Matt Freed
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Fewer than a dozen searchers, including state police and excavator operators, returned Thursday to the spot where 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard is thought to have plummeted through a freshly opened sinkhole.
Katie Blackley
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90.5 WESA
Rebecca Reese
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90.5 WESA
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Investigators say the location of an explosion that killed six people and destroyed three houses was inside one of the homes, and they're ruling out an outside cause, including wells, pipelines and other utilities. -
Three houses at the center of a recent explosion near Pittsburgh that killed six people will need to be torn down and 10 others are not currently inhabitable, officials say.
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Authorities say the owners of a home that exploded were having issues with their hot water tank, but the cause of the blast remains under investigation. Five people died, including two municipal officials. The explosion last weekend in Plum destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others.
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5 people, including a child, are dead after an explosion destroys 3 homes, damages 12 others in PlumAuthorities say five people, including an adolescent, were found dead after a house explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others.
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Employees represented by the Communications Workers of America and other staff are on strike following the expiration of their health insurance coverage on Oct. 1. -
Workers with the Communications Workers of America, responsible for designing, printing and distributing the paper, are on the picket line this morning. -
Judah Samet, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped a shooting rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, has died. -
Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” has died. Manager Jarez Posey tells The Associated Press that Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died at the Los Angeles home of a friend on Wednesday. -
WESA is collecting stories and questions regarding abortion access. -
A federal judge has ordered the FBI to speed up the release of records about the agency’s search for buried Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania.
