Sierra Rehm

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FINDLAY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two people are dead after an early Saturday morning house fire in Findlay Township. Officials tell Channel 11 that a house fire on Poplar Street, near Steubenville Pike, began around 4:30 a.m. At one point, the home was fully engulfed in flames. We’re told that two people died in the fire. Their identities have not been released, pending next-of-kin notifications. Three police officers on scene received medical treatment.

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TSA officers at Pittsburgh International Airport stopped a gun and dozens of bullets from getting past a security checkpoint at the Pittsburgh International Airport on Wednesday. The officers say the Sewickley man claimed to have forgotten he had the .22 caliber handgun and 30 bullets with him as he went through the checkpoint. “Forgetting that you have a gun with you is not a mistake that you want to make,” said Gerardo Spero, TSA’s federal security director for Pennsylvania and Delaware.

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The Fayette County District Attorney’s Office has determined that the deadly force used in an officer-involved shooting in Redstone Township was justified. The DA’s office on Wednesday released its findings into the Jan. 29 incident at a Lyandale Road home, where Christopher Hackney, 27, was shot by police and killed after they were called to the area to check on a suicidal man. The investigation into the incident revealed that Hackney approached an officer holding what looked to be an AR-15.

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A second man is facing charges for a 2023 Jeanette shootout that killed a woman and hurt several others. Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli says multiple charges, including first-degree murder, second-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder, were filed against DeShawn Russell on Wednesday. He’s currently incarcerated at a Pennsylvania prison on unrelated charges.

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ERIE COUNTY, Pa. — There’s now a measles outbreak in a Western Pennsylvania county. Erie County Health Department officials on Monday announced two more confirmed measles cases, bringing the total of cases identified in recent weeks to five. The newest confirmed cases are due to “direct exposures” from a person who tested positive for the highly contagious virus on March 30. Since the three most recent cases are epidemiologically linked, the CDC now defines them as an outbreak.