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• State House may vote Tuesday on trimmed-down budget

  03-04-2017 23:47 via post-gazette.com
  
  HARRISBURG — Recommending government-wide cuts, House Republican leaders Monday unveiled a budget that a top Democrat said “cuts into the bone” of what he described as Gov. Tom Wolf’s already austere spending plan.
  
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• State House GOP offers its budget proposal

  03-04-2017 23:47 via post-gazette.com
  
  HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania House Republicans took the next step in the state budget process on Monday, voting out of committee an appropriations bill that spends less than the proposal offered by Gov. Tom Wolf in February.
  
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• Experts Raise Concerns Over Accuracy, Safety Of Wearable Baby Monitors

  03-04-2017 23:45
  
  PITTSBURGH (CBS) – “Smart clothes,” which track an infant’s vital signs and send real-time updates to a parent’s smartphone, are increasingly popular.
  First-time mom, Kimberly Scarth says she was drawn to one such product because she wanted peace of mind.
  “Especially having had a rough delivery, we wanted to make sure everything was okay with him,” she says.
  Just two weeks after bringing little Elliott home, Scarth woke up in a panic.
  Her Owlet smart mon
  
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• Man Just Released From Jail Arrested For Trying To Steal Teen’s Shoes

  03-04-2017 23:39
  
  LATROBE (KDKA) — A man who was released from jail a few days ago has landed himself back behind bars.
  Latrobe police say it all happened at the Chestnut Street Apartments in Latrobe.
  Two suspects, one who just got out of jail, set upon the 15-year old-victim. They didn’t want money, instead they were after old basketball shoes.
  Kane Markle was just getting home when the incident began.
  “I heard the noise and I ran down to see what was going on,” he said.
  Markle told
  
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• Latrobe Man Back Behind Bars Hours After Being Released From Jail

  03-04-2017 23:39
  
  LATROBE (KDKA) — A man who was released from jail a few days ago was only free a few hours before landing back behind bars.
  Latrobe police say it all happened at the Chestnut Street Apartments in Latrobe.
  Two suspects, one who just got out of jail, set upon the 15-year old-victim. They didn’t want money, instead they were after old basketball shoes.
  Kane Markle was just getting home when the incident began.
  “I heard the noise and I ran down to see what was going on,” he s
  
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• Boy Battling A Brain Tumor Named Mayor For A Day, Gets His Own Clubhouse

  03-04-2017 22:55
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A McKees Rocks boy battling a brain tumor received a special gift over the weekend thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
  Friends and family cheered as 5-year-old Eddie Nagel ran into his backyard to check out his brand new clubhouse.
  Eddie loves Mickey Mouse and really wanted his own Mickey Mouse clubhouse. His wish granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
  “The Make-A-Wish experience is awesome, they do make dreams come true,” said Christina Nagel, Eddie&rsquo
  
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• Students From All Across Western Pa. Compete In Science Fair

  03-04-2017 22:43
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — There has been a huge emphasis recently on the fields of science, technology, engineering and math — starting as early as preschool.
  And that early start is paying off, literally, for hundreds of local students.
  More than a thousand students from all around western Pennsylvania were at Heinz Field over the weekend, but their visit had nothing to do with football.
  “There were over 1,100 students competing in the science fair this year, which is incredible,&rd
  
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• Sportsbook: 75 Percent Of Bets On UNC To Beat Gonzaga In Championship Game

  03-04-2017 22:25
  
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  Entering the 2016-17 men’s college basketball season, the North Carolina Tar Heels were viewed by many as one of the favorites to not only return to the finals after losing to Villanova last year, but to win the whole thing this time around.
  Now, just one game stands between them and making those preseason prognostications a reality, and bettors and experts are putting their money on the Tar Heels to beat the Gonzaga Bulldogs and take home the championship.
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• Man Convicted Of 1st-Degree Murder In Ex-Girlfriend’s Death

  03-04-2017 22:25
  
  BEAVER, Pa. (AP) – A western Pennsylvania jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder in the rape and slaying of his ex-girlfriend last year.
  The Beaver County panel deliberated for less than two hours Monday before convicting 27-year-old Edward Baker in the June death of 30-year-old Addaleigh Huzyak.
  Authorities say the victim broke up with Baker the week before she was killed, and Baker waited for her in her apartment, shot her twice and slit her throat. He was later arrested in Kent
  
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• West Virginia Woman Admits Putting Dead Cats In Refrigerator

  03-04-2017 22:21
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – A West Virginia woman has pleaded guilty to an animal cruelty charge after police said several dead cats were found in her apartment’s refrigerator.
  WCHS-TV reports 31-year-old Madeline Gourevitch of Charleston was fined $300 Monday. A Kanawha County magistrate suspended a six-month sentence, which will be dropped after a year if she completes 20 hours of community service and stays out of trouble.
  According to a criminal complaint, police and animal official
  
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• NHL Not Going To 2018 Olympics In South Korea

  03-04-2017 22:05
  
  (AP) — The NHL is not going to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
  The league announced its decision Monday afternoon, saying the matter was “officially closed.”
  The league says no meaningful dialogue had materialized in talks with the NHLPA, International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation. The league wanted to close the matter before the playoffs, which begin April 13.
  Team owners have complained that stopping the NHL season for three weeks every f
  
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• Crosby: NHL’s Decision To Sit Out 2018 Olympics Is ‘Disappointing’

  03-04-2017 22:05
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) — The NHL is not going to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
  The league announced its decision Monday afternoon, saying the matter was “officially closed.”
  The league says no meaningful dialogue had materialized in talks with the NHLPA, International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation. The league wanted to close the matter before the playoffs, which begin April 13.
  Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said the decision was “disa
  
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• Keidel: Is Gonzaga-North Carolina Really A Tossup?

  03-04-2017 22:03
  
  By Jason Keidel
  Most see tonight, the culmination of March Madness, when we crown a men’s national basketball champion, as a coin-flip between North Carolina and Gonzaga. Even Vegas sees it as a virtual toss-up, inserting the Tar Heels as a 1.5-point favorite.
  But in terms of history and pedigree, the spread is considerably wider.
  In case you haven’t seen the numbers, North Carolina has won 122 NCAA Tournament games. Gonzaga has won 29.
  This is Carolina’s 20th Final Four, and G
  
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• Skeletal remains, men's shoes, found in woods in Northview Heights

  03-04-2017 21:40 via post-gazette.com
  
  Authorities are investigating human skeletal remains found Monday afternoon in a wooded area behind the 100 block of Hazlett Street in the city’s Northview Heights neighborhood.
  
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• Trump Donates First 3 Months Of Salary To National Park Service

  03-04-2017 21:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is donating the first three months of his salary to the National Park Service.
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer handed an oversized check for $78,333.32 to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke during Monday’s briefing.
  The billionaire businessman turned president had promised to forgo his presidential salary. By law he must be paid, so he is donating the money.
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• Report: 2 ‘Suspects Of Interest’ Named In Missing Kittanning Man’s Death

  03-04-2017 21:27
  
  BUTLER, Pa. (KDKA) — Two people behind bars have been named persons of interest in the homicide of 55-year-old Greg Bosko, who was found dead after being reported missing from the Kittanning area in late March.
  The Butler Eagle reports Bosko’s vehicle was towed following his death. Police found the car parked on West Wayne Street with people inside.
  Joshua K. Greaves, 34, of Mercer, Mercer County, and Tiffany N. Hilliard, 30, of Butler, were charged for giving police false
  
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• 2 Suspects Named In Missing Kittanning Man’s Homicide

  03-04-2017 21:27
  
  BUTLER, Pa. (KDKA) — Two people in police custody have been named suspects in the homicide of 55-year-old Greg Bosko, who was found dead after being reported missing from the Kittanning area in late March.
  Joshua K. Greaves, 34, of Mercer, Mercer County, and Tiffany N. Hilliard, 30, of Butler, were charged for giving police false names and booked in Butler Prison County on bench warrants. Greaves has also been charged with having stamp bags of heroin on him.
  Both are considered s
  
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• 2 Suspects Named In Missing Kittanning Man’s Death

  03-04-2017 21:27
  
  BUTLER, Pa. (KDKA) — Two people in police custody have been named suspects in the homicide of 55-year-old Greg Bosko, who was found dead after being reported missing from the Kittanning area in late March.
  Joshua K. Greaves, 34, of Mercer, Mercer County, and Tiffany N. Hilliard, 30, of Butler, were charged for giving police false names and booked in Butler Prison County on bench warrants.
  Greaves has also been charged with having stamp bags of heroin on him.
  Police found the two
  
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• Second Suspect Pleads Guilty In Carrick Group Home Fatal Beating

  03-04-2017 21:20
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Malik Crosby, 18, pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter before Judge Jeffrey Manning on Monday afternoon.Crosby told the court, “I’m very sorry for what I’ve done and what happened.”
  Crosby’s plea brings the 2014 homicide case to a close.Co-defendant, 17-year-old Yusuf Shepard, already pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and conspiracy.
  Crosby was set to go to trial, but in a pretrial hearing, the
  
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• Police Seek 2 Men Missing Under Suspicious Circumstances

  03-04-2017 21:13
  
  PORTAGE BOROUGH (KDKA) — State police are seeking two men who went missing more than a week ago in Cambria County.
  James Edward Smith, 32, of Portage, and Damian Michael Staniszewski, 19, of Duncansville were last seen together at Smith’s home on Prospect Street in Portage Borough on Mar. 26.
  Smith and Staniszewski are acquaintances and were reported missing by their respective families.
  A vehicle known to be operated by Staniszewski was found on Mar. 28 along State Route 985 in
  
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• Beechview man to stand trial in June rape case

  03-04-2017 21:13 via post-gazette.com
  
  A district judge Monday ordered a Beechview man charged with raping five different women to stand trial in the fifth case.
  
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• Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto defends city's demands of Uber

  03-04-2017 21:05 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh’s mayor is pushing back on a Wall Street Journal article about the mayor’s dealings with self-driving car innovator Uber.
  
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• Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto criticizes Uber, saying it must 'fight for more than profit'

  03-04-2017 21:05 via post-gazette.com
  
  On Monday, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto leaned on the horn, hard, in an increasingly contentious tie-up with ride-sharing service Uber. In a formal statement and a Wall Street Journal article, Mr. Peduto said that “economic disruptors” like Uber “have a moral obligation” to provide benefits to the surrounding community.
  
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• Homeowner Arrested After Shooting Intruder Dead In The Shower

  03-04-2017 20:55
  
  MASON COUNTY, Wash. (KDKA) — A homeowner in Washington State shot and killed an intruder this weekend.
  According to CBS affiliate KIRO, the incident took place Saturday in Mason County.
  The male homeowner found a screen taken out of a window and noticed a door had been kicked in.
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  He went to investigate, found the intruder and fatally shot him.
  The intruder has been identified as 31-year-old Nathaniel Jo
  
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• Police: Skeletal Remains Found In Wooded Area Of Northview Heights

  03-04-2017 20:19
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Police are investigating after skeletal remains were found this afternoon in the woods behind Northview Heights.
  Investigators were called to a wooded area along Hazlett Street after 1 p.m.
  According to officials at the scene, size 10 men’s shoes were found near the remains.Police confirm. Skeletal remains in the woods behind North View Heights Estate. The only thing for sure wearing men's size 10 shoes pic.twitter.com/1HgQabMCnA
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• ACM Awards Delivered Diverse Flavors Of Country Music

  03-04-2017 20:12
  
  By Brian Ives 
  Last year, a number of cross-generational country superstars joined together for the “Forever Country” video, a Joseph Kahn directed high-tech mashup that saw Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Reba McIntyre, Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, Rascal Flatts and Brett Eldredge, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and many others perform a medley of the
  
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• Senate Democrats Have Votes To Filibuster Supreme Court Nominee, Neil Gorsuch

  03-04-2017 20:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Democrats now have enough votes to try to block Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch with a filibuster, setting up a showdown with Republicans who plan to confirm him anyway.
  The crucial 41st vote came from Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware who announced his decision Monday as the Senate Judiciary Committee met to vote on Gorsuch’s nomination.
  Coons said that he had decided to oppose President Donald Trump’s nominee over concerns that include his va
  
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• Founder of West Deer horse-rescue nonprofit set to plead guilty in federal case

  03-04-2017 20:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  The founder of a popular horse rescue operation charged federally in two schemes is set to admit her guilt next week.
  
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• The Ham-Burglar? Man Accused Of Stealing $450 Worth Of Hams

  03-04-2017 19:24
  
  YOUNGWOOD (KDKA) — State Police in Westmoreland County are looking for a man who was caught on grocery store surveillance video allegedly stealing hundreds of dollars’ worth of ham.
  The theft happened last Monday around 6:30 p.m. at the Shop ‘n Save on Route 119 in Youngwood.
  (Source: Pennsylvania State Police)
  According to state police, the suspect got away with $450 worth of hams.
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• Second teen pleads guilty in Circle C beating death; gets time served

  03-04-2017 19:17 via post-gazette.com
  
  The second of two teens charged in the beating death of a third teen at a Carrick group home two years ago pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter.
  
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• Pedal-powered time machines coming to Pittsburgh this summer

  03-04-2017 19:12 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pedal your way back in time (a time before bike lanes?) - or into the future (to a time when cars are a thing of the past?) this summer in Downtown Pittsburgh.
  
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• CalU, Clarion, Edinboro, Cheyney faculty union warned of possible layoffs

  03-04-2017 18:19 via post-gazette.com
  
  Four more Pennsylvania state-owned universities — California, Clarion, Edinboro and Cheyney — have notified the faculty union of possible classroom layoffs at the end of the upcoming school year.
  
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• Cosby judge hopes to pick Pittsburgh jury in late May

  03-04-2017 18:03 via post-gazette.com
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The judge in Bill Cosby’s criminal case in Pennsylvania expects the sexual assault trial to last at least two weeks.
  
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• Upper St. Clair mom receives plenty of support for backpack drive

  03-04-2017 17:56
  Carissa Howard of Upper St. Clair shows the backpack she bought for her daughter, with a similar product filled with supplies going to a Pittsburgh City Schools student. For the few months between the start of the school year and winter break, Carissa Howard's 7-year-old son toted the same backpack to Eisenhower Elementary each day.
  
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• MLB Network’s Harold Reynolds Believes Gerrit Cole Is An Ace

  03-04-2017 17:52
  
  PITTSBURGH (93-7 The Fan) — Ahh, Opening Day. Where winter officially ends for sports fan and hope springs eternal for all 30 cities of MLB teams as another season opens with a clean slate.MLB Network analyst Harold Reynolds joined the Fan Morning Show on Monday to discuss the Pirates hopes heading into Opening Day 2017.
  Reynolds says he thought the Pirates’ success from 2013-15 would have carried them a little farther to this point.
  “It’s been a weird turnaround for [the
  
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• Long John Silver's hit with consumer alert

  03-04-2017 17:38 via post-gazette.com
  
  The Allegheny County Health Department posted a consumer alert at Long John Silver’s on Washington Avenue in Carnegie because of a roof leak in the kitchen. 
  
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• Pittsburgh gas prices up slightly in the last week

  03-04-2017 17:34 via post-gazette.com
  
  Drivers didn’t see a lot of change at the pump over the last week.
  
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• Chick-fil-A Giving Away Sandwiches To Fans Decked Out In Pirates Gear On Friday

  03-04-2017 17:09
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Pirates are opening the regular season on the road today against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
  That means Opening Day at PNC Park won’t be until Friday.
  But that gives you plenty of time to plan out your outfit.
  If you’re getting decked out in your Buccos gear at the end of the week, make sure you stop by Chick-fil-A. That’s because the restaurant will be giving away Original Chicken Sandwiches.
  To get a free sandwich, customers have to be wea
  
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• Wesley Spectrum To Benefit From Panera Bread’s Pieces Of Hope Cookie Campaign

  03-04-2017 16:45
  
  Wesley Spectrum is a local organization that helps children and families in the Pittsburgh area.They assist with education, behavioral health and autism and Panera Bread has selected Wesley Spectrum to benefit from their “Pieces of Hope” cookie campaign.Proceeds from cookies sold at the 35 Panera Bread’s in Western PA will go toward Wesley’s autism programs.
  Wesley Spectrum CEO Doug Muetzel tells the “KDKA Morning News”, “This is a tremendous opportunity
  
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• Juvenile lifer gets 75 to life in triple homicide

  03-04-2017 16:45 via post-gazette.com
  
  A man convicted of killing his three neighbors when he was just 14 years old in 1986 was resentenced Monday following U.S. Supreme Court decisions that made mandatory life without parole prison terms unconstitutional. 
  
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• Pa. Woman, 36, Collapses At End Of Half Marathon And Dies

  03-04-2017 16:40
  
  SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) – Authorities say a woman collapsed at the end of a half marathon in Pennsylvania and died at a hospital.
  Thirty-six-year-old Lindsay Doherty collapsed at the end of Sunday’s 13.1-mile Scranton Half Marathon.
  The Lackawanna County coroner planned an autopsy Monday on the married mother of three.
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton says Doherty worked in its development office, raising money for Catholic education. A special prayer service was scheduled for Monda
  
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• Disco Biscuits, Spanish Fly: Cosby Lawyers To Argue Evidence

  03-04-2017 15:47
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Disco biscuits, Spanish fly and quaaludes could be on the agenda when Bill Cosby returns to a Pennsylvania court for the latest showdown over evidence in his sexual-assault case.
  Cosby’s lawyers want to bar from the June trial any mention of quaaludes, also called disco biscuits.
  Cosby has acknowledged getting the disco biscuits in the 1970s to give women before sex. But his lawyers say that’s irrelevant since they were banned 20 years before he met the t
  
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• Trooper Ambush Suspect’s Lawyers Want Confession Tossed

  03-04-2017 15:40
  
  MILFORD, Pa. (AP) – A judge has heard testimony on whether he should throw out the videotaped confession of a man charged in the 2014 ambush slaying of a Pennsylvania trooper.
  Attorneys for Eric Frein contend police violated his rights on the night of his arrest by continuing to interrogate him after he told them he didn’t want to “answer questions about crimes.” They also say police blocked an attorney hired by Frein’s parents from seeing him.
  Frein is accused of o
  
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• Vice President Pence To Speak At College’s May Commencement

  03-04-2017 15:25
  
  GROVE CITY, Pa. (AP) – Vice President Mike Pence is to be the commencement speaker May 20 at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania.
  The Grove City Collegian newspaper posted an email from college President Paul McNulty confirming the announcement on Friday.
  The email says the school will be working with Pence’s advance team and details on the visit and the speech were still being worked out.
  Grove City is a private, Christian liberal arts college with about 2,500 students. It&rs
  
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• Russian Media: St. Petersburg Subway Blast Kills At Least 10

  03-04-2017 15:14
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — At least 10 people were killed Monday in an explosion on the subway in St. Petersburg, Russian news agencies reported.
  President Vladimir Putin, who was visiting the city on an unrelated trip Monday, said investigators were looking into whether the explosion was a terror attack or if there might have been some other cause. He offered his condolences to the families of those killed.
  Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee, which said “several&rdq
  
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• Russia Subway Blast Kills 11, Dozens More Injured; 2nd Bomb Found

  03-04-2017 15:14
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A bomb blast tore through a subway train in Russia’s second-largest city Monday, killing 11 people and injuring about 40 as President Vladimir Putin visited the city, authorities said. Hours later, police found an unexploded device in one of St. Petersburg’s busiest subway stations, sending a wave of anguish and fear through Putin’s hometown.
  The Interfax news agency cited an unidentified law enforcement official saying that the 23-year old m
  
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• Russia Subway Blast Kills 10, Dozens More Injured; 2nd Bomb Found

  03-04-2017 15:14
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A bomb blast tore through a subway train in Russia’s second-largest city Monday, killing 10 people and injuring about 40 as President Vladimir Putin visited the city, authorities said. Hours later, police found an unexploded device in one of St. Petersburg’s busiest subway stations, sending a wave of anguish and fear through Putin’s hometown.
  There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack Monday, but Russian trains and planes h
  
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• Vice President Pence to speak at Grove City commencement

  03-04-2017 15:13 via post-gazette.com
  
  GROVE CITY, Pa. — Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to be the commencement speaker May 20 at Grove City College in Mercer County.
  
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• Truckloads Of Debris Removed After Landslide Threatens South Side Slopes Homes

  03-04-2017 14:53
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A landslide threatened some homes on Pittsburgh’s South Side Slopes over the weekend.
  Living on the South Side Slopes, Michelle Jordan takes in a wonderful view of the Pittsburgh skyline every morning.
  But it’s not the view from the front of her home that she’s thinking about as of late, it’s a landslide in the back.
  “Mid-February, the street above us, Newtown Street started to collapse, and it pushed the hillside down behind three of the h
  
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• Crews Cleaning Up After South Side Landslide

  03-04-2017 14:53
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Clean-up is underway after a landslide over the weekend on the South Side.
  Some mud and brush started to slide down a hillside Sunday night along Windom Street.
  It slid towards some houses right at the base of the hill.
  Crews brought in a backhoe to help clear away what they could.
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