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Target 11 investigates firefighter discipline after delayed response
Missing an emergency call is one of the worst-case scenarios for a firefighter.It happened a couple of months ago during an early morning house fire inCarrick.Fortunately no one was hurt, but the fire destroyed the home.And Target 11 Investigator Rick Earle discovered that the firefighter won't face any disciplinary action, and that controversial decision is drawing a lot of ...
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AGH tests dissolving heart stent
Some 500,000 people receive heart stents each year. The metal stent keeps open an artery that is narrowing because of plaque. But once a patient receives a stent, he or she must be on blood thinners, which can lead to ...
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Penn-Trafford grad among those helping tornado victims
Baseball players from West Virginia University were in Oklahoma for a game when the devastating tornado hit, leveling homes and taking lives. The players said they knew they had to ...
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Oklahoma tornado cuts 17-mile path
Search-and-rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life a day after a monster tornado pulverized a vast swath of suburbs of Oklahoma ...
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Albion Tornado Survivors Relate To Oklahoma Victims
ALBION (KDKA) — Nearly 30 years ago, the people of Albion, Pa. dedicated a memorial to the twelve lives lost on May 31, 1985. And they can relate to the images they’re seeing on television from Oklahoma this week. The cry of an Albion resident who summed it all up after seeing the destruction of one hundred homes in a town of 1,500 people. At first glance, there aren’t many ...
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Blade: Trinity
The award for most egregious product placement in a movie this year surely goes to the ridiculous inclusion of the Apple iPod in Blade: Trinity, the third installment of the dwindling Blade franchise. As if the iPod were not ubiquitous enough in American cultur ... ...
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Nemacolin’s Lady Luck Casino To Be Open To All — For A Fee
FARMINGTON, Pa. (KDKA) — Nemacolin, the luxurious mountain resort in the Laurel Highlands, where chandeliers and glitz make you feel like royalty, is now completing construction of the region’s first resort casino — the Lady Luck Casino to open in July. ';They’ll be 600 slots, 28 table games, they’ll be a restaurant, a bar, there’s a stage for ...
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Candidates Final Comments As They Vote
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Most voters didn’t bother to cast their ballots today, but the candidates for mayor did after a grueling negative campaign that seemed to wear everyone down. ';I feel a little bit nervous, anxious, exhausted all combined with a little sprinkling of optimism on top,'; commented Bill Peduto. Behind in the polls, Jack Wagner expressed optimism that he ...
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Rash Of Burglaries Breaks Out In Beaver Co.
DARLINGTON (KDKA) - Burglars are on the prowl in many Beaver County neighborhoods. They've struck more than a dozen times in recent weeks, seeking out neighborhoods that tend to be isolated. Police say the burglars are targeting homes in the borough of Darlington near the state line. One woman says they tried to target her son's home, but got scared by the burglar ...
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Woman Arraigned After Allegedly Embezzling $100K From Credit Union
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Victoria Rozanski, 59, walked into the Federal Courthouse to be arraigned on one count of embezzling more than $100,000 from the credit union she used to manage. Earlier this month, a grand jury charged Rozanski with taking the money, often cash while she managed the Ellwood City Holy Redeemer Parish Federal Credit Union — a then, small parish-based operation. The ...
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Experts Expose Some Of The Top Tech Myths
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — You’ve heard them all: leaving your laptop plugged into the charger will harm your computer, or the more the mega pixels, the better the picture. In this technology age, there are so many new gadgets out there and there are so many myths that go along with them. KDKA's John Shumway talks to some experts to expose some of the ';top tech ...
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Metro Hotel on Pitt
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