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• Police Continue Investigation Into Point Park Voice Instructor’s Death

  09-07-2018 23:33
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  CARRICK (KDKA) — Police continue to investigate after a Point Park University voice instructor and his dog were found dead inside a Carrick home Saturday.
  Police were called to a home in the 500 block of Kirk Avenue around 12:40 a.m. for a well-being check. When officers arrived on the scene, the front door was open.
  Inside, officers found 71-year-old Ricardo Tobia, of Pittsburgh, and his dog dead inside.
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• Man Accused Of Not Taking Toddler To Hospital After Fall From Window Says He Shouldn’t Be Held Responsible

  09-07-2018 23:15
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  BUTLER (KDKA) — A couple is facing charges after the toddler they were supposed to be watching fell out of a second-story window, but the man says he shouldn’t be held responsible.
  Police say the 2-year-old boy fell out of a window in the middle of the night on July 3, landing on the cement below. According to police, the window lock wasn’t working.
  Michael and Ruth Blontz were supposed to be watching the child. Michael says he was asleep when
  
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• Fatal crash on McKees Rocks Bridge in May ruled accident

  09-07-2018 22:56 via post-gazette.com
  A crash on the McKees Rocks Bridge in May that killed a 19-year-old woman has been officially ruled as an accident, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office said Monday.
  
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• Alligator Named ‘Mr. Stubbs’ Gets Prosthetic Tail

  09-07-2018 22:55
  ARIZONA (CBS Local) – Arizona isn’t the first place where you’d expect to spot an alligator, but a lucky reptile has a new tail thanks to doctors in the Grand Canyon State.
  Mr. Stubbs has lived at the Phoenix Herpetological Society for several years without a tail. Vets believe he lost it in a fight with another gator and just like humans losing a limb, the injury affected his ability to do everyday things.
  “When we first got him, if the water was too deep
  
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• Ex-CPA who helped Nicholas Trombetta in PA Cyber scheme gets prison term

  09-07-2018 22:42 via post-gazette.com
  A former certified public accountant who helped the founder of PA Cyber Charter School shield millions of stolen taxpayer dollars from the IRS is headed to federal prison for a year and a day.
  
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• Man Facing Charges After Striking Antwon Rose Protester On Route 30

  09-07-2018 22:27
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A man is facing charges after he struck a protester on Route 30 in North Versailles on Sunday.
  Sixty-nine-year-old Ronald V. Hinerman, of North Versailles, is facing reckless endangerment charges in connection to the incident.
  According to a criminal complaint, North Versailles Police officers and several other agencies were closing roadways as a crowd protesting the fatal shooting of Antwon Rose Jr. marched down Route 30.
  Protesters w
  
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• Construction Worker Flown To Hospital After Being Struck By Driver

  09-07-2018 21:46
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  SHENANGO TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A construction worker had to be flown to the hospital after he was hit by a car in Lawrence County on Monday morning.
  It happened just before 10 a.m. in the 2600 block of Savannah Road in Shenango Township.
  According to officials, a woman was approaching a construction area and failed to stop for the flagger. The 49-year-old man tried to get out of the way, but he was struck by the woman’s car.
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• The Baseball Report: All-Star Rosters Announced, Machado Trade Talks Heat Up

  09-07-2018 21:12
  Ryan Mayer
  The Midsummer Classic is set for next Tuesday, July 17th in Washington D.C. at the home park of the Washington Nationals. With just over a week before the teams take the field, Major League Baseball announced the results of the voting for both league’s All-Star teams, as well as the starting line-ups for each. There’s still a chance for players to make the teams, as fans can participate in the “Final Vote” on MLB.com all week, with five players given as options
  
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• ‘Never Again Will I Come Back Here’: Upset Fans Lash Out Over Long Lines At Jimmy Buffett Concert

  09-07-2018 21:07
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  BURGETTSTOWN (KDKA) — Fans stood for hours, shoulder-to-shoulder, trying to get into the Jimmy Buffett concert this weekend at KeyBank Pavilion in Burgettstown.
  An extreme backup at the gates caused many fans to miss the first half of the show entirely.
  Now, the only thing left is a whole lot of trash and negative reviews from upset fans that say they’re never coming back.
  The lines were long and tempers were short at the concert venue.
  “Somet
  
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• Study: Child Behavioral Issues Linked To Parents With Childhood Trauma

  09-07-2018 20:23
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  LOS ANGELES, Calif. (CBS Local) – A new study has found a link between the stressful childhoods some parents endured and the behavioral issues their own children develop.
  Dr. Adam Schickedanz, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, says adults who suffered severe stress or trauma during their childhood are more likely to produce children who are diagnosed with behavioral and mental health illnesses.
  “This is the first research to
  
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• Accuser Asks Pa. Supreme Court To Release Dioceses Sexual Abuse Report

  09-07-2018 20:11
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man who has accused a since-defrocked priest of molesting him as a 13-year-old is asking Pennsylvania’s highest court to allow the release of a grand jury report into allegations of decades of child sexual abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses.
  The filing by Todd Frey comes as the state Supreme Court holds up publication of the nearly 900-page report while it accepts written arguments this week from current and former priests
  
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• PWSA map targeting lead service lines now features thousands more Pittsburgh homes

  09-07-2018 20:07 via post-gazette.com
  Details from thousands more Pittsburgh-area properties are now available through an online map that chronicles water service connections, documenting which service lines are — or were — made from lead.
  
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• OBJ, Russell Wilson Show Off Their Dance Moves In The #InMyFeelingsChallenge

  09-07-2018 19:32
  Ryan Mayer
  Every summer, like clockwork, there seems to be a new dance craze that explodes in popularity on the Internet. This year, Drake’s song “In My Feelings”, off his new album Scorpion, has inspired the hashtag #InMyFeelingsChallenge. People are posting videos of themselves dancing to the song with moves miming some of the lyrics to the song. (WARNING: Lyrics do contain some NSFW language)
  Human : Drake Album Scorpion is trash there’s no bangers“Someone Plays
  
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• Six-Year-Old Twin Brothers Save Drowning Toddler

  09-07-2018 19:19
  BOWLING GREEN, OH (CBSLocal) – A pair of Ohio six-year-olds are being praised as twin heroes after saving a toddler from drowning in a swimming pool.
  Peyton and Bryant Switzer are twins from Bowling Green who were on a family vacation in Florida when the boys noticed a young girl struggling to stay afloat in the water.
  “Peyton jumped in and put her arm around her and then he brought her to the ladder and I helped her out,” six-year-old Bryant told WTOL.
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• 6-Year-Old Twin Brothers Save Drowning Toddler

  09-07-2018 19:19
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  BOWLING GREEN, OH (CBSLocal) – A pair of Ohio 6-year-olds are being praised as twin heroes after saving a toddler from drowning in a swimming pool.
  Peyton and Bryant Switzer are twins from Bowling Green who were on a family vacation in Florida when the boys noticed a young girl struggling to stay afloat in the water.
  “Peyton jumped in and put her arm around her and then he brought her to the ladder and I helped her out,” 6-year-old Bryant
  
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• This Week In Golf: Kevin Na Dominates Sunday At The Greenbrier

  09-07-2018 18:33
  By Sam McPherson
  What Sunday’s fourth round at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier lacked in drama it certainly made for in pure awe. Almost 20 players thought they had a legitimate chance to win the event when the day started. Then Kevin Na left everyone in the dust. He birdied six of the first 10 holes to open up a big lead, and he never looked back, cruising to a final-round 64, 19-under par for the tournament, which was good enough to win the event by five strokes. It was his fir
  
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• Researchers Discover Monstrous Stinger On Wasp In The Amazon

  09-07-2018 18:24
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  SOUTH AMERICA (CBS Local) – Most of us have a healthy fear of wasps.
  Now most of us can also be thankful we don’t share a habitat with a newly-discovered wasp species found in the Amazon that has a shockingly large stinger.
  Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland were surprised by the super-sized stinger found on Clistopyga crassicaudata, which was uncovered in a zone between the Andes mountains and the lowland rainforest
  
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• LGBTQ community criticizes Allegheny County DA candidate Turahn Jenkins

  09-07-2018 18:09 via post-gazette.com
  An Allegheny County district attorney candidate's views on homosexuality and affiliation with a Wilkinsburg church has prompted calls for him to drop out of the race from members of the region's LGBTQ community.
  
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• Casey says he will be a 'no' vote on Trump's pick for Supreme Court

  09-07-2018 18:05 via post-gazette.com
  U.S. Sen. Bob Casey said Monday he will oppose whomever the president chooses as his nominee for the Supreme Court.
  
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• FDA: Parasites In Del Monte Vegetables Causing ‘Explosive’ Diarrhea

  09-07-2018 17:36
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  (CBS Local)– Over 200 people have now been infected by an outbreak of parasites linked to recalled vegetable trays from Del Monte.
  According to the CDC, 212 cases of cyclosporiasis – an intestinal infection caused by the cyclospora parasite – were reported as of July 5.
  The condition has been linked to “six oz., 12 oz., and 28 oz. vegetable trays containing fresh broccoli, cauliflower, celery sticks, carrots, and dill dip,&rdqu
  
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• 13-Foot Alligator Captured On Florida’s Gulf Coast

  09-07-2018 17:19
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  VENICE, Fla. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Sheriff’s deputies assisted Fish and Wildlife officers in capturing a 13-foot alligator on the Florida Gulf Coast.
  The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office posted photos on social media of the alligator Sunday at Shamrock Park in Venice. Deputies used the hashtags – #OnlyInFlorida and #AllInADaysWork.
  The trappers posed for a picture with the gator, which had its mouth taped shut.Sheriff’s Sgt.
  
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• Actor Tab Hunter, Star Of ‘Damn Yankees!’ Movie, Passes Away At Age 86

  09-07-2018 17:17
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  SANTA BARBARA (AP) — Tab Hunter, the blond actor and singer who was a heartthrob for millions of teenage girls in the 1950s with such films as “Battle Cry” and “Damn Yankees!” and received new attention decades later when he revealed that he was gay, has died. He was 86.
  Producer and spouse Allan Glaser said Hunter died Sunday of a blood clot in his leg that caused cardiac arrest. Glaser called the death was “sudden and unexp
  
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• ‘True Wonder Woman’ Gal Gadot Visits Children’s Hospital In Virginia

  09-07-2018 17:13
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  ANNANDALE, Va. (CBS) – “Wonder Woman” actress Gal Gadot suited up to visit a Virginia children’s hospital on Friday.
  Gadot took a break from filming the sequel to “Wonder Woman” to visit Inova Children’s Hospital in Annandale.
  Dr. Lucas Collazo tweeted, “You are a true Wonder Woman. The kids loved it … and so did the staff.”
  Thank you ⁦@GalGadot⁩ for visiting us ⁦@InovaHealth⁩
  
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• The high price of poverty: Many low-income Pittsburghers pay more for goods and services

  09-07-2018 17:12 via post-gazette.com
  "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor," wrote novelist and essayist James Baldwin.
  
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• ‘Pie For Breakfast’ Recipe: Trevett Hooper’s Market Hash

  09-07-2018 16:56
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — “Pie For Breakfast” is Downtown Pittsburgh’s newest café! Co-owner Trevett Hooper stop by the Pittsburgh Today Live kitchen to whip up his Market Hash recipe.
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  Trevett Hooper’s Market Hash4 T. butter
  2 T. olive oil
  4 cups Napa Cabbage, sliced in 2-inch strips
  3 cups boiled and sliced potatoes
  2 cups cooked and sliced beets
  2 – 3 small, sweet onions, cut in half
  10 whole Shishito
  
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• New Orleans Family Says Goodbye To Son In Unique Way

  09-07-2018 16:26
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  New Orleans, LA (CBS Local)- Renard Matthews, 18, was shot and killed two weeks ago in the Florida area of New Orleans.His wake was on Sunday afternoon and Matthews’ family chose to prepare his body in a way that will allow them to remember him the way he lived his life.
  Matthews was positioned to be sitting in a chair, with a Playstation controller in his hands, with some of his favorite snacks by his side. A big fan of the Boston Celtics and Kyrie Irvin
  
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• One injured after car crashes into Point Park University building

  09-07-2018 15:58 via post-gazette.com
  One person was injured when a car crashed into a Point Park University building in Downtown Pittsburgh Monday morning.
  
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• Starbucks, Citing Environment, To Stop Offering Plastic Straws By 2020

  09-07-2018 15:55
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  Seattle, Wash. (CBS Local/AP) — Starbucks says it will eliminate plastic straws from its stores globally by 2020, a nod to the growing push for businesses to be more environmentally friendly.
  The company will become the largest food and beverage company operating globally to ban plastic straws from all of its stores.
  The Seattle-based company said Monday it will instead use straws made from other materials, and lids designed not to need straws. McDon
  
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• Report: NFL Player Arrested In Pittsburgh, Charged With Assault And Public Drunkenness

  09-07-2018 15:22
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An NFL player is facing a list of charges following his arrest here in Pittsburgh.
  According to our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 33-year-old Brandon Pettigrew, who is currently a free agent, was arrested on Monday.
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  He is facing charges of aggravated assault, public drunkenness and theft counts.
  Pettigrew, who played for the Detroit Lions, lives in Texas, the PG reports.
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• NFL Free Agent Brandon Pettigrew Arrested In Pittsburgh, Charged With Assault And Public Drunkenness

  09-07-2018 15:22
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An NFL free agent has been arrested here in Pittsburgh and charged, after he allegedly punched a Pittsburgh Police officer several times at a downtown hotel early Monday morning.
  Police were initially called to the Double Tree Hotel just before 3 a.m.
  According to the criminal complaint, 33-year-old Brandon Pettigrew, a former tight end for the Detroit Lions, was refusing to pay a $97 limousine fare for a ride from Carson Street back t
  
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• Swarm Of Bees Delays Minor League Baseball Game

  09-07-2018 14:59
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  Professional baseball players are used to sitting through their fair share of delayed games during the course of the season. In most cases, those delays are due to weather-related incidents. That wasn’t the case for Sunday’s Double-A contest between the Corpus Christi Hooks and Northwest Arkansas Naturals.
  Instead, the teams were forced to wait out an 85-minute delay caused by a swarm of bees taking over the home dugout. Carmen Benedetti,
  
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• PTL Links: July 9, 2018

  09-07-2018 14:55
  Visit the links below for more on today’s guests & topics:Pie for Breakfast
  Cakery Square
  Great Pyrenees Club of Western Pa.
  Carnegie Science Center
  Izzazu Salon, Spa & Serata
  
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• NFL free agent Brandon Pettigrew arrested in Pittsburgh

  09-07-2018 14:47 via post-gazette.com
  A former Detroit Lions football player was arrested Monday in Pittsburgh after police say he punched an officer in the chest three times.
  
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• International graduates face deadlines, headaches to find U.S. jobs

  09-07-2018 14:45 via post-gazette.com
  The two graduates frowned at a monstrous diagram — a timeline spawning arrows to other timelines — that they had penned on a piece of scrap paper. None of the various programs, deadlines and visa systems seemed to spell opportunity as much as another source of stress.
  
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• Starbucks To Eliminate Plastic Straws From All Stores

  09-07-2018 14:37
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  By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN
  (CNN Money) — Starbucks is going strawless.
  The coffee company announced Monday that it will phase out plastic straws from all of its stores by 2020.
  The changes will help Starbucks eliminate more than 1 billion plastic straws per year, the company said.
  Plastic straws contribute to ocean pollution and pose a danger to marine life. Some governments have begun banning them.
  Starbucks is going strawless. The coffee company an
  
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• Bloodhound puppy in training to be Pittsburgh police dog dies

  09-07-2018 14:24 via post-gazette.com
  A bloodhound puppy in training to become a Pittsburgh police K-9 died Saturday from aspiration pneumonia, the K-9 unit announced in a release.
  
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• President Trump Set To Unveil His 2nd Supreme Court Pick

  09-07-2018 14:19
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  Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
  (CNN/KDKA) — When President Donald Trump unveils his second Supreme Court pick Monday night with the prime-time flourish of a reality show star, he will lay a momentous marker in modern political history.
  “An exceptional person will be chosen!” Trump tweeted on Sunday, showing his glee at making a selection that will put him in the national spotlight he craves with a cherished win decades in the making for hi
  
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• Man found dead with dog in Carrick identified as part-time Point Park professor

  09-07-2018 14:11 via post-gazette.com
  A part-time Point Park University professor was found dead in his home in Carrick on Saturday, according to authorities.
  
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• Man, 71, found dead with dog in Carrick home identified

  09-07-2018 14:11 via post-gazette.com
  A man found dead in his home in Carrick over the weekend has been identified, according to authorities.
  
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• Sixty-five years ago, a 10-year-old girl was murdered in the Hill District. The crime has never been solved.

  09-07-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  Once again, Carol Johnson was searching. Somewhere in the grassy hillside before her lay the focus of a lifetime of grief and guilt. She reached into her purse for a tissue, then walked forward, looking for landmarks. Years had passed since her last visit.
  
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• Remembering Julia Mae | Sixty-five years ago, Carol Johnson's beloved sister disappeared

  09-07-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  Once again, Carol Johnson was searching. Somewhere in the grassy hillside before her lay the focus of a lifetime of grief and guilt. She reached into her purse for a tissue, then walked forward, looking for landmarks. Years had passed since her last visit.
  
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• Thai Cave Rescue: Another Boy Rescued, 7 More Plus Coach Still Trapped

  09-07-2018 13:57
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  By Euan McKirdy and Steve George, CNN
  (CNN) — Rescuers working at a cave site in northern Thailand have brought one boy out of the flooded cave system Monday, according to a witness working with the rescue team, leaving seven boys and their coach still inside.
  The boy, who was seen on a stretcher just before 4:30 p.m. local time (5:30 a.m. ET), joins four others who were rescued from deep inside the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex by a team of internatio
  
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• Cave Rescue Operation Suspended In Thailand After Rescue Of 4 More Boys

  09-07-2018 13:57
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  By Euan McKirdy and Steve George, CNN
  (CNN) — Rescuers working at a cave site in northern Thailand have suspended operations for the day after bringing four more boys out of the flooded cave system Monday, according to a witness working with the rescue team, bringing the total number of rescued boys to eight.
  Four more boys and their coach remain trapped inside the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex.
  The first boy to emerge Monday was seen on a stretcher ju
  
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• Energy drain: Low-income households typically pay a higher percentage of income for utilities

  09-07-2018 13:23 via post-gazette.com
  "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor," wrote novelist and essayist James Baldwin. Decades later, that's still true: From paying more money every month in rent than you would for a mortgage to paying check-cashing fees because you don't have a bank account, it's still expensive to be poor. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is examining the high cost of poverty in a series of stories this year.
  
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• WALKABOUT: Puerto Rico still reeling from Hurricane Maria

  09-07-2018 13:15 via post-gazette.com
  Pittsburgh poured multiple tons of aid into Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria when it hit the island on Sept. 20 last year.
  
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• Researchers renew ties with high schoolers they studied in 1960 to seek clues about Alzheimer's

  09-07-2018 13:00 via post-gazette.com
  Even 58 years later, Rich Morgan can recall some unusual testing that took place involving him and his fellow North Braddock Scott High School students, as well as 400,000 others across the country.
  
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• Author ponders the Trump evangelical vote

  09-07-2018 13:00 via post-gazette.com
  Author John Fea recognizes those moments when a statistic contains the power of language. So he dedicated his new book “To the 19 percent.”
  
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• Rent a machine gun, if you dare: Washington County range provides 'thrill'

  09-07-2018 12:45 via post-gazette.com
  The 99 signs he has posted throughout the region — each including a phone number, the silhouette of a Rambo-style M60 machine gun and an advertisement for “Washington County Machine Gun Rentals” — has generated many a phone call to Tredd Barton.
  
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• Authorities ID man, 28, found fatally shot along North Versailles street

  09-07-2018 12:21 via post-gazette.com
  Authorities on Monday identified a man who was found fatally shot in the head by the side of a road in North Versailles on Sunday.
  
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• From the border to Pittsburgh: The journeys of two unaccompanied migrant children

  09-07-2018 11:45 via post-gazette.com
  Surrounded by loved ones in June, Bartolo Garcia, 21, and Andrea Mendez Peraza, 19, moved their tassels to the left side of their mortarboards to become high school graduates in Pittsburgh in a ceremonial rite of passage.
  
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