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• Steelers Back On Track Following 2nd Win In 5 Days

  25-11-2016 23:41
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) – Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin likens the season to a moving train that stops for no one. Not even his talented if enigmatic team.
  After a month teetering on the brink of getting left behind, the Steelers appear to be primed for another late playoff push. Their clinical 28-7 victory over Indianapolis on Thanksgiving night vaulted Pittsburgh (6-5) back over .500 and at least briefly atop the AFC North.
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• California Officer Critically Injured In Skateboard Attack

  25-11-2016 22:57
  
  SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) – A suspect fleeing a police officer in the city of South San Francisco turned and cracked him in the head with a skateboard, leaving the 12-year department veteran in critical condition Friday, the police chief said.
  The officer suffered traumatic head injuries in the Thursday afternoon attack and underwent surgery, Chief Jeff Azzopardi told reporters. The officer’s name was not released, but Azzopardi said he is married with two young children.
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• Penn State Won’t Fight $2.4M Fine For Lax Crime Reporting

  25-11-2016 22:23
  
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – Penn State said Friday it won’t fight a $2.4 million fine stemming from a five-year federal investigation that found the university repeatedly violated campus crime reporting requirements, including in the case of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who is now serving decades in prison on child sexual abuse charges.
  Penn State President Eric Barron said the university is paying the record fine even though it disagrees with some of the findings in
  
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• Bennet Omalu Foundation, which supported research on brain injuries, is being discontinued

  25-11-2016 21:21 via post-gazette.com
  
  Bennet Omalu is winding down the nonprofit foundation that bears his name to spend more time with his family, the pathologist who first identified football-related brain damage said Friday.
  
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• Police: Missing Man Found Dead At Bottom Of Cloudy Hotel Pool Where Guests Swam

  25-11-2016 20:53
  
  BEAVER FALLS (KDKA) — A missing person search ended tragically in Beaver Falls.
  Search and rescue teams searched for 9 to 10 hours for a man who reportedly went missing from a hotel.
  The man’s body was found exactly where the search began.
  Pennsylvania State Police said 70-year-old John Pope, of Florida, was found dead at the bottom of the pool inside the Park Inn hotel on Eastwood Drive in Beaver Falls. Police said Pope was staying at the hotel with family.
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• Missing Man Found Dead In Hotel Swimming Pool

  25-11-2016 20:53
  
  BEAVER FALLS (KDKA) — A missing person search ended tragically in Beaver Falls.
  Search and rescue teams searched for 9 to 10 hours for a man who reportedly went missing from a hotel.
  The man’s body was found exactly where the search began.
  Pennsylvania State Police said 70-year-old John Pope, of Florida, was found dead at the bottom of the pool inside the Park Inn hotel on Eastwood Drive in Beaver Falls. Police said Pope was staying at the hotel with family.
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• Man Missing From Beaver Falls Found Dead

  25-11-2016 20:53
  
  BEAVER FALLS (KDKA) – A man who went missing in Beaver County was later found dead in a hotel swimming pool.
  State police confirm 70-year-old John Pope was found dead in a swimming pool at the Park Inn hotel Friday evening.
  State police said no foul play is suspected. Coroner will perform an autopsy to determine cause and manner of death.
  The man disappeared Friday morning wearing only a pair of swimming trunks.
  John Pope was last seen at the Park Inn hotel on Eastwood Road wearing only a
  
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• Man Missing From Beaver Falls Believed To Be In Danger

  25-11-2016 20:53
  
  BEAVER FALLS (KDKA) — The Pennsylvania State Police in are working to find a missing 70-year-old man who was last seen in Beaver Falls.
  John Robert Pope was last seen Friday morning at the Park Inn on Eastwood Road.
  He is 165 pounds, standing 5’6”, with black hair and brown eyes. Pope was last seen wearing tan shorts with a black stripe.  He is not believed to be wearing a shirt or shoes.
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• Dutch businessman charged in Google bribery case originating with Pittsburgh drug probe

  25-11-2016 20:28 via post-gazette.com
  
  Dutch authorities have charged one of the richest men in the Netherlands with bribing a former U.S. Google executive in a case of international intrigue originating in Pittsburgh with an investigation of a Coraopolis-based drug ring, the largest narcotics operation ever prosecuted in western Pennsylvania.
  
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• Pennsylvania Prisons Say Goodbye To Food Loaf Punishment

  25-11-2016 20:21
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania state inmates are no longer being punished with the baked brown slabs known as food loaves.
  The Department of Corrections has stopped giving the food loaves to inmates in restricted housing who misbehave with their food. Pennlive.com reports the department began replacing the food loaves late last month with bagged meals.
  The department’s executive deputy secretary, Shirley Moore Smeal, says officials are trying to humanize the handling of dangerou
  
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• Report: Russian Propaganda Effort Spread Fake News

  25-11-2016 19:39
  
  NEW YORK (AP) – A new report suggests a “sophisticated” Russian propaganda campaign helped flood social media with fake news stories leading up to the presidential election.
  The Washington Post, citing a yet-to-be published report from independent researchers, said the goal was to punish Hillary Clinton, help Donald Trump, and undermine faith in American democracy.
  The report comes from a nonpartisan group of researchers called PropOrNot. The group describes itself as “co
  
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• Shots Fired At New Kensington Officers While Searching For Evidence

  25-11-2016 18:45
  
  NEW KENSIGNTON (KDKA) – New Kensington Police are searching for whoever fired shots at officers while they searched for evidence Friday.
  Around 2 a.m., police were responding to an emergency call when officers noticed a vehicle that wouldn’t yield to the right. One of the officers noticed a passenger in the vehicle toss something out the window.
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• Report: Teen Jumps From Moving Car When Dad Apparently Overdoses

  25-11-2016 18:30
  
  BUTLER (KDKA) — A 13-year-old boy jumped from an out-of-control vehicle Thanksgiving morning when his father suffered an apparent heroin overdose in Butler.
  The Butler Eagle reports the 34-year-old man was driving a 2010 Ford Focus on Hansen Avenue about 10:30 a.m. Thursday when he became unconscious.
  The vehicle drifted into a parking lot and the driver’s son jumped from the back seat. Seconds later the vehicle barreled through shrubbery before slamming into the curb in front of an
  
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• Suspect was driving 100 mph in fatal chase, police say

  25-11-2016 17:53 via post-gazette.com
  
  The man being pursued by police Thanksgiving Day in North Versailles was going more than 100 mph and driving without a license when his car struck a vehicle carrying a man, a woman and a toddler, killing them, according to court documents filed Friday.
  
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• Driver in police chase fatal crash in North Versailles was going more than 100 mph, officials say

  25-11-2016 17:53 via post-gazette.com
  
  The man being pursued by police Thanksgiving Day in North Versailles was going more than 100 mph and driving “crazy” when his car struck a vehicle carrying a man, woman and a toddler, killing them, according to court documents released today.
  
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• Police: Driver Hit 100 Mph Before Chase Crash In North Versailles

  25-11-2016 17:45
  
  NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. (AP/KDKA) – Authorities estimate a Pittsburgh man who led police on a chase that ended with a fiery crash that killed three people in another car was driving more than 100 mph.
  Allegheny County police also say in a criminal complaint that 22-year-old Demetrius Coleman’s license has been suspended since 2012.
  Coleman remains in UPMC Mercy in police custody Friday on charges including criminal homicide and doesn’t have an attorney listed in court record
  
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• Family, Friends Remember Victims Of Triple Fatal Car Crash; Vigil Planned

  25-11-2016 17:45
  
  NORTH VERSAILLES (KDKA) – Three innocent people were killed when a man running from police rammed his car into the back of theirs in North Versailles on Thursday.
  A two-year-old girl and her parents died in that crash. The man who was being chased by police is now charged with homicide.
  Their future was wiped out by a high-speed driver trying to escape from police. David Bianco, his fiancée, Kaylie Meininger, and her two-year-old daughter, Annika, were killed when their car was broa
  
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• Cops: Off-duty cop shoots county jail guard after bar fight

  25-11-2016 17:25
  An off-duty officer from the suburbs is accused of shooting a county jail guard in Pittsburgh after an argument in a nearby bar. The names of the participants have yet to be released because Pittsburgh police and the Allegheny County district attorney were continuing to investigate Friday.
  
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• 7 Athletes You Should Get To Do Your Black Friday Shopping For You

  25-11-2016 17:03
  
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  So Thanksgiving has come and gone, and if you did it right, you’ve been glued to your couch ever since dinner ended, have taken more naps than a newborn baby. and the thought of moving at any point in the near future is just preposterous.
  But wait… it’s Black Friday!
  There’s shopping to be done and deals to be had and you have to take advantage!
  Fortunately, you’re special — or won some kind of a prize or something — and you’
  
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• Pittsburgh Steelers Team Grades: Stout Defense Leads To Thanksgiving Day Rout Of Indianapolis Colts

  25-11-2016 16:27
  
  By Danny Cox
  The Pittsburgh Steelers learned what was plaguing them, and it was poor play on both sides of the ball. They’ve learned to adjust without some of the players that have been injured for weeks, and back-ups have stepped in and stepped up. Last week, the Steelers broke their four-game losing streak and this week, they started a new winning streak. Strong running and a couple of intense goal line stands led to a big 28-7 Thanksgiving Day victory over the Indianapolis Colts.
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• Bethel Park man charged after attacking man, using anti-Muslim slurs

  25-11-2016 16:27 via post-gazette.com
  
  BETHEL PARK, Pa. — Police say a man was drunk when he used anti-Muslim slurs and physically attacked another man at a restaurant in the Pittsburgh suburbs.
  
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• Judge: Defendant Competent To Stand Trial In Charleston Church Shooting

  25-11-2016 16:03
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A judge has ruled that Dylann Roof is competent to stand trial for the killing of nine black worshippers at a South Carolina church.
  Judge Richard Gergel made the ruling Friday after a two-day hearing behind closed doors earlier this week. The hearing was needed after Roof’s attorneys questioned earlier this month whether he could help them on the eve of jury selection in his death penalty trial.
  Gergel says jury selection will begin Monday.
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• Man Killed, Brother Hurt In Shooting At Mall Parking Lot

  25-11-2016 15:20
  
  MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) – Authorities say a man has been fatally shot and his brother was wounded in the parking lot of a mall in New Jersey.
  Atlantic County Prosecutor Diane Ruberton said that the shooting happened around 1 a.m. Friday outside the Macy’s store of the Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing. The Macy’s store had opened at 5 p.m. Thursday. The mall, which was open from 7 p.m. to midnight Thursday, reopened at 6 a.m. for Black Friday shoppers.
  Ruberton says a 20-year-old A
  
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• Cops: Off-Duty Cop Shoots Allegheny County Jail Guard After Bar Fight

  25-11-2016 15:15
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) – An off-duty officer from the suburbs is accused of shooting a county jail guard in Pittsburgh after an argument in a nearby bar.
  The names of the participants have yet to be released because Pittsburgh police and the Allegheny County district attorney were continuing to investigate Friday.
  Aliquippa police Chief Don Couch confirms one of his officers is on leave because he’s accused of shooting the Allegheny County Jail guard after a fight at the Milestone Bar in Br
  
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• Police: Man Left 5-Year-Old Alone To Visit Bar, Get Food

  25-11-2016 15:07
  
  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) – Police say a Pennsylvania man left a 5-year-old child home alone while the man went to a bar and to get some food in the middle of the night.
  Wilkes-Barre police were called after 2 a.m. Thursday when someone saw the child wandering in a street.
  When officers investigated, they learned that 34-year-old Norberto Ogando was supposed to be watching the child when he went to the bar.
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• Major Gas Leak Reported In Oakland

  25-11-2016 14:49
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Crews are working to repair a major gas leak in Oakland.
  Emergency dispatchers confirm the leak of a high pressure line at the intersection of Darragh Street and Terrace Street.
  Police closing off intersections in that area behind Montifiore Hospital.
  There are no injuries or evacuations reported at this time.
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• Tanker Crashes, Burns In Central Pa., Crews Search For Fatalities

  25-11-2016 14:29
  
  CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) – Crews were continuing to search for possible fatalities after a tanker truck overturned and burned on Interstate 81 in south-central Pennsylvania.
  State police say the crash happened just after 6 p.m. Thursday in Greene Township, Franklin County. That’s near Chambersburg, about 50 miles southwest of Harrisburg.
  The southbound lanes of the highway were closed for about 12 hours while PennDOT crews repaired the road and investigators examined and cleared the wr
  
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• Report: 3-Year-Old Pa. Girl Drowned On Thanksgiving

  25-11-2016 14:20
  
  YORK COUNTY (KDKA) — Tragedy struck a York County family on Thanksgiving.
  The York Daily Record reports a 3-year-old girl was pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital Thursday afternoon after a drowning.
  The coroner’s office reportedly referred questions regarding how the incident happened to Springettsbury Township Police, who could not be reached Friday morning.
  The child’s autopsy is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Her name has not been released.
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• Police Charge Parents After 2-Year-Old Shot Accidentally

  25-11-2016 13:35
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The parents of a toddler allegedly shot by his 4-year-old cousin are facing charges of child endangerment and related offenses.
  Philadelphia police on Friday announced the arrests of Rachel Santiago and Omar Laboy-Vega.
  Authorities say their 2-year-old son was shot in the chest and finger while he and his cousin played with a gun at a house in north Philadelphia on Thursday. The boy remains in critical condition.
  Santiago and Laboy-Vega were home at the time of the shoo
  
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• Police: 2-Year-Old Shot In Chest By 4-Year-Old Cousin

  25-11-2016 13:35
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Authorities say a 2-year-old boy has been shot in the chest by his 4-year-old cousin.
  Police say the shooting happened around 4:30 p.m. Thursday in a home in north Philadelphia.
  The 2-year-old was being treated Thursday night at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and was listed in critical condition.
  Police say the boy’s mother and her boyfriend were home when the shooting occurred.
  A gun was recovered.
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• Pa. Community Paints Blue Stripe In Middle Of Road To Honor Cops

  25-11-2016 13:22
  
  BAINBRIDGE, Pa. (AP) – A community in central Pennsylvania has painted a blue stripe between the double-yellow lines on some streets to express support for police, firefighters and ambulance workers.
  But the state Department of Transportation is concerned that Conoy Township might have crossed a line – figuratively, that is.
  According to a report Wednesday by LNP, the stripe doesn’t comply with state highway rules.
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• Baby Girl Born In Car Amid Thanksgiving Traffic On Highway

  25-11-2016 13:16
  
  YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) – As many Americans hit the road on Thanksgiving, one baby couldn’t wait to join them.
  Firefighters were called to help a woman in labor in a car on a suburban New York highway on Thursday afternoon. But the baby was born before they got there six minutes later.
  It happened on the Sprain Brook Parkway in Yonkers, just north of New York City. Fire Lt. Peter Connelly tells The Journal News the woman gave birth in the reclined front seat of an SUV. The father was with
  
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• Knife-Wielding Attacker Injures 7 Children In China

  25-11-2016 13:11
  
  BEIJING (AP) – A knife-wielding assailant injured seven students outside a primary school in northern China on Friday, the latest in a series of knife attacks on schoolchildren.
  Two adults were also injured in the attack in the city of Hanzhong. State broadcaster CCTV said the suspect was a 58-year-old man who apparently wanted to take “revenge against society” after being prosecuted for theft.
  It wasn’t clear how badly the children were injured, although photos posted on
  
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• Shoppers Score Holiday Deals On Black Friday

  25-11-2016 12:42
  
  ROBINSON TWP. (KDKA) — People rushed to the Mall at Robinson Friday morning to snatch up those holiday deals.
  KDKA’s Amy Wadas was talking to shoppers as early as 4:30 a.m., the early birds who just had to get the best deals. But the Mall at Robinson was open from 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Day and on.
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  One group said they began shopping at 9 p.m. Thursday night and they plan to continue for 24 hours.
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• Florence Henderson, “The Brady Bunch” Mom, Dies

  25-11-2016 12:23
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) – Florence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America’s most beloved television moms in “The Brady Bunch,” has died, her manager and her publicist said. She was 82.
  Henderson died Thursday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after being hospitalized the day before, said her publicist, David Brokaw. Henderson had suffered heart failure, her manager Kayla Pressman said in a statement.
  Family and friends had surrounded H
  
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• Pittsburgh stores seeing mixed crowds for Black Friday

  25-11-2016 12:06 via post-gazette.com
  
  Stores open their doors Friday for what is still one of the busiest days of the year, even as the start of the holiday season edges ever earlier.
  
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• Even with holiday creep, Black Friday is a big shopping day

  25-11-2016 12:06 via post-gazette.com
  
  Stores open their doors Friday for what is still one of the busiest days of the year, even as the start of the holiday season edges ever earlier.
  
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• BLACK FRIDAY: Online shopping up, but lines still exasperating at brick-and-mortar retailers

  25-11-2016 12:06 via post-gazette.com
  The lure of bypassing early morning lines on Black Friday to shop online may be taking some of the steam out of the day that has traditionally launched the holiday shopping season, but shoppers still left the Thanksgiving table — or woke in the wee hours on Friday — to seize door-buster savings.
  
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• Volunteers serve their communities

  25-11-2016 08:44
  
  Volunteers serve Thanksgiving dinner Thursday at St. Damien of Molokai Parish, Monongahela, in Father Abbate Hall.
  
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• State Legislature losing long-time figures

  25-11-2016 06:46 via post-gazette.com
  
  HARRISBURG — Among the legislators who have said farewell to the House and Senate in recent weeks are a few who have served in the General Assembly for longer than some of their youngest colleagues have been alive.
  
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• Penn Hills man sues two police officers for civil rights violations

  25-11-2016 06:41 via post-gazette.com
  
  A Penn Hills man who said he suffered permanent damage to his hand, spent four days in jail and lost his job after he was wrongfully arrested by two of the municipality’s police officers has filed a civil rights lawsuit against them.
  
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• South Fayette tax increase would fund police, public works positions

  25-11-2016 06:40 via post-gazette.com
  
  South Fayette commissioners will vote Dec. 14 on a 2017 budget that may include a 0.23-mill increase, raising the property tax rate to 4.71 mills.
  
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• South Fayette may discontinue off-leash area in park

  25-11-2016 06:40 via post-gazette.com
  
  The free-run area for dogs at Fairview Park may be discontinued if South Fayette commissioners vote next month to implement a leash law in the park.
  
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• Peters school board to study structural needs of four more buildings

  25-11-2016 06:40 via post-gazette.com
  
  The same architectural firm that compiled a facilities study for Peters Township High School earlier this year will undertake a similar task for the district’s other four schools and central offices.
  
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• Murrysville 2017 budget highlights emergency services funding

  25-11-2016 06:40 via post-gazette.com
  
  Murrysville council is considering a proposed $13.6 million budget for 2017 that would shift funding for Medic One and the library from a dedicated millage fund to the general fund.
  
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• Ross to vote on special tax structure for The Block Northway development

  25-11-2016 06:39 via post-gazette.com
  
  When The Block Northway is completed, it will provide nearly five times the tax revenue to Ross Township and the North Hills School District that the taxing bodies now receive.
  
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• Penn State New Kensington expanding math homework helpline

  25-11-2016 06:39 via post-gazette.com
  
  Middle and high school students in several area school districts who find themselves stumped by a math problem can get some help by picking up the telephone.
  
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• Gateway board discusses 'cheesegate' — possible moldy, expired food in cafeteria

  25-11-2016 06:39 via post-gazette.com
  
  During her report at a Nov. 15 meeting, Gateway School Board member Valerie Warning brought to the attention of her fellow board members that outdated and moldy cheese had been found in the refrigerator of the high school cafeteria.
  
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• Montour School District is still paying for former superintendent's decisions

  25-11-2016 06:37 via post-gazette.com
  
  The Montour School District is paying for decisions made by its former superintendent.
  
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