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1-year-old killed in East Hills triple shooting
Two women and a 1-year-old child were shot Tuesday in the East Hills.Shots were fired around 7:30 p.m. in the 2300 block of East Hills Drive.According to police, the 1-year-old was killed in the shooting.No word on the conditions of the two women ...
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Federal marshals make arrest in party bus shooting
Lyons was being sought in the March 30 death of Steven Lee Jr. of McKees Rocks, who was shot multiple times after he was pulled from a party bus that had stopped outside a bar at an intersection in the Sheraden section of the ...
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Florida volunteers head to Oklahoma to help tornado victims
LONGWOOD -- Central Floridians are stepping up to help in a disaster elsewhere in the country, as a team of 10 people from Longwood prepare to help survivors of a ...
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3 Wounded In East Hills Shooting
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Police are on the scene of a shooting that left three people wounded. It happened around 7:40 p.m. in the 2300-block of East Hills ...
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Armstrong Co. Man Goes Missing
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Police are looking for a missing Armstrong County man. Police say 55-year-old Leonard Vernon Spelock of Edlerton was last seen Friday. Spelock was reported missing after he failed to return to his personal care home. Spelock also suffers from several health problems. Anyone with information is asked to call police at ...
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Repo Man [Blu-Ray]
The life of a repo man is always intense, the experienced veteran tells the rookie at one point in Alex Coxs 80s cult classic Repo Man. Of course, the rookie, a suburban teenage punk named Otto (Emilio Estevez), has no idea just how intense his life is about to get. And, despite his 20 y ... ...
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Internet Luring Victim Devistated Over Incident Similar To Hers
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Finley’s Fighters chooses Geibel student’s logo
Stephanie Orgovan from Geibel Catholic Junior-Senior High School is the winner of Finley's Fighters' T-shirt logo contest. From left are her art teacher Julie Yankovich, Orgovan holding her winning entry, and Finley's grandmother, Phyllis Kovall, presenting her with her ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook defends company’s tax strategy before Senate subcommittee
WASHINGTON -- The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code on Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in ...
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Homewood man arrested for fatal shooting in Sheraden
A Homewood man wanted for shooting and killing a man in Sheraden was arrested Tuesday by members of the U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force and Pittsburgh ...
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Ballet theater nears completion of Strip District expansion
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre next week will begin demolishing a former restaurant supply building on Liberty Avenue as part of the final phase of an expansion that began in 2009. demolition will make room for a 35-space parking lot next to the ballet theater's studios in the Strip District. During the past four years, the theater added its first dormitory, new floors in five dance studios ...
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Metro Hotel on Pitt
A truly affordable hotel in Sydney, with stylish decor, great location and in-house snazzy brasserie? If the notion of affordable ...
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