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Route 28 reopens, flood watch remains

Route 28 in Pittsburgh reopened early Thursday morning after it was closed due to flooding, according to Allegheny County 911. Most of Western Pennsylvania remains under a flash flood watch until 11 p.m. Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. Much of Beaver County is under a flood warning. Showers...
Pennsylvania abortion law unlikely to budge

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has vowed to veto any anti-choice bill that crosses his desk as a wave of new laws limiting abortions floods the country, but his pledge is not stopping state Republicans from working to pass stricter laws. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill this month...
Motorcyclist uses flannel shirt to save bald eagle on Chester County highway

A Lancaster man used his flannel shirt to rescue an injured bald eagle that had plopped down in the middle of a Route 30 bypass, stopping traffic, in Downingtown, Chester County, on Saturday, according to media reports. Dandon Miller was on his motorcycle when he encountered the traffic jam and...
‘Unexploded device’ in London is just giant Christmas ornament

Officials got a pretty serious scare in east London on Wednesday. However, the large bomb that some people had reported on the banks of the River Thames turned out to be a giant Christmas decoration. The Tower Hamlets bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department responded to the call of a...
East End Brewing to launch beers named after Pittsburgh neighborhoods

Pittsburghers are deeply loyal to the neighborhood they grew up in … Greenfield, Bloomfield, Highland Park, Oakland and beyond. Pittsburgh’s East End Brewing certainly knows that. On Saturday, the company will launch the “YOU ARE HERE” program designed to introduce a beer named after each of Pittsburgh’s 90 neighborhoods. The...
Pittsburgh’s Becca Droz continues ‘Amazing Race’ in Switzerland

After flying on the world’s longest zip line in Dubai and winning first place in one of two episodes of CBS’s “Amazing Race” last week, Pittsburgh native Becca Droz again will be featured on the prime time adventure reality show tonight at 8 p.m. The excitement continues with Droz and...
Rabid raccoon reported in Swisshelm Park, 13th in Allegheny County this year

Another raccoon in Allegheny County has tested positive for rabies, county health officials said Wednesday. The raccoon was spotted along Windermere Drive in Pittsburgh’s Swisshelm Park neighborhood, according to the release from health department director Dr. Karen Hacker. It is the 13th rabid animal reported in the county so far...
Cash 5 ticket sold in Downtown Pittsburgh worth $200K

A Downtown Pittsburgh convenience store sold a Cash 5 lottery ticket worth $200,000 for Tuesday night’s drawing, according to lottery officials. The ticket, which matched all five numbers, was sold at Faber Coe & Gregg on Grant Street, according to the press release. The numbers were 1, 11, 22, 33,...
4 dead, 8 wounded in church van crash in Virginia

FORD, Va. — Virginia state police released the identity Wednesday of a pickup truck driver who allegedly slammed into the back of a church van, killing four people and injuring eight others. Police said the van carrying 11 people was slowing down to make a right turn into a church...
Greensburg nursing home tested after resident contracts Legionnaires’ disease

Redstone Highlands in Greensburg continues to implement emergency procedures after a resident tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease last week. The skilled nursing facility is using bottled water and suspending showers until it receives test results, said John Dickson, CEO and president. Results are expected soon. “We take the health and...
Women want the office to be warmer. Science now backs them up

What’s the perfect office temperature? Everyone you ask will have a different answer. For some people, an office climate bordering on frosty is ideal; for others, anything below subtropical necessitates a blanket, fingerless gloves and an illicit space heater. There’s no one thermostat setting that will make everyone happy. But...
Honus Wagner baseball card sells privately for $1.2 million

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — A Honus Wagner baseball card has been sold privately for $1.2 million. SCP Auctions in Southern California says the 1909-11 T206 card was graded in Good 2 condition on a scale of 1 to 10 by Professional Sports Authenticator. The auction house says this example of...
Pa. man pleads guilty in blowtorch break-ins, Apple thefts at Target stores

BOSTON — A Pennsylvania man authorities say used a blowtorch to break into Target stores in multiple states and steal nearly $200,000 worth of electronics has pleaded guilty to related charges. The U.S. attorney for Massachusetts says 36-year-old Elijah Aiken pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges including transporting stolen goods across...
Teens may face charges after cake thrown at Pa. State Police cruiser near Conneaut Lake

SUMMIT TOWNSHIP — A cake in the face was no laughing matter over the weekend when the face in question was the windshield of a state police cruiser traveling near the northern tip of Conneaut Lake. No one was injured in the incident that occurred at 11:39 p.m. Saturday on...
Gabby Barrett to open for Toby Keith in PittsburghVideo

Gabby Barrett’s star continues to rise. The Munhall native, along with Clay Walker, will be the special guests for country crooner Toby Keith’s Sept. 27 concert at Pittsburgh’s Highmark Stadium. Barrett, 19, shot to fame on “American Idol,” finishing in the top three two seasons ago. She has opened for...
Robert Mueller says charging president ‘not an option,’ resigns from DOJVideo

WASHINGTON — In his first public statement on the Russia investigation Wednesday, special counsel Robert Mueller said charging a president with a crime was “not an option” his team could consider in the Russia investigation. Mueller said he was bound by longstanding Justice Department opinions that say a president can’t...

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