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• Franklin Regional HS Band To March In Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

  17-04-2018 23:30
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  MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (KDKA) — A high school marching band from southwestern Pennsylvania is getting a big holiday season honor.
  The Franklin Regional High School Panther Marching Band will appear in the 93rd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City in 2019.
  (Source: Franklin Regional High School)
  The band is one of just nine selected to perform during the parade, and will represent Pennsylvania during the holiday festivities.
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• Pirates Continue To Slug With Best In Baseball

  17-04-2018 22:44
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  By: Josh Taylor, KDKA-TV Sports
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Pittsburgh Pirates collected only four hits in their 6-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies Monday night, but two of those hits were triples, tying them with the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks for the most in Major League Baseball with six.
  Francisco Cervelli hit his second triple of the season with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning, and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Colin Moran for the
  
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• Saccone posts military records after Reschenthaler called on him to release documents

  17-04-2018 22:29 via post-gazette.com
  Rick Saccone released military documents Tuesday that were demanded by his opponent in the 14th Congressional District Republican primary.
  
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• Teacher Says He Was Suspended For Serving Pancakes During State Test

  17-04-2018 22:18
  CBS Local — A middle school teacher in Pennsylvania is reportedly heading back to work just days after he was suspended for serving his students pancakes during a state exam.
  Kyle Byler, an eighth-grade teacher at Hand Middle School, says he was suspended without pay on April 10 after the school’s assistant principal saw him preparing breakfast on an electric griddle for the children as they took the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA).
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• Leaderboard: East Meets East At RBC Heritage

  17-04-2018 22:13
  By Dan Reardon
  In 2013, the Senior PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club appeared on its way to a dream finish. As they turned for home, St. Louis-born Jay Haas and Kentucky’s Kenny Perry would battle over the closing nine with large local gallery followings. For both, the dream turned nightmarish, and a player unnoticed for the first 63 holes emerged the winner. Japan’s Kohki Idoki shot 7-under 65 to win by two.
  Last week at the RBC Heritage the final pairing of the day offered
  
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• Allegheny Co. Executive Declares ‘Disaster Emergency’ Due To Wet Weather Impacts

  17-04-2018 22:06
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald has declared a “disaster emergency” due to the continuing devastating effects of the extreme amounts of snow and rain we’ve gotten this winter and spring.
  Officials say several municipalities are under disaster declarations already, but this one is countywide.
  The impacts have been felt since mid-February and include numerous landslides like the recent collapse of Route 30, f
  
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• IRS ‘Direct Pay’ Option Not Working On Tax Day

  17-04-2018 21:47
  CBS Local — If you were waiting until the last minute to pay your taxes and were depending on IRS.gov to make a payment from your checking account, there’s some bad news.
  Right now the Direct Pay section of the Internal Revenue Service’s web site is not working. There’s just an advisory message that reads “This service is currently unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
  According to CBS News, IRS Acting Commissioner David Kautter ackn
  
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• Commercial Road, Forward Avenue partially reopen after latest closure

  17-04-2018 21:39 via post-gazette.com
  Commercial Road and Forward Avenue in the East End partially reopened Tuesday after a two-day closure, Pittsburgh Councilman Corey O’Connor’s office said.
  
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• PennDOT adds signs to help drivers navigate lane changes on Parkway North/Interstate 279

  17-04-2018 21:08 via post-gazette.com
  The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has added two electronic message boards to help drivers navigate through lane changes on northbound Parkway North/Interstate 279 due to construction.
  
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• Penn Hills skeletal remains identified as missing 19-year-old man

  17-04-2018 20:49 via post-gazette.com
  Skeletal remains discovered by a hiker in Penn Hills last week have been identified as those of a Plum man who went missing nearly 14 months ago, Allegheny County police said Tuesday.
  
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• Sending an object to the moon? Astrobotic is working to show it off to Earthlings

  17-04-2018 20:43 via post-gazette.com
  You can send an object to the moon if you have a scale and a tape measure to weigh it, or preferably, its laser-measured dimensions. Precision matters, because it costs $1.2 million per kilogram (that’s about the weight of a pineapple) to send off that item to the lunar surface.
  
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• Pa. among states to receive pouches that render opioids inert

  17-04-2018 20:29 via post-gazette.com
  The AmerisourceBergen Foundation thinks it has a solution to the unused prescription opioids sitting in the medicine cabinets of so many U.S. households.
  
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• Stormy Daniels Releases Sketch Of Man She Says Threatened Her; Twitter Sees Tom Brady

  17-04-2018 20:25
  NEW YORK (CBS) — A sketch of the man Stormy Daniels says threatened her lit up Twitter on Tuesday, with many seeing a resemblance to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.Daniels appeared on ABC’s “The View” Tuesday morning with lawyer Michael Avenatti. They released a sketch of the man Daniels says approached her in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011 while she was carrying her infant daughter, and told her “not to go to police and leave Mr. Trump alone.” Da
  
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• One person is dead after a Southwest airplane makes an emergency landing in Philadelphia

  17-04-2018 20:03 via post-gazette.com
  PHILADELPHIA — One passenger died and seven others were injured Tuesday morning when a Southwest Airlines plane flying from New York to Dallas apparently blew an engine in midair, sending smoke into the cabin and forcing an emergency landing in Philadelphia.
  
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• Bank VP dead after Southwest plane makes emergency landing in Philadelphia

  17-04-2018 20:03 via post-gazette.com
  PHILADELPHIA — One passenger died and seven others were injured Tuesday morning when a Southwest Airlines plane flying from New York to Dallas apparently blew an engine in midair, breaking a window, sending smoke into the cabin, and forcing an emergency landing in Philadelphia.
  
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• 1 dead, several injured after Southwest Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Philly

  17-04-2018 20:03 via post-gazette.com
  PHILADELPHIA — One person died and several were injured as a Southwest Airlines jet was forced to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia’s airport Tuesday with part of the covering from its left engine ripped off and a window damaged.
  
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• 1 dead, several hurt after Southwest Airlines jet blows engine at 30,000 feet

  17-04-2018 20:03 via post-gazette.com
  PHILADELPHIA — A Southwest Airlines jet apparently blew an engine at about 30,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel that smashed a window and damaged the fuselage Tuesday, killing a passenger and injuring seven others, authorities said.
  
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• 1 dead after jet blows an engine; woman nearly sucked out

  17-04-2018 20:03 via post-gazette.com
  PHILADELPHIA — A Southwest Airlines jet blew an engine at 32,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel that smashed a window, setting off a desperate scramble by passengers to save a woman from getting sucked out. One person died and seven others were injured.
  
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• Starbucks To Close All Nationwide Stores For Racial-Bias Training

  17-04-2018 19:55
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA/CBS) — Starbucks says it will be closing more than 8,000 company-owned stores in the U.S. to conduct racial-bias education towards preventing discrimination in their stores.In a press release the company says:All Starbucks company-owned retail stores and corporate offices will be closed in the afternoon of Tuesday, May 29. During that time, partners will go through a training program designed to address implicit bias, promote conscious inclusion, prevent discrimination and
  
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• Remains Found In Penn Hills Identified As Man Missing Since 2017

  17-04-2018 19:50
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  PENN HILLS (KDKA) – Human remains found in Penn Hills earlier this month have been identified as those of a man reported missing more than a year ago.
  According to police, the remains were found in a wooded area along Milltown Road on April 11. The remains were found by a person on a nature walk.
  (Photo Credit: Matthew Sheets)
  Today, police announced the remains have been identified as those of 19-year-old Zackery Sheets.
  Sheets was reported as missing on
  
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• Baboons Escape Research Center With Barrel Used As A Ladder

  17-04-2018 19:21
  CBS Local — In a real life game of “Barrel of Monkeys,” four baboons escaped a Texas research center after turning their toy barrel into a makeshift ladder.
  Officials at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute say that the group of primates lifted themselves to freedom on April 14 after propping a 55-gallon barrel against the wall of their enclosure. “This was truly a unique incident,” the institute’s Assistant V.P. for Communications, Lisa Cruz said in a pres
  
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• Southwest Flight Makes Emergency Landing In Philadelphia After Engine Blows Out

  17-04-2018 19:11
  PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A Southwest Airlines plane has made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport after an engine blew out as the plane left LaGuardia Airport in New York on Tuesday morning.
  The plane landed safely and taxied to a remote area of the runway where passengers were taken off. Chopper 3 video shows a broken plane window and damage to the left engine of the plane.
  What a flight!Made it!! Still here!! #southwest #flight1380 https://t.co/Cx2mqoXVzY—Joe Marc
  
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• 1 Dead After Southwest Flight Makes Emergency Landing In Philadelphia When Engine Blows Out

  17-04-2018 19:11
  PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A federal investigator says one person has been killed after a plane with engine failure made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.
  A Southwest Airlines plane has made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport after an engine blew out as the plane left LaGuardia Airport in New York on Tuesday morning.
  The plane landed safely and taxied to a remote area of the runway where passengers were taken off. Chopper 3 video shows a broken plane window and damage
  
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• Penguins: Hornqvist To Miss Game 4 With Upper-Body Injury

  17-04-2018 18:59
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Pittsburgh Penguins will be looking to take a stranglehold in their first round matchup with the Flyers on Wednesday, but they’ll be missing a key player.
  Head coach Mike Sullivan announced Patric Hornqvist will miss Game 4 with an “upper-body injury.”Coach Sullivan: “Hornqvist’s not an easy guy to replace. He’s a unique player for us. He brings a lot. By committee, we’re goi
  
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• PennDOT planning to award contract for Route 30 retaining wall, road replacement

  17-04-2018 18:38 via post-gazette.com
  The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced Tuesday it expects to award a contract Friday to build a retaining wall and replace a 300-foot section of Route 30 that collapsed in East Pittsburgh 10 days ago.
  
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• Peregrine falcon eats two of her young in Oakland

  17-04-2018 18:31 via post-gazette.com
  More drama has occurred on a ledge at the Cathedral of Learning. The resident peregrine falcon had eggs for breakfast. Her own.
  
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• Eggs for breakfast? Peregrine falcon eats two of her young

  17-04-2018 18:31 via post-gazette.com
  More drama has occurred on a ledge at the Cathedral of Learning. The resident peregrine falcon had eggs for breakfast. Her own.
  
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• Cathedral of Learning's peregrine falcon eats two of her young

  17-04-2018 18:31 via post-gazette.com
  More drama from atop the Cathedral of Learning: the peregrine falcon had eggs for breakfast.
  
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• FDA Approves First Contact Lens That Gets Darker In Sunlight

  17-04-2018 18:05
  CBS Local — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new invention that may make wearing sunglasses a thing of the past.
  FDA officials signed off on the first ever transition contact lenses, which will get darker when the wearer is out in sunlight. “This contact lens is the first of its kind to incorporate the same technology that is used in eyeglasses that automatically darken in the sun,” the FDA’s Malvina Eydelman said in a press release.
  The agency tested
  
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• The Baseball Report: Mets, Angels, Pirates All Off To Fast Starts

  17-04-2018 18:00
  Ryan Mayer
  The early weeks of the Major League Baseball season always provide us with a few surprises and this season has been no different. The New York Mets, Los Angeles Angels and Pittsburgh Pirates have all raced out of the gates to take the lead in their respective divisions after the first three weeks of the season. Now, it’s still early, but each of these teams were expected to be on the fringes of the playoff race when the season began and so far they’re in the driver’s
  
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• Not Seeking Re-Election, GOP Rep. Dent To Resign From House

  17-04-2018 17:47
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Republican Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania says he’ll resign from Congress in the coming weeks, after the leader of an influential caucus of GOP moderates announced last year that he wouldn’t seek re-election.
  The seven-term representative didn’t give a precise departure date in Tuesday’s statement. He said he’d made the decision after discussing it with his family and careful reflectio
  
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• TRAFFIC: Troy Hill's Rialto Street will remain closed until at least Wednesday

  17-04-2018 17:45 via post-gazette.com
  Rialto Street in Troy Hill will remain closed until at least Wednesday while workers make repairs to the Lowrie Street Bridge that crosses overhead the steep road.
  
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• Plastic-Eating Enzyme Discovered, Could Help Fight Pollution

  17-04-2018 17:36
  PITTSBURGH (CBS) — Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could help in the fight against pollution.
  The enzyme is able to digest polyethylene terephthalate, or PET – a form of plastic patented in the 1940s and now used in millions of tonnes of plastic bottles. PET plastics can persist for hundreds of years in the environment and currently pollute large areas of land and sea worldwide.
  Researchers from Britain’s Univers
  
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• Two Heinz History Center sites and Phipps win state museum achievement awards

  17-04-2018 17:35 via post-gazette.com
  Three area museum sites were among the winners of statewide Institutional Achievement Awards from PA Museums. The winners, announced Monday, include two Heinz History Center sites. 
  
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• Trump Criticizes California Governor On Troops At Border

  17-04-2018 16:02
  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is criticizing the California governor for rejecting proposed border duties for the National Guard.
  The Trump administration said Monday that Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown rejected terms of the guard’s initial deployment to the Mexican border; a state official said nothing was decided.
  (Photo Credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
  Trump wants thousands of guard troops to help with immigration enforcement until his promised U.S.-Mexico border wa
  
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• Fresh food 'farmacy' opens at West Penn Hospital

  17-04-2018 16:00 via post-gazette.com
  A first for the region, the Allegheny Health Network has established the Healthy Food Center — a fresh-food “farmacy” to provide healthy, mostly plant-based foods to patients as a treatment for type 2 diabetes.
  
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• Hearing Wednesday for Bridgeville road project

  17-04-2018 15:47 via post-gazette.com
  PennDOT and the Federal Highway Administration will unveil plans Wednesday for upgrading Route 50, Chartiers Creek Bridge and Chartiers Street in Bridgeville and South Fayette.
  
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• Pennsylvania House Votes To Ban Abortions For Down Syndrome

  17-04-2018 15:20
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A proposal to prohibit abortions in Pennsylvania when the sole reason is that the fetus has or may have Down syndrome is headed to the state Senate after passing the House by a comfortable margin.
  The Republican-majority House voted Monday 139 to 56 for a bill that supporters say would protect a vulnerable population.
  Opponents argue it would violate the right of women to make their own decisions about abortion.
  The fate of the bill
  
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• Little-known intestinal condition -- ‘SIBO’ -- might not be so rare

  17-04-2018 15:00 via post-gazette.com
  Feeling bloated is one thing but the extreme bloating that Pam Adamson experienced last year that distended her stomach and painfully so. 
  
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• PTL Links: April 17, 2018

  17-04-2018 14:43
  Visit the links below for more on today’s guests & topics:National Aviary
  Market District
  Market District’s Beer-Inspired Recipes
  Craft Beer Week Events
  Lancome
  Carnegie Museum Of Art
  Three Rivers Arts Festival
  
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• Market District’s Beer-Inspired Recipes

  17-04-2018 14:40
  Market District Chef Crystal Baldwin stopped by PTL to make some delicious beer-inspired recipes!
  Spring Beer Cocktail (Compliments of Chef Crystal Baldwin)
  Makes: 1 ¼ cupPrep Time: 5 minutesCook Time: N/A
  Ingredients:4 leaves mint
  1/2 cup orange
  1oz lime juice
  ½ oz simple syrup or to taste
  12 oz lager beerDirections:
  Bruise the mint and place in a large glass; add ice. Stir in the orange juice, lime juice and simple syrup. Pour in the beer and serve.
  Beer Vinaigrette (Compliments
  
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• Prosecutors In Cosby Retrial Build To Conclusion Of Case

  17-04-2018 14:34
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  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Prosecutors are building to the conclusion of their case against comedian Bill Cosby in his sexual assault retrial.
  Investigators and a pharmaceutical expert are expected to take the stand beginning Tuesday.
  Prosecutors on Monday delivered a one-two punch as chief accuser Andrea Constand rejected defense allegations that she concocted her story to score a big payday, and her mother testified that Cosby apologized.
  Andrea and Gianna
  
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• Cosby Retrial Judge Allows Testimony On Quaaludes

  17-04-2018 14:34
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  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) – The judge in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial says jurors can hear the comedian’s prior testimony about giving quaaludes to women before sex.
  Judge Steven O’Neill ruled Tuesday that prosecutors can read the testimony into the record at Cosby’s retrial on charges he drugged and molested Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.
  Cosby testified at a deposition related to Constand’s
  
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• Federal judge rules that PPG is liable for glass dump pollution

  17-04-2018 14:28 via post-gazette.com
  A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that PPG Industries Inc. is liable under federal law for decades of toxic pollution that flowed, and continues to flow, from a former glass dump into the Allegheny River near Ford City in Armstrong County.
  
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• Deacon Accused Of Sending ‘Teen’ Sexually Explicit Messages & Photos Waives Hearing

  17-04-2018 13:48
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  PITTSBURGH (AP) – A suspended 73-year-old church deacon accused of sending sexually explicit messages and photos to an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old boy has waived his right to a preliminary hearing.
  The move made Monday means Rosendo “Ross” Dacal, of McCandless, will be arraigned May 24.
  (Source: Washington County Jail)
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh put Dacal on administrative leave and suspended him from active
  
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• PennDOT To Provide Update On Plans To Rebuild Route 30

  17-04-2018 13:22
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  EAST PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – PennDOT officials are expected to provide an update on their plans to rebuild Route 30 after a landslide caused a portion of the road to collapse.
  PennDOT’s initial estimate of returning traffic to Route 30 is a cautious projection of two to three months, or mid- to late-summer.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA)
  However, it will cost millions of dollars to rebuild the hillside, restore Route 30, and relocate the residents
  
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• PennDOT Announces Plan & Timeline For Route 30 Rebuild Project

  17-04-2018 13:22
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  EAST PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – PennDOT officials are expected to provide an update on their plans to rebuild Route 30 after a landslide caused a portion of the road to collapse.
  The area that slid was actually fill that was placed when Route 30 was built 80 years ago.
  As for reconstruction, PennDOT plans to build a wall that is 400 feet long and 20 feet high behind the Electric Avenue apartments. The wall will serve as protection for the apartmen
  
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• TRAFFIC: Fatal tractor trailer crash closes inbound Parkway North

  17-04-2018 12:07 via post-gazette.com
  A fatal tractor trailer crash on Parkway North at Bellevue road has closed the inbound lanes, according to Post-Gazette news partner KDKA News.
  
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• Southbound side of Parkway North remains closed to repair damages caused by fatal crash

  17-04-2018 12:07 via post-gazette.com
  At least one lane of the Parkway North’s southbound side will remain closed into the overnight hours while crews repair a portion of the road damaged in a fatal tractor trailer crash there Tuesday morning.
  
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• Parkway North partially reopened to southbound traffic after fatal crash

  17-04-2018 12:07 via post-gazette.com
  State police and transportation officials said the Parkway North has been reopened to traffic near the Bellevue/West View exit following a fatal tractor trailer crash there Tuesday morning.
  
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