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• Carnegie Science Center Hosts 14th Annual ‘Mess Fest’ For Kids

  01-01-2020 23:58
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It’s every kid’s dream: to make a mess and not get in trouble for it.That’s exactly what thousands of people got to do this New Year’s Day at the Carnegie Science Center during their 14th annual “Mess Fest.”Kids in attendance got to play scientist and mix different products to see what kind of reaction there would be.“It feels so funny and I can’t even get my hands out,” said 5-year-old Jace Lovase. “When I put
  
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• ‘These Are Sacred Places’ Families Say Decorations At Gravesites In Beaver Continue Disappearing

  01-01-2020 23:33
  
  BEAVER (KDKA) – During the holiday season, people said they’ve placed decorations on their family’s gravesites at Sylvania Hills Memorial Park but those decorations keep disappearing.
  “I just bring things that I think they will like and things I like because it’s really the only place I can be with them,” Sandy Zachodni said.
  This Christmas, Zachodni decorated her uncle, father, and grandparents’ graves with holiday crosses, but soon after two out of the
  
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• Two Pittsburgh couples start 2020 by welcoming a newborn

  01-01-2020 23:18 via post-gazette.com
  
  Babies born at UPMC Magee Womens Hospital and West Penn start new year off in an unforgettable way for their parents 
  
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• Vehicle Rollover Shuts Down Portion Of Wildwood Road In Hampton Township

  01-01-2020 22:43
  
  HAMPTON TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A single-vehicle rollover in Hampton Township has shut down a portion of Wildwood Road.According to officials, the rollover caused wires to come down in the 2100 block of Wildwood Road.
  The road will be closed from South Montour Road to Au Sable Drive.Neither the cause of the accident or any injuries have been made available.
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• Police Investigating Theft Of Nearly $5,000 From A Westmoreland Manufacturer

  01-01-2020 21:49
  
  GREENSBURG (KDKA) — State police in Greensburg are looking for the person or persons responsible for the theft of $4,820 worth of equipment from a hardware manufacturer in Greensburg.According to police, on Friday, December 27, 2019, an unknown person or persons broke into General Carbide and stole four items, including a battery-operated saw, corded power saw, Dewalt laser level and $3,500 worth of copper wire.The person or persons involved then fled the area, getting away with nearly $5,
  
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• Police Asking For Help In Finding Missing 22-Year-Old Tonee Turner

  01-01-2020 21:29
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh Police are asking for assistance in finding a missing 22-year-old woman, Tonee Turner.Photo Credit: Pittsburgh Police
  Turner is being described as 5-feet-2-inches tall, 130 pounds with black hair that extends to her chin.Turner was last contacted on December 30 around 6:00 p.m.She is originally from the Hazelwood area and it is believed she may have last been the Homestead area.Anyone with information regarding her whereabouts or sees her is asked to call Pit
  
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• Federal Ban On Flavored E-Cigarettes Will Not Include Menthol

  01-01-2020 21:22
  
  (CNN) — The Trump administration will soon announce a ban on most flavored e-cigarette cartridges, according to two officials familiar with the plans. The ban does not include menthol or tobacco-flavored products, but applies to fruit or dessert flavors.
  “We’re going to protect our families, we’re going to protect our children and we’re going to protect the industry,” President Donald Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, adding that some products cou
  
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• Pittsbrrrrrrrrrgh: Dozens Brave Frigid Mon River Water To Take Polar Bear Plunge

  01-01-2020 21:07
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It takes a special kind of person, and sometimes, a special kind of outfit, to take the plunge into the frigid Monongahela River.
  Wednesday morning, dozens of people braved the temperatures in the 30s, both in the air and in the river, to start the new year doing something they’ve never done before – participate in the annual New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge.(Photo Credit: KDKA)
  “It’s going to be cold, just a little bit, for like a second,&
  
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• Federal Overtime Rules, Vaping Age Restrictions Among New Laws Impacting Pennsylvanians In 2020

  01-01-2020 20:50
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — New year, new laws in 2020 for people across the Commonwealth.One will put money into the pocket of more than 60,000 Pennsylvanians.New federal overtime rules are going to put more money in their paychecks. It guarantees time-and-a-half payments to almost any hourly employee who works more than 40 hours a week. Most salaried employees who work more than 40 hours a week and make less than $35,568.“For too long, Pennsylvania has made it too hard for citizens to actu
  
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• Boy Loses Stuffed Toy On Ohio Turnpike, Trooper Reunites The Pair

  01-01-2020 20:24
  
  (AP) — An Ohio state trooper has reunited a boy with his stuffed toy that was dropped out of a car window.
  Leah Sharkey said in a Facebook post that she was driving on the Ohio Turnpike on Sunday when she heard her son screaming from the backseat about his toy. She pulled over and realized what had happened.
  (Source: Ohio State Highway Patrol/Facebook)
  Ohio State Trooper Alex Schlottag pulled up and told her to keep driving and said he would look for the toy.
  Schlottag later called to say
  
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• Adorable! Meet Pittsburgh’s First Babies Of 2020

  01-01-2020 20:08
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh’s first babies of 2020 are ready for their big debut.
  The little ones were born just minutes apart after midnight. One at West Penn Hospital and the other at Magee-Womens Hospital.Meet Pittsburgh’s first babies of 2020! Leo and Onari were born minutes apart at West Penn Hospital and McGee-Womens Hospital. Onari was born at 12:09 and Leo was born at 12:16. pic.twitter.com/fo08w1PSNa
  — Shelby Cassesse (@ShelbyCassesse) January 1, 2020
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• Raging Fire Destroys Former Skating Rink Near Wheeling Island Casino

  01-01-2020 19:44
  
  WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — Police in West Virginia say a fire has destroyed a former skating rink.
  Wheeling Police spokesman Philip Stahl tells news outlets the large fire took several hours to bring under control Tuesday night in the building located next to a casino and a high school football stadium on Wheeling Island.(Photo Credit: KDKA)
  No injuries were reported.
  Stahl says the fire did not threaten any other structures.
  Operations at the Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack were unaffe
  
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• Father Shot And Killed, Son Ends Up In Standoff With State Police And SWAT Team

  01-01-2020 19:12
  
  GLEN CAMPBELL, Pa. (KDKA) — A man is in police custody after his father was shot and killed early this morning, prompting a New Year’s Day SWAT situation in Indiana County.
  Police were first called to the scene at the intersection of Graham and Morris Streets in Glen Campbell, Pennsylvania, around 3 a.m.Officials at the scene say the victim’s son, identified as Matthew Bartlebaugh, suffers from some sort of mental illness.
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  They say he went into his father&rsquo
  
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• New Pitt-based research could prevent TB deaths around the world

  01-01-2020 19:01 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pitt-based research shows that intravenous vaccinations could greatly decrease TB cases around the world and save lives
  
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• Pittsburgh Weather: Seasonably Cold This New Year’s Day, But Warmer Air Set To Return

  01-01-2020 17:25
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Happy New Year!
  Clouds are lingering this morning, but they’re gradually clearing out of the area.
  Highs will be seasonable in the mid- to upper-30s today before dipping into the upper-20s tonight.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA)
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  Warm air surges north Thursday, boosting highs into the mid- to upper-40s and into the lower-50s by Friday. Moisture returns as well, with showers s
  
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• Woman Killed In 1-Vehicle Armstrong Tunnel Crash

  01-01-2020 17:05
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A woman was killed in a one-vehicle crash this morning in the Armstrong Tunnel.
  According to Pittsburgh Public Safety officials, the crash happened on the inbound side of the tunnel around 9:45 a.m.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Dan Vojtko)
  Police say the victim’s vehicle hit a wall inside the tunnel.
  Firefighters found a woman inside the vehicle. They tried to revive her, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
  No other passengers were inside the vehicle.
  
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  01-01-2020 16:45
  
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• Single-Vehicle Crash Shuts Down Armstrong Tunnel

  01-01-2020 16:07
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A one-vehicle crash shut down the Armstrong Tunnel this morning while officials investigated the incident.
  According to emergency officials, the crash happened on the inbound side of the tunnel around 9:45 a.m.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Dan Vojtko)
  The tunnel had to be shut down in both directions and accident investigators were called to the scene.
  Duquesne Light crews were also called in because an electrical box was damaged inside the tunnel.
  Officials have
  
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• 1 Person Injured In Rollover Crash In Connellsville

  01-01-2020 15:40
  
  CONNELLSVILLE (KDKA) — One person is recovering in the hospital after an overnight rollover crash in Fayette County.
  It happened around 3:30 a.m. along Route 119 in Connellsville near Vanderbilt Road.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA)
  Crews found the vehicle on its roof.
  Officials have not yet said what caused the crash or the condition of the person injured.
  Stay with KDKA for the latest on this developing story.
  
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• Reflecting on the past, looking toward the future: Pittsburgh rings in 2020 at First Night

  01-01-2020 04:35 via post-gazette.com
  
  Out-of-towners, first-timers and Pittsburgh lifers walked through the festive lights and snow flurries to and from soul line dancing.
  
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• The Real Life ‘Doc Browns’ Trying To Realize The Dream Of Time Travel

  01-01-2020 03:17
  
  (CNN) — The past, it has been said, is a foreign country. And sometimes it’s another country we yearn to visit.
  We can’t, of course. Whereas actual travel is limited only by how much cash we can spare, visa requirements and flight cancellations, journeying to times gone by is limited by the cold, hard laws of physics.
  Or maybe it’s not.
  Joining the ranks of movie inventors like Doc Brown of “Back to the Future” are a few real-life scientists currently trying t
  
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• Four Children And Four Animals Found Living In Unimaginable Filth In Hempfield Township

  01-01-2020 01:50
  
  HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — Children and animals were found living in filth inside a home in Westmoreland County and it was actually a call for a dog bite that led humane officers and Westmoreland County Sheriffs Deputies to a Hempfield Township home.What they found inside, was one of the worst cases of animal and child neglect they had ever seen.Veteran humane officers Andrea Palmer says she’ll never forget 205 North Drive.“When you go in there you have to back your feelings,
  
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• 'Why? Why did you do this?' a mother asks her son, accused of killing a 90-year-old man

  01-01-2020 01:40 via post-gazette.com
  
  Jacqueline Kurta believes that her son did what police say he confessed to — killing Samuel Rende outside Calvary Cemetery.
  
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• 90-Year-Old Murder Victim Had Turned His Life Around After Checkered Past, According To Friends

  01-01-2020 01:00
  
  HAZELWOOD (KDKA) — Sam Rende was a colorful fixture in the Hazelwood neighborhood who, despite a checkered past, had endeared himself to most all who knew him.
  “He was a good man and he’s going to be sorely missed by the whole neighborhood,” said Michael Johnson, a friend.When KDKA’s Andy Sheehan spoke with Rende three years ago, he’d grown impatient with the progress on the massive Hazelwood Green redevelopment project.SHEEHAN: You’ll believe it when yo
  
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• AAA Warning Drivers To Not Drive Hungover On New Year’s Day

  01-01-2020 00:05
  
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Everyone talks about safe driving on New Year’s Eve but what about New Year’s Day?Safety experts at AAA are reminding motorists that a hangover may last longer than most people think.According to AAA, most people don’t realize they’re actually still drunk following a night of partying and it takes between 1-2 hours for the human body to fully process just one alcoholic drink.Even though drivers may not feel drunk on New Year’s Day, they sti
  
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