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• Businesses, Residents Across Pittsburgh Area Clean Up, Assess Damage After Intense Flooding

  21-06-2018 23:58
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Businesses and residents throughout the Pittsburgh area spent Thursday cleaning up and assessing the damage from Wednesday night’s extreme flooding.
  It was a terrifying night for workers and customers at the Outback Steakhouse in Upper St. Clair near Route 19 as flood waters rose rapidly around the restaurant.#BREAKING: Major flooding now hitting the Upper St. Clair area south of #Pittsburgh. This is the Outback Steakhouse parkin
  
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• Top Pa. Republicans appeal gerrymandering case to U.S. Supreme Court

  21-06-2018 23:57 via post-gazette.com
  HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s top two Republican lawmakers filed an appeal Thursday with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a ruling that had found that the state’s congressional boundaries constituted a partisan gerrymander and ordered them redrawn.
  
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• 2018-19 Pittsburgh Penguins Schedule Released

  21-06-2018 23:38
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Pittsburgh Penguins road to another Stanley Cup has been released.The 2018-19 full Pens schedule was released Thursday.The Pens open with a three-game homestand that features the Washington Capitals, Las Vegas Golden Knights, and Montreal Canadiens.
  The Penguins will play at home on Thanksgiving Eve. This year, the Pens will take on the Dallas Stars on Wednesday, November 21 at 7:00 PM. Another intriguing matchup, a visit from two-time defending NHL scoring champion
  
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• East Allegheny, teachers agree on 3-year contract

  21-06-2018 23:36 via post-gazette.com
  The East Allegheny school board and teachers’ union have approved a new three-year teachers’ contract.
  
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• Chess is the great uniter, says teen who teaches the game

  21-06-2018 22:51 via post-gazette.com
  Ashley Priore played her first game of chess when she was 4 years old. It was on a regular board, one without the coordinate labels around the edges that tournament players use to identify each square. Ms. Priore, who had watched her older brothers use those boards in tournaments, wanted to play on a fancy one, too.
  
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• Monroeville begins planning for storm water management program

  21-06-2018 22:50 via post-gazette.com
  Monroeville council has begun the process to comply with the state Department of Environmental Protection’s stormwater discharge management program, municipal separate storm sewer system, also known as the MS4 program.
  
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• Low water pressure a concern after residential fire in McKeesport

  21-06-2018 22:49 via post-gazette.com
  A recent fire in McKeesport in which low water pressure was a major problem has prompted city officials to reach out to the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County to see about improving the flow.
  
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• Dow Chemical awarded $1 billion in dispute with Nova Chemicals

  21-06-2018 22:31 via post-gazette.com
  A judge has ruled against Nova Chemicals and awarded Dow Chemical Canada more than $1 billion in damages in a dispute between the companies involving a plant in Canada’s Alberta province.
  
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• 'I am not what you think!': At 15, Antwon Rose Jr. wrote poem expressing fear, conflict and uncertainty

  21-06-2018 22:19 via post-gazette.com
  Near the end of his sophomore year honors English course, Antwon Rose Jr., then 15, wrote a poem expressing fear, conflict and uncertainty about his future.
  
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• 'I am not what you think!': At 15, Antwon Rose II wrote poem expressing fear, conflict and uncertainty

  21-06-2018 22:19 via post-gazette.com
  Near the end of his sophomore year honors English course, Antwon Rose II, then 15, wrote a poem expressing fear, conflict and uncertainty about his future.
  
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• Sources: Michael Rosfeld Identified As East Pittsburgh Officer Who Fatally Shot Antwon Rose

  21-06-2018 21:42
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The East Pittsburgh police officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Antwon Rose has been identified.
  Sources tell KDKA-TV News the officer is Michael Rosfeld.
  According to sources, Rosfeld was hospitalized following the shooting but has since been released.
  KDKA-TV previously learned that Rosfeld was only sworn in about 90 minutes before the fatal shooting, but he had been on duty in East Pittsburgh for three weeks and has been an offic
  
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• Michael Rosfeld Identified As East Pittsburgh Officer Who Fatally Shot Antwon Rose

  21-06-2018 21:42
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The East Pittsburgh police officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Antwon Rose has been identified.
  The Allegheny County Police Department says the officer is Michael Rosfeld.
  According to sources, Rosfeld was hospitalized following the shooting but has since been released.
  KDKA-TV previously learned that Rosfeld was only sworn in about 90 minutes before the fatal shooting, but he had been on duty in East Pittsburgh for three weeks and
  
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• Police Searching For Missing Teen Last Seen In East Liberty

  21-06-2018 21:24
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Police are searching for a missing teen who was last seen in East Liberty.
  According to police, 17-year-old Shereen Malik is visiting Pittsburgh from South Africa.
  (Photo Credit: Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety)
  She was last seen on N. Euclid Avenue in East Liberty.
  She is described as 5-feet-1-inch tall and about 120 pounds.
  Anyone who sees Malik or has information on her whereabouts is asked to call detectives at (412) 323-714
  
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• Owner for 35 years of Bethel Park's Trolley Stop Inn: "We've never seen flooding like this."

  21-06-2018 21:24 via post-gazette.com
  Tables stocked with doughnuts, boxed lunches and bottled water flanked the edge of the parking lot to the Trolley Stop Inn on Thursday, a day after the Bethel Park restaurant was hit by flash flooding and 25 of its stranded patrons required a boat rescue.
  
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• Gateway board tables decision to purchase $300,000 scoreboard

  21-06-2018 21:23 via post-gazette.com
  The scoreboard at Gateway High School’s Antimarino Stadium will not be replaced until the district can find one or more sponsors to cover the cost.
  
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• AG: No Current Jurisdiction To Investigate Antwon Rose Fatal Shooting By East Pittsburgh Police Officer

  21-06-2018 21:18
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Pennsylvania’s attorney general has responded to the growing calls for his office to take over the investigation of a teenager who was shot and killed by police.
  Antwon Rose, 17, was shot three times in the back by an East Pittsburgh police officer as he attempted to run away from a traffic stop.
  On Thursday, community activists in Pittsburgh called on Attorney General Josh Shapiro to take control of the investigat
  
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• ‘I Really Don’t Care. Do U?’: First Lady Melania Trump Causes Controversy By Wearing Controversial Jacket On Trip To Visit Migrant Kids

  21-06-2018 21:12
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  McALLEN, Texas (AP/KDKA) – First lady Melania Trump boarded a flight to a facility housing migrant children separated from their parents wearing a jacket that read “I really don’t care, do u?”
  The green hooded spring military jacket has the words written graffiti-style on the back.
  US First Lady Melania Trump boards a flight at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on June 12, 2018. Trump was heading to Texas to visit shelters for migrant c
  
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• ‘This Is How I Save My Life’ Excerpt From Amy B. Scher

  21-06-2018 21:04
  Amy B. Scher’s “This Is How I Save My Life” is the true story of a fiery young woman diagnosed with late-stage, chronic Lyme disease whose journey takes her from near-death in California to a trip around the world in search of her ultimate salvation. This excerpt coincides with the book’s release in paperback from Gallery Books, an imprint CBS sister company Simon & Schuster.
  I am twenty-eight years old when I arrive in magnificent India. I am here with my parents, an
  
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• New York Islanders Hire Former Capitals Coach Barry Trotz

  21-06-2018 20:47
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  DALLAS (AP) – The New York Islanders have hired Barry Trotz as their new head coach.
  President of hockey operations Lou Lamoriello announced the move Thursday at the NHL draft, two weeks after Trotz won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals and three days after he resigned from that job. Trotz reportedly agreed to a five-year deal worth double what he would have made annually on a shorter contract with the Capitals.
  Hiring Trotz fresh off his Stanl
  
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• It’s National Selfie Day, Here’s Proof The First One Was Taken In 1839

  21-06-2018 20:45
  (CBSNewYork/CBS Local) – June 21 is National Selfie Day. People around the country are celebrating the start of summer by grabbing their cameras, smartphones, and selfie sticks to snap a quick photo of themselves.
  The casual self-portraits have become so popular in recent years that the word “selfie” is now in the Oxford Dictionary.
  While the selfie revolution has gone hand-in-hand with the spread of smartphone users around the world, did you know the first “official&rdqu
  
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• Officer identified in East Pittsburgh shooting of unarmed teen

  21-06-2018 20:34 via post-gazette.com
  Sources have confirmed that the East Pittsburgh police officer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager on Tuesday evening is Michael Rosfeld.
  
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• First Lady Melania Trump Visits Texas Detention Center Housing Immigrant Kids Separated From Parents

  21-06-2018 20:22
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  McALLEN, Texas (CBS) — First Lady Melania Trump visited a detention center in Texas housing immigrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  CBS News reports as part of her visit, she toured the facility and participated in a roundtable with the facility’s staff to learn more about the plight of the children. She asked the staff, “How I can help…these children to reunite with their families as quickly as possib
  
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• ‘I See Mothers Bury Their Sons, I Want My Mom To Never Feel That Pain:’ Antwon Rose Writes Haunting Poem Two Years Before He Was Killed By East Pittsburgh Police Officer

  21-06-2018 19:57
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – During a downtown rally for Antwon Rose, the teen killed by East Pittsburgh police, a poem that Antwon had written years earlier was read.
  The Woodlands Hills School District released the poem.
  “His mom, Michelle Kenny, wants everyone to have it,” Superintendent Licia Lentz said in a message.
  Rose reportedly wrote the poem two years during a 10th grade Honors English class at Woodland Hills High School.
  The p
  
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• As Loneliness Rises Among Americans, Experts Warn It’s Making Many Sick

  21-06-2018 19:53
  (CBS Local)- Former Surgeon General Doctor Vivek Murthy brought mental health to the forefront last September when he wrote in the Harvard Business Review that loneliness is a “growing health epidemic.” Now a recent survey by health service company Cigna adds to that by showing many Americans say they sometimes or always feel alone.
  The survey of more than 20,000 U.S. adults ages 18 years and older revealed some alarming findings:Nearly half of Americans report so
  
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• Gateway consolidation plan hinges on sale of middle school buidling

  21-06-2018 19:38 via post-gazette.com
  Moss Side Middle School in Gateway District could be closed by the 2019-20 school year and a new school built in its place — but that is contingent on selling the district’s other middle school — Gateway Middle.
  
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• Order in the court: Historic Hanna’s Town re-creates frontier justice

  21-06-2018 19:36 via post-gazette.com
  When the original Hanna’s Town was burned in 1782 by the British and their Native-American allies, it was a disaster for the small Westmoreland County community.
  
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• Diabetes Breakthrough: Common Vaccine Can Improve Blood Sugar Levels Long-Term

  21-06-2018 19:32
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  BOSTON (CBS) – Researchers at Mass General Hospital announced a breakthrough in treating Type 1 Diabetes. In a long-term study released Thursday, patients in a clinical trial had their blood sugar levels restored to near normal, with lasting results.
  Patients in the trial received two doses of the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, an inexpensive vaccine that is widely used to prevent tuberculosis. Results were not immediate, but after three years, e
  
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• Mt. Lebanon offers free app for school security

  21-06-2018 19:30 via post-gazette.com
  Mt. Lebanon School District and Mt. Lebanon Police Department joined forces to release MTLSD StudentProtect — a free app for students and residents to contact authorities, submit anonymous tips and receive alerts in case of a school shooting or violent incident.
  
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• Pittsburgh Public Schools hires Texas educator for new school transformation role

  21-06-2018 19:29 via post-gazette.com
  The Pittsburgh Public Schools board approved several key personnel moves Wednesday night, including the hire of an assistant superintendent for school transformation. 
  
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• Bioswale unveiled to manage stormwater flows in Hill District

  21-06-2018 19:14 via post-gazette.com
  A 585-foot bioswale along Centre Avenue in the Hill District is now operational after a year of construction. It is designed to divert 1,018,900 gallons of stormwater each year.
  
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• Bioswale unveiled to manage storm water flows in Hill District

  21-06-2018 19:14 via post-gazette.com
  A 585-foot bioswale along Centre Avenue in the Hill District is now operational after a year of construction. It is designed to divert 1,018,900 gallons of storm water each year.
  
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• Sources: Man Driving Antwon Rose Before Fatal East Pittsburgh Shooting Was A Jitney Driver

  21-06-2018 19:05
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The man who was driving 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr. and one other suspect before a confrontation with police in East Pittsburgh Tuesday night was a jitney driver who had nothing to do with a shooting that occurred minutes before an officer shot and killed Rose.
  That’s according to sources who talked to KDKA-TV’s Jon Delano on condition of anonymity.
  The source described the jitney driver as “very cooperative with inve
  
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• Presbyterians condemn Trump order on migrants

  21-06-2018 19:01 via post-gazette.com
  Incarcerating migrant families is no improvement over separating them, the main legislative body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) said Thursday morning in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration the previous day. 
  
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• Armed Ga. teen who stoked movie theater fears after Florida nightclub shooting gets time served

  21-06-2018 18:58 via post-gazette.com
  William Gossett, a troubled Georgia teen who became national news a month after the 2016 Orlando nightclub mass shooting when he roamed around a movie theater with a gun, won't have to go to prison.
  
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• BPEP expresses outrage at police shooting of unarmed black teen in East Pittsburgh

  21-06-2018 18:56 via post-gazette.com
  Local activists expressed outrage and demanded racial justice in a press conference Thursday morning about the police killing of 17-year-old Antwon Rose in East Pittsburgh.
  
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• B-PEP Calls For AG To Take Over Investigation Of Antwon Rose Fatal Shooting By East Pittsburgh Police Officer

  21-06-2018 18:54
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  PITTSBURGH – Community activists are calling for change in the wake of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Antwon Rose.
  Tim Stevens, of the Black Political Empowerment Project, believes the Attorney General’s Office should handle the investigation instead of the Allegheny County district attorney.
  “The Black Political Empowerment Project has worked on and advocated for what we call the Due Process Act, which would put all police-i
  
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• Port Authority plans to open service center

  21-06-2018 18:33 via post-gazette.com
  Port Authority Transit of Allegheny County will open an expanded customer service center Downtown on Monday, providing that equipment testing that continues through Friday goes smoothly, spokesman Adam Brandolph said.
  
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• Hundreds Gather Downtown To Protest Antwon Rose Fatal Shooting By East Pittsburgh Police Officer

  21-06-2018 18:27
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Protesters gathered outside of the Allegheny County Courthouse Thursday afternoon in response to the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Antwon Rose.
  “I want to inspire kids every single day. I want to teach my students that their lives do matter, no matter where they come from,” one woman said.
  Rose was shot and killed by an East Pittsburgh police officer as he tried to run away from a traffic stop. He was unarmed
  
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• Hundreds gather outside county courthouse to protest teen's shooting by police officer

  21-06-2018 18:14 via post-gazette.com
  More than 200 people gathered outside of the Allegheny County Courthouse Thursday afternoon to put political pressure on officials in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by an East Pittsburgh police officer Tuesday night.
  
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• Fast Food Restaurant Employee Fired For Stirring Tea With Her Hands

  21-06-2018 18:02
  Kansas City, Mo. (CBS Local)- Customers at Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers in Missouri might want to order something to drink besides tea.
  A female employee at the fast food chain lost her job after a video showed her stirring tea in a large container with her hand.Raising Cane’s official Facebook page commented on the viral video and the status of the employees involved.
  “Our 19,000+ Crewmembers take pride in what we do; we take the integrity of our products very seriously
  
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• Woman found in Bridgeville creek was an Upper St. Clair resident

  21-06-2018 17:39 via post-gazette.com
  Authorities are investigating the discovery of a woman's body found Wednesday in a Bridgeville creek.
  
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• New Study Finds Viruses In Brain Might Play A Role In Alzheimer’s

  21-06-2018 17:39
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  WASHINGTON (AP) – A provocative new study says viruses that sneak into the brain just might play a role in Alzheimer’s.
  Some scientists have long suspected viruses or bacteria somehow set the stage for Alzheimer’s. Now, the main theory is that sticky brain-clogging plaques are the culprit. Thursday’s findings don’t prove viruses cause the mind-robbing disease but they promise to spur new research into the possible connection.
  A tea
  
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• Body found in Bridgeville creek

  21-06-2018 17:39 via post-gazette.com
  Authorities are investigating the discovery of a body found Wednesday in a Bridgeville creek.
  
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• Displaced Pittsburgh peregrine falcon chicks resettle in new home in northcentral Pa.

  21-06-2018 17:28 via post-gazette.com
  Two of the peregrine falcon chicks that delayed a Downtown construction project have been placed in a cliffside nest in northcentral Pennsylvania.
  
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• Displaced Downtown Pittsburgh peregrine falcon chicks resettled in eastern part of state

  21-06-2018 17:28 via post-gazette.com
  Two of the peregrine falcon chicks that delayed a Downtown construction project have been placed in a cliffside nest in northcentral Pennsylvania.
  
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• NFL Players Respond To President Trump’s Request For Names Of People To Pardon

  21-06-2018 17:27
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  A quartet of current NFL players published an editorial in The New York Times today responding to President Trump’s request that they provide the names of people they believe have been treated unfairly by the justice system.
  The President said in an interview earlier in the month that if he agrees they’ve been treated unfairly, he will pardon them.
  Malcolm Jenkins, Anquan Boldin, Doug Baldwin and Benjamin Watson’s piece in the Times argues that the President should u
  
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• The Best NBA Draft Pick Ever From Each Slot

  21-06-2018 17:18
  There’s a definitive answer every year to the question of who is No. 1 in the NBA draft.
  But who is the No. 1 pick of all No. 1 draft picks ever? Or No. 1 among the list of No. 2 draft picks? Those are questions that have no definitive answer, except perhaps in a handful of rare cases.
  Here’s a look at The Best of The Best — the top all-time NBA picks in each of the top 30 draft spots. The best No. 1 overall pick, the best No. 2 overall pick… and so on.
  One note: This do
  
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• Obituary: Marilyn Joan Evert / Author of "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture" mentored many local historians

  21-06-2018 17:11 via post-gazette.com
  Marilyn Joan Evert, a tireless, thorough scholar of Pittsburgh history and author of an indispensable book about local sculpture, died June 14 after complications from heart surgery. She was 89, a month shy of her 90th birthday. A longtime resident of Fox Chapel, she moved to Shadyside in 2011.
  
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• Lawyer: Antwon Rose Didn’t Pose An Immediate Threat To East Pittsburgh Police Officer

  21-06-2018 16:59
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  EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa. (KDKA/AP) – A lawyer for the family of a 17-year-old fatally shot by a Pennsylvania police officer seconds after he fled a traffic stop says the boy did not pose an immediate threat to anyone.
  Civil rights attorney S. Lee Merritt said Thursday he doesn’t see justification for the use of deadly force by an East Pittsburgh police officer that left Antwon Rose Jr. dead.
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• Venomous Caterpillar Sends Teen To Emergency Room

  21-06-2018 16:49
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  Land O’Lakes, Fla. (CBS News/CBS Local)– A teen in Land O’Lakes, Florida, experienced what his mom said was “the worst pain he ever felt” after coming in contact with a venomous caterpillar. Fifteen-year-old Logan Pergola was doing volunteer landscaping work with his family on Saturday, WFLA-TV reports.
  His mom, Andrea Pergola, said Logan was picking up tree branches when his arm brushed up against the caterpillar. I
  
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