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• Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey

  09-05-2017 23:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey.
  In a statement, Trump says Comey’s firing “will mark a new beginning” for the FBI. The White House says the search for a new FBI director will begin immediately.
  Comey’s firing comes days after he testified on Capitol Hill about the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s election meddling and possible connections between Russia and Trump’s campaign.
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• Woodland Hills Alternative School Employee Accused Of Assaulting 13-Year-Old Boy

  09-05-2017 23:45
  WOODLAND HILLS (KDKA) — The Woodland Hills School District is facing more troubles.
  Tuesday morning, an employee at the district’s alternative school turned himself in to police for allegedly assaulting a 13-year-old student.
  “That’s unacceptable behavior under any circumstance. We are saddened and extremely disappointed.”
  Alan Johnson, the superintendent of the Woodland Hills School District, has voiced those sentiments often during recent months.
  Most recently, a
  
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• Council proposal would target city-owned vacant homes

  09-05-2017 23:39 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh may set aside $2 million next year to spruce up 25 to 30 dilapidated homes owned by the city.
  
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• Rostraver Police Searching For iPhone Thieves

  09-05-2017 23:25
  
  BELLE VERNON (KDKA) — Rostraver Police say a pair of guys worked like a well-oiled machine as they stole merchandise from a Walmart.
  One would distract the clerk while the other got away with thousands of dollars in merchandise.
  A Belle Vernon Walmart is where Rostraver Police say two men are accused of stealing Apples, and not the kind you eat.
  “They walk around the store a little bit,” Rostraver police chief Greg Resetar said. “They go to the electronics department, and
  
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• Woman Drinks Bottles Of Vanilla Extract, Charged With DUI & Littering

  09-05-2017 23:12
  
  ADAMS TOWNSHIP (KDKA) – Adams Township Police originally out to catch a litterer ended up making a DUI arrest.
  But it took some time and old-fashioned police work to finally identify the suspect.
  The police had a real puzzle on their hands. Workers with the Township road department kept finding bags full of empty vanilla extract bottles with an alcohol content of 35 percent or more. So they put a trail camera in the woods near Myoma and Carriage Hill roads.
  “In the same day, we got p
  
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• Route 65 Northbound Closed After Truck Damages Waterline

  09-05-2017 23:03
  AMBRIDGE (KDKA) — A tree service truck with an extended boom hit the Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge while going under on the fast lane of Northbound 65 on Tuesday afternoon.
  There is construction currently ongoing in the right lane.
  The bridge appears fine, but the impact was on the superstructure protecting the main waterline that comes across the river attached to the bridge and serves about 28,000 customers in Ambridge, Harmony, Economy, Baden, Edgeworth and New Sewickley.
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• Tyler Kennedy On Crosby Game 6 Hit: ‘I Can’t Believe He Got Up!’

  09-05-2017 22:59
  
  PITTSBURGH (93-7 The FAN) – Former Penguin Tyler Kennedy knows a thing or two about playing a Game 7 in D.C. against the Capitals and joined The Starkey and Mueller Show to share those experiences and if he thinks this Pens team can come out victorious.
  “I think Washington, they kind of found their groove in that last game,”Kennedy said.“At the beginning of the series, they looked like they just didn’t believe in themselves that they could win…and now, it loo
  
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• Bank of America to lay off 112 at North Side operations center

  09-05-2017 22:52 via post-gazette.com
  
  Bank of America is scaling back its operations center in Nova Place, the old Allegheny Center Mall on the North Side, throwing 112 people out of work.
  
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• Evoqua acquires Texas water equipment provider

  09-05-2017 22:46 via post-gazette.com
  
  Evoqua Water Technologies announced it has agreed to purchase Noble Water Technologies, a Dallas, Tex.-based provider of water equipment and treatment systems for commercial buildings, industrial plants, medical laboratories and the pharmaceutical industry.
  
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• Leaderboard: PGA Tour By The Numbers

  09-05-2017 22:25
  By Dan Reardon
  With the Run for the Roses in the rearview mirror and a significant mile marker, The Players Championship, on the horizon, the idea of handicapping seems appropriate. No matter what the performance charts suggest in either horse racing or golf, there is no question the task of picking a Derby winner from a field of 20 is far easier than picking a tournament winner from a PGA Tour full-field event of 156, particularly given the any-given-week talent present in golf today.
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• Ex-gymnastics coach gets 13 to 26 years in prison for sexual abuse

  09-05-2017 22:01 via post-gazette.com
  
  A former gymnastics instructor in Allegheny and Butler counties will serve 13 to 26 years in prison for sexually assaulting one of his students and two other young girls.
  
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• Dispute At Spirit Airlines Could Affect Pittsburgh If Not Resolved

  09-05-2017 22:00
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP/KDKA) – Last February, it was all black and gold and good cheer as Spirit Airlines announced it would be coming to Pittsburgh International in late May.
  “Pittsburgh has Spirit,” declared Mark Kopczak, Spirit vice president.
  The spirit of good feeling here was in marked contrast to Fort Lauderdale where passengers clashed Monday night at the ticket counters with Spirit employees and each after the airlines canceled nine flights, leaving hundreds strande
  
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• Yuengling's ice cream available at Pittsburgh-area Sheetz stores

  09-05-2017 20:59 via post-gazette.com
  
  Late-night snackers and on-the-run ice cream lovers, you’re in luck. Yuengling’s Ice Cream is now available in smaller portions at Sheetz convenience stores across the Pittsburgh area.
  
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• Weed Could Be The Cure For Dementia, Study Finds

  09-05-2017 20:40
  
  CBS Local — In a potentially groundbreaking study published in the journal Nature Medicine, it has been found that a key ingredient in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), could possibly be a cure of dementia.
  Researchers in a joint study in Europe tested low doses of THC on aging mice them. The older mice, who should have had signs of aging, performed the same as younger mice, showing that when exposed to low doses of THC, cognitive ability did not decrease as it naturall
  
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• Teen’s Plea For Free Wendy’s Nuggets Sets Retweet Record

  09-05-2017 20:31
  RENO, Nev. (AP) – A Twitter plea from a Nevada teen for a year of free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s is now the most retweeted post of all time.
  Carter Wilkerson asked the fast food chain on Twitter last month how many retweets it would take for him to get free nuggets for a year. Wendy’s replied, “18 million.”HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
  — Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017
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• Eating Full-Fat Cheese Won’t Raise Chance Of Heart Attack, Study Finds

  09-05-2017 20:04
  CBS Local —  Pass the cheese, please. While it may not be the healthiest thing in the world, a new study claims that full-fat dairy products is not as bad as once thought. Eating full-fat cheese, milk or yogurt does not increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to a study published in European Journal of Epidemiology, via Guardian,
  The study was an in-depth analysis of 29 prior studies that looked at the link between dairy products and risk of cardiovascu
  
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• Man arrested in shooting of wife in Garfield

  09-05-2017 20:03
  A man was arrested early Tuesday morning for shooting his wife during a domestic incident in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood, police said. The shooting was reported just before 2 a.m. on Rosetta Street, where police were seen going in and out of a house.
  
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• Cops: Woman who had 'prophecy from God' threw bricks at car

  09-05-2017 20:03
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• 5 Must-See U.S. National Parks In Spring

  09-05-2017 20:00
  By Randy Yagi
  As temperatures slowly rise up all across the country, it can be a perfect time to enjoy America’s great outdoors. In fact, springtime is quite possibly the best time of the year to travel, particularly to any of the 58 national parks, with its radiant wildflowers still blooming amid moderately pleasant temperatures, and most certainly smaller crowds in advance of the busy and oftentimes far more hectic summer season. Whether it’s a day trip or an overnight stay, trave
  
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• Police Asking For Help To Locate Missing Penn Hills Teen

  09-05-2017 19:40
  
  PENN HILLS (KDKA) – Police in Penn Hills are seeking assistance to find a missing juvenile.
  According to police, family members reported Andre Faucette Jr., 15, as missing on April 30.
  He is described as being about 5-feet-9-inches tall and weighing 153 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.
  Faucette was last seen wearing a black and red Nike hooded sweatshirt along with black and white Nike shoes.
  Anyone seeing Faucette is asked to call 911.
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• NBA Analyst Charles Barkely: I’d Rather Watch NHL Playoffs

  09-05-2017 19:30
  CBS Local– Charles Barkley has a job many would consider to be a dream. He’s paid to watch and analyze basketball, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t enjoy another traditional sport. Sir Charles, in one of his standard rants, said that he’d rather watch the NHL playoffs than the NBA playoffs because of the competitive balance.
  “Speaking of a Zamboni, thank God for the NHL Playoffs,” said Barkley. “That’s what I would be watching in th
  
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• Consol Energy sees potential in Utica that others don't

  09-05-2017 19:19 via post-gazette.com
  
  Consol Energy Inc. held its annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday. It lasted for 10 minutes.
  
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• Woodland Hills school employee charged with assaulting, endangering student

  09-05-2017 19:10 via post-gazette.com
  
  A behavioral specialist at the Rankin Promise alternative education school in the Woodland Hills School District has been charged after authorities said he carried a student by the neck down a school hallway.
  
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• Cops: Woman Entered Wrong House, Bed After Night Of Drinking

  09-05-2017 19:07
  LOWER BURRELL, Pa. (AP) – Police in Pennsylvania say a woman who decided to walk rather than drive after a night drinking ended up at the wrong house and in the wrong bed.
  Lower Burrell Police Chief Tim Weitzel tells The Tribune-Review the woman had been at a bar Friday night and decided to walk to a relative’s house.
  However, she ended up at a stranger’s house, where she failed to enter through a window, but left her purse behind. She then tried and succeeded to climb through
  
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• Jailhouse informant in Wilkinsburg mass slaying case charged for court outburst

  09-05-2017 19:03 via post-gazette.com
  
  One of the informants working with prosecutors in the case of a mass shooting in Wilkinsburg last year was charged Monday with threatening the judge about to sentence him in an unrelated case.
  
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• Leaders Working To Bring New, Renewable Energy Sources To Pittsburgh

  09-05-2017 18:37
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Mayor Bill Peduto met with policy and business leaders this morning to discuss how people in Pittsburgh use different types of energy.
  Mayor Peduto wants to make the city more energy efficient both in how we produce energy and how much we use.
  Energy experts say the field is changing and Pittsburgh is a great place to be because we’re the cradle of innovation.
  “How do we manage the energy grid better and more efficiently and that really impacts people’
  
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• Cops: Woman told by God to throw bricks at car

  09-05-2017 18:22 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh police say a homeless woman attacked a man’s car because she received a “prophecy from God” urging her to “throw bricks at white men.”
  
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• From Dance Mom to 'Dance Con': Abby Lee Miller sentenced to 1 year, 1 day in prison

  09-05-2017 18:13 via post-gazette.com
  
  Reality TV star Abby Lee Miller is headed to a federal prison, probably in California, for a year and a day for concealing assets from U.S. bankruptcy court in Pittsburgh and sneaking cash into the country after dance instruction trips to Australia.
  
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• 'Dance Moms' star Abby Lee Miller sentenced to 1 year, 1 day in prison

  09-05-2017 18:13 via post-gazette.com
  
  Reality TV star Abby Lee Miller was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in federal prison for concealing assets from U.S. bankruptcy court and to sneaking cash into the U.S. after dance instruction trips to Australia.
  
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• Best Places To Take Wedding Pictures In Pittsburgh

  09-05-2017 18:00
  
  By Janelle Sheetz
  You’ve booked the caterer, picked out a florist, and found your photographer — but where to take pictures? Your wedding photos will capture one of the happiest, most exciting days of your life, and although they’ll be beautiful no matter what, Pittsburgh has some great spots to make them even better. Whether you’re looking for a classic setting like columns or staircases or something more outdoorsy or even Pittsburgh’s iconic skyline and bridges,
  
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• Authorities: Carlow student who fell from balcony took own life

  09-05-2017 17:56 via post-gazette.com
  
   
  
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• 8 Members Of Penn State Frat Due In Court In Pledge’s Death

  09-05-2017 17:33
  
  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) – Eight members of a Penn State University fraternity are expected to appear before a judge to face charges that stem from the death of a pledge after an alcohol hazing ritual.
  A Pennsylvania judge is expected to arraign the defendants on Tuesday and set bail. Ten other defendants also await trial after being arraigned on Friday and released on unsecured bail.
  The members of Beta Theta Pi face a range of charges. The eight scheduled for court are charged with comparati
  
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• Munhall man gets prison for hit-and-run that killed jogger

  09-05-2017 17:19 via post-gazette.com
  
  A Munhall man will spend 2 ½ to six years in prison after pleading guilty in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Turtle Creek last year.
  
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• Woman killed in Springdale duplex fire identified

  09-05-2017 16:44 via post-gazette.com
  
  Authorities have released the identity of a Springdale Township woman who died in a house fire last month that also injured her older brother.
  
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• Cops: Woman With ‘Prophecy From God’ Threw Bricks At Car

  09-05-2017 16:32
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) – Police in Pittsburgh say a homeless woman attacked a man’s car because she received a “prophecy from God” urging her to “throw bricks at white men.”
  Police say a motorist caught 31-year-old Jasmine Fox throwing bricks at his car on Monday morning and chased her into an abandoned Roman Catholic school in the city’s Carrick neighborhood. Police arrived and found her hiding in the school’s locker room.
  Fox, who is white, was charged
  
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• Got An Oreo Cookie Flavor Idea? It Could Win You $500K

  09-05-2017 16:30
  PITTSBURGH (CBS) — Oreo is following up on its Easter-time Peeps flavor, with a new take on the classic cookie.
  The Firework Oreo promises to light up the summer. The cream inside includes red and blue popping candies (aka pop rocks).
  The 4th of July-inspired cookies are available for a limited time.
  And now, Oreo is giving you a shot at $500,000 if you come up with their next flavor.
  You can enter through July 14 by using the hashtags #MyOreoCreation and #Contest on Twitter or Instagram.
  
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• Report: Woman Drinks Bottles Of Vanilla Extract, Charged With DUI & Littering

  09-05-2017 16:25
  
  ADAMS TOWNSHIP (KDKA) – A Butler County woman will stand trial on DUI charges after consuming bottles of pure vanilla extract.
  According to a Butler Eagle report, Mary Ranker, 61, of Cranberry Township, appeared in court for a preliminary hearing, where she was held for trial.
  The charges came after a long investigation, which was prompted by Adams Township officials. They were perplexed by bags of empty vanilla extract bottles showing up in the same location for years.
  Road crews would re
  
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• Pa. Lawmakers Consider Smoking Ban in All Bars, Casinos

  09-05-2017 16:03
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Lawmakers are considering a new bill that would end indoor smoking at bars, casinos, clubs and hotels that still allow it in Pennsylvania.House Bill 1309 was introduced Friday by House Health Committee Chairman Matthew Baker, R-Tioga County.The bill would get rid of a list of exemptions in the 2008 Clean Indoor Air Act that lets businesses continue to allow smoking under certain conditions.Bars can still allow smoking under the 2008 law if 20-percent or less of its sale
  
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• Youngstown preschool teacher fired after photo shows her dragging student down hall

  09-05-2017 15:28 via post-gazette.com
  
  The family of a Youngstown preschooler seen in a photo being dragged by a teacher down a hallway of a Head Start school said they have retained an attorney to look into the incident, according to Ohio media reports.
  
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• Commonwealth Court candidate: a Bob Ceisler was my mentora

  09-05-2017 15:16
  When Commonwealth Court candidate Ellen Ceisler's name appears on the ballot in the May 16 Democratic primary, voters will see "Philadelphia County" under her name in a race where two people will be nominated.
  
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• PTL Links: May 9, 2017

  09-05-2017 14:29
  
  Visit the links below for more on today’s guest & topics:
  For Good Pgh.
  Ask Dr. G, Parenting Expert Dr. Deborah Gilboa
  Market District
  Market District Recipes: New Twists On Old Favorites
  National Aviary
  Mall At Robinson
  
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• Market District Recipes: New Twists On Old Favorites

  09-05-2017 14:24
  Giant Eagle Market District Chef Crystal Baldwin stopped by PTL to show off some delicious twists on retro dishes!
  Tasso Cheddar Biscuits(Courtesy of Chef Crystal Baldwin)
  Makes: 15
  Prep Time: 15 minutes
  Cook Time: 15 minutes
  Ingredients:
  2 cup flour
  2 tbsp baking powder
  1 tsp sugar
  ½ tsp salt
  ½ cup unsalted butter, cold
  ½ cup tasso ham, finely diced
  ½ lb cheddar cheese, shredded
  1 cup buttermilk
  Directions:
  Preheat oven to 450°.
  In a bowl, mix together the first
  
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