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• City, county candidates line up for May, November races

  12-03-2019 23:49 via post-gazette.com
  
  District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, and the city and county council presidents all face challengers.
  
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• Commuters Will Feel Pinch As Downtown Parking Garage Coming Down To Make Way For Improvements

  12-03-2019 23:48
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – They’re tearing down an old garage and creating a new one with more spaces.
  But where are all the people going to park in the meantime?
  First, the bad news.
  Just when parking downtown seems harder than ever to find, another 586 spots will disappear in May when the Pittsburgh Public Authority garage at Ninth Street and Penn Avenue is demolished.
  “It’s old. It’s aged. It’s served its useful life,” Park
  
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• Mother of Antwon Rose II asks for peace during Rosfeld trial

  12-03-2019 23:28 via post-gazette.com
  
  Large-scale protests formed around the Pittsburgh area in the days and weeks after Antwon Rose II was fatally shot in June. 
  
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• Mother of Antwon Rose II asks for peace during Michael Rosfeld trial

  12-03-2019 23:28 via post-gazette.com
  
  Large-scale protests formed around the Pittsburgh area in the days and weeks after Antwon Rose II was fatally shot in June. 
  
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• Chartiers Valley Teacher Makes Dismissal Time Extra Special For Her Students

  12-03-2019 23:11
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — One Chartiers Valley school teacher is making dismissal time a little more fun and unique.
  When a class lets out at Chartiers Valley Intermediate School, Amanda Beckett lets her students chose how they’ll say goodbye for the day.
  It could be a high five, a hug, encouraging words or even a dance move.
  She calls it their exit ticket.
  “I think it just tells them that I want them to have a good day,” said Beckett. “
  
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• CCAC Stepping In To Help Art Institute Students

  12-03-2019 22:33
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Community College of Allegheny County is working to accommodate Art Institute students to enable them to complete their educational and career goals.The Art Institute of Pittsburgh announced a sudden closure on Friday.
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  Two informational sessions will be offered for all former Art Institute of Pittsburgh students at CCAC Allegheny Campus on Thursday on the first floor of Jones Hall at 808 Ridge Ave.The first ses
  
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• Man Facing Rape Charges In Butler County

  12-03-2019 22:20
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  BUTLER COUNTY, Pa. (KDKA) – A suspect in an assault that allegedly happened five years ago in Butler County was arrested on Tuesday.
  Patrick Kearney, 31, was charged with rape and sexual assault.
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  Police said the victim only recently came forward.
  Kearney is also facing separate charges of rape last year in Mercer County.
  
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• Man Flees From Police, Crashes Into His Former Home

  12-03-2019 22:05
  (KDKA) – A police chase that began in West Newton, Westmoreland County, ended with a foot chase in Allegheny County on Tuesday.
  The suspect, 23-year-old Malcolm Long, was captured and he is now in the Westmoreland County Prison.(Source: Westmoreland County Prison)
  The 2-mile police chase began on West Main Street.
  Police say they were trying to stop Long in connection with an incident that happened Sunday night.
  But investigators say Long sped away onto windy Coal Hollow Road, crossing int
  
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• Teenager Driver, Without Permit Or License, Plows Into Fayette Co. Pharmacy

  12-03-2019 22:00
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  SMITHFIELD BOROUGH, Pa. (KDKA) — A Fayette County pharmacy is a mess after a teenager driver, without a permit or license, plowed into the business while driving a pick-up truck.
  The crash happened Monday afternoon at the Smithfield Pharmacy near the intersection of Main and Church Streets in Smithfield Borough.
  The store sustained significant damage, but emergency officials said no one was injured.
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• Penguins fans big donors to city Public Safety following Tree of Life shooting

  12-03-2019 21:51 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh Penguins fans opened their wallets days after Tree of Life massacre, raising $626,000 in donations.
  
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• Penguins a big donor to city Public Safety following Tree of Life shooting

  12-03-2019 21:51 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh Penguins fans opened their wallets days after Tree of Life massacre, raising $626,000 in donations.
  
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• Antwon Rose’s Mother Instructs Protestors To Stand Down During Michael Rosfeld’s Trial

  12-03-2019 21:42
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  (KDKA) – With jury selection underway for ex-East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld’s trial for criminal homicide in the June 2018 death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose II, Rose’s mother is making a request that there not be any protests.
  Michael Rosfeld, Antwon Rose (Photos: Allegheny County Jail/STK, Embrace Life/Facebook)
  Michelle Kenney told KDKA’s Lynne Hayes-Freeland that she is asking protestors not to demonstrate during the tr
  
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• Obituary: John A. “Johnny” Capezzuto / A working man and a builder, he had an eye for photography

  12-03-2019 21:30 via post-gazette.com
  
  John Capezzuto rose to the position of print chairman in a prominent photo club, the Pittsburgh International Salon of Photographic Art.
  
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• 'We Are All Related' is portrait photographer’s effort to bridge the divide

  12-03-2019 21:18 via post-gazette.com
  
  “I felt like I had to do something to counter the rhetoric of separation” — Andrea London
  
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• Report: When Twitter bans, Gab grows

  12-03-2019 21:17 via post-gazette.com
  
  “Removing users from mainstream social sites pushes them to other areas of the internet where fringe communities can grow.”
  
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• Flying Southwest? Here’s How To Check If You’ll Be In A Boeing 737 MAX 8

  12-03-2019 21:12
  PITTSBURGH (CBS Local) — After the deadly crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Ethiopia took 157 lives, some airlines are grounding their aircraft.
  It is the second time in less than six months that one of the planes has crashed within minutes of takeoff, after a new Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 flight went down over the Java Sea last October, killing 189 people.
  Southwest Airlines still has 34 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in their fleet of more than 750 Boeing 737s.
  The airline released a statement M
  
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• Adam Zucker: Best Part Of Championship Week Is Seeing One Bid Leagues Battle For Tournament Spot

  12-03-2019 21:10
  (CBS Local/CBS New York) Conference Championship week is second to only the tournament itself in terms of excitement and entertainment. The week leading up to Selection Sunday is filled with schools that you likely don’t pay too much attention to during the course of the year battling it out for the chance to dance.
  For many of those schools, their only chance of making it to the tournament lies in their ability to win their conference tournament and earn that automatic bid. The drama of u
  
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• The Michael Rosfeld trial: Jonathan Fodi, assistant prosecutor, has homicide experience

  12-03-2019 21:04 via post-gazette.com
  
  Mr. Fodi, a 10-year veteran prosecutor, is assigned to the Allegheny County district attorney’s investigations, grand jury and wiretap unit.
  
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• Jonathan Fodi, assistant prosecutor in Rosfeld trial, has homicide experience

  12-03-2019 21:04 via post-gazette.com
  
  Mr. Fodi, a 10-year veteran prosecutor, is assigned to the Allegheny County district attorney’s investigations, grand jury and wiretap unit.
  
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• First 9 Jurors Selected In Dauphin Co. For Michael Rosfeld Trial

  12-03-2019 20:45
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP/KDKA) — Jury selection is underway in a Harrisburg courtroom in the case of a white police officer accused of shooting to death an unarmed black teen in East Pittsburgh last summer.
  As of 3:55 p.m. on Tuesday, nine jurors had been selected.
  Nine jurors empaneled so far in racially charged Michael Rosfeld case. 4 white women, two white men, two black women, one black man. pic.twitter.com/gKdXQRrfz8
  — Andy Sheehan (@AndySheehankdka
  
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• Affidavit: Mother Fatally Stabbed 11-Year-Old Daughter To Keep Her From Having Sex

  12-03-2019 20:38
  ORLANDO, Fla. (CBS Local) — A Florida mother stabbed her 11-year-old daughter to death to keep the girl from having sex with men, according to an arrest affidavit.
  Authorities said Rosa Alcides Rivera, 28, stabbed her daughter, Aleyda, at least 15 times in a car on Sunday, then drove her around before going to Winnie Palmer Hospital in Orlando. By the time they arrived at the hospital, the child was dead, according to the affidavit obtained by CBS affiliate WKMG-TV.
  Officials say Rivera ha
  
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• Police: School Bus Aide Yanked MAGA Hat Off Student’s Head

  12-03-2019 20:32
  MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS Local) — A Florida bus aide who allegedly yelled at a middle school student to take off a Trump hat and then grabbed it off of his head, may face criminal charges, according to officials.
  Surveillance video shows a bus aide yelling at Gunnar Johansson, 14, over his “TRUMP: Make America Great Again” hat and then grabbing the hat off of his head.
  “Boy, if you don’t that hat off this bus. Take it off,” the unidentified bus aide is heard t
  
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• PennDOT To Close Hulton Road In Penn Hills For Work On Future Slide Remediation Project

  12-03-2019 20:21
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  PENN HILLS, Pa. (KDKA) — PennDOT will close Hulton Road (Route 2058) in Penn Hills at about 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for work being done on a future slide remediation project.
  The road will be closed between Michael Drive and Iowa Street as crews from JMT will conduct drilling to locate subsurface utilities. Traffic will be detoured. The road will remain closed through noon on Friday.
  The detour is listed below:
  North of the ClosureFollow Hulton Road to Coxco
  
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• Couple Married 56 Years Dies Hours Apart While Holding Hands

  12-03-2019 20:13
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  DETROIT, Mich. (CBS Local) — A Michigan couple who were married for 56 years died within hours of each other this month, holding hands until their final breaths, their daughters said.
  Will and Judy Webb, who married in 1963, died March 2 at a Detroit hospice.
  The couple grew up in Detroit and started out as friends.
  “At 14, they met and were friends, they dated other people, they were engaged to other people,” Marybeth Webb, a daughter, told W
  
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• Report: Most Of The 20 Happiest Cities In America Are In California Or Texas, Pittsburgh Ranks In At No. 87

  12-03-2019 20:09
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  (CBS Local) — If your “pursuit of Happiness” isn’t going as well as you’d hoped, consider Plano, Texas. It’s the happiest city in America, according to new analysis by WalletHub.
  The finance website released its annual Happiest Cities in America list on Monday, comparing 182 of the largest U.S. cities based on 31 indicators across three main categories: emotional and physical well-being, income and employment, and community a
  
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• First egg of 2019 laid by Oakland peregrine falcon

  12-03-2019 19:56 via post-gazette.com
  
  Peregrine lays first egg of the year at the Cathedral of Learning
  
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• Seth Davis On Zion Williamson, 2019 NCAA Tournament & Players To Watch

  12-03-2019 19:26
  (CBS Local)– Only five days remain until Selection Sunday and things are starting to heat up in the world of college basketball.
  Programs like Duke, North Carolina and Kentucky have dominated the headlines this year, but there are several interesting teams to watch heading into March Madness. While teams like Virginia and Gonzaga could make a deep run this month, CBS Sports college basketball analyst Seth Davis is focused this week on the top teams in college hoops.
  “You have th
  
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• Ex-Pittsburgh cop admits to lying to FBI in bank robbery case

  12-03-2019 19:22 via post-gazette.com
  
  Prosecutors said Antoine Cain knew that the son of his onetime paramour robbed a bank, but that he lied to FBI agents about it.
  
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• Pittsburgh To Philadelphia Hyperloop A Step Closer To Reality

  12-03-2019 19:11
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Imagine being able to get to Philadelphia in half-an-hour from Pittsburgh.The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has awarded a $2 million contract for a consultant to look into what it would take to make that a reality.Pennsylvania has begun reviewing tech billionaire Elon Musk’s hyperloop concept.On the hyperloop, pods take passengers through massive underground tubes at speeds over 700 m.p.h.Our news partners at the Post Gazette
  
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• Judge Alexander P. Bicket, presiding over Rosfeld trial, started as a school teacher

  12-03-2019 19:11 via post-gazette.com
  
  The South Africa native became a U.S. citizen in 1988 and did insurance defense litigation for 23 years before being elected to the bench.
  
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• Pittsburgh council members to add supporting research to gun-control bills

  12-03-2019 19:06 via post-gazette.com
  
  The amendments could set up an initial Pittsburgh City Council vote on the proposed gun legislation later this this month.
  
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• Pitt’s Peregrine Falcons Welcome First Egg Of Season

  12-03-2019 19:03
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The peregrine falcons that nest atop the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning have laid their first egg of the season.
  The egg was discovered on Monday night.
  Another one is expected in about two days.
  The falcon, named Hope, will start incubating after she laid all the eggs.
  If all goes well, the eggs will hatch next month.
  For more information and to watch the cam, visit the National Aviary’s website here.
  
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• Commonwealth Court rules against Pittsburgh in Section 8 discrimination case

  12-03-2019 18:46 via post-gazette.com
  
  The case was brought by the Apartment Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh against the city
  
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• Pittsburgh Weather: Warm-Up On The Way, But It Won’t Last Long

  12-03-2019 18:43
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Winter’s not over just yet.
  Even though temperatures fell to the 40s on Monday and will be even cooler today, we have seen plenty of sunshine on both days.The sunshine will eventually win out with warmer days ahead, but at least for the next week and a half, we will see more than half of those days well below the average high for this time of the year.
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• Dick’s Sporting Goods To Stop Selling Hunting Rifles In 125 Stores, Also Dropping Reebok

  12-03-2019 18:35
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Dick’s Sporting Goods is taking another step in tightening its gun sales.The retailer will reportedly stop selling hunting equipment, including rifles and ammunition, at 125 stores in 2019.The list of stores has not been released, but it will likely happen at locations that are not doing well.
  Dick’s also says that it is dropping Reebok from stores as it focuses on replacing the brand with a new in-house private label.Dick&
  
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• Rosfeld lawyer Patrick Thomassey, one of region's go-to defense attorneys, has long roster of high-profile clients

  12-03-2019 18:33 via post-gazette.com
  
  Mr. Thomassey has been practicing as a defense attorney for 35 years after working as a prosecutor.
  
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• La Palapa food truck shuttered by health department

  12-03-2019 17:59 via post-gazette.com
  
  The inspection report cited problems with the water supply.
  
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• Leon Ford Announces He’s Dropping Out Of City Council Race

  12-03-2019 17:52
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Leon Ford, the man who was shot and paralyzed by Pittsburgh Police during a traffic stop several years ago, has decided not to run for City Council.
  Ford announced Tuesday morning that he’s dropping out of the race for the city’s Ninth District.
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  Ford said other commitments have become too great, and he should make room for someone else who has the time to devote to the position.
  Ford was shot by a polic
  
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• Ohio Man To Drink Only Beer During Lent

  12-03-2019 17:35
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Usually people give up beer or alcohol for Lent, but an Ohio man says he’s only going to drink beer and nothing else.
  Del Hall works at Fifty West Brewing Company in Cincinnati. He says he will only be drinking beer until Easter Sunday, and he’s also giving up all food.
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  “I am nervous, I’m very nervous about it. I’ve only fasted for 4 days.”So for 46 days, Hall says he will have an
  
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• First 2 Jurors Selected In Dauphin Co. For Michael Rosfeld Trial

  12-03-2019 17:34
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP/KDKA) — Jury selection is underway in a Harrisburg courtroom in the case of a white police officer accused of shooting to death an unarmed black teen in East Pittsburgh last summer.
  Once all are selected, the jurors will be transported to Allegheny County for the trial next week of Michael Rosfeld.
  (Sketch Courtesy: Emily Goff)
  At 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, it was announced that the first two jurors were seated to hear the case. Defense lawye
  
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• Spring Training Report: Injury Update As Season Nears

  12-03-2019 17:26
  By Norm Elrod
  (CBS Los Angeles/CBS Local) — As Spring Training carries us toward opening day, the injuries continue to pile up. The usual bumps and bruises are to be expected in actual games, even those that don’t count in the standings. But some injuries are left over from off-season training. And a couple, to pitching aces on likely contenders, will probably affect their opening day starts.
  Spring Training Report looks at injury status of some of MLB’s more high-profile playe
  
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• Pa. AG Opens Probe Into Pipeline Plagued By Spills, Improper Construction

  12-03-2019 17:08
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  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s attorney general is opening an investigation into a $2.5 billion natural gas liquids pipeline across southern Pennsylvania that’s been plagued by spills of drilling fluid and improper construction methods.
  Attorney General Josh Shapiro said on Twitter on Tuesday that his office is taking the investigation into the Mariner East 2 pipeline on a referral from Delaware County’s district attorney.#NEW
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• City officials release road closures, urge safety ahead of St. Patrick's Day parade

  12-03-2019 16:56 via post-gazette.com
  
  Police are urging people not to drive drunk on Saturday.
  
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• Disney Releases New ‘Aladdin’ Trailer Ahead Of May 24 Debut In Theaters

  12-03-2019 16:55
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  (CBS Local) — Fans of Disney’s Aladdin may be counting down the days until the classic animated film will become a live-action movie on screen May 24.
  Disney released a new two-minute long trailer Tuesday that allows you to see a whole new way the story will come to life.
  The film stars Will Smith as the Genie; Mena Massoud as Aladdin; Naomi Scott as Jasmine; Marwan Kenzari as Jafar; Navid Negahban as the Sultan; Nasim Pedrad as Dalia; Billy Ma
  
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• Pittsburgh Officials Cracking Down, Announce Road Closures Ahead Of St. Patrick’s Day Parade

  12-03-2019 16:46
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — City of Pittsburgh officials are preparing for this coming Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade and celebrations.
  Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich is reminding everyone about the city’s zero tolerance policy for disruptive behavior, and are asking the public to celebrate safely and responsibly.
  In a press release, he says: “Please remember there will be zero tolerance for disruptive and illegal
  
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• Lead prosecutor in Rosfeld trial has handled more than 170 homicide cases

  12-03-2019 16:43 via post-gazette.com
  
  Dan Fitzsimmons has spent 37 years in the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office — 30 of them exclusively prosecuting homicides.
  
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• Pittsburgh Steelers Toll Linebacker Ryan Shazier’s Contract Into 2019

  12-03-2019 16:22
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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Steelers have decided to keep Ryan Shazier on the roster for 2019 even though he will not play this season.The team decided to toll his contract, which means he will remain on the roster and will be placed on the Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform List by September.“Ryan Shazier’s contract will be tolled into the 2019 NFL season. He will remain on the team’s roster this year and eventually will be placed on the
  
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• Hollywood Actresses, NCAA Coaches And Others Indicted In Federal Court In Admissions Bribery Case

  12-03-2019 16:04
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  BOSTON (AP) — Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were charged along with at least 40 other people Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents bribed college coaches and insiders at testing centers to help get their children into some of the most elite schools in the country, prosecutors said.
  “These parents are a catalog of wealth and privilege,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said in announcing the $25 million federal bribe
  
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• More Than 1 Million Vehicles Recalled By Honda Over Dangerous Air Bags

  12-03-2019 16:01
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  DETROIT (AP) — A type of Takata air bag inflator once thought to be safe has now come under scrutiny after a crash and explosion in Maryland injured the driver of a Honda minivan.
  The incident forced Honda on Tuesday to recall about 1.2 million vehicles in North and Central America from the 2001 to 2016 model years that were not included in the massive string of Takata recalls for air bags that can hurl shrapnel into the passenger compartment.
  Takata used
  
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• Irish music will fill the air for St. Patrick's Day Parade and celebrations this weekend

  12-03-2019 15:37 via post-gazette.com
  
  Mike Gallagher, a folk favorite in Pittsburgh since the ’70s, gets the honor of grand marshal.
  
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