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• Father, 4 Daughters Killed In Car Crash; Mother Expected To Survive

  07-07-2018 22:32
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  TOWNSEND, Del. (CBS) — A family spokesperson has identified the New Jersey family who were killed in Friday’s crash on Route 1 in Townsend, Delaware.
  According to that spokesperson, the father is Audie Trinidad, 61, and his daughters Kaitlyn, 20, Danna, 17, Melissa, 13, and Allison, also 13.
  CBS Philadelphia reports Trinidad’s wife, 53-year-old Mary Rose, was transported to a local area hospital after suffering serious but non-life threatening
  
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• Police: Woman Using Stolen ID, Victim Show Up At Bank At Same Time

  07-07-2018 22:05
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  YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (KDKA) — Police say a woman whose ID was stolen was at an Ohio bank when someone showed up at the same bank and tried to use the stolen license.
  CBS affiliate WKBN reports that 31-year-old Tareana Butler went to a PNC Bank in Youngstown on Friday and tried to cash a $400 check using a stolen driver’s license.
  (Photo Credit: Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office)
  The woman whose license Butler was trying to use just happened to be a
  
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• President Trump’s Weekly Address 7/6/18

  07-07-2018 21:29
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterWASHINGTON (KDKA) — Above you can watch President Donald Trump’s weekly address from the White House from July 6, 2018.
  President Donald Trump delivered his weekly address on Friday, speaking about the Supreme Court Vacancy.
   
   
  
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• Furries On Parade! Anthrocon Takes To The Streets With Annual Fursuit Walk

  07-07-2018 20:29
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Anthrocon took to the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon for the annual “Fursuit Walk.”
  Organizers expected about 2,000 “fursuiters” to take part in the annual parade.
  Watch the Fursuit Walk —The parade route took participants from the David L. Lawrence Convention Center down 10th Street toward the Westin Convention Center Hotel before looping back around the opposite side of 10th Street
  
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• Dogs Steal Mail Carrier’s Lunch; Owner’s Apology Note Goes Viral

  07-07-2018 19:36
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  (CBS) — For decades, students across the country have offered up the classic excuse, “Dog ate my homework.” But now, a letter carrier in Smithfield, Virginia is saying, “Dogs ate my lunch.” And the story that unfolded has amused thousands of people on social media.
  In June, Carol Jordan, who owns a five-acre farm in Isle of Wight, Virginia, stopped at her mailbox and discovered a handwritten note there from the woman who delivers h
  
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• Butler Co. Woman Accused Of DUI, Crashing With Children In Car

  07-07-2018 19:10
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  CLAY TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A Butler County woman is facing charges after allegedly driving while under the influence with two young children in the car.
  State police say 31-year-old Jessica Lynn Weber, of West Sunbury, Pa., was driving north on West Sunbury Road in Clay Township around 9 p.m. Thursday when she swerved off the road and into a rock drainage ditch.
  The vehicle rotated onto its passenger side while it traveled off the road.
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• Teen Drowns While Trying To Swim Across W.Va. River

  07-07-2018 18:50
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  CLENDENIN, W.Va. (AP) – Deputies say a 17-year-old has drowned while trying to swim across a river in West Virginia.
  The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office identified the boy who drowned Thursday in the Elk River in Clendenin as Cody A. McCallister of Elkview.
  The sheriff’s office says deputies and the Clendenin Fire Department responded to a 911 call Thursday evening about two males in the Elk River, including one who went underwater.
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• Police: Man Pulls Knife In Church After Being Asked To Silence Phone

  07-07-2018 18:36
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  COOL RIDGE, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia police have arrested a Georgia man they say pulled a knife on a missionary group in church after he was asked to silence his cellphone.
  According to The Register-Herald in Beckley, a criminal complaint shows 26-year-old Bernard B. Edmond of Decatur, Georgia, is charged in Wednesday’s incident at Nehemiah Baptist Church in Cool Ridge, in unincorporated Raleigh County.
  Witnesses told police Edmond flipped tables,
  
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• Venango Co. Man Accused Of Raping, Strangling Woman

  07-07-2018 18:19
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  PLUM TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — Police say a Venango County man threw a woman down a flight of stairs, raped her and strangled her multiple times.
  According to state police, 36-year-old Jeffery Nelson, of Cooperstown, Pa., was intoxicated when he arrived at a woman’s Plum Township house around 8 p.m. Wednesday. As the woman was trying to leave, Nelson allegedly stopped her and threw her down a flight of concrete stairs.
  State police say Nelson then forced hi
  
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• Man, Dog Found Dead Inside Carrick Home

  07-07-2018 17:19
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  CARRICK (KDKA) — Police are investigating after a man and a dog were found dead inside a Carrick home early Saturday morning.
  Police were sent to the 500 block of Kirk Avenue around 12:40 a.m. for a well-being call.
  When officers arrived on the scene, the front door of the home was open. Officers found a man and a dog dead inside the house.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Tim Lawson)
  Police say the man’s death is being considered a homicide. He
  
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• Man and dog found dead in Carrick

  07-07-2018 16:58 via post-gazette.com
  The bodies of a man and a dog were found inside a home in Carrick early Saturday. Pittsburgh police are investigating the man’s death as a homicide.
  
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• 'Love ALL of him': Billboard asks parents to rethink circumcision

  07-07-2018 13:30 via post-gazette.com
  Opposed to any baby boy being circumcised, a Texas-based nonprofit called Your Whole Baby has paid for a billboard on the Boulevard of the Allies near Ward Street in Oakland. Expected to be up for a month, it has an image of a man holding a baby, with the message, “Love ALL of him. Circumcision harms.”
  
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• Bethel Park High School teacher arrested for unlawful contact with a minor

  07-07-2018 13:00 via post-gazette.com
  A Bethel Park High School teacher was arrested and charged Friday after authorities said he exposed himself to an undercover police officer he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. 
  
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• Phillies Rout Pirates 17-5 In Record-Tying 4-Hour-30-Minute Game

  07-07-2018 05:58
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  PITTSBURGH (AP) – Odubel Herrera and Andrew Knapp hit three-run homers, rookie Scott Kingery had a career-high four hits, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 17-5 on Friday night for their fifth straight victory.
  Herrera’s shot into the right-field stands in the third inning off Trevor Williams (6-7) pushed the Phillies’ lead to 5-1. Knapp’s blast to left capped a seven-run seventh, making it 14-4 and helping Philad
  
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• Ohio Man Pleads Guilty To Killing Son’s Mother, Abducting Child

  07-07-2018 04:30
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  WAUSEON, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio man has avoided a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to killing the mother of his 10-month-old son and abducting the boy and the woman’s stepmother.
  A judge in northwest Ohio’s Fulton County on Friday sentenced James Ramey, of Toledo, to 27 years to life in prison after his guilty pleas.
  Authorities say Ramey broke into a house in Delta in March 2017, shot and killed his former girlfriend, 23-year-old Amand
  
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• Families Sue Distributors Of Hoverboard That Burst Into Flames, Killing 2 Girls

  07-07-2018 04:21
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Family members are suing the distributors of a hoverboard that burst into flames, causing a Pennsylvania house fire that killed two young girls.
  The lawsuit filed last month comes a little more than a year after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a LayZ Board sparked the fire that killed 2-year-old Ashanti Hughes and 10-year-old Savannah Dominick at their Harrisburg home in March 2017.
  The lawsuit says that the im
  
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• Pennsylvania Court To Hear Objections To Church Abuse Report

  07-07-2018 04:16
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania’s highest court will not allow the immediate release of a grand jury report into allegations of decades of child sexual abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses.
  The state Supreme Court on Friday said it would accept further written arguments next week from lawyers for current and former priests who object to being named in the nearly 900-page report.
  It had first held up its release in an order June 20.
  The state att
  
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• Veteran Law Enforcement Officer Dies After Suffering Medical Emergency During Physical Assessment

  07-07-2018 03:52
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  CLEVELAND, Ohio (KDKA) — A veteran law enforcement officer in Cleveland died after suffering a medical emergency during a physical agility assessment.
  Cleveland Police say Patrol Officer Vu Nguyen, a 25-year law enforcement veteran, was participating in a physical agility assessment for a position within the canine unit when he suffered a medical emergency on Monday.
  Nguyen was rushed to a medical center for treatment. On Thursday, he was transferred to a
  
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• 2 Arrested After Firing Shots, Leading Police On Chase

  07-07-2018 03:36
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  NEW CASTLE (KDKA) — Two people were arrested after firing shots at someone and leading police on a chase in New Castle on Thursday.
  New Castle City Police officers were sent to the area of Wallace Avenue and North Jefferson Street on Thursday for a report that a man had fired a handgun then driven off in a green GMC Envoy.
  According to police, the incident started when Tara Barnes got into an argument with someone. When that person attempted to leave the
  
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• Main Break Sends Water Shooting Into The Air In Robinson

  07-07-2018 03:14
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  ROBINSON (KDKA) — A main break sent water shooting into the air in Robinson on Friday evening.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA)
  Allegheny County officials said units were sent to the area of South Petrie Road for a report of a large water main break. Initial reports said water was shooting more than 50 feet in the air and a utility pole was in danger of falling.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA)
  Water and power companies were notified, and the local fire department was called to
  
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• North Belle Vernon Park Unveils New Wheelchair-Accessible Swings

  07-07-2018 02:56
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  NORTH BELLE VERNON (KDKA) — Some very special additions to a North Belle Vernon park were unveiled Friday.
  The Community Bank park added attractions for kids who have physical disabilities.
  One new glider can hold multiple wheelchairs at one time and two new swings are specially made for kids with muscle control issues.
  (Photo Courtesy: Ed Riedmann)
  The park also has new swings where parents and kids can swing facing each other.
  Officials say it was impor
  
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• ‘Unsung Hero’ Of Pirates’ Hurricane Maria Relief Effort Returns To Thank Pittsburgh

  07-07-2018 01:45
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Brother’s Brother Foundation collected more than 400 pounds of supplies for hurricane victims in Puerto Rico last year.
  The man they call the “unsung hero” of the effort came to Pittsburgh to tell everyone how it’s going.
  Raul Rodriguez, owner of a Puerto Rican trucking company, couldn’t say “thank you” enough.
  “We have to thank you, we have to thank the Pit
  
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• Politicians, advocates call for civilian oversight of police departments across Allegheny County

  07-07-2018 00:58 via post-gazette.com
  Advocates and politicians are renewing calls for civilian oversight of Allegheny County’s more than 100 municipal police departments in the wake of the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Antwon Rose II in East Pittsburgh.
  
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• Developer Transforming South Side Site Along Mon River Considers Riverfront Swings Idea

  07-07-2018 00:45
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — One year ago this month, KDKA-TV indulged me.
  The station let me make a case for something I believe would enhance Pittsburgh’s riverfronts. They sent me to Cincinnati to report how that city has embraced the installation of bench swings along a downtown stretch of the Ohio River. People there told us how wildly popular the swings have become. Officials talked about how the swings have proven to be a destination in and of themsel
  
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• 2 Dogs Killed In Westmoreland Co. Duplex Fire

  07-07-2018 00:26
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  SOUTH HUNTINGDON (KDKA) — Two families in Westmoreland County are picking up the pieces after a fire destroyed their duplex Friday morning.
  All of the residents got out safely, but two dogs didn’t survive.
  “I didn’t realize fire could spread this quick,” survivor Jordan Bryan said. “I was shocked. It was horrifying.”
  (Photo Credit: David Kolas)
  “I’m numb. My head hurts so bad from crying,” Amanda Corle
  
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