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• Prosecutors: Couple took $8M grants for fake energy projects

  12-08-2017 23:43
  
  Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts couple tried to defraud the government out of more than $50 million in clean energy grants.
  
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• West Point Grad Rowley Wins ML Debut, Jays Beat Pirates 7-2

  12-08-2017 23:40
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterTORONTO (AP) — With a stadium full of people on their feet as he walked off the mound, Chris Rowley started to become aware of the magnitude of his achievement.
  Rowley pitched 5 1/3 innings to win his major league debut, Jose Bautista scored two runs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-2 on Saturday.
  The right-hander, who began the season at Double-A, allowed one run five hits. He walked one and struck out three.
  Blue jays manager John
  
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• Authorities: Woman Tried To Poison Grandma With Anti-Freeze

  12-08-2017 23:17
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterROXBURY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – Authorities say a New Jersey woman tried to poison her grandmother with liquid anti-freeze.
  Morris County prosecutors say Elise Conroy was arrested Saturday on an attempted murder charge. A possible motive has not be disclosed.
  Authorities say the 26-year-old Roxbury Township lives with her 84-year-old grandmother.
  Conroy allegedly bought the anti-freeze in July with the purpose of poisoning the older woman. Prosecutors say Co
  
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• Trump Signs Bill To Fund Veterans Medical Care Program

  12-08-2017 23:14
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterBEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) – President Donald Trump has signed an emergency spending bill that will pump more than $2 billion into a program that allows veterans to receive private medical care at government expense.
  Trump, who made improving veterans care a central campaign promise, signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act while at his New Jersey golf club on Saturday.The bill addresses a budget shortfall at the Department of Veteran Affairs that threat
  
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• Pregnant Mom-of-5 Now Unconscious After Refusing Cancer Treatment to Save Unborn Child

  12-08-2017 22:56
  
  "This is what she wants."
  
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• Four charged in death of overdose victim found on rural road in Indiana County

  12-08-2017 22:24
  
  Police allege that one confided to a county jail inmate that the group found him dead on the couch and decided to leave his body near the lake.
  
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• Car plows into crowd, 1 person dies in Virginia amid violent protest

  12-08-2017 22:23
  
  President Donald Trump condemned the violence, calling it an egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on "many sides."
  
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• Pittsburghers spread kindness in support of nurse fighting cancer

  12-08-2017 22:13
  
  The movement is called "Sarah's Strength" and and encourages others to pay it forward.
  
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• Mom outraged by video of daycare worker 'tossing' child several feet

  12-08-2017 21:25
  
  A mom says a daycare worker "tossed" her daughter several feet in an incident that was caught on camera.
  
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• Amazon gives refunds to customers over concerns about safety of some eclipse glasses

  12-08-2017 21:06
  
  Customers are receiving refunds from Amazon because of concerns about some eclipse glasses.
  
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• Joint Trial Slated For 3 Teens In Police Officer’s Death

  12-08-2017 20:53
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterSCRANTON, Pa. (AP) – A judge has scheduled a joint trial at the end of October for three teenagers accused of having caused the death of a police officer during a chase.
  The (Scranton) Times-Tribune reports that Lackawanna County Judge Margaret Bisignani Moyle denied a series of pretrial motions by Tanner Curtis, Isiah Edwards and Nasiir Jones but left undecided the issue of whether jurors will be selected from another county.
  She rejected requests for sep
  
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• PHOTOS: Violence erupts at White Nationalist rally in Virginia

  12-08-2017 20:35
  
  Violence erupted at a White Nationalist rally in Virginia on Saturday.
  
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• East Liberty McDonald’s Robbed At Gunpoint

  12-08-2017 20:18
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterPITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh Police were dispatched to an East Liberty McDonald’s Friday morning for a report of an armed robbery.
  According to the police investigation, two black males entered the store and proceeded to head to the bathroom.Upon exiting the bathroom, the suspects robbed the store at gunpoint.
  One male described as 6-foot-3-inches tall and thin, was wearing a tan coat, grey mask, sunglasses and a black ball cap. The suspect pointed
  
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• Demonstrators clash, car plows into crowd as state of emergency declared in Virginia

  12-08-2017 20:03
  
  President Trump decried the violence, urging Americans to "come together as one!"
  
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• World’s oldest man, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

  12-08-2017 19:49
  
  From smuggling booze during World War I to surviving Auschwitz and running his own business, "he managed to accomplish a lot."
  
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• Photo of dog dragging weights upsets neighborhood, but police say it's legal

  12-08-2017 19:49
  
  A photo of a dog dragging weights from the leash is upsetting a St. Louis neighborhood, but police say the practice is legal under Missouri's laws.
  
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• Virginia City Rocked By White Nationalist Protests; 1 Dead

  12-08-2017 18:51
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person and sending at least 26 others to hospitals.
  An Associated Press reporter saw at least one person on the ground receiving medical treatment immediately after the car careened into the line of several hundred people. The driver was arrested.
  Matt Korbon, a 22-year-old University of Virginia s
  
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• Officials: White Nationalist Rally Linked To 3 Deaths

  12-08-2017 18:51
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  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person, hurting dozens more and ratcheting up tension in an increasingly violent confrontation.
  A helicopter crash that killed the pilot and a passenger later in the afternoon outside Charlottesville also was linked to the rally by State Police.
  Police said the helicopter was assisting law enforce
  
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• Emergency Declared For White Nationalist Rally

  12-08-2017 18:51
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP/KDKA) – Virginia’s governor has declared a state of emergency in response to a white nationalist rally that is expected to draw up to 6,000 people.
  Gov. Terry McAuliffe said via his Twitter account on Saturday morning that the declaration was made in order “to aid state response to violence” at the rally in Charlottesville, about 100 miles outside of Washington, D.C.Governor McAuliffe has declared a state of emergency to aid state response to viol
  
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• UK police: American man wrongly arrested man in jogging-rage case

  12-08-2017 18:47
  
  The search continues for a jogger who shoved a woman into a path of a London bus.
  
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• Suspected DUI Crash Leaves One Dead

  12-08-2017 18:26
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterWEST WHEATFIELD TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A man was killed in a single vehicle accident early Saturday morning.
  The Indiana County Coroner’s office pronounced the driver of the vehicle, 45-year-old Aaron James Stiffey Jr. of Bolivar, dead at the scene around 4:15 a.m.
  The coroner’s office said “alcohol and speed appear to be a factor,” but toxicology tests are pending.
  According to the Jerry Overman Jr. of the coroner’s office, Stiffe
  
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• Homewood woman leads police to heroin bust

  12-08-2017 18:04 via post-gazette.com
  Pittsburgh police Friday seized more than 100 stamp bags of suspected heroin after a Homewood woman asked them to boot drug dealers from her apartment.
  
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• Man dies in Indiana County pickup truck crash

  12-08-2017 16:49
  
  State police investigating early morning incident
  
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• Man sentenced to 8½ to 20 years in woman's shooting death

  12-08-2017 16:29
  
  A man has been sentenced to 8½ to 20 years in prison for his role in last year's shooting death of a woman authorities said was an innocent bystander.
  
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• Crane Avenue closure extended in Beechview

  12-08-2017 15:42 via post-gazette.com
  Part of Crane Avenue in Beechview is closed until 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Pittsburgh officials have announced.
  
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• Police search Woods Run for victim

  12-08-2017 15:33 via post-gazette.com
  Pittsburgh Police Saturday morning were searching for a possible gunshot victim after blood was discovered on a sidewalk on Woods Run Road Avenue along the border of Brighton Heights and Marshall-Shadeland.
  
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• Only woman in SEAL training pipeline drops out, Navy says

  12-08-2017 15:28
  
  She was in a three-week program that comes before being selected to take part in grueling SEAL basic training.
  
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• Veteran attacked by man 63 years younger, but he 'wouldn't put up with that'

  12-08-2017 15:16
  
  “I don't like to give up money that easy; I had to work for it."
  
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• The opioid crisis is now one of 29 active national emergencies

  12-08-2017 15:14
  
  The list of national emergencies currently in effect stretches back to the Iran hostage crisis.
  
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• Pilot ejects, escapes injury as US fighter jet crash lands in Bahrain

  12-08-2017 14:31
  
  A Navy spokesman says the F-18 suffered an engine problem.
  
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• Friends 'pull a fast one,' award Vietnam vet with long-deserved medal

  12-08-2017 14:22
  
  It took 50 years, but Army Sgt. Ed Hill was finally recognized for his heroism in combat during the Vietnam War.
  
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• Experts: North Korea still mastering how to deliver a nuke to US

  12-08-2017 13:51
  
  Kim Jong Un's regime is still months away from honing in on an accurate missile, but it's "on track" to figuring it out.
  
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• Free family fun at North Side chalk walk

  12-08-2017 13:33
  
  Free family fun at North Side chalk walk
  
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• Try these smartphone outdoor photography tips to up your insta-game

  12-08-2017 13:00 via post-gazette.com
  Sunny weather means no excuse to stay inside or to slack on your insta-game. Pittsburgh is filled with views of the cityscape and skyline and lush parks and rivers that promise to keep the likes rolling in — if you know how to photograph them, that is.
  
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• Judge throws out sex charges against teacher, calls law unconstitutional

  12-08-2017 12:22
  
  A judge says Alabama's law barring any school employee from having sex with any student is overbroad and unconstitutional
  
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• Pennsylvania cantor, once on Schindler's List, sings on

  12-08-2017 11:37
  Cantor Moshe Taube poses for a portrait at his home in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on Friday, July 14, 2017. He is long past retirement as one of his generation's most renowned cantors, a living link to Eastern European Jewish culture before it was devastated in the Holocaust that claimed much of his family.
  
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• Chinese President Xi urges calm over North Korea

  12-08-2017 11:11
  
  In a phone call, President Xi Jinping, told President Donald Trump that all sides should avoid rhetoric or action that would worsen tensions on the Korean Peninsula
  
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• Students seeking honorary degree for friend who recently died

  12-08-2017 10:44
  
  Smith College students are advocating their school to grand an honorary posthumous degree to a friend who recently died.
  
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• Trump tells China: Probe into trade practices coming

  12-08-2017 09:51
  
  The move could lay the groundwork for President Trump to impose tariffs against Chinese imports
  
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• Shipwreck survivor prepares to set sail again

  12-08-2017 09:16
  
  After losing his leg in a boating accident, John Silverwood is getting ready for a three-week sail to Hawaii
  
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• Winning Mega Millions ticket worth $393 million sold in Illinois

  12-08-2017 08:10
  
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• Torch-wielding white nationalists descend on UVA for 'Unite the Right' rally

  12-08-2017 07:24
  
  The Southern Poverty Law Center is describing the rally as "the largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades"
  
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• Records: West Mifflin boy in shooting has been troubled

  12-08-2017 06:08 via post-gazette.com
  The 10-year-old boy who police say shot and killed his 6-year-old brother with their mother’s gun while the pair were alone in their West Mifflin home has lived a troubled life, according to court records.
  
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• Records: W. Mifflin boy in shooting has been troubled

  12-08-2017 06:08 via post-gazette.com
  The 10-year-old boy who police say shot and killed his 6-year-old brother with their mother’s gun while the pair were alone in their West Mifflin home has lived a troubled life, according to court records.
  
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• 40 years after slayings, Son of Sam killer says he 'surrendered to dark forces'

  12-08-2017 06:01
  
  40 years ago, 'Son of Sam' killer, David Berkowitz, was apprehended
  
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• Man diagnosed with ALS gets new treatment

  12-08-2017 05:56 via post-gazette.com
  Squeezing by cameras and reporters in the cramped Allegheny General Hospital exam room, the nurse reached to get her hands on a box she had spent months waiting for.
  
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• Judge Tosses DJ’s Suit Against Taylor Swift In Groping Trial

  12-08-2017 05:31
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterDENVER (AP) — A judge on Friday threw out a former radio host’s case against Taylor Swift in a trial that delved into their dueling lawsuits over whether he groped her during a backstage meet-and-greet and whether she and her team ruined his career.
  U.S. District Judge William Martinez determined that the pop star could not be held liable because David Mueller failed to prove that she personally set out to have him fired after the 2013 photo op in De
  
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• Are you a winner? Mega Millions jackpot numbers are in

  12-08-2017 05:19
  
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• Pig-to-human transplants may soon save thousands

  12-08-2017 05:14
  
  Pigs may become man's new best friend, thanks to new research that could eventually help transplant patients.
  
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• McCutchen leaves with sore left knee, Pirates beat Jays 4-2

  12-08-2017 05:10
  
  Bucs' Taillon snaps winless streak
  
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