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• Trial begins in 2015 Hill District bar slaying

  06-04-2018 23:53 via post-gazette.com
  Trial began Friday for a man accused of a homicide at a Hill District bar three years ago.
  
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• ‘Suspicious Package’ In Aspinwall Turns Out To Be Possibly Stolen Laxatives

  06-04-2018 23:36
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  ASPINWALL (KDKA) — The bomb squad was called out to Aspinwall to check out a suspicious package in a precarious place Friday afternoon.
  It caused both road and rail traffic to be halted for a bit.
  Aspinwall Police and Firefighters were taking no chances after someone reported several suspicious packages left under the railroad trestle in the 400 block of Freeport Road. Several businesses across the road were evacuated.
  “We had called the bomb squad
  
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• Pittsburgh’s First-Ever Food Truck Park Getting Ready To Open, Owners Promise More To Come

  06-04-2018 23:33
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Imagine the sun shining, a warm breeze coming off the river, and plenty of food at every turn.
  Pittsburgh Food Truck Park co-owner Matt Lang says this is going to be the place to be, especially when the weather gets warmer.
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  “It’s riverfront, and Pittsburgh loves the rivers,” says Lang. “We’re going to be extremely family-friendly, [and] really easy to get to on the Three Rivers Heritag
  
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• Feds indict alleged fentanyl, heroin ring members in Hazelwood, Munhall

  06-04-2018 23:24 via post-gazette.com
  Five people, including twin brothers from Hazelwood and two of their cousins, are under federal indictment on charges of operating a heroin and fentanyl ring that caused fatal and non-fatal overdoses.
  
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• Facebook Tried To Convince U.S. Hospitals To Share Data, Reports Claim

  06-04-2018 22:57
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  CBS Local — According to multiple reports, Facebook sent a doctor to several U.S. hospitals in the hopes of convincing them to share patient data with the social media giant.
  The data sharing project was reportedly devised by Facebook’s secretive research department known as Building 8. The project planned to collect personal details, including illness and prescription records, which would be then matched up with user information on the social
  
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• Woman Blames Westmoreland Co. ‘Trump House’ For Car Crash

  06-04-2018 22:42
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  LATROBE, Pa. (AP) – A woman is claiming in a lawsuit that a house that was turned into a shrine to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump played a part in a car accident in which she was severely injured.
  The suit by Kelly Roadman contends the shrine acted as a distraction when another driver struck her car in October 2016.
  The home in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, that became known as the “Trump House” was painted like an American flag, wit
  
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• Three men to face trial in killing of 7-year-old boy, father in Swissvale

  06-04-2018 22:41 via post-gazette.com
  Three men were held for court Friday on charges they shot and killed a 7-year-old boy and his father in Swissvale last year.
  
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• ‘Paw Patrol’ Flashlight, Hat Set Recalled Due To Fire, Burn Hazards

  06-04-2018 22:32
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for a toy set from a popular children’s TV show.
  The recall affects flashlights from the Nickelodeon kids show “Paw Patrol.”
  The “Deluxe Marshall Hat” set comes with a flashlight that attaches to the side of a firefighter hat. The CPSC says the batteries in the flashlight can overheat, posing burn and fire hazards.
  There have been a total of four r
  
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• Secret Service Warns Of Credit Card Chip Scheme, Report Says

  06-04-2018 22:31
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  CBS Local — The U.S. Secret Service is reportedly warning banks about a new scam that is targeting the chips in credit cards sent through the mail.
  According to a report on KrebsOnSecurity.com, the scheme involves criminals who intercept letters containing debit cards that use chip technology. The scammers swap out the new chip with an old one and then send the letter back out to its original destination.
  Once the actual card holder activates th
  
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• Corey O'Connor, city officials meet with developer to discuss slide closure

  06-04-2018 22:29 via post-gazette.com
  Pittsburgh officials and the owner of a Squirrel hill apartment complex met Friday at a site plagued by multiple landslides this year to work towards finding a solution.
  
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• 99-Year-Old Pirates Usher Retires After 81 Seasons

  06-04-2018 22:11
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A 99-year-old man who has been working as an usher at Pirates games since he was 18 years old will not be back this season.
  Phil Coyne told The Incline he’s “too shaky” to continue the job, saying he’s been struggling with his balance for a few months and has been recovering from a fall that happened two weeks ago.
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  Pirates President Frank Coonelly released the following statement Friday afternoon:
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• Bethel Park Man Sentenced To Probation, Home Confinement For Hate Crime Attack

  06-04-2018 21:53
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  BETHEL PARK, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania man who admitted violating the federal hate crimes law when he used anti-Muslim slurs and broke the jaw of another man while drunk at a restaurant has been spared a prison term.
  A federal judge instead sentenced Jeffrey Burgess to three years of probation and four months of home confinement on Friday. The 55-year-old Bethel Park man will also have to pay his victim restitution, but that amount hasn’t been deter
  
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• Ohio Man Arrested After Allegedly Hitting Woman With Pizza

  06-04-2018 21:36
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  BROOKFIELD, Ohio (KDKA) — An Ohio man is facing charges after he allegedly screamed at a woman and hit her in the face with a pizza Wednesday.
  WKBN reports when officers arrived at the Masury home early Wednesday morning, they heard yelling inside, and when an officer tried to open the door, 24-year-old Kenneth Evans slammed it shut.
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  Police said Evans was screaming, belligerent and highly intoxicated, and the house
  
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• Strange Roots Experimental Ales soft opens in West Deer

  06-04-2018 21:34 via post-gazette.com
  A new brewery tap room has announced its “soft opening” this weekend.
  
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• McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge open again after passing inspection

  06-04-2018 21:13 via post-gazette.com
  The McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge was reopened Friday after PennDOT inspectors found that a barge that struck one of the bridge’s piers caused only superficial damage.
  
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• McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge closed after pier was struck by a barge

  06-04-2018 21:13 via post-gazette.com
  The McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge is closed in both directions after one of the bridge’s piers was struck by a tugboat, Allegheny County officials said.
  
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• Duquesne-McKeesport Bridge Briefly Closes After Being Hit By Barge

  06-04-2018 21:00
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  DUQUESNE (KDKA) — The Duquesne-McKeesport Bridge briefly closed Friday afternoon after a bridge pier was hit by a barge.
  The City of Duquesne Police Department reports a tug boat “experienced a problem” that caused a barge to partially break loose and hit a bridge pier.
  (Photo Credit: City of Duquesne Police Department)
  According to police, no one was injured, there were no hazardous materials on either vessel, and neither is in danger of sink
  
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• Baby Wipes Tied To ‘Perfect Storm’ Of Child Food Allergies, Study Says

  06-04-2018 20:58
  CBS Local — A new study has revealed that baby wipes may be part of a “perfect storm” which can trigger childhood food allergies.
  Researchers from Northwestern University say that a combination of genetics, allergens in dust, food choices, and the effects of infant cleansing wipes on the skin are all part of a package that triggers allergies. “It’s a major advance in our understanding of how food allergy starts early in life,” lead author Joan Cook-Mills
  
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• Police: Crack-Fueled Fight Over Breakfast Oats Leads To Wife Shooting Husband In Head

  06-04-2018 20:45
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  SALTLICK TOWNSHIP (KDKA) – A woman is facing charges for allegedly shooting her husband in the head in a dispute over breakfast after a night of doing drugs.
  According to police, the incident happened at a home in the 300 block of Imel Road in Saltlick Township, Fayette County on Thursday.
  Rachel Eutsey told police she and her husband, John Maki, left their home to purchase crack cocaine around 1:30 a.m. and took their 8-month-old child with them.
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• Mt. Washington man who supplied heroin to other dealers sentenced

  06-04-2018 19:52 via post-gazette.com
  A Pittsburgh drug dealer who supplied other dealers and contributed to the overdose death of a Carrick man will spend the next four years in federal prison.
  
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• National Aviary: Andean Condors Lay Egg, Expected To Hatch In May

  06-04-2018 19:50
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — All the eggs in the Hays and Harmar bald eagle nests have hatched, but now there’s another egg in the area to keep an eye on.
  The National Aviary announced Friday that Lianni and Lurch, two of the Aviary’s Andean Condors, have produced an egg.
  According to Aviary Executive Director Cheryl Tracy, Andean Condor populations are declining, and if this egg successfully hatches, it will be the first in an Association of Zoos &
  
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• On The Rise: Morgan Wallen

  06-04-2018 19:24
  Country singer Morgan Wallen was always destined to be in front a crowd, but as a young man growing up in Sneedville, Tennessee it seemed like his performances would take place between the white lines of a baseball diamond rather than the stage of an amphitheater. A talented high school pitcher, Wallen was well on his way to playing division one college baseball when an arm injury forced him to the sidelines. With his promising baseball career on hiatus, Wallen turned his attention to music full
  
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• UFC Star McGregor Facing Assault Charges After Backstage Melee

  06-04-2018 19:08
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  NEW YORK (AP) – Ultimate fighting star Conor McGregor is facing criminal charges in the wake of a backstage melee he allegedly instigated that has forced the removal of three fights from UFC’s biggest card of the year.
  Video footage appears to show the promotion’s most bankable star throwing a hand truck at a bus full of fighters after a Thursday news conference for UFC 223 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
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• Health Department: ‘Thousands’ Of Mouse Droppings Found At Pittsburgh Popcorn Co.

  06-04-2018 19:08
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  STRIP DISTRICT (KDKA) — The Allegheny County Health Department says the Pittsburgh Popcorn Company in the Strip District has a serious rodent problem.
  A consumer alert says the facility on 21st Street has an “extensive” mouse infestation.
  According to the ACHD’s report, they found “thousands” of droppings when they inspected the building Thursday. Droppings were found in storage and ware-washing areas.
  The report says droppin
  
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• Startup Company Plans To Launch ‘Luxury Space Hotel’ In 2021

  06-04-2018 18:58
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  CBS Local — A startup in Texas is setting its sights on providing hotel guests with an out-of-this-world view.
  The company announced that they plan to launch a “luxury space hotel” within the next four years.
  Orion Span revealed their plan at the Space 2.0 Summit in California on April 5.
  “We are launching the first-ever affordable luxury space hotel,” founder and CEO Frank Bunger said while unveiling the company’s
  
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• Pa., Ohio Men Among Marines Killed In Helicopter Crash

  06-04-2018 18:41
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  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four Marines killed when their helicopter crashed on a training mission in the Southern California desert were identified Thursday as men in their 20s and 30s from the South and Midwest, including one who served in Iraq and another who recently became a father.
  Miramar air station in San Diego said those killed included 28-year-old Capt. Samuel Schultz of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, and 27-year-old 1st Lt. Samuel Phillips of Pinehu
  
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• Bethel Park man gets probation, community service in federal hate crime assault

  06-04-2018 18:34 via post-gazette.com
  Jeffrey Burgess apologized Friday to Ankur Mehta for breaking his jaw at a South Hills Red Robin because he thought he was an Arab.
  
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• Ceremony Marks Mission Change For 911th Airlift Wing

  06-04-2018 18:31
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It was activated in 1963 as a troop carrier group, but a new day is dawning for the 911th Airlift Wing.
  “The 911th, the reserve unit here in Pittsburgh has a reputation for excellence and service, it’s a great ceremony where we are going to bring them to a new mission,” Maj. Gen. Randall Ogden said.
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  Maj. Gen. Ogden is the new commander.
  “I’m the 4th Air Force commander and now with the
  
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• A pair of the National Aviary's Andean condors are expecting

  06-04-2018 18:15 via post-gazette.com
  In a spring development that would be a first since 2014, a pair of endangered Andean condors at the National Aviary are incubating an egg they produced that is expected to hatch around May 18. 
  
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• PennDOT closing Route 30 in East Pittsburgh today because of buckling

  06-04-2018 18:05 via post-gazette.com
  The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will close Route 30 in East Pittsburgh at 1 p.m. Friday due to continuing deterioration under the highway.
  
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• On The Rise: Tegan Marie

  06-04-2018 18:02
  Country singer Tegan Marie has a penchant for making history. In 2017 she signed a record deal with Warner Music at the age of 13 and became the youngest person to ever sign with the Warner and the second youngest woman to sign with any major label in the last 45 years. Marie is also well known for her cover of Florida Georgina Line’s smash-hit “H.O.L.Y.,” which has amassed tens of millions of views on YouTube.
  Before signing record deals and going viral on the internet, Marie
  
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• Eastbound Route 30 Closed To All Traffic In East Pittsburgh

  06-04-2018 17:30
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  EAST PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Both the eastbound and westbound lanes of Route 30 closed in East Pittsburgh starting Friday afternoon.
  PennDOT announced eastbound Route 30 closed to traffic around 1 p.m. due to the sagging roadway. Crews have been working to fix a deep crack in the road between the east and westbound lanes.
  RELATED: Crews Working On Fix As Sagging Route 30 Continues To Worsen
  Crews were supposed to begin roadway excavation and continue drilling
  
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• Pittsburgh Man Accused Of Scamming Victim Out Of $200 At Airport

  06-04-2018 17:23
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  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A Pennsylvania man who authorities say has a history of scamming people at airports is now accused in New Jersey of cheating a man out of $200.
  Port Authority police say 43-year-old Michael Borovetz, of Pittsburgh, approached a 55-year-old man at Newark Liberty International airport on Tuesday. He asked to borrow money for a hotel room, claiming his flight had been canceled, and told the man he would pay him back.
  The victim gave the m
  
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• CBSSports.com And CBS Sports App To Carry Live Coverage Of The Masters

  06-04-2018 16:05
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  As we enter cut day at The Masters today before heading into the weekend of play, Jordan Spieth finds himself atop the leaderboard once more, leading the way at 6-under par. Several other big names are lurking inside the Top 10 as Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson, and Matt Kuchar are all within striking distance.
  While the rest of the world’s best players try to chase Spieth down over the weekend, fans will have additional viewing options to complement the 63rd consecutive year of t
  
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• Allegheny Health Network furloughs 75 people

  06-04-2018 16:05 via post-gazette.com
  Highmark subsidiary Allegheny Health Network has furloughed 75 people, a move that a spokesman described as a “workforce restructuring.”
  
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• 'There Are Black People in the Future' - tale of a billboard

  06-04-2018 15:46 via post-gazette.com
  For nearly a month, an illuminated message reading “There are black people in the future” perched atop an East Liberty building at Baum and Highland. 
  
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• Landlord: 'There Are Black People in the Future' billboard can go back up

  06-04-2018 15:46 via post-gazette.com
  A billboard reading “There Are Black People in the Future” - removed from a building in East Liberty because the landlord said it violated a lease agreement prohibiting “distasteful, offensive, erotic, political…” content - may go back up, according to a statement from the landlord Friday morning.
  
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• Ford Recalls 350,000 Trucks, SUVs For Transmission Shifter Problem

  06-04-2018 15:28
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  DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) – Ford is recalling about 350,000 trucks and SUVs in the U.S., Canada and Mexico because they might be in a different gear than the one shown on the shift indicator.
  The recall covers the 2018 F-150 pickup and Expedition large SUV with 10-speed automatic transmissions. Also covered are 2018 F-650 and F-750 trucks with six-speed transmissions.
  Ford says that on some vehicles, a clip that locks the gear shift cable to the transmission m
  
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• U.S. Punishes Russian Oligarchs, Officials With More Sanctions

  06-04-2018 15:20
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  WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration is punishing seven Russian oligarchs and 17 Russian government officials with sanctions for what the U.S. calls Russia’s “malign activity” around the world.
  The Treasury Department says 12 companies owned by the oligarchs are also targeted, along with a state-owned arms-dealing company and a subsidiary bank.
  Senior Trump administration officials say the sanctions are not in response to any one a
  
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• Former Gateway school board member apologizes to rabbi

  06-04-2018 15:00 via post-gazette.com
  A former Gateway School District board member, who resigned last week amid accusations he made anti-Semitic comments to Monroeville Rabbi Barbara Symons at public meetings, has now apologized for his remarks, she said.
  
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• PTL Links: April 6, 2018

  06-04-2018 14:32
  Visit the links below for more on today’s guests & topics:Handwriting Analyst Michelle Dresbold
  Pittsburgh Food Truck Park
  Aubrey Worek Fitness
  Seven Springs Mountain Resort
  Hidden Valley Resort
  Yelp Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh Magazine’s Ultimate House Tour
  House Tour Tickets
  Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
  
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• Trump Threatens China With New $100 Billion Tariff Plan

  06-04-2018 14:12
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  (CNN Money) — President Donald Trump ratcheted up the trade war rhetoric with China on Thursday evening, saying he was considering another wave of steep tariffs on the country’s exports to the United States.
  “In light of China’s unfair retaliation, I have instructed the [United States Trade Representative] to consider whether $100 billion of additional tariffs would be appropriate,” the presiden
  
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• The student called him an 'embarrassment.' The state representative shot back, saying he's 'a horrible writer.'

  06-04-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  Take a state representative who is not shy about expressing himself on social media, add a student newspaper editor who appears equally opinionated, and the result is a feisty Twitter tiff.
  
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• College editor, state legislator twaddle on Twitter

  06-04-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  Take a state representative who is not shy about expressing himself on social media, add a student newspaper editor who appears equally opinionated, and the result is a feisty Twitter tiff.
  
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• Chicken Tenders & Pretzels Part Of New Dunkin’ Donuts Snacking Menu

  06-04-2018 13:53
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  BOSTON (AP) – Want some fries with that doughnut?
  Dunkin’ Donuts is selling Donut Fries along with other non-traditional products as part of a new $2 snacking menu at a small number of its stores in the Boston area.
  In addition to the fries, customers can also order pretzel bites, waffle-breaded chicken tenders, Munchkin dippers and a gluten-free brownie.
  Dunkin’ Donuts says the menu is paired with signature beverages and is designed as an aft
  
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• Not In The Cards: Beaver County Fortune Teller Arrested

  06-04-2018 13:26
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  CENTER TOWNSHIP (KDKA) – A Beaver County fortune teller didn’t see her pending arrest in the cards.
  According to police, 27-year-old Sophey Mills, of Psychic and Tarot Card Readings by Sophia in Center Township, was arrested on Thursday.
  Multiple people contacted Pennsylvania State Police to file reports about the business.
  Fortune telling is illegal in Pennsylvania, but the law is rarely enforced.
  Mills is facing misdemeanor charges of fortune tell
  
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• Church plans to restore historic pipe organ

  06-04-2018 10:31
  Music director Matt Boice at the console of the pipe organ in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church in Washington.
  
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• Surgeon General: Everyone should carry opioid antidote

  06-04-2018 06:22 via post-gazette.com
  Pennsylvanians should find it easy to heed the advice of the U.S. surgeon general to arm themselves in the fight against opioid abuse.
  
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• Lawrence County car chase ends in fatal shootout between man and police

  06-04-2018 05:29 via post-gazette.com
  A man who shot at police during a vehicle pursuit in Lawrence County was killed when officers returned fire, authorities said.
  
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