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• SouthSide Works continues to deal with debt issues

  07-05-2018 23:50 via post-gazette.com
  Parts of the SouthSide Works shopping center may be facing foreclosure. 
  
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• Who Has The Nation’s Best Health Care? Study Reveals State Rankings

  07-05-2018 23:02
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  CBS Local — After the average life expectancy in the United States declined for the first time in decades, a new report is out detailing which states have the best and worst health care systems.
  The non-profit health care advocacy group, The Commonwealth Fund, released a state-by-state scorecard on May 3 looking at each state’s ability to deliver medical care to its residents. The study broke down over 40 areas of health care from access, to the val
  
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• Renting In Pittsburgh: What Will $900 Get You?

  07-05-2018 22:53
  Story Hoodline — Curious just how far your dollar goes in Pittsburgh?
  We’ve rounded up the latest rental listings via rental site Zumper to get a sense of what to expect when it comes to finding housing in Pittsburgh if you’ve got a budget of $900 / month.
  Read on for the listings. (Note: prices and availability are subject to change.)
  5712 Phillips Ave., #B11 (Squirrel Hill South)Listed at $895/month, this one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment is located at 5712 P
  
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• Key link between Squirrel Hill, Swisshelm Park closing weekdays for more landslide work

  07-05-2018 22:52 via post-gazette.com
  Commercial Street, the main route between Squirrel Hill and Swisshelm Park, will be closed from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day through Friday for more remedial work on the hillside behind Walnut Towers on Forward Avenue.
  
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• Health Dept. Cites Bloomfield Restaurant After Finding Dead Rodents, Droppings

  07-05-2018 22:51
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  PITTSBURGH (Patch.com/KDKA) — The Allegheny County Health Department has issued a consumer alert for Wai Wai Chinese Cuisine on Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield for rodent issues and other health code violations.
  Inspectors on Friday found a fresh dead mouse under shelving in the kitchen area. They also found a mix of fresh and old droppings found in the servers’ storage area, under the beverage station and behind bamboo plants in the dining room.
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• City to set off 'spark' parking space program

  07-05-2018 22:37
  The initial two business applicants for a program to create a sidewalk extension outside were chosen for the pilot program by the City of Pittsburgh.
  
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• WVU hires UPMC transplant surgeon to head its research effort

  07-05-2018 22:21 via post-gazette.com
  UPMC transplant surgeon and entrepreneur Paulo Fontes has been hired by West Virginia University in Morgantown as the director of research and innovation.
  
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• Westmoreland doctor, two others agree to settle kickback allegations

  07-05-2018 22:18 via post-gazette.com
  A Westmoreland County doctor and two other doctors from Florida and Indiana have agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle civil allegations that they received kickbacks for referrals to a drug testing lab in Greensburg whose former owner is under indictment.
  
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• Worker Pinned After Crash At White Oak Car Wash

  07-05-2018 21:59
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  WHITE OAK (KDKA) — Two people have been hurt, one seriously, after an accident at a car wash in White Oak this afternoon.
  The crash happened at the Double Car Wash located on O’Neill Boulevard.
  (Photo Credit: Lynne Hayes-Freeland/KDKA)
  Officials say a worker was drying off a white BMW SUV that had just gone through the car wash when he was struck and pinned.
  According to authorities, another worker was driving a vehicle behind the SUV, but when he h
  
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• Lady Antebellum Botches National Anthem At NHL Playoff Game

  07-05-2018 21:53
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  NASHVILLE, TN (CBS Local) – Nashville Predators fans thought they were in for a special night when hometown stars Lady Antebellum came out to sing the national anthem before the team’s playoff game on May 5. The mood quickly changed when the award-winning music group forgot the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
  Hockey fans at Bridgestone Arena in Tennessee groaned with displeasure when singer Charles Kelley skipped a line in
  
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• The Baseball Report: Pujols Gets 3,000th Hit, Kimbrel Fastest To 300 Saves

  07-05-2018 21:31
  Ryan Mayer
  Most of the talk surrounding Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols in recent years concerns his struggles to live up to his mammoth contract. It’s true that Pujols isn’t the same hitter that he was during his prime years in St. Louis, but he’s still shown pop in his bat in Los Angeles, hitting 23 homers or more in every season except for one (17 in 2013). And when looking at his career totals, it’s hard to deny that he’s one of the best hitters the gam
  
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• Homewood feeling 'a lot of hurt' after slaying of legendary figure Stephen Drake

  07-05-2018 21:17 via post-gazette.com
  A 47-year-old man shot to death in Shadyside on Saturday was a popular fixture of the Homewood community who spent years advocating against violence, despite his own criminal past and the brutal murder of his two children.
  
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• Police Department Changes Name To ‘PoPo’ In Controversial Prank

  07-05-2018 20:57
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  BATH TOWNSHIP, MI (CBS Local) – Police in Michigan have a tongue-in-cheek message for the community: “Watch out for the popo.”
  The Bath Township Police Department, near Lansing, posted a photo of its brand new SUV on April 28 that features the words “POPO” – slang for police – on its doors.
  “So as some of you may have noticed, our page has been pretty helpful in connecting us with our community
  
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• Teen Killed Seconds After Taking Off Seat Belt To Take A Selfie

  07-05-2018 20:40
  SPRING, TX (CBS Local) – The parents of a 16-year-old ejected from a car after she removed her seat belt to take a selfie are turning their grief into action.
  The Details:Kailee Mills was killed in an accident seconds after taking off her seat belt to take a selfie
  Mills was the only passenger killed and the only passenger not wearing a seat belt
  Her family has started a foundation to promote seat belt awarenessKailee Mills had just left her home in Spring, TX with friends to attend a
  
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• Pittsburgh Marathon Goes Smoothly Thanks To Thousands Working Behind-The-Scenes

  07-05-2018 20:39
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It takes a lot of coordination to make sure the Pittsburgh Marathon goes smoothly, and the Marathon’s operations command center is at the heart of it all.
  It’s not just the runners who planned and trained for their big day. Thousands of people behind the scenes did, too.
  “It didn’t just happen overnight. This has been in the plans for three, four months, and over the past two or three weeks, we constructed the o
  
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• The Dalai Lama's doctor has come to help

  07-05-2018 20:21 via post-gazette.com
  The personal physician to the 14th Dalai Lama, Dr. Barry Kerzin, is an American-born Buddhist monk who is in Pittsburgh this week with a message of compassion.
  
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• Tick-Borne Diseases Rising, Here’s How To Prevent Infection

  07-05-2018 20:15
  CBS Local — The weather is warming and health experts believe this summer will be plagued by a rising number of disease-carrying ticks. Despite the troubling outlook and jump in Lyme disease cases already being reported, doctors say there are some important steps you can take to prevent becoming infected.
  The CDC says that if a tick is found attached to you early enough, there is still time to avoid infection. Ticks reportedly need to be attached to a person for 36 to 48 hours before
  
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• Hawaii Volcano Destroys Dozens Of Homes, Forces Evacuations

  07-05-2018 19:52
  PAHOA, Hawaii (AP/CBS) – Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has destroyed 26 homes and spewed lava hundreds of feet into the air, leaving evacuated residents unsure how long they might be displaced.
  In revised figures Sunday, Hawaii County officials say another four unspecified structures were covered by lava.
  They said the decimated homes were in the Leilani Estates subdivision, where molten rock, toxic gas and steam have been bursting through openings in the ground created by the volcano.
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• Judge Dismisses One Charge Against Person Of Interest In Missing Woman Case

  07-05-2018 19:39
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  LATROBE (KDKA) — A judge dismissed some of the charges Monday against a man who is being questioned about his ex-girlfriend’s disappearance.
  Thomas Stanko has been held for court on one violation of breaking an interlock DUI device, but the judge dismissed a charge of driving without a license.
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  Stanko is still considered to be a person of interest in the disappearance of Cassandra Gross, a Latrobe woman who was last seen on Apri
  
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• Doctors help save Philadelphia woman on flight diverted to PIttsburgh

  07-05-2018 19:29 via post-gazette.com
  Minutes into her flight to Cleveland for a visit to the renowned Cleveland Clinic, where she hoped to find answers about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease, Ashley Spencer collapsed outside an airplane bathroom.
  
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• Trump Urges W.Va. Voters To Reject Blankenship, Who Calls Himself ‘Trumpier Than Trump’

  07-05-2018 19:26
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  MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (KDKA) — Voters in West Virginia go to the polls Tuesday to choose, among other things, the U.S. Senate nominees.
  Among the candidates vying for the Republican nomination is former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.
  MORGANTOWN, WV – MARCH 01:Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Don Blankenship speaks at a town hall meeting at West Virginia University on March 1, 2018 in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Image
  
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• ‘No Way!’: Trump Urges W.Va. Voters To Reject Blankenship

  07-05-2018 19:26
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  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is urging West Virginia voters to reject a former federal convict and coal baron running in the Republican Senate primary, arguing that Don Blankenship he would lose the general election.
  Trump tweets on Monday: “To the great people of West Virginia we have, together, a really great chance to keep making a big difference. Problem is, Don Blankenship, currently running for Senate, can’t win the General E
  
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• Pa. Couple Sentenced In Case Of Starving Children Who Allegedly Peeled Paint Off Walls To Survive

  07-05-2018 18:55
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  HALIFAX, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania man and woman have been sentenced in the mistreatment of three children prosecutors said were so starved for food they peeled paint off the walls to survive.
  Thirty-five-year-old Joshua Weyant and 39-year-old Brandi Weyant pleaded guilty in February to aggravated assault, conspiracy, false imprisonment, unlawful restraining and child endangerment.
  Joshua Weyant was sentenced Monday in Dauphin County Court to 19½ t
  
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• Topgolf Pittsburgh Hiring For 500 New Jobs

  07-05-2018 18:54
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) —Topgolf’s newest location in Pittsburgh is looking for 500 new workers.The 42nd Topgolf location is currently under construction in South Fayette’s Newbury Market, and is set to open this summer.Topgolf has posted 500 new jobs on their website in anticipation of the opening, everything from servers, bartenders, kitchen, maintenance and guest services.
  The company says it will hold a “Mission: Ambition” hiring event beginning the week of May 28.Acc
  
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• Keidel: Is LeBron Playing The Best Basketball Of His Career?

  07-05-2018 18:31
  By Jason Keidel
  It’s hard to think of another endeavor we follow more fervently and fickly than sports.
  Consider the NBA playoffs. Just a week ago, we were ready to crown the Philadelphia 76ers as the new lords of the Eastern Conference. And we had LeBron James with one foot in the playoff grave and the other in free agency, booking a Learjet to Los Angeles. Or was is Houston? Or San Antonio?
  Yet here we are, with the injury-addled Boston Celtics whipping the young Sixers, up 3-0 in the co
  
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• Man Accused Of Trying To Set Sex Offenders On Fire

  07-05-2018 18:23
  Osceola County, FL (WESH) — Police said a man was locked up after he was accused of trying to kill sex offenders.
  Officers said he tried to set the men on fire.
  Jorge Porto-Sierra has been formally charged with four counts of attempted premeditated murder.
  Osceola County detectives said the 50-year-old confessed to deputies he tried to kill multiple people at the Friendly Village Inn on Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway.
  After his March 7 arrest, Porto-Sierra said he arrived at the motel to &l
  
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• 11 More Penn State Frat Members Head To Trial Over Pledge Death

  07-05-2018 18:22
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania judge says there is enough evidence to send hazing and alcohol-related criminal charges to county court for trial against 11 more members of a Penn State fraternity over the death of a pledge last year.
  Judge Steven Lachman on Monday also dismissed allegations that a member of Beta Theta Pi had erased basement security video to thwart investigators.
  He’s dismissing all reckless endangerment counts the defendants
  
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• Melania Trump’s Popularity Jumps In New CNN Poll

  07-05-2018 18:09
  (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump has in recent weeks experienced a significant surge in support, a new CNN poll reveals, including among women and Democrats.
  In a poll conducted by SSRS last week, 57% say they have a favorable impression of Trump, up from 47% in January. This is the biggest number Melania Trump has experienced in any CNN polling, and higher than any favorability rating earned by President Donald Trump in CNN polling history going back to 1999.
  Twenty-seven percent of respo
  
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• 100 Guests Affected As Water Line Break Floods Carnival Cruise Rooms

  07-05-2018 17:58
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  MIAMI (AP) – A water line break flooded 50 staterooms aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship as it sailed through the Caribbean.
  In a video recorded Thursday by a Carnival Dream passenger, crew members formed a bucket brigade and waded through ankle-deep water in one soaked hallway.
  In an emailed statement, cruise line spokeswoman Annemarie Mathews said it took six hours for the crew to replace or dry out the carpeting in the hallway and 50 staterooms.
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• 1968 Documentary Airs On The Smithsonian Channel Tonight

  07-05-2018 17:38
  1968 was one of the wildest years in our nation’s history. Icons like Martin Luther Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, Tommie Smith protested at the Olympics and man circled the dark side of the moon. While the story of this year has been told many times before, the Smithsonian Channel is shedding light on this story in a brand new way with its new documentary film “Smithsonian Time Capsule: 1968.”
  CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith chatted with executive producer Linda Goldma
  
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• This Week In Golf: Jason Day Wins Wells Fargo By Two Strokes

  07-05-2018 17:17
  By Sam McPherson
  If the Wells Fargo Championship this week at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, was any indication, then the golf world needs to take notice: Jason Day is back in a big way. After a winless 2017 on the PGA Tour, the Australian, who was ranked No. 1 in the world for a bit back in 2015, has now won twice this season, claiming a two-shot victory at Quail Hollow. He shot 12-under par, carding all four rounds in the 60s.
  Day previously won the Farmers Insurance Open
  
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• Trump urges West Virginians not to vote for Don Blankenship amid Republican anxiety

  07-05-2018 17:06 via post-gazette.com
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump intervened Monday in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary, pleading with voters a day before the election to oppose the former mine operator Don Blankenship, and signaling Republican anxiety over the prospect of forfeiting yet another red-state Senate race.
  
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• Don’t Hang Up: Thousands Eligible For $1,200 Payback From Dish Network

  07-05-2018 16:29
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  PITTSBURGH (CBS) — Thousands of people who got a telemarketing call for Dish Network in 2010 or 2011 may be able to collect $1,200 per call. If you think that sounds too good to be true, you’re not alone. Lawyers say they are having trouble convincing people to sign up to get the money they’re owed from the $61 million class action lawsuit over sales pitches to people on the national Do Not Call Registry.
  CBS News reports there’s been a
  
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• Boy Regains Consciousness After Parents Sign Organ Donation Paperwork

  07-05-2018 15:37
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  MOBILE, Ala. (CBS) — A 13-year-old boy who suffered severe brain trauma in an accident regained consciousness after his parents signed paperwork to donate his organs.
  CBS News reports Trenton McKinley of Mobile, Alabama, suffered the injury two months ago when a small utility trailer he was riding flipped over.
  “I hit the concrete, and the trailer landed on top of my head. After that, I don’t remember anything,” he told WALA-TV.
  He suffe
  
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• Jefferson Awards finalist Elena McGoey: 'It's just what you're supposed to do'

  07-05-2018 15:15 via post-gazette.com
  Elena McGoey is a quiet leader with an affinity for animals and giving back to her community.
  
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• Monroeville native Eugenia Kim marks 20 years as hat maker to stars like Beyonce

  07-05-2018 15:00 via post-gazette.com
  Monroeville native Eugenia Kim doesn’t just wear many hats -— She makes them for others to flaunt, as well. 
  
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• PTL Links: May 7, 2018

  07-05-2018 14:56
  Visit the links below for more on today’s guests & topics:Orphans of the Storm
  Neubauer’s Flowers
  Brown Mama Monologues
  Dr. Mike Hutchinson at Animal General
  Table Magazine
  
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• ‘Star Wars’ Fans Become Parents On May 4, Name Twins After Characters

  07-05-2018 14:50
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  OGDEN, Utah (AP/KDKA) – The force is with them.
  A Utah couple became parents of a boy and a girl on “Star Wars” day, Friday, May 4. The day is celebrated by “Star Wars” fans because it sounds like the movie’s line, “May the force be with you.”
  LAS VEGAS – MAY 29:Actress Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia Organa character and actor Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker character from “Star Wars Episode IV
  
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• Is "travel brain" a thing?

  07-05-2018 14:30 via post-gazette.com
  David Diamond is an expert on stress and memory. But he is not immune to whatever that thing is that happens to many people when they travel.
  
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• Comedian Ken Jeong Stops Stand-Up Show To Help Audience Member Having Seizure

  07-05-2018 14:28
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  PHOENIX (AP) – Ken Jeong’s medical degree is nothing to laugh at.
  The comedian’s training came in handy Saturday when an audience member began having a seizure while Jeong was performing at a comedy club in Phoenix.
  (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for EIF)
  The actor’s representative, Michelle Margolis, confirmed reports that the 48-year-old Jeong and an emergency medical technician in the audience helped the woman until parame
  
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• Lost keys? Laptop? Car? It could be at the Pittsburgh airport

  07-05-2018 14:15 via post-gazette.com
  Travel is said to increase our creativity, make us less fearful, more patient and more open-minded. But travel seems to affect some of our brains before we even get out of the airport.
  
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• Meet the candidates: Lou Barletta, the former Hazleton mayor, sells himself as a Trump-like fighter

  07-05-2018 14:11 via post-gazette.com
  WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta is best known for his hard line on immigration, but the Hazleton Republican now running for U.S. Senate sees himself as much more than that.
  
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• Meet the candidates: State Rep. Jim Christiana says he has a model to fix what's broken in DC

  07-05-2018 14:09 via post-gazette.com
  PHILADELPHIA – It takes a lot of coffee to run for federal office while serving in the state House, attending law school at night and raising a toddler.
  
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• More Than 100 Cats Removed From Pa. Home

  07-05-2018 14:06
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  HATBORO, Pa. (AP) – Dozens of cats have been found living in deplorable conditions in the garage of a Pennsylvania home.
  Authorities say Hatboro police received a call Friday about a strange odor coming from the home. They spoke to a man who said he lives in the loft space of the garage and kept the cats.
  Officers returned to the home Saturday with a search warrant. They then removed 114 cats on Sunday and used a heat sensor to search for more, though it
  
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• Amazon is hungry for CMU students during recruiting seasons — but so is every other tech firm

  07-05-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  When Amazon comes to town looking hungrily for new hires, recruiting officers take up all eight conference rooms at the career center in Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
  
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• Man In Police Custody After Overnight Standoff In Midland

  07-05-2018 13:44
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  MIDLAND, Pa. (KDKA) — A man was taken into police custody early Monday morning after an hours-long standoff in Beaver County.
  Police were first called to a house in Midland near the corner of Virginia Avenue and 10th Street Extension shortly before 1 a.m.
  The call initially came in as a drug complaint.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Scott Danka)
  A man was taken into custody around 5:20 a.m.
  Further details have not yet been released.
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• HQ2 cities listen up: Amazon flexing its political muscle sends a message not just to Seattle

  07-05-2018 13:44 via post-gazette.com
  SEATTLE — Surrounded by jungle plants under a glass-domed ceiling four stories high, Washington and Seattle political leaders got up on a rainy January day to toast Amazon’s success and their hopes for a long-lasting partnership.
  
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• A push to ignite McKees Rocks: A business incubator needs entrepreneurs, and one startup wants to help them

  07-05-2018 13:38 via post-gazette.com
  As snow approached on the first evening of spring, a roomful of people who aim to invigorate the struggling borough of McKees Rocks huddled over pizza, hoagies and salad in a cozy meeting space along the town’s main drag.
  
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• A push to ignite McKees Rocks: A business incubator is working to nurture entrepreneurs

  07-05-2018 13:38 via post-gazette.com
  As snow approached on the first evening of spring, a roomful of people who aim to invigorate the struggling borough of McKees Rocks huddled over pizza, hoagies and salad in a cozy meeting space along the town’s main drag.
  
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• Crews Battle House Fire In Aliquippa, Home Believed To Be Vacant

  07-05-2018 13:25
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  ALIQUIPPA (KDKA) — Crews battled a house fire in Beaver County early Monday morning.
  Firefighters were sent to a home in the 600 block of Franklin Avenue in Aliquippa around 5:30 a.m.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Scott Danka)
  The home was fully engulfed in flames when crews arrived. The house is believed to be unoccupied.
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  Crews were working to protect nearby homes from the flames.
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