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• ‘Run. Hide. Fight.’: Point Park University Uses Same Safety System As OSU

  28-11-2016 23:53
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Just before 10 a.m. Monday, Ohio State University Emergency Management put out this tweet:Buckeye Alert: Active Shooter on campus. Run Hide Fight. Watts Hall. 19th and College.
  — OSU Emergency Mngmnt (@OSU_EMFP) November 28, 2016
  The “Run. Hide. Fight.” instruction is part of a safety system used by many departments across the country called “ALICE.”
  Point Park University Police use the ALICE system. It stands for: alert, lockdown, inform,
  
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• Consumer Reports: Beware Of Ransomware

  28-11-2016 23:45
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Imagine hackers holding your computer files hostage—and then demanding money to get them back.
  It’s called ransomware, and if you are a victim of it, you’ll get a message on your screen that says your files are being held until you pay up.
  Don’t click on that message window unless you are willing to pay.
  To make sure it’s not just a phony pop-up, Consumer Reports says to close your browser and if it comes back, then you may have a problem.
  
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• Getting A Recount In Pennsylvania Is Next To Impossible

  28-11-2016 23:43
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Donald Trump won Pennsylvania by just 71,000 votes out of 5.8 million votes cast.
  But his one percent victory over Hillary Clinton was enough to avoid the state’s automatic recount triggered when a vote margin is less than one-half percent.
  I’m looking to get an accurate count on the vote,” Weslee Hursh of Centerville Borough told KDKA political editor Jon Delano on Monday.
  Hursh filed a petition at the Washington County Elections Bureau to recount the
  
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• Man Convicted Of Murder At 14 Seeks Release From Prison

  28-11-2016 23:14
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Attorneys for 51-year-old Ricky Lee Olds are asking a local judge to reconsider his sentence.
  Old was convicted at the age of 14 for a homicide that happened during a North Side robbery.
  Another teen pulled the trigger, not Olds. He was sentenced to life in prison, no chance of parole. The Supreme Court has since ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional which opens the door for Olds to be released after 37 years behind bars.
  
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• Annual Basketball Tournament Honors Memory Of Standout Leechburg Athlete

  28-11-2016 22:30
  
  LEECHBURG (KDKA) – Samantha Smith was a standout athlete at Leechburg High School, starring on the volleyball and basketball teams.
  Smith was one of two young women killed in a car crash five years ago.
  Every Thanksgiving weekend, there is a big 3-on-3 basketball tournament in Armstrong County to raise money for a scholarship in her name.
  “She was just loved by so many people. She was an amazing friend, so when she passed away, it just rocked our community and everyone felt the loss,
  
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• Keidel: Falcons Soaring Toward Playoffs

  28-11-2016 21:30
  
  By Jason Keidel
  Whenever two teams with avian handles play on the gridiron, we’re stuck with this “battle of the birds” cliche. But between the Arizona Cardinals and Atlanta Falcons, one team is soaring while the other seems to be grounded.
  And it’s not the teams we assumed entering the season.
  The Falcons (7-4) are well above .500, in first place and getting better. Conversely, the Cardinals, who posted a sparkling 13-3 record last year, are 4-6-1, and way closer to last
  
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• Olive Oil and Vinegar Taproom a New Delight for State College Foodies

  28-11-2016 21:23
  The olive oil and vinegar taproom, which opened in late October at 246 East Calder Way, offers patrons the opportunity to taste a dozen different balsamic vinegars and 15 olive oils infused with different flavors, all while offering a wide array of other products. Co-owners Kevin Kassab and Tom Tate got the idea three years ago to bring a taproom to State College when they came across one while traveling for the wedding of Kassab's daughter.
  
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• Police: Sick Skunk Led To Discovery Of Marijuana Plant

  28-11-2016 21:04
  
  WELLBORO (KDKA) — State police say a man destroyed his marijuana plant after it made a local skunk ill.
  According to the Wellsboro Gazette, a state wildlife conservation officer was investigating the sick skunk when he discovered a pot plant growing near a daycare center in Charleston Township.
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  The plant’s owner, 48-year-old Todd M. Adams, apparently destroyed the plant while police were investiga
  
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• Blind Rescue Goat Finds Anxiety Cure In Duck Costume

  28-11-2016 21:04
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The tale of a rescue goat in New Jersey is melting hearts across the internet.
  Polly is blind and suffers from anxiety, but she’s found comfort in an unusual way.
  According to a WPEC-TV report, officials at the Goats of Anarchy sanctuary bought a duck costume for Polly.
  They quickly found out that the costume helped calm Polly’s nerves.
  “As soon as I put it on her, she just instantly got calm. She goes into a little trance. She just closes her eyes and
  
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• Man convicted in T station beating newly charged with federal hate crime

  28-11-2016 20:42 via post-gazette.com
  
  A white man already serving state prison time for assaulting a black man at a Pittsburgh light-rail transit station now faces a similar charge — for the same conduct and the same incident — in federal court. 
  
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• Dick's Sporting Goods acquires youth-targeted app maker

  28-11-2016 20:09 via post-gazette.com
  
  Dick’s Sporting Goods announced that it has acquired GameChanger Media in a move that’s aimed at enhancing its Team Sports HQ suite of digital youth sports offerings.
  
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• City Council To Vote On Creating Zoning Regulations For Medical Marijuana

  28-11-2016 20:03
  
  PITTSBURGH (News Radio 1020 KDKA) – Pittsburgh City Council will vote tomorrow on a measure that would create zoning regulations for selling or growing medical marijuana.
  Sponsor Corey O’Connor says several people have expressed interest in starting an operation here since state approval earlier this year.
  “These are going to businesses that are going to come to the State of Pennsylvania, why shouldn’t Pittsburgh capitalize on some of the profits,” O’Conn
  
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• Judge grants Pittsburgh lawyer bond from jail, sets conditions

  28-11-2016 19:49 via post-gazette.com
  
  A Pittsburgh defense attorney who spent Thanksgiving in jail because he did not show up for a trial last week was today ordered released on his own recognizance.
  
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• Judge frees no-show attorney after six days in jail, sets conditions

  28-11-2016 19:49 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh attorney Leonard Berger stood firmly in his law partner’s corner Monday as he awaited Christopher Urbano’s release from jail.
  
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• Dunlap: Pitt And Penn State Dynamic Now Awesome

  28-11-2016 19:33
  
  PITTSBURGH (93-7 The Fan) – Oh, this is so perfect.
  Our business — the sports talk business — is boomin!
  And your business — the business of being a sports fan in western Pennsylvania — should be boomin in one regard, too.
  “Why do you cover Penn State in Pittsburgh?!?!?”
  That’s one thing we hear.
  “Pitt beat us but we are the better team right now!!!!”
  We get that, too.
  “Head to head is all that matters!!!!”
  That’s a li
  
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• Pittsburgh native and Tony-winning actor Fritz Weaver dies at 90

  28-11-2016 19:21 via post-gazette.com
  
  NEW YORK — The Tony Award-winning character actor Fritz Weaver, who was born in East Liberty and went on to play Sherlock Holmes and Shakespearian kings on Broadway, has died at age 90.
  
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• Pittsburgh man sentenced to life as teen appeals punishment, seeks bond

  28-11-2016 19:01 via post-gazette.com
  
  Attorneys for a man who was 14 years old when he was charged with homicide in 1979 for a robbery and shooting committed by his friend filed a motion this morning asking the judge who resentenced him last week to reconsider his punishment. 
  
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• Man Imprisoned For Black Man’s Beating Faces Federal Hate Crime Charge

  28-11-2016 18:48
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) – A white man serving a 3- to 6-year state court sentence for beating a black man at a Pittsburgh commuter rail station has agreed to plead guilty to a federal hate crime charge for the same incident.
  Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh announced the hate crime charge against 22-year-old Ryan Kyle on Monday, the first ever filed in western Pennsylvania under a 2009 hate crime statute.
  Kyle’s attorney, Almon Burke, says Ryan has agreed to plead guilty to the charge which
  
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• Stallings: Still Determining Player Roles & Playing Time

  28-11-2016 18:33
  
  PITTSBURGH (93-7 The Fan)- The Pitt basketball team under new head coach Kevin Stallings has gotten off to a 5-1 start to begin its season, most recently defeating Morehead State 76-63 at the Petersen Events Center.
  Senior forward Mike Young led the way for the Panthers with 20 points to go along with six rebounds. He is averaging just over 23 points per game to start the year. Pitt was also an impressive 11 of 19 from three-point range en route to the victory.
  Stallings joined “The Fan Mo
  
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• Stein campaign files Pennsylvania recount suit

  28-11-2016 18:27 via post-gazette.com
  
  Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein launched a two-pronged bid to re-examine Pennsylvania’s presidential election results Monday. And while even some supporters say they don’t expect to overturn Donald Trump’s win in the state, the effort has already complicated the timeline for certifying the results in Allegheny County.
  
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• Green Party Eyes Lawsuit Seeking Recount In Pennsylvania

  28-11-2016 18:27
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The Green Party says it will ask a Pennsylvania court to order a statewide recount of the state’s Nov. 8 presidential election result.
  But it’s unclear if the courts would have authority to do so.
  A lawyer for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein wouldn’t discuss what would be alleged in the expected lawsuit Monday.
  Republican President-elect Donald Trump edged Democrat Hillary Clinton by about 71,000 votes, or about 1 percent, in Pennsylva
  
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• Allegheny County holds off on certifying election results

  28-11-2016 18:27 via post-gazette.com
  
  ​With activists seeking to recount the Nov. 8 vote, Allegheny County did not certify its election results this morning, as it was scheduled to do.
  
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• Family Seeks Answers After Man Hit & Killed In Beaver Co.

  28-11-2016 18:16
  
  INDUSTRY (KDKA) – Family members are mourning after a man was hit and killed by a vehicle in Beaver County early Sunday morning.
  “He was just a great person.  It’s really sad he’s not here today,” John Bixler said.
  John Bixler and his sister, Rachal Davis, are remembering their cousin, Brandon Bixler, 25.
  “He had a couple drinks at the bar and was walking home. He lives local,” John Bixler said.
  He was walking home from Luanne’s, which is alon
  
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• Ross police issue warning after string of vehicle break-ins

  28-11-2016 18:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  Ross police are investigating a string of overnight car break-ins and warning residents to lock their vehicles.
  
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• Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh program names grant winners

  28-11-2016 17:24 via post-gazette.com
  
  Winners of the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grants program were announced this morning. The partnership between The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments awarded $308,000 to 18 artists and arts foundations.
  
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• Trump Charges, Without Evidence, Millions Voted Illegally

  28-11-2016 16:23
  
  NEW YORK (AP) – President-elect Donald Trump is claiming, without evidence, that millions of people voted illegally in the election he won, issuing the baseless claim as part of his angry response to a recount effort led by the Green Party and joined by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
  “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump tweeted Sunday. He later alleged “serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California.&rd
  
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• Attacker Plows Into Crowd, Stabs People At Ohio State Campus

  28-11-2016 16:13
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (KDKA/AP) — A man plowed his car into a group of pedestrians at Ohio State University and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife before he was shot and killed by an officer Monday morning, campus police said.
  Nine people were hurt, one critically, and Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said police were looking into whether it was a terrorist attack.
  The details emerged after a morning of confusion and conflicting reports that began with the university issu
  
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• 8 Injured In Active Shooter Situation At Ohio State University

  28-11-2016 16:13
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (KDKA/AP) — At least 8 people have been injured in an incident at Ohio State University.An Ohio State spokesman says some students were stabbed, others injured after being hit by a vehicle. Other injuries are also being evaluated.Hospital officials say eight patients they received from the scene of a reported attack at Ohio State University have non-life-threatening injuries.
  The eight patients were split among OSU Wexner Medical Center, OhioHealth Grant Medical Center and O
  
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• Off-duty Pa. cop accused of shooting man at bar after drinking 10 beers

  28-11-2016 15:01
  An off-duty Pa. police officer is accused of shooting an off-duty prison guard -- all this after the off-duty cop allegedly downed 10 beers at a bar where the fight between the two broke out, then spilled into the streets.
  
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• Mom Faces Sentencing For Toddler Found Dead In Ravine

  28-11-2016 14:51
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) – A woman convicted of third-murder in the death of her 3-year-old daughter, whose body was found in a western Pennsylvania ravine last year, is set to be sentenced.
  An Allegheny County jury convicted 37-year-old Adriene Williams in August, and she’s scheduled for sentencing Monday.
  Prosecutors contend the Wilkinsburg woman somehow asphyxiated Adrionna Williams – they never said where or how – before leaving the girl’s body in a wooded area of Swissv
  
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• PTL Links: Nov. 28, 2016

  28-11-2016 14:45
  
  Visit the links below for more on today’s guest & topics:
  Yelp Pittsburgh
  S.W. Randall Toys And Gifts
  Weight Watchers
  Weight Watchers Recipe: Thanksgiving Quesadillas
  Kennywood
  Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, “The Nutcracker”
  Reveal Wedding Contest
  
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• Weight Watchers Recipe: Thanksgiving Quesadillas

  28-11-2016 14:41
  
  If you’re trying to come up with way to use up those Thanksgiving leftovers, check out this recipe from Weight Watchers!
  Thanksgiving Quesadillas
  Prep 10 min./ Cook 12 min./ Serves 4
  8 small corn tortillas
  1 c shredded reduced-fat Cheddar cheese
  4 oz. cooked turkey breast without skin, shredded
  ¼ c cranberry sauce (leftover or canned)
  ½ c stuffing
  Place 4 tortillas on a flat surface; sprinkle each with 1/3 cup cheese. Top each with 1 oz turkey and 1 tbsp cranberry sauce; crum
  
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• Pa. House GOP Spokesman: ‘Police Names Bill Likely To Return’

  28-11-2016 14:34
  
  PITTSBURGH (News Radio 1020 KDKA) – A spokesman for the state House majority leader says Gov. Tom Wolf may have to veto, for a second time, legislation that would place restrictions on releasing the names of police officers involved in shootings.
  The bill would have made it a crime for law enforcement agencies to release the name of a police officer involved in a shooting, pending the outcome of the investigation, or until 30 days after the incident.
  While the bill passed both the House an
  
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• Firearm Deer Hunting Season Begins In Pennsylvania

  28-11-2016 14:02
  
  PITTSBURGH (News Radio 1020 KDKA) – Today is the first day of firearm deer hunting season in Pennsylvania, with more than 500,000 hunters expected to be taking part.
  Wildlife Conservation Officer Gary Fujak tells the “KDKA Morning News” hunting started this morning at 6:52, but they have to be “able to see deer clearly.”
  “Hunters still need to wait so they can make sure they are shooting at legal game,” Fujak said. “And they need to make sure they
  
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• Police: New Castle woman stabbed several times in neck, hand

  28-11-2016 12:43 via post-gazette.com
  
  A New Castle woman was seriously wounded when she was stabbed several times in the neck and hand over the weekend.
  
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• TRAFFIC: Parkway North HOV lanes reopened after technical glitch

  28-11-2016 12:13 via post-gazette.com
  
  The Parkway North/Interstate 279 HOV lanes have reopened after technical problems kept them closed for about an hour early this morning, PennDOT officials said.
  
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• TRAFFIC: Overnight lane closures planned for Route 28

  28-11-2016 12:13 via post-gazette.com
  
  Overnight lane restrictions will be in place along Route 28 in each direction at the East Ohio Street interchange through Dec. 9.
  
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• Squirrel Hill memory care project will break ground this week

  28-11-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  The Jewish Association on Aging, which already offers care for memory-impaired individuals in three ways at its Squirrel Hill campus, is about to add a fourth.
  
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• Pa. Department of Human Services prepares to launch mobile app

  28-11-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  Officials for the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services say they hope a soon-to-be-released mobile phone app will help save time and effort for both caseworkers and clients.
  
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• Obituary: Louis “Lou Tracey” Mastracci, Jr. / Wrote lyrics for local jazz performers

  28-11-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  A jazz performer would step off of a Pittsburgh stage. A man with black-rimmed glasses would greet the performer and gently offer a typewritten poem. The words would be warm, romantic, tender — maybe a little wistful. And then the man, Louis “Lou Tracey” Mastracci, Jr., would fade back into the audience, hoping for nothing but the opportunity to someday hear the poem put to song.
  
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• Obituary: David P. Mikszan / Electrical engineer who had second career as a sculptor

  28-11-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  David Mikszan spent more than three decades working on radar systems for the U.S. armed forces and other U.S. government agencies as an electrical engineer for Westinghouse Electronic in Baltimore. But if he’d had his druthers, or simply been born in more modern times, he probably would have pursued a career as an artist.
  
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• Mourners gather to remember young family lost in car crash

  28-11-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  Mourners held candles and comforted each other as they gathered outside Cliff Adams Field in Pitcairn Sunday to remember the lives of the three killed in a Thanksgiving Day crash in North Versailles.
  
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• Ethics board aiming to build trust in the city

  28-11-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  A resurrected panel that began meeting this month can look into ethics complaints, compel testimony and recommend discipline across the Pittsburgh city government.
  
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• Diana Nelson Jones' Walkabout: Rudy, the Wylie Avenue rooster, is doing great with family in St. Louis

  28-11-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  The story of the Wylie Avenue rooster ended happily on the afternoon of Nov. 20. Frank Cantone and his two daughters returned to the scene in the Hill District after all the media folks had left.
  
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• City Calendar for Nov. 28 - Dec. 4

  28-11-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
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• Attorneys want clarification on resentencing for juvenile lifers

  28-11-2016 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  Defense attorneys handling the cases of juvenile lifers who must be resentenced following new rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court are frustrated by a lack of guidance being provided to prosecutors and judges handling the cases.
  
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• Laws keep most Pennsylvania police videos out of public view

  28-11-2016 05:45 via post-gazette.com
  
  Second of four parts on a survey of how local government agencies and school districts in Pennsylvania are responding to requests for public records under the state Right-to-Know Law.
  
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• Candlelight Vigil Held For Victims Of Fatal N. Versailles Crash

  28-11-2016 05:21
  
  PITCAIRN (KDKA) — Hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil Sunday evening for the three people who were killed in a crash in North Versailles on Thanksgiving Day.
  A tearful, emotional vigil organized by family and friends partially filled a ballfield in Pitcairn. They gathered to remember 28-year-old David Bianco, his fiancée, 21-year-old Kaylie Meininger, and her 2-year-old daughter, Annika.
  The family was killed on Thanksgiving Day when a driver being chased by police crash
  
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• Fayette County man charged in teen's shooting death at Republic volunteer fire station

  28-11-2016 04:48 via post-gazette.com
  
  A Fayette County man has been charged with homicide in the shooting death of a 16-year-old Brownsville Area High School student inside the Republic volunteer fire station today.
  
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• Fayette County man charged in teen's shooting death at fire station

  28-11-2016 04:48 via post-gazette.com
  
  A Fayette County man has been charged with homicide in the shooting death of a 16-year-old Brownsville Area High School student inside the Republic volunteer fire station Sunday.
  
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