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• South Korea Says Trump Will Meet With North Korea’s Kim By May

  08-03-2018 23:44
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — South Korea’s national security director says President Donald Trump has decided he will meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un “by May.”
  Chung Eui-yong spoke outside the White House after a day of briefings with senior U.S. officials, including Trump, on the recent inter-Korea talks. Chung says Trump said “he would meet Kim Jong Un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula.
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• Plans To Redevelop Strip District Produce Terminal Move Forward

  08-03-2018 23:23
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  STRIP DISTRICT (KDKA) — The on-again, off-again plans to develop the aging produce terminal in the Strip District took a big step forward Thursday.
  The Urban Redevelopment Authority took a preliminary vote to approve a 99-year lease of the terminal to Chicago developer Dan McCaffrey. It will mean a $50 million makeover for Smallman Street in the Strip.
  The ambitious plan to convert a nearly 100-year-old railroad loading dock into shops, offices and restau
  
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• Bullskin Twp. Homeowners Frustrated As Rain Runoff Deposits Gravel, Dirt On Property

  08-03-2018 23:21
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  BULLSKIN TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — Some Fayette County homeowners have been left with a huge mess in their yard, and they want PennDOT to clean it up.
  Rocks and gravel are piling up and water carved a huge hole several feet deep.
  The ugly situation in Bullskin Township began a few years ago when, according to Mark Whittaker, PennDOT began filling the berm and shoulder of Swink Hill Road with gravel and dirt that rain runoff has now deposited on Whittaker’s
  
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• Inmate Charged In Allegheny County Jail Fire

  08-03-2018 23:13
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An inmate is facing charges for starting a fire that sent two Allegheny County Jail employees to the hospital.
  Allegheny County Police say 29-year-old Andrew Powell is facing multiple charges in connection to the March 7 incident.
  A small, smoldering fire was started in an inmate’s cell just before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. About 80 inmates who were in that pod were sent to another location and the jail was put on lockdown.
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• Inmate charged with starting fire in Allegheny County Jail

  08-03-2018 23:08 via post-gazette.com
  A 29-year-old inmate in the Allegheny County Jail has been charged with starting a fire in his cell that forced a partial evacuation Wednesday and sent two corrections officers to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
  
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• Kilbuck Twp. Family Trying To Save Home From Landslide

  08-03-2018 22:57
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  KILBUCK TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A family whose house is being destroyed by a landslide in Kilbuck Township have taken some preventative measures in hopes of saving at least part of their home.Barb Tomaro says watching the landslide slowly crush her home has been devastating.
  “It’s a living nightmare,” she says. “Even breast cancer wasn’t this bad.”
  The back hillside along their Old Camp Horne Road home started sliding last we
  
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• Lutheran seminary board chairperson resigns

  08-03-2018 22:34 via post-gazette.com
  The chairperson of United Lutheran Seminary’s trustees has resigned amid criticisms that she didn’t tell fellow trustees or the seminary community that the school’s president had previously directed an organization that urged gay people to change or resist their sexual orientation.
  
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• 5 Things: Automatic Bids To Big Dance

  08-03-2018 22:27
  By Matt Citak
  The calendar has flipped to March, which means we are just days away from the most exciting time of the year — March Madness. Thirteen conferences have already settled their tournaments, meaning 13 schools have already sealed their automatic bids to the Big Dance. Nineteen automatic bids remain up for grabs, with the rest of the conferences set to finish their tournaments this weekend.
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  Michigan pulls off upset, wins Big Te
  
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• 18th District fact check: Some ads are ... less than truthful

  08-03-2018 22:20 via post-gazette.com
  No matter who you hope wins Tuesday’s special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District, there’s one sense in which we’re all in this together: We’re being bombarded by TV ads for and against Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone.
  
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• The 10th President’s Grandsons Are Still Alive, 174 Years Later

  08-03-2018 22:17
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  CBS Local — While some people can trace their family tree back to the founding of America, two men can say they’re the grandchildren of the nation’s 10th president, John Tyler.What makes their story even more remarkable is that President Tyler married their grandmother 174 years ago.
  In an interview with CBS News, 89-year-old Harrison Tyler, and his son, William, explained how three generations of Tylers has managed to span nearly two cen
  
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• Police: Penn Hills sex offender tried to kill Swissvale woman, abuse her daughter

  08-03-2018 22:01 via post-gazette.com
  A 28-year-old registered sex offender tried to kill a Swissvale woman to collect a $10,000 bounty and attempted to sexually assault her 6-year-old daughter all during a single night in February, according to court records.
  
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• CBS Local Interview: Heather Graham On Half Magic & Career

  08-03-2018 21:32
  Heather Graham is one of the most recognizable actresses in Hollywood. Her roles in “License to Drive,” “Swingers,” “Boogie Nights” and “The Hangover” have allowed her to consistently work for the last 20 years. Now, Graham is using her experience and status for a new purpose. The Milwaukee native wants to make movies to empower women.
  That’s exactly what Graham did with her latest movie “Half Magic” with Angela Kinsey and Stephan
  
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• Trump Signs Orders On Steel, Aluminum Tariffs

  08-03-2018 21:27
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed proclamations imposing tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.
  Trump says a 25 percent tariff will be added to steel and a 10 percent tariff will apply to aluminum.
  The president was surrounded by steel and aluminum workers as he explained his decision at a White House ceremony. He signed separate proclamations ordering the tariffs. 
  Trump says the levies will take effect in about 15 days. He says
  
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• Police: Dog Found Dead After Man Allegedly Threatened Owners

  08-03-2018 21:14
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  FORWARD TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — State police say a dog was found dead at a Butler County home after a man allegedly threatened its owners Wednesday.
  Troopers were sent to a home in the 200 block of Wilson Avenue in Forward Township just before 9:30 p.m.
  Authorities were told there was a man with a “bladed weapon” acting erratically at the home. The man was later identified as 45-year-old Aaron John Baysek, of Evans City.
  The two victims, a 71-year-o
  
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• Asservo Project presentation raises awareness of sex trafficking

  08-03-2018 21:08 via post-gazette.com
  Prostitution and human trafficking are taking place in plain sight, if you know the signs.
  
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• Upper St. Clair school board awards contracts for pool, stadium upgrades

  08-03-2018 21:05 via post-gazette.com
  The Upper St. Clair school board on Monday awarded contracts totaling $22.65 million for several capital projects, including a new aquatics center and stadium complex and completion of the field facilities at Boyce Middle School.
  
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• High Levels Of Fecal Bacteria Found At Popular Spring Break Beaches

  08-03-2018 21:00
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  CBS Local — If you’re headed to Texas for spring break, you might want to stay off the beach — or at least out of the water, according to a new report.
  Over a dozen popular beaches have tested positive for high levels of fecal bacteria, according a website run by the Texas General Land Office. TexasBeachWatch.com says parts of Corpus Christi Bay and North Padre Island were both found to have high amounts of fecal bacteria in their waters.
  
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• Feds secure first guilty plea in case of violent Pittsburgh heroin ring

  08-03-2018 20:53 via post-gazette.com
  The U.S. attorney's office in Pittsburgh has secured its first guilty plea in the case of a heroin ring in which the accused leader has been charged with murdering a witness and trying to kill others.
  
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• Pittsburgh solicitor stepping down for return to private practice

  08-03-2018 20:50 via post-gazette.com
  Lourdes Sanchez Ridge, Pittsburgh's solicitor and chief legal officer, will step down next month and return to private legal practice, the city announced Thursday.
  
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• New Castle Police: Bag Of Cocaine Found Concealed In Man’s Body

  08-03-2018 20:33
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  NEW CASTLE (KDKA) — New Castle Police officers found a bag of cocaine concealed in a man’s body after he was taken into custody Wednesday.
  New Castle Police officers, along with the Lawrence County District Attorney’s Special Investigation Unit, served a sealed search warrant at an apartment in the Oak Leaf Gardens apartment complex on Pin Oak Drive sometime Wednesday.
  Officials forced their way inside and saw Sanjuan Allen trying to run towar
  
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• M&M’s Rolls Out New Flavors, Fans Get To Pick Favorite

  08-03-2018 20:01
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Mars is letting candy lovers vote for the next new flavor of M&M’s.
  Three new flavors will be sold in stores for a limited time:crunchy mint, crunchy raspberry, and crunchy espresso.
  Chocolate lovers are encouraged to try all three then vote for their favorite.
  You can vote online at flavorvote.mms.com or on Twitter by tweeting one of the following hashtags: #VOTECRUNCHYRASPBERRY, #VOTECRUNCHYMINT or #VOTECRUNCHYESPRESSO.
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• Virginia Looks Ready For Deep Tournament Run

  08-03-2018 19:42
  By Steve Silverman
  The Virginia Cavaliers are the standard bearers in college basketball, and they go into the NCAA tournament as the unanimous No. 1 team in both the AP and Coaches’ poll.
  But, the Cavaliers don’t get the respect that teams like Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas have received when they have been in the top spots. Instead, they are viewed as a grinding, tough, defensive-minded team that tends to play boring basketball.
  They are tough, grinding and defensive-mi
  
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• April The Giraffe Now An Artist

  08-03-2018 19:40
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — How do you waste some time while you’re waiting for spring? By taking up painting of course.That’s right, the world’s most famous giraffe, April, is now an artist.
  April the giraffe has now taken up painting at the Animal Adventure Park.April’s masterpieces are up for auction, with all proceeds going to the continued support of the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York.The staff says they use positive reinforcement training, a trusty wh
  
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• Castle Shannon man honored for 50-year aviation safety record

  08-03-2018 19:31 via post-gazette.com
  A 78-year-old Castle Shannon man who once held the Guinness World Record for the youngest person to fly solo now holds a top honor awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration to pilots with an exemplary 50-year safety record.
  
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• Alexa Users Report Hearing Unprompted Laughter From Device

  08-03-2018 19:03
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  (CNN Money) — It’s quiet in the house. Nobody else is home and the cat is fast asleep. Then you hear a disembodied woman’s voice let out a short, mocking cackle.
  No, you’re (probably) not being haunted, it’s just Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant malfunctioning in a profoundly creepy way.
  Some Alexa users have reported hearing an unprompted laugh from their smart speaker devices in the last day. The laugh happens randomly, when
  
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• Utah State Bar Accidentally Sends Nude Photo To Its Members

  08-03-2018 18:58
  CBS Local — The Utah State Bar is apologizing after an embarrassing e-mail, which included a picture of a topless woman, was accidentally sent to all of the state’s lawyers.
  The March 5 e-mail blast was supposed to be advertising the Bar’s 2018 spring convention in St. George however, the photo of a woman’s bare chest somehow made its way into the bottom of the flyer. “We are aware of the situation,” Bar communications director Matt Page told The Salt Lak
  
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• First JuJu Smith-Schuster Bobblehead Includes JuJu’s ‘Sweet Ride’

  08-03-2018 18:51
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — JuJu Smith-Schuster is getting his very own bobblehead, inspired by last year’s viral story about his “sweet ride.”
  Pittsburghers were joining #TeamFindJuJusBike on Twitter last October after the wide receiver’s bike was stolen, forcing the then-unlicensed player to walk to Steelers practice. The bike was quickly located, but the story went viral in the short amount of time it was missing.
  Now, JuJu and his bike
  
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• Coming off a successful year, VisitPittsburgh hopes 2018 will be even better

  08-03-2018 18:35 via post-gazette.com
  The numbers keep getting bigger.
  
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• Women rally for paid sick leave in Downtown Pittsburgh

  08-03-2018 18:12 via post-gazette.com
  Nearly 100 women from throughout the Pittsburgh region marched in Downtown Pittsburgh Thursday morning to press for paid sick leave in all workplaces.
  
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• Police Investigating Dollar General Robbery In Kennedy Twp.

  08-03-2018 18:09
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  KENNEDY TOWNSHIP (KDKA) – Police are investigating a Thursday morning robbery in Kennedy Township.
  According to police, the incident happened at the Dollar General in the 500 block of Pine Hollow Road.
  Sources say the suspect did not show a gun. However, the suspect is believed to have sprayed mace throughout the entire store.
  Kennedy Township Police said they couldn’t release full details because the case was officially turned over to county invest
  
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• Survivor Castoff Morgan Ricke: ‘I Was Blindsided’

  08-03-2018 17:49
  Season 36 of “Survivor: Ghost Island” is starting to heat up. An early season tribe swap totally changed the game and it tested several players. While it looked like Angela Perkins was going to get bounced after receiving three votes, Morgan Ricke was ultimately the one sent packing after her friend Libby Vincek was the fourth and deciding vote.
  Ricke chatted with CBS Local about her relationship with Vincek, what went wrong and her favorite part of the “Survivor” experie
  
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• Teen Battling Leukemia Wants To Wear Fire Company Shirts In Hospital

  08-03-2018 17:44
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  BUFFALO, N.Y. (KDKA) — A teenage aspiring firefighter wants to wear a different fire company t-shirt every day while he’s in the hospital battling leukemia.
  Timmy Richardson was diagnosed with leukemia on March 2 and will have to undergo treatment for about two years, followed by two years of check-ups.
  According to the Facebook page “Timmy’s Battle,” Richardson participated in a youth firefighter program and plans to join the fire
  
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• Family Accidentally Buys And Eats Cereal That Expired In 1997

  08-03-2018 17:42
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  CBS Local — Walmart shoppers may want to take a closer look at their groceries’ expiration dates after a Colorado family accidentally bought a box of cereal which expired 21 years ago.
  The Carelse family reportedly bought the decades-old box of Quaker 100% Natural Granola cereal at a Walmart in Littleton on March 5. Unfortunately, when the family sat down for breakfast they found out their meal was stale.
  “I just started eating
  
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• NBA Reviewing Sexual Assault Allegations Against Mark Cuban

  08-03-2018 17:27
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  DALLAS (AP) – The NBA says it is reviewing 2011 allegations of sexual assault against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and the decision by prosecutors not to pursue the case.
  League spokesman Mike Bass said Wednesday the NBA was looking into the matter after a weekly alternative newspaper in Portland, Oregon, reported a woman’s claim that Cuban put his hands down her pants and touched her inappropriately while they were taking a photo at a Portland
  
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• Carnegie Mellon University Names New President

  08-03-2018 17:06
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  PITTSBURGH (AP) – Carnegie Mellon University has named a cybersecurity expert as its new president.
  The Pittsburgh university of about 14,500 students announced Thursday that Farnam Jahanian has been appointed as the college’s 10th president.
  Jahanian joined the university in 2014 as vice president for research. He then served two years as the school’s provost and became interim president last year.
  The Iranian-American has a master’s de
  
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• WEATHER: More snow headed our way this afternoon

  08-03-2018 16:29 via post-gazette.com
  Winter will maintain its grip on the Pittsburgh region in the coming hours and days.
  
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• WEATHER: More snow expected overnight with dropping temperatures

  08-03-2018 16:29 via post-gazette.com
  Winter will maintain its grip on the Pittsburgh region in the coming hours and days.
  
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• Pitt AD: Stallings Out, Search For New Basketball Coach ‘Will Begin Immediately’

  08-03-2018 16:28
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) – The worst season in Pittsburgh basketball history cost head coach Kevin Stallings his job.
  A person with direct knowledge of the situations said Stallings was let go by the university on Thursday, just two days after the Panthers completed an 8-24 season that included an 0-19 mark in Atlantic Coast Conference play.
  The university made a formal announcement regarding Stallings’ firing Thursday morning.
  “I want to express
  
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• Driver Goes Off Road To Avoid Spring Hill Landslide, Gets Stuck

  08-03-2018 16:10
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  SPRING HILL (KDKA) –A driver became stuck when they went off the road in an attempt to avoid a landslide in Pittsburgh’s Spring Hill-City View neighborhood Thursday morning.
  It happened just after midnight in the 2300 block of Gershon Street.
  Pittsburgh firefighters had to tread through thick mud to get to the compact car.
  The section of road has been closed because of a landslide. Pittsburgh’s Chief Operations Officer Guy Costa said the road
  
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• PA: Port Authority CEO Rethinks Scrapping Mon Valley Service to Downtown Pittsburgh

  08-03-2018 15:59
  March 07--Port Authority of Allegheny County's new CEO is reevaluating a plan to cut nonstop bus service from the Mon Valley to Downtown Pittsburgh as a rider-led effort to keep the service is gaining steam. A petition is asking Port Authority to reconsider the proposed service cuts, which would take effect when the agency's planned Bus Rapid Transit system begins operating.
  
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• Police: Man Drove Stolen Car To Court For Stolen Car Charge

  08-03-2018 15:22
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  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Police say a man answering to a stolen car charge drove a stolen car to court in Connecticut.
  Authorities say 25-year-old Jonathan Rivera was at the Hartford Superior Court on Wednesday to appear before a judge on a charge of first-degree larceny and tampering with a motor vehicle from February.
  Parking authority agents scanning license plates outside the courthouse found a car that had been reported stolen.
  Police kept an eye on th
  
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• PTL Links: March 8, 2018

  08-03-2018 14:42
  Visit the links below for more on today’s guests & topics:Doug Oster
  Chef Bill Fuller’s Recipe: Pan-Roasted Half Chicken
  Big Burrito Restaurant Group
  Pa. Fine Wine & Spirits
  Fine Wine & Good Spirits Cocktail Recipes
  Pittsburgh Home And Garden Show
  Dr. Lori Antiques Appraiser
  Evey True Value Hardware
  Duquesne Light
  Don’s Appliances
  Perlora Leather
  Pool City
  
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• Fine Wine & Good Spirits Cocktail Recipes

  08-03-2018 14:30
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  Representatives from Pa. Fine Wine & Good Spirits stopped by PTL to show off some new cocktail recipes!
  Blood Orange Elderflower
  • 1 oz Belvedere vodka• ¾ oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur• ½ oz lime juice• 2 ½ oz ginger ale• 1 oz blood orange juice• 1 blood orange slice• 1 fresh thyme sprig
  Combine first four ingredients in a tall glass filled with ice. Slowly top with blood orange juice. Garnish with
  
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• Chef Bill Fuller’s Recipe: Pan-Roasted Half Chicken

  08-03-2018 14:26
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  Chef Bill Fuller stopped by PTL today to make a delicious chicken dish that you can make in your own home!
  Pan-Roasted Half Chicken, New Potatoes, Grilled AsparagusServes 44 ea. Semi-boneless skin-on half chicken (about 9 oz. meat)
  3 Tbs. Picked fresh thyme, stems reserved
  Salt and Pepper
  Olive oil
  1 # Asparagus, ends snapped
  1 # New potatoes, blanched
  ½ # Green garbanzos, shucked
  2-3 Tbs. Fresh tarragon
  2 Tbs. Butter
  Zest and juice of 1 lemon1) Rinse an
  
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• Company Claims 3D Scanner Can Diagnose Heart Diseases In 90 Seconds

  08-03-2018 14:20
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  By Ryan Prior, CNN
  (CNN) — At 22, many of us are finishing up college and hoping we might get be lucky enough to land a stable job. Peeyush Shrivastava is a little different.
  He started a biotech company and collected millions of dollars in capital, including from famed businessman Mark Cuban, and he hopes to start bringing 3D heart-scanning technology to hospitals and emergency rooms across the country as early as this year.
  “Five years from now, w
  
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• Pitt research targets depression's ties to drug treatment and dementia

  08-03-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  Carol Wiercinski of Hermitage has spent most of the past three decades battling depression, one of the many older adults for whom the right mood-altering drug treatment can be elusive.
  
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• Carnegie Mellon University names Farnam Jahanian as its new president

  08-03-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  Carnegie Mellon University's former provost and its interim leader since July is now the school's 10th president after campus trustees voted unanimously following an eight-month search to make his appointment permanent, officials announced Thursday.
  
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• More Than 110,000 Without Power In Pennsylvania After Storm

  08-03-2018 13:47
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  PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Pennsylvania utility companies say more than 110,000 customers are without power following the state’s second major snowstorm in less than a week.
  More than a foot of snow fell in parts of the state Wednesday, causing treacherous travel in some areas. Many schools and businesses remained closed Thursday or were holding delayed openings.More Coverage From CBS PhiladelphiaThe most outages are reported by Peco, which said about 55,5
  
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• Police Chief Resigns After Pot-Smoking Video Surfaces

  08-03-2018 13:14
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  LUMBERTON, Miss. (AP) – A police chief in Mississippi who was filmed smoking what he said was marijuana has resigned.
  News outlets report the Lumberton Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday night to accept the resignation of Shane Flynt. He was suspended last week after the video surfaced online.
  Lumberton Mayor Quincy Rogers wanted Flynt fired, but no motion was made by the board. Alderwoman Audrey Davis says the board instead wanted to give Flynt
  
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• Woman Finds Tooth With Blood On It While Eating Cashews

  08-03-2018 13:02
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  RAVENNA, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio woman says she found a tooth with dried blood on it while eating cashews.
  WOIO-TV reports Nickolette Botsford said she felt something hard while eating the nuts and vomited when she saw it looked like a tooth.
  The Ravenna woman said a hospital confirmed it as a human tooth spotted with dried blood. Her hospital report says she was treated for exposure to blood or bodily fluids.
  It’s unclear what product Botsford was eati
  
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