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• Police: 3-Year-Old Shot And Killed By 7-Year-Old In Ohio

  29-10-2016 23:51
  
  TOLEDO, Oh. (KDKA) — Police are investigating after a shooting in Toledo that left a 3-year-old dead Saturday afternoon.
  According to CBS affiliate WTOL, when police arrived at the home they found 3-year-old Tyrne Hoskins suffering from a gunshot wound. He was rushed to the hospital where he died.
  Officers at the scene say the toddler was shot by a 7-year-old who was also in the residence.
  The incident is believed to be an accident.
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• State police searching for missing Uber, Lyft driver who may be in danger

  29-10-2016 23:39
  
  State police are searching for a missing Westmoreland County woman who drives for Uber and Lyft.
  
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• Report: Avonmore Woman Who Drives For Uber & Lyft Missing

  29-10-2016 23:01
  
  AVONMORE (KDKA) — Police are searching for an Avonmore woman who never came home Friday night.
  46-year-old Renee Ann Dunmire was last seen Saturday in the area of Chartiers Avenue in McKee’s Rocks.
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  The Tribune-Review reports that Dunmire works for ride share services Uber and Lyft.
  Police tell the Tribune-Review that she dropped her husband off at work Friday morning and drove into
  
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• Avonmore Woman Who Drives For Uber & Lyft Missing

  29-10-2016 23:01
  
  AVONMORE (KDKA) — Police are searching for an Avonmore woman who never came home Friday night.
  46-year-old Renee Ann Dunmire was last seen Saturday in the area of Chartiers Avenue in McKee’s Rocks.
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  A press release from Pennsylvania State Police indicates Dunmire works for ride share services Uber and Lyft.
  She reportedly dropped her husband off at work Friday morning and drove into Pitts
  
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• Avonmore Woman Reported Missing Returns Home

  29-10-2016 23:01
  
  AVONMORE (KDKA) — An Avonmore woman who was reported missing this weekend and considered in danger has returned home.
  46-year-old Renee Ann Dunmire dropped her husband off at work Friday morning and drove into Pittsburgh to drive for Uber and Lyft. The man called authorities when she did not pick him up that night.
  Pennsylvania State Police say that she returned home Sunday evening.
  No further details were provided.
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• Big Second Half Helps No. 24 Nittany Lions Romp

  29-10-2016 22:46
  
  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) – Saquon Barkley ran for 207 yards and two touchdowns, Trace McSorley threw three scoring passes, and No. 24 Penn State used a 24-point third quarter as the centerpiece of its 62-24 victory against Purdue on Saturday.
  The Nittany Lions (6-2, 4-1 in the Big Ten) converted an interception, a fumbled punt and a failed onside kick into third-quarter touchdowns on their way to a fourth consecutive victory, They snapped a seven-game road losing streak dating to 2014.
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• Rudolph Powers Oklahoma State Past No. 10 West Virginia

  29-10-2016 22:40
  
  STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) – Mason Rudolph threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score to help Oklahoma State upset No. 10 West Virginia 37-20 on Saturday.
  Rudolph passed for 273 yards. James Washington had six catches for 117 yards, Chris Lacy caught two touchdown passes and Jalen McCleskey matched a career high with 11 receptions for the Cowboys (6-2, 4-1 Big 12).
  It was Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy’s 100th career win, and it put the Cowboys in position to contend for the Big 1
  
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• Woman Sought In Clash At Donald Trump’s Hollywood Star

  29-10-2016 22:00
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles police are looking for a Donald Trump supporter who was harassed and fell to the ground as she apparently protected the presidential candidate’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
  A video uploaded to YouTube Thursday shows the woman displaying pro-Trump signs complaining about immigrants and President Barack Obama, The Los Angeles Times reported.
  A man bumps against her, she pushes back and falls to the ground, staying there as the crowd jeers.
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• 12 Charged In Fight Near Pa. School That Injured 2 Kids

  29-10-2016 21:17
  
  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Authorities say a dozen people have now been charged in a fight near an eastern Pennsylvania high school that left two youths with serious injuries.
  Police say the 16-year-old victims suffered concussions, bruises and cuts after they were kicked, punched and pistol-whipped Tuesday afternoon near Dieruff High School in Allentown.
  Investigators said the fight began with an argument in the lunchroom after one of the students threw something at another boy. After an argum
  
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• Judge rejects bid to dismiss case alleging girl was underfed

  29-10-2016 21:15
  
  A western Pennsylvania judge has rejected a bid to dismiss charges against a man and woman accused of having underfed their adopted daughter, who authorities said almost starved last year.
  
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• Autopsy: Marlins Pitcher Had Cocaine, Alcohol In His System During Boat Crash

  29-10-2016 21:10
  
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez had cocaine and alcohol in his system when his boat crashed into a Miami Beach jetty, according to toxicology reports released Saturday.
  It’s not clear whether Fernandez was driving when the boat crashed Sept. 25, killing the 24-year-old baseball star and two of his friends. But Fernandez had a blood-alcohol content level of 0.147, well above Florida’s legal limit of 0.08, according to autopsy reports released by the
  
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• Ohio Cheerleaders Display ‘Trail of Tears’ Banner, Angering Some

  29-10-2016 20:55
  
  HILLSBORO, Ohio (AP) – Some Ohio parents say they want to know how a banner recalling the country’s brutal treatment of Native Americans showed up at a high school football game.
  WHIO-TV in Dayton and WCMH-TV in Columbus report that some Greenfield-McClain High School cheerleaders held up the banner for a Friday night game against the Hillsboro High Indians.
  It read: “Hey Indians, Get Ready for a Trail of Tears Part 2.” The reference was to the forced relocation of Indian
  
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• Clinton Tries To Quell Resurgent Email Issue Late In Race

  29-10-2016 19:52
  
  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) – For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has been a reluctant participant in the email controversy that has dogged her campaign, responding defensively to inquiries – and often only when there’s a political imperative to do so.
  On Friday, the imperative was clear.
  The email issue flared up unexpectedly just over a week from Election Day, threatening Clinton’s lead over Republican Donald Trump. The FBI announced it was looking into whether there was
  
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• Pirates Name New Coaches For 2017 Season

  29-10-2016 19:20
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Pittsburgh Pirates named the coaches for the 2017 season Saturday.
  Kimera Bartee, 44, will be the outfield and baserunning/first base coach after spending the last nine seasons as Pittsburgh’s minor leagues outfield/baserunning coordinator.
  Tom Prince, 52, a former Pittsburgh Pirate, will be the bench coach. Prince spent last season as the minor league field coordinator. He has spent 33 seasons in professional baseball and 23 seasons in the Pirates organizatio
  
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• Student accused of putting bleach in pregnant woman's water

  29-10-2016 18:29
  
  Authorities say a Pennsylvania university student accused of having put bleach in his pregnant girlfriend's water in an attempt to harm her fetus has been charged with attempted murder.
  
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• Wolf vetoes bill on inspector general, 3 other measures

  29-10-2016 18:23
  
  Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed four bills on Friday, including legislation that would have made the inspector general's office an independent agency and required the inspector general to be confirmed by the Senate.
  
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• Pennsylvania Senate campaign: The candidates and the issues

  29-10-2016 18:19
  
  Democrat Katie McGinty is challenging first-term Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey's re-election bid in Pennsylvania's neck-and-neck race that could help decide whether Republicans hold on to their 54-46 Senate majority.
  
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• Five Things: Indians Beat Cubs 1-0 in Game 3 of World Series

  29-10-2016 18:12
  
  By Andrew Kahn
  The Cubs went 71 years between World Series appearances and had to wait an extra game to score a run, getting shutout in Game 1. They’ll have to wait at least one more game to get their first run at Wrigley, too. The Indians took Game 3, 1-0, scoring the lone run in the seventh. Game 4 is tonight. 
  1. Tomlin terrific
  With his recently paralyzed father in the stands, Josh Tomlin had the game of his life. No, he didn’t pitch long enough to qualify for a win. He only
  
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• Republicans poised to maintain their control of Legislature

  29-10-2016 18:10
  
  Democrats will put their recent statewide election winning streak on the line Nov. 8, but have a tough fight to chip into Republican domination of the Legislature that illustrates why Pennsylvania is known as a swing state.
  
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• Ambridge mother facing attempted homicide charge after allegedly beating baby

  29-10-2016 17:57
  
  A Beaver County mother is facing a charge of attempted homicide after allegedly injuring her three-month-old child.
  
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• Female pedestrian killed by hit-and-run driver in Fayette County

  29-10-2016 17:19 via post-gazette.com
  
  A man who police say was under the influence of alcohol struck and killed a female pedestrian in front of a Fayette County bar early this morning.
  
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• 1 Killed, 1 Injured In Marshall-Shadeland Shooting

  29-10-2016 17:11
  
  MARSHALL-SHADELAND (KDKA) — One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting in Marshall-Shadeland on Saturday morning.
  Reports of the shooting first came in around 9:35 a.m.The shooting happened near Woodland Avenue and Mullins Street.
  A male victim and a female victim were both shot and sent to a local hospital.
  Officials confirm the male victim has died. His identity has not yet been released.
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• 2 women severely injured in head-on crash on Parkway East

  29-10-2016 17:08
  
  Two women were severely injured in a head-on crash on the Parkway East early Saturday morning.
  
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• Man killed, woman injured in Marshall-Shadeland shooting

  29-10-2016 17:06
  
  A man was killed and a woman wounded during a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood Saturday morning.
  
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• Suspect arrested in North Side double shooting that left one man dead, woman injured

  29-10-2016 17:04 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh police have arrested a 34-year-old man in connection with a double shooting in Marshall-Shadeland that left a man dead and a woman injured this morning.
  
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• Man killed, woman injured in North Side shooting

  29-10-2016 17:04 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh police are investigating a fatal shooting this morning on the North Side.
  
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• Man facing charges after hit-and-run accident kills woman

  29-10-2016 16:34
  
  A woman was killed during a hit-and-run accident in Fayette County early Saturday morning.
  
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• Willard grad performs concert with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra...

  29-10-2016 16:27
  From attending Willard high school to working with Rufus Reid, Barry Manilow and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, David Gardner has come a long way in the course of his career. The Willard native is even now the co-founder of an ensemble known as the Brass Roots .
  
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• Pedestrian Fatally Struck By Drunk Driver In Uniontown

  29-10-2016 16:18
  
  UNIONTOWN (KDKA) — A pedestrian was fatally struck by a drunk driver in Uniontown early Saturday morning.
  The crash happened in front of Smitty’s Bar on N. Gallatin Avenue around 12:15 a.m.
  According to state police, 47-year-old David Lincoln Lee was driving past Smitty’s Bar when he hit and killed a pedestrian in the road. He then fled the scene of the crash. Police found him and a passenger who was in his vehicle a short time later.
  Lee was found to be under the influence of
  
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• Pedestrian Fatally Struck By Alleged Drunk Driver In Uniontown

  29-10-2016 16:18
  
  UNIONTOWN (KDKA) — A friend told KDKA’s Amy Wadas that Christina Dawn Glisan was getting ready to move back to Virginia. She was from Uniontown and worked at Lady Luck Casino at Nemacolin Woodlands, but her life was cut short when she was hit by an alleged drunk driver while crossing the road after leaving a bar.
  Glisan was crossing North Gallatin Avenue Extension in North Union Township when police say she was struck by alleged drunk driver David Lincoln Lee, 47, who was driving a F
  
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• Two women seriously injured in Parkway East head-on crash

  29-10-2016 15:55 via post-gazette.com
  
  Two women were seriously injured in a head-on crash on the Parkway East overnight at the Squirrel Hill exit caused by a vehicle going the wrong way.
  
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• 2 Seriously Injured In Parkway East Head-On Crash

  29-10-2016 14:28
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Two women were seriously injured in a head-on collision on the Parkway East early Saturday morning.
  The crash happened just before 2 a.m. near the Squirrel Hill Tunnels.
  State police say a 31-year-old woman, of Pittsburgh, was driving west in the eastbound lanes when she crashed head-on into another vehicle.
  The wrong-way driver and the driver of the other vehicle, a 57-year-old woman, of Westminster, Md., were both sent to UPMC Presbyterian with suspected serious injur
  
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• Man Arrested For Robbing Convenience Store Where He Previously Worked

  29-10-2016 13:51
  
  SHARPSBURG (KDKA) — Police have arrested a former employee of a Sharpsburg convenience store in connection to a robbery that took place there early Thursday morning.
  The robbery took place around 4 a.m. at the Circle K convenience store on Main Street.
  According to police, a white male entered the store, pointed a gun at the employees and got away with an ATM cash box containing $7,000. He was dressed in black clothing and wearing rubber gloves at the time of the robbery.
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• Pittsburgh garden is a symphony in green

  29-10-2016 12:22
  Sweet autumn clemantis blooms on the fence at left in the backyard garden of Elaine and Gerry Barron at their Roslyn Place home in Shadyside, Pa. Gerry and Elaine Barron have lived in their Shadyside home less than four years.
  
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• Conference seeks solutions for Lake Erie water problems

  29-10-2016 06:38 via post-gazette.com
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio — The Rotary Club of Toledo’s second annual Lake Erie algae conference caused a bit of a stir when a University of Toledo economist said the most sure-fire way to protect water quality is to impose a hefty tax or fee on phosphorus to ensure farmers use it more wisely.
  
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• Frick Park Market customers rally to raise money for ventilation and fire system

  29-10-2016 06:35 via post-gazette.com
  
  Customers of the Frick Park Market in Point Breeze are raising money for a fire system and ventilation hood to help the market stay in business after it was cited by the city in August.
  
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• Civil rights, antiwar activist became state lawmaker

  29-10-2016 06:34 via post-gazette.com
  
  Tom Hayden burst out of the 1960s counterculture as a radical leader of America’s civil rights and antiwar movements but rocked the boat more gently later in life with a progressive political agenda as an author and California state legislator.
  
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• Obituary: Lowell Lubic | Squirrel Hill native was pioneer in neurology in the city

  29-10-2016 06:33 via post-gazette.com
  
  As a science, neurology was very much in its infancy when Lowell Lubic entered the field in 1950. Not only was he was the first full-time neurologist in the city of Pittsburgh at Montefiore Hospital, but none of the diagnostic tools used today like CAT scans and MRIs even existed.
  
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• Wolf vetoes four bills, signs two others

  29-10-2016 06:31 via post-gazette.com
  
  HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed four bills on Friday, including legislation that would have made the inspector general’s office an independent agency and required the inspector general to be confirmed by the Senate.
  
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• 'Bikes for Kids' program to begin

  29-10-2016 06:30 via post-gazette.com
  
  For the 13th year, Kraynick’s Bike Shop in Garfield will be accepting donated “gently used” bicycles throughout November that volunteer bike mechanics there will get into shape for distribution to children for Christmas by the Salvation Army.
  
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• Federal court asked to invalidate Pa. judge-retirement vote

  29-10-2016 06:29 via post-gazette.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Two former Pennsylvania Supreme Court chief justices and a prominent Philadelphia lawyer are now asking a federal court to declare a ballot question about extending state judges' retirement age unconstitutional and any votes cast on it invalid.
  
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• Ambridge mom charged with abusing 3-month-old daughter

  29-10-2016 06:24 via post-gazette.com
  
  Authorities said a Beaver County woman abused her 3-month-old daughter so badly that the infant suffered injuries and medical issues ranging from a fractured skull and ribs to bleeding on the brain and seizures.
  
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• Teal is the new orange for Halloween

  29-10-2016 06:12 via post-gazette.com
  Halloween can be scary for Shannon Martocci, but not because of ghosts or goblins or killer clowns. For more than a decade, since Ms. Martocci’s now 13-year-old daughter Vanessa was diagnosed with a peanut and tree nut allergy, their holiday has ended with a post-trick-or-treat candy purge, ridding their West View home of all candy traces of nuts.
  
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• Know The Score: Oct. 28, 2016

  29-10-2016 04:19
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) — It doesn’t get any bigger than high school football in Western Pennsylvania.
  We’re committed to bringing you the best team coverage in the region.
  After the games, you can find all the latest scores right here! Also, check out our Game of the Week here!
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  Academy Park 36, Chichester 0
  Aliquippa 36, Hopewell 30
  Annville-Cleona 55, Pequea Valley 13
  Apollo-Ridge 49, South Allegheny 27
  Archbishop Carroll 41, Bonner-Prendergas
  
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• Over 20 fire departments respond to Vandergrift fire

  29-10-2016 03:37 via post-gazette.com
  
  A commercial building burned for more than two hours Friday evening in Vandergrift, Westmoreland County emergency officials said.
  
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• Vandergrift Restaurant Goes Up In Flames, Spreads To Building Next Door

  29-10-2016 03:29
  
  VANDERGRIFT (KDKA) — An intense, multi-alarm fire erupted at a restaurant in Westmoreland County on Friday evening, and spread to the structure next door.
  Crews were first called to Carpenter’s Café around 7:20 p.m. in the 200-block of Longfellow Street in Vandergrift. Witnesses say flames were shooting high into the sky.
  The blaze spread to the building next door, causing heavy damage to the structure.Firefighters remained on the scene late into the night, trying to keep it f
  
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• Vandergrift building engulfed in flames; fire spreads to nearby structure

  29-10-2016 03:00
  
  Fire crews are battling a 3-alarm fire in Vandergrift. 
  
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• Police investigate Brookline shooting as suspicious

  29-10-2016 02:50 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh police said the shooting this afternoon of a 41-year-old man in Brookline that they first suspected to be self-inflicted became suspicious after they couldn’t find a weapon.
  
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• Police investigate Brookline shooting

  29-10-2016 02:50 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh police said the shooting this afternoon of a 41-year-old man in Brookline that they first suspected to be self-inflicted became suspicious after they couldn’t find a weapon.
  
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• Teen runaway accused of stealing car, leading police on chase

  29-10-2016 02:22
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