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• From community 'pillar' to 'pariah': Ex-Allderdice alumni head gets 21 years probation for theft

  09-04-2018 23:22 via post-gazette.com
  Even as he stood Monday to be sentenced on 19 counts related to the theft of more than $230,000 from three different organizations, the former president of the Taylor Allderdice High School Alumni Association proclaimed his innocence.
  
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• Natrona Heights Building Partially Collapses In Fire

  09-04-2018 23:05
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  NATRONA HEIGHTS (KDKA) — A building in Natrona Heights partially collapsed after a fire broke out on Monday afternoon.
  It was reported just after 2 p.m. Firefighters were sent to the scene in the 1300 block of Alabama Avenue.
  “The attic of this building, in between the second floor and roof, we had a very stubborn fire,” Hilltop Hose Company #3 Chief Mike Krzeminski said.
  The building had a business on the ground level and seven apartments on
  
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• Harrison Twp. Building Partially Collapses In Fire

  09-04-2018 23:05
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  HARRISON TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A smoky, stubborn fire ripped through a two-story building in Harrison Township on Monday, gutting a physical therapy office on the ground floor and at least six apartments on the second floor.
  It was reported just after 2 p.m. in the 1300 block of Alabama Avenue. Volunteer firefighters from Harrison Township and other nearby departments battled the fast-moving fire.
  A dog was rescued by a security guard from nearby Allegheny Va
  
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• 85,000-Year-Old Fossil Found May Rewrite History Of Human Migration

  09-04-2018 23:04
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  CBS Local — The fossil of a finger that dates back over 85,000 years may end up changing everything the world knows about the history of the human race.
  Spurred on by the discovery made in the desert of Saudi Arabia, scientists say there is now evidence that early humans may have taken a completely different path out of Africa than archaeologists previously suspected. According to reports, the tiny bone is the oldest human fossil found outside of Afr
  
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• Attorney: Federal Agents Seize Documents From Trump’s Personal Attorney

  09-04-2018 22:19
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  WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal agents carrying court-authorized search warrants have seized documents from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen.
  That’s according to a statement from Cohen’s attorney, Stephen Ryan. He says the search warrants were executed by the office of the U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York but they are “in part” related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
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• Brassard Returns To Practice, Hopes To Play In First Playoff Game

  09-04-2018 22:08
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  BY: Josh Taylor, KDKA-TV Sports
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh Penguins’ center Derick Brassard returned to practice Monday morning, and was a full participant on the ice at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. Brassard has been out of the lineup with a lower body injury since he left the game on March 21 against the Detroit Red Wings.
  Head coach Mike Sullivan says Brassard will be monitored over the next couple days, but he has not made a
  
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• Woman, 87, Killed In Jeannette Fire

  09-04-2018 21:36
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  JEANNETTE (KDKA) — Crews battled a major fire that killed one person in Jeannette on Monday afternoon.
  It was just after 2 p.m. when Jeannette City firefighters arrived at South 7th Street to take on a fire that was already consuming several row houses.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Ken Murray)
  “We arrived and found heavy fire on all five units in the back, on the back porch, as well as in at least three of the apartments already when we arriv
  
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• At Least One Killed In Jeannette Fire

  09-04-2018 21:36
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  JEANNETTE (KDKA) — Crews battled a major fire that killed at least one person in Jeannette on Monday afternoon.
  Firefighters were on the scene of a fire on South 7th Street around 2:30 p.m.
  Flames and heavy smoke could be seen coming from the building. The building collapsed just after 3 p.m.Officials confirmed to KDKA-TV’s Ross Guidotti that at least one person had been killed in the fire.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Ken Murray)
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• West Mifflin H.S. Employee Suspended For Potential Relationship With Student

  09-04-2018 21:25
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  WEST MIFFLIN (KDKA) — A West Mifflin High School employee has been suspended and is being investigated for a possible relationship with a student
  According to West Mifflin School District solicitor Gary Matta, allegations came about late last week regarding a potential relationship between a student and an employee. Matta would not confirm if the employee was a teacher.
  The employee was placed on paid administrative leave Friday and will remain on leave u
  
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• ‘A New Level Of Stupid’: Resort Visitors Throw Carrots At Alligator

  09-04-2018 21:25
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  CBS Local — Authorities in South Carolina are looking for the people who harassed an 11-foot alligator at an island resort. The suspects, who threw carrots at the beast’s head, are now facing a stiff fine for each object thrown at the gator.
  In a Facebook post by Fripp Island Activity Center, the alligator is photographed with a carrot stuck to the side of its head and other carrots laying near it after tourists allegedly harassed the animal. Worker
  
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• Judge acquits man in Hill District homicide, finds him guilty of home invasion

  09-04-2018 20:50 via post-gazette.com
  An Allegheny County judge Monday acquitted a man in a 2015 homicide at a Hill District bar but found him guilty of a home invasion at the victim’s house 17 days earlier.
  
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• Pa. Supreme Court To Determine If Drug Use While Pregnant Is Child Abuse

  09-04-2018 20:22
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP/KDKA) – Pennsylvania’s highest court will determine whether a woman’s use of illegal drugs while pregnant qualifies as child abuse under state law.
  The Supreme Court has taken up the case of a woman who tested positive for suboxone and marijuana at the time she gave birth early last year at Williamsport Hospital.
  A county judge ruled that didn’t qualify as child abuse under the state’s Child Protective Services
  
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• West Mifflin teacher put on leave during probe of possible misconduct with student

  09-04-2018 20:08 via post-gazette.com
  A West Mifflin teacher is on paid leave while the school district and police investigate an "alleged relationship" with a student.
  
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• Trial starts for former North Versailles karate instructor accused of sexual abuse

  09-04-2018 19:45 via post-gazette.com
  At 12 years old, the boy started taking lessons at the Tang Soo Do Karate College in North Versailles.
  
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• Pa. Medical Marijuana Board Recommends Allowing Plant Sales

  09-04-2018 19:31
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A state medical marijuana board is recommending that Pennsylvania allow the sale of marijuana in dry leaf form, in theory to allow users to vaporize and inhale it.
  The Medical Marijuana Advisory Board voted 11-0 Monday to send the recommendation to Health Secretary Rachel Levine to decide whether the Department of Health should create regulations allowing it.
  The law still prevents dispensaries from selling marijuana that’s de
  
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• Opioid crisis creating 'grandfamilies,' a need for more resources

  09-04-2018 19:06 via post-gazette.com
  When a parent overdoses or becomes unable to care for children because of addiction, the task frequently falls to grandparents, who all-too-rarely get help from government agencies, according to participants in a roundtable discussion on the issue led by Sen. Bob Casey on Monday.
  
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• Cubs Postpone Home Opener Against Pirates Due To Snow

  09-04-2018 18:59
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  CHICAGO (AP/KDKA) – The Chicago Cubs’ home opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates has been postponed because of snow.
  The Cubs tried pushing back Monday’s scheduled start time by an hour, but snow fell steadily for most of the morning. It covered the seats on the lower level and the playing surface at Wrigley Field in a scene more reminiscent of December than April.Today's game at Wrigley has been postponed due to weather.
  The game will be made
  
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• Unstable ground delaying effort to plan for Route 30 rebuilding

  09-04-2018 18:49 via post-gazette.com
  It won’t take the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and its consultants long to develop a plan to rebuild collapsed Route 30.
  
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• Residents start to put lives back together after Route 30 landslide

  09-04-2018 18:49 via post-gazette.com
  In a carpeted hotel ballroom with long, faded-gold curtains, a dozen people whose homes were destroyed in the Route 30 landslide started the process of putting their lives back together Monday.
  
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• NASA Plans To Put Robot Bees On Mars

  09-04-2018 18:37
  CBS Local — NASA has revealed their plan for the next generation of space exploration. The space agency says it is working on creating a swarm of robot bees that will fly around the surface of Mars.
  In a March 30 press release, NASA outlined their proposal for the “Marsbees.” The tiny robots will launch from a new rover dropped on the red planet and then spread out; mapping the terrain, taking air samples, and searching for signs of life.
  NASA wants to send swarms of robot bees
  
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• 2018 Cleveland International Film Festival Offers Something For Everyone With Over 400 Films

  09-04-2018 18:36
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  By Drew Moniot, of “Drew’s Reviews” on KDKA-TV’s Pittsburgh Today Live
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Let me cut right to the chase. Don’t miss this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival that runs through April 15!
  If you love movies, you’ll love this exceptional film venue, which is only about two hours away from Pittsburgh — roughly a half tank of gas in a Honda Accord, round trip.
  Let me say that I have been
  
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• PennDOT Meeting With Residents Displaced By Route 30 Collapse

  09-04-2018 18:27
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  EAST PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Crews demolished two apartment buildings and evacuated a few more less than 24 hours before the collapse of Route 30 in East Pittsburgh.
  Dozens of tenants at the Electric Avenue Apartments now find themselves at a loss with no personal belongings.
  PennDOT officials met with displaced tenants Monday afternoon at the Comfort Suites in Penn Hills to discuss future living plans.
  “I worked hard for everything I had, real hard. I
  
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• Advisory board recommends sale of flower for medical marijuana patients

  09-04-2018 18:13 via post-gazette.com
  Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana advisory board has recommended the state program allow the sale of the marijuana flower to patients with qualifying medical conditions.
  
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• From Haiti to Homewood, Thread aims to put people back to work

  09-04-2018 18:00 via post-gazette.com
  Ian Rosenberger knows a thing or two about job creation. Since the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the 36-year-old Ambridge native has been working to clean up the country and put its people back to work, one plastic bottle and bolt of fabric at a time. 
  
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• Dick's Sporting Goods will destroy assault-style rifles pulled from shelves

  09-04-2018 17:51 via post-gazette.com
  When Dick’s Sporting Goods said it would no longer sell modern sporting rifles at its Field & Stream stores following the Valentine’s Day shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school, one question was what would happen to the unsold firearms in its inventory.
  
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• Keidel: Is Something Wrong With The Warriors?

  09-04-2018 17:44
  By Jason Keidel
  Fans have long lamented the length of the NBA season. It starts sometime around Halloween and, aside from a few showcase games on Christmas and MLK Day, we don’t watch the league with any fervor until after the Super Bowl.
  So imagine how the Golden State Warriors feel. Any other team with a record of 58-23 would be dancing in the locker room. But with one more loss, the Warriors will have as many losses this year as they had the last two seasons combined (24). Other than Le
  
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• Officials To Check Dog Licenses, Rabies Vaccinations In Western Pa. This Month

  09-04-2018 17:43
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Officials will be checking to make sure dog owners in a few western Pennsylvania counties have up-to-date licenses this month.
  The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture says dog wardens will be canvassing in 26 counties to check for current dog licenses. They will also be checking for rabies vaccinations for both dogs and cats.
  Most of the counties being canvassed this month are in eastern and central Pennsylvania, but a few western P
  
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• Penguins Bringing Back Big Screen, ‘Gold-Outs’ For Playoffs

  09-04-2018 16:33
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – An annual tradition will continue this spring for fans of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
  According to the team’s official website, the big screen will return for all home games during the playoffs, which begin on Wednesday.
  The screen will be located near the Peoples Gate at PPG Paints Arena. There will be plenty of other activities in that area as well including a DJ, face painters and special guests.
  The popular “Gold-Out&rdquo
  
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• Police, Fed Up With Lingering Cold Weather, ‘Arrest’ Winter

  09-04-2018 16:20
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  DEPEW, N.Y. (AP) – An upstate New York police department fed up with lingering cold weather has placed winter under arrest.
  The Post-Standard reports the Depew Police Department wrote Friday in a humorous Facebook post that it had arrested the season. Police said any more snow winter produces would be held against it in court.The department also called for groundhog Punxsutawney Phil to turn himself in for predicting six more weeks of winter. Police joke
  
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• Police: 500 bags of suspected heroin found during Elizabeth traffic stop

  09-04-2018 16:11 via post-gazette.com
  Police discovered more than 500 bags of what they believe to be heroin during a traffic stop in Elizabeth Borough, according to Post-Gazette news partner KDKA-TV.
  
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• Ross Park Mall to redevelop former Sears location

  09-04-2018 15:06 via post-gazette.com
  The owner of Ross Park Mall has plans for the location where the Sears store has been emptying out this year.
  
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• PTL Links: April 9, 2018

  09-04-2018 14:44
  Visit the links below for more on today’s guests & topics:Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon
  The Papa Cooking Show
  Roberto Clemente Jr. Brain App 
  Food For The Hungry
  Bridge To Home Animal Rescue
  Pittsburgh Cares Volunteer Fair
  Pittsburgh Cultural TrustTalia’s Meatball Recipe:
  Talia’s meatballs:2 lbs grass fed beef
  2 pastured or organic eggs
  1 cup pecorino Romano or Parmigiana cheese
  ½ cup fresh chopped flat leaf parsley
  4 to 6 cloves fresh chopped
  
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• Micro-grant nonprofit Sprout Fund to 'sunset' by June

  09-04-2018 14:39 via post-gazette.com
  Seventeen years ago, the Sprout Fund launched in Pittsburgh with the idea of making tiny grants in the region to support creative ideas ranging from public art murals to innovative education initiatives.
  
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• Opening Statements Set In Bill Cosby’s Sex Assault Retrial

  09-04-2018 14:12
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  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault retrial likely won’t be anything like his first one.
  The first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era begins on Monday in suburban Philadelphia with opening statements.
  The 80-year-old former TV star is accused of drugging and molesting a woman at his home in 2004.
  (Photo Credit: DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)
  Prosecutors are lining up a parade of accusers to make the case that the man rever
  
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• This Week In Golf: Reed Wins Masters, Holding Off Fowler, Spieth

  09-04-2018 14:09
  By Sam McPherson
  American Patrick Reed did most of the hard work on Friday and Saturday at Augusta National, although his Sunday was anything but easy. He shot a one-under par 71 on the final day, and 15-under par for the tournament, to win The Masters by one stroke over Rickie Fowler and two strokes over Jordan Spieth. In winning his first major championship, after tying for second at last year’s PGA Championship, Reed also collected the $1.98 million winner’s prize.
  Fowler and Spie
  
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• Remains of eager-to-serve teenage North Sider have been recovered and identified after 74 years

  09-04-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  WASHINGTON – Edwin W. Jordan didn’t live to see his second day of battle. Assigned to the Fleet Marine Force, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance in the Battle of Tarawa, the teenage Marine Corps private from Pittsburgh’s North Side wouldn’t last a day.
  
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• Pittsburgh blogger up for national GLAAD media award

  09-04-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  Interest in blogs began to peak right about the time Sue Kerr started hers in December 2005.
  
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• A district scarred by violence finds strength to cope with tragedy and minister to grieving students

  09-04-2018 13:57 via post-gazette.com
  During winter break at Wilkins Primary School in the Woodland Hills School District, workers had the somber task of rearranging the desks in a classroom in the shape of a U so that it would be less noticeable that one child would be missing when the students came back.
  
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• Police: 500 Bags Of Suspected Heroin Found During Traffic Stop

  09-04-2018 13:43
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  ELIZABETH BOROUGH (KDKA) – Police found more than 500 bags of what they believe to be heroin in Elizabeth Borough.
  Officers stopped a car on Route 51, and a police K-9 indicated there might be drugs in the car.
  (Photo Courtesy: Elizabeth Borough Police Department)
  They discovered a latex glove inside a loose panel in the car. Inside the glove, officers found 10 bricks and one bundle of suspected heroin.
  No other information has been released.
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• Job Fair Being Held At Westin Convention Center

  09-04-2018 13:19
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A job fair will be held at the Westin Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh today.
  Coast-to-Coast Career Fairs is holding the event between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
  Several companies and organizations will be on hand, including the FBI.
  For details on the event visit their website here.
  
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• Social media threat meant for school in N.M.; Pittsburgh Carrick High to remain on modified lockdown

  09-04-2018 13:06 via post-gazette.com
  A social media threat that forced officials to place Pittsburgh Carrick High School on modified lockdown Monday was determined to have targeted a school in New Mexico and not in Pittsburgh.
  
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• Pittsburgh Carrick High School on modified lockdown after non-specific threat

  09-04-2018 13:06 via post-gazette.com
  Pittsburgh Carrick High School will be on modified lockdown Monday after a “potential threat” was posted on social media, Pittsburgh Public Schools officials said.
  
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• Collapse Closes Route 30 Indefinitely, Crews Continuing To Clear Debris

  09-04-2018 12:49
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  EAST PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A section of Route 30 in East Pittsburgh collapsed over the weekend and there is no clear timetable for how long repairs will take.
  However, officials said it will take months.
  “We are definitely talking months, not weeks, for how long it’s going to take us to get this fixed,” Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Leslie Richards said.
  Crews are still working to clear the debris from the hillside. Once that is co
  
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• Port Authority begins new round of eastern neighborhood meetings on service changes

  09-04-2018 12:21 via post-gazette.com
  The first in the Port Authority’s series of meetings to revisit proposed transit service changes to eastern Pittsburgh neighborhoods and the Monongahela Valley will begin Thursday in Rankin.
  
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• Walkabout: Communities must bring an end to violence against women, girls

  09-04-2018 12:15 via post-gazette.com
  A recent day of workshops began conversations that one of the organizers, Lois Toni McClendon, said will continue, and on an issue our society keeps having — violence against women and girls.
  
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• TRAFFIC: Mon Wharf will be closed Tuesday

  09-04-2018 12:15 via post-gazette.com
  The Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh said the Mon Wharf will remain closed to parking on Tuesday. It said crews were in the process of removing debris and mud from the parking lot, but sub-freezing temperatures “have slowed down the wash-down process.”
  
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• Route 65 ramp closure to Parkway North, Route 28 begins Monday morning on North Shore

  09-04-2018 12:15 via post-gazette.com
  The Route 65 ramp to northbound Interstate 279/Parkway North and to Route 28 has closed Monday morning on the North Shore.
  
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• Routinely freezing human eggs only began for Pittsburgh-area fertility clinics three years ago

  09-04-2018 12:00 via post-gazette.com
  The three Pittsburgh-area women who sued a Cleveland hospital last week for accidentally destroying eggs they had frozen before they underwent cancer treatment traveled to Cleveland for that procedure because it has only been routinely used in Pittsburgh for the past three years.
  
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• TRAFFIC: Route 30 long-term detours posted following partial collapse

  09-04-2018 11:38 via post-gazette.com
  Long-term detours are in place for Route 30 in East Pittsburgh after the highway buckled and collapsed, sliding down a hillside over the weekend.
  
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• TRAFFIC: Route 30 long-term detours posted following collapse; Port Authority buses to be delayed

  09-04-2018 11:38 via post-gazette.com
  Long-term detours are in place for Route 30 in East Pittsburgh after the highway buckled and collapsed, sliding down a hillside over the weekend.
  
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