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Tractor-trailer accident slows traffic along routes 51 88 in Overbrook
Traffic along Route 51 in Overbrook was slowed early Tuesday morning due to a tractor-trailer accident.Authorities said the tractor-trailer was making a turn onto Route 51 from Route 88 when it blew several tires and hit a road barrier.According to police, the truck was carrying about 36,000 pounds of frozen food that needed to be transported to another truck before it could be towed ...
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Several questions face Steelers as OTAs begin
Mike Tomlin said the Steelers plan to prove all of their doubters wrong starting in September in NFL stadiums.If they're actually going to do that, a lot of the groundwork for a different kind of surprise season -- this time a pleasant one -- will be put in place during May and June at a closed-to-the-public practice field on the South Side.The Steelers begin the first day of 13 offseason ...
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Election director predicts light turnout at polls
Countywide, Wolosik projected 35 percent of 530,197 registered Democrats and 25 percent of 238,368 registered Republicans would turn out before polls close at 8 ...
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McKeesport bank robbed again
Police Chief Bryan J. Washowich said officers spotted a man running from the bank shortly after 10 a.m. He was apprehended about a quarter of a mile away in the area of Pirl Street and E. Fifth ...
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Okla. Medical examiner expects more bodies
The vicious tornado that tore across central Oklahoma on Monday has killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said. The official death toll will gradually rise as the bodies are ...
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Moonrise Kingdom is Wes Andersons best work in a decade, as he returns to the nimble territory precariously balanced between fairy-tale whimsy and genuine emotion that made Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) such unique treats. His most recent l ... ...
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Pleasant Hills sets weight limits
Council approved an ordinance on Monday setting a 10-ton limit on W. Bruceton Road and 5-ton limits on E. Bruceton as well as Arbor and Dutch lanes and Mowry ...
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Slight tax increase proposed in Norwin
The district's 2013-14 $61.4 million preliminary budget, which the board unanimously approved on Monday, requires an increase of .65 of a mill, and approximately $554,000 from the district's general fund, to be considered balanced, according to John Wilson, director of business ...
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Ordinance to restrict lions tigers and bears in White Oak
"We're (defining better) what exotic, wild and farm animals are," borough Solicitor Jessica Crown said. "Lions and tigers and bears were not in the original ordinance. Really you could have maintained a lion on your property So they're going to be banned within the borough unless they're in a zoo property. One of the other issues with farm animals, they're ...
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Commissioners sanitary authority remain at odds
Elizabeth Township commissioners are continuing to deal with legal issues related to their efforts to terminate the township's sanitary ...
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Highlands School Board member to remain as coach
Beale asked board Solicitor Lisa Colautti if the extension conflicted with a court ruling in the West Mifflin School District that prohibited a board member from being an assistant ...
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