving cars for Pittsburgh rides

  18-08-2016 15:20
  
  The ride-hailing service says it will start hauling passengers with self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh.
  
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• Who killed Joan? A new look at girl's death after 1977 party

  18-08-2016 15:03
  
  Police make a new appeal Thursday for information about the death of a teenage girl last seen at a field party in Westmoreland County nearly 40 years ago.
  
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• Girl, 17, headed to Pittsburgh for concert goes missing

  18-08-2016 15:03
  
  A teenage girl from State College who was traveling by bus to Pittsburgh for a concert has been missing for a week, police say.
  
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• Uber to use self-driving cars in Pittsburgh in next few weeks

  18-08-2016 14:59 via post-gazette.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Ride-hailing service Uber says it will start hauling passengers with self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh in next several weeks.
  
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• Who killed Joan? A new look at girl's death after 1977 Westmoreland County party

  18-08-2016 14:25
  
  Police make a new appeal Thursday for information about the death of a teenage girl last seen at a field party in Westmoreland County nearly 40 years ago.
  
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• PTL Links: Aug. 18, 2016

  18-08-2016 14:24
  
  Visit the links below for more on today’s guest & topics:
  Pink Steel Dragon Boat Team
  Pittsburgh Public Theater
  Killer Heels At The Frick Museum 
  Killer Heels “Well Heeled” Event
  Doug Oster’s Blog
  Wes Lyons
  412 Food Rescue
  412 Food Rescue 10.1.1 Benefit Dinner
  Bike Fest
  
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• Penn Hills man found dead during welfare check

  18-08-2016 14:08
  
  Police found a 77-year-old man dead in his apartment in Penn Hills.
  
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• Man wounded in overnight Penn Hills shooting

  18-08-2016 14:02 via post-gazette.com
  
  A man was shot in the arm in Penn Hills early today.
  
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