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• Walkabout: After growth spurt, Tree Pittsburgh finally has roots

  15-04-2018 23:31 via post-gazette.com
  Tree advocates in Pittsburgh sprang to action after an inventory of street trees 13 years ago shocked pretty much everyone. The city’s Shade Tree Commission had thought we had double the 31,524 specimens counted, and most of those were in fair to poor condition.
  
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• Landslide Concerns Return With Southwestern Pa. Under Flood Warning

  15-04-2018 23:20
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Another round of rain returned Sunday, which means more flooding and landslide concerns.
  The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for southwestern Pennsylvania.
  Washington, Beaver, Allegheny, Westmoreland, Greene and Fayette counties all fall under the warning, as do some parts of northern West Virginia.
  The warning was issued around 10 p.m. Sunday and remains in effect until 10 a.m. Monday.
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• Landslide Concerns Return With Southwestern Pa. Under Flash Flood Watch

  15-04-2018 23:20
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Another round of rain is on the way Sunday afternoon, which means more flooding and landslide concerns.
  The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for southwestern Pennsylvania, along with parts of eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia.
  Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties all fall under the watch, as do the Fayette Ridges and Westmoreland Ridges.
  The watch is in effect until late Sunday n
  
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• Officials keeping a watchful eye on Glassport street, hillside — and the forecast

  15-04-2018 23:01 via post-gazette.com
  Glassport Mayor Keith DiMarco is watching the skies.
  
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• Challenger Ray Linsenmayer Suspends Campaign Against Conor Lamb

  15-04-2018 22:57
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Ray Linsenmayer, who was challenging Congressman Conor Lamb in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s new 17th congressional district, is suspending his campaign.
  Linsenmayer made an appearance at Lamb’s campaign headquarters in Carnegie on Sunday to announce his decision.
  “Conor Lamb has always shown himself to be a man of strong character and leadership, and has proven he can withstand any attacks the GOP throws
  
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• Marte’s 5 Hits Help Pirates, Nova Beat Marlins 7-3

  15-04-2018 22:47
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  MIAMI (AP) – Starling Marte hiked his average 64 points Sunday, punctuating a 5-for-5 afternoon with a ninth-inning homer to help the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Miami Marlins 7-3.
  Marte’s five hits were a career high, and his average rose from .241 to .305. He scored four times and hit his third homer off Junichi Tazawa.
  (Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images)
  The surprising Pirates (11-4) improved to 7-0 in day games, completed a 4-2 trip and head home
  
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• Man Fatally Shot Outside Aliquippa Bar

  15-04-2018 22:12
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  ALIQUIPPA (KDKA) — A man died after a violent confrontation outside of an Aliquippa bar early Sunday.
  Aliquippa Police say they’re looking to the public for help to try and identify who the shooter is.
  It was around 1 a.m. Sunday when officers were called to the Swingers Lounge. When they got there, a man had been shot and killed.
  Charlie Powell Jr. has owned the Swingers Lounge along 5th Avenue for 41 years. He says the murder that took place just
  
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• Conor Lamb alone after Ray Linsenmayer drops out of Democratic race for 17th district

  15-04-2018 21:48 via post-gazette.com
  The Democratic primary race in the newly redrawn 17th Congressional district ended almost before it started, when activist and consultant Ray Linsenmayer announced Sunday he is suspending his campaign and would henceforth support his opponent, Rep. Conor Lamb.
  
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• Spokesman: Former First Lady Barbara Bush In Failing Health

  15-04-2018 20:30
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterHOUSTON (AP) – A family spokesman says former first lady Barbara Bush is in “failing health” and won’t seek additional medical treatment.
  Jim McGrath issued a news release Sunday saying that following a recent series of hospitalizations and after consulting with her family and doctors, the 92-year-old former first lady has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care.
  He did not elaborate as to t
  
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• Addiction pros have new tools, tough challenges

  15-04-2018 19:19 via post-gazette.com
  SAN DIEGO — After years of surging overdoses, some of the officials and medical practitioners most deeply involved in the fight against opioids have hope that they finally have the tools, the funding and the public support needed to get the epidemic under control.
  
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• Addiction experts have new tools, tough challenges

  15-04-2018 19:19 via post-gazette.com
  SAN DIEGO — After years of surging overdoses, some of the officials and medical practitioners most deeply involved in the fight against opioids have hope that they finally have the tools, the funding and the public support needed to get the epidemic under control.
  
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• Trump: All lawyers ‘Deflated’ By FBI Raid On Michael Cohen

  15-04-2018 16:42
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterWASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says all lawyers are now “deflated and concerned” by the FBI raid on his personal attorney Michael Cohen’s home and office.
  He tweeted Sunday: “I have many (too many!) lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices, and even homes, are going to be raided with everything, including their phones and computers, taken. All lawyers are deflated and concerned!”
  Cohen has been orde
  
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• Man shot outside restaurant bar in Aliquippa

  15-04-2018 16:05 via post-gazette.com
  Authorities are investigating a shooting at a popular restaurant bar in Aliquippa early Sunday.
  
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• Fire Burns Two Mobile Homes In Fayette County

  15-04-2018 14:57
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterCONNELLSVILLE (KDKA) — No one was injured after two mobile homes in Connellsville caught on fire, Saturday afternoon.
  The fire started just after 5:00 p.m., the fire started in one mobile home, and spread to the home next door.
  The man who lived there was able to get out safely, the couple who lived in the second mobile home were not home when the fire occurred.
  
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• 83-year-old man found dead in house fire in Lawrence County

  15-04-2018 14:39 via post-gazette.com
  An 83-year-old man died in a fire in his Lawrence County home on Saturday despite rescue attempts by neighbors.
  
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• Couple Gets Married At Steel City Con

  15-04-2018 14:30
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterMONROLEVILLE (KDKA) — Tracy and Lenny Bulgarelli met five-years-ago at Steel City Con in Monroeville.When it was time to pick a wedding venue, they decided to choose the place where it all started, the Steel City Con.
  “I’ve been doing this for 25 years,” said Lenny Bulgarelli. “With us meeting here, and all my friends coming here, this is the place to be.”
  “This is family for us,” Tracy Bulgarelli said.
  
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• GM Ending Shift At Ohio Car Plant Amid Sales Slowdown

  15-04-2018 13:18
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterLORDSTOWN, Ohio (AP) – General Motors says it will eliminate a production shift at its Chevy Cruze manufacturing plant in Ohio that could cost as many as 1,500 jobs.
  GM attributes the move announced Friday to falling sales of compact cars.
  The automaker says it will cut second shift operations at its Lordstown factory outside Cleveland by the end of June.
  GM officials say they won’t know for several weeks how many jobs will be eliminated because of b
  
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• Man Charged In WV Death Was Trying To Scare Victim

  15-04-2018 12:47
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterWAYNE, W.Va. (AP) – Police say a West Virginia man who wanted to scare someone he accused of taking a pressure washer has been charged with murder.
  The Wayne County Sheriff’s Department had been investigating the death of 43-year-old Kenneth Edward Davis since February.
  Police say Davis took a pressure washer from 72-year-old Patrick Nelson Cyrus but later returned it, The Herald-Dispatch reports . Cyrus and his son, Kevin Douglas Cyrus, had been dri
  
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• Giant Eagle recalls items prepared with romaine lettuce

  15-04-2018 06:08 via post-gazette.com
  Giant Eagle has recalled ready-to-go items prepared with romaine lettuce because of a potential E. coli contamination. 
  
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• At roughly $12 million, landslides prove a budget-buster for Pittsburgh

  15-04-2018 05:26 via post-gazette.com
  Dramatic landslides that have disrupted roads, menaced homes and reshaped hillsides could cost Pittsburgh some $12 million this year, according to a rough projection from the mayor’s office.
  
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• Child Found Wandering In Street, Mom Expected To Be Charged

  15-04-2018 05:18
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  GLASSPORT (KDKA) — Police expect a mother will be facing charges after her son was found wandering in the middle of the street in Glassport on Saturday afternoon.
  Glassport Police say around 5:30 p.m., Glassport resident Darla Grayson saw a little boy wandering in the middle of the road on Euclid Avenue. The child was filthy and carrying a plastic lawn mower toy. He was only wearing a t-shirt and a diaper.
  “He was soaking wet, diaper clear to his kn
  
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• Blame geology and weather: Landslides a common annoyance in Western Pennsylvania

  15-04-2018 05:17 via post-gazette.com
  The Route 30 landslide in East Pittsburgh on April 7 collapsed a roadway used by 21,000 vehicles a day, damaged two apartment buildings and two homes, and is just one of more than 70 recently displaced examples of the region’s roiling hills.
  
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• Dickerson Bunt Single In 9th Lifts Pirates Over Marlins 1-0

  15-04-2018 04:24
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  MIAMI (AP) — Corey Dickerson’s bunt single in the ninth inning scored the only run and the Pittsburgh Pirates won a game of small ball, beating the Miami Marlins 1-0 on Saturday night.
  Pirates starter Jameson Taillon and Miami counterpart Trevor Richards kept the game scoreless into the later innings.
  (Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images)
  Brad Ziegler (0-3) retired the first batter in the Pittsburgh ninth before Starling Marte reached on a bunt hit. Jo
  
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• 'Fortnite' video game takes gaming community by storm

  15-04-2018 04:17 via post-gazette.com
  Many video games over the years from Minecraft to Call of Duty to Pokemon Go have captivated the gaming world.
  
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• Pitt vs. Penn State could be played at night

  15-04-2018 04:08
  Although an official kickoff time for the Sept. 8 meeting between Pitt and Penn State at Heinz Field has yet to be determined, a press release from the Pittsburgh Pirates suggests that the game could be played at night.
  
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• Glassport Residents Advised To Evacuate As Road Crumbles Down Hillside

  15-04-2018 02:34
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  GLASSPORT (KDKA) — Orange cones and caution tape line Oregon Street in Glassport, where the road is crumbling down the steep hillside and threatening dozens of homes below.
  The road drops off into crumbled pieces of concrete, and the steep hillside below is filled with dozens of homes in the danger zone.
  (Photo Credit: Meghan Schiller/KDKA)
  The Glassport mayor and police knocked on doors all Saturday morning, handing out letters to residents that advised
  
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• Police: Man Who Shot Himself After Firing At Officers Linked To Child Pornography

  15-04-2018 02:23
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  MARPLE TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — A man who killed himself after firing at officers is being linked to multiple cases of child pornography.
  Forty-six-year-old Joseph Polin, of Hazleton, was reportedly making contact with girls between the ages of 12 and 16 online. Some victims lived nearby, in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, while other victims lived in other countries, including China.
  Police say Polin would download photos of the girls from the internet and
  
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• Pentagon Says ‘Mission Accomplished’ With Missile Strikes On Syria

  15-04-2018 01:36
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  WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon is backing President Donald Trump’s assertion that the missile strikes on Syria were “Mission Accomplished!”
  Trump used the haunting political phrase “Mission Accomplished!” in a tweet Saturday morning to praise the “perfectly executed strike” against Syria.A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine
  
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• Activists Call For More Government Funding At Oakland ‘March For Science’

  15-04-2018 01:12
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  OAKLAND (KDKA) — Activists called for more government funding for science education and research at the March for Science in Oakland on Saturday.
  They claim the Trump administration isn’t standing up for science.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Tim Lawson)
  “We have no science positions covered, appointed in the federal government right now, and that’s a real loss because the people making the decisions don’t actually have the c
  
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• Man, 83, Dies In Lawrence Co. House Fire

  15-04-2018 00:49
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  HICKORY TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — An 83-year-old man died in a house fire in Lawrence County on Saturday.
  It broke out around 2:30 p.m. at a home in the 300 block of Hartzell Road in Hickory Township.
  Neighbors reported that they saw smoke coming out of the house and told emergency workers they knew an elderly man lived there.
  (Photo Credit: Joe Sobczak)
  When firefighters arrived on the scene, they were able to quickly extinguish the fire and started to search fo
  
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• Weekend Work Begins On Parkway North, PennDOT Warns Of Difficult Monday Drive

  15-04-2018 00:46
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — On a beautiful Saturday with no rain, no snow and no sporting events, the I-279 Parkway North improvement project drive-through was easy.
  The same can’t be said about Monday’s drive.
  “Monday afternoon is gonna be really difficult for motorists. If you have an alternate route, you should consider that,” PennDOT District 11 spokesman Steve Cowan said.
  The first poke in the ribs happened last night. As part of the
  
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