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Signs displaying the face of former police officer Robert Gowans were brought to a May 17 rally to protest his hiring.
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After Penn Hills reversed course on the hiring of former Wilkinsburg officer Robert Gowans to its police department, Penn Hills Manager Scott Andrejchak said he regrets approving the hiring in the first place.
“I made a bad call,” Andrejchak said. “There were things that were overlooked.”
Penn Hills council held an emergency meeting May 17 that resulted in letting Gowans go after facing backlash from the community over his hiring in April.
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For nearly an hour, Allegheny County homicide detectives pleaded with Douglas Berry to tell them where the body was.
It had been 25 days since 67-year-old Elizabeth “Betsy” Wiesenfeld had gone missing, and weeks of investigation had pointed the detectives directly at Berry, a handyman who had worked for her.
Video from Wiesenfeld’s Whitehall neighborhood showed Berry’s distinctive pickup truck in her driveway on the morning she went missing, the investigators told him.
They found her debit card albeit burned at Berry’s house in Liberty.
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Pennsylvania s municipal primary election will take place on
May 18, 2021. Along with the primary election, there are four
special elections to fill vacancies in the General Assembly. Those
that win their special election will serve the remaining term of
the former member.
22nd State Senate District (Lackawanna/Luzerne/Monroe) –
Chris Chermak (R) will face Marty Flynn (D) to replace former Sen.
John Blake (D);
48th State Senate District (Dauphin/Lebanon/York) – Chris
Gebhard (R) will face Calvin Clements (D) to replace former Sen.
Dave Arnold (R);
Paula Reed Ward
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A memorial to Pittsburgh firefighters Marc Kolenda, Patricia Conroy and Capt. Thomas Brooks sits at the base of a flagpole outside of Engine 17 in Homewood, shown here in December 2015.
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A federal appellate court said Tuesday that prosecutors can retry a man whose conviction in the 1995 deaths of three firefighters in the East Hills was overturned.
In a 19-page opinion, the three judge-panel from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the federal retrial of Gregory Brown Jr., on a single charge of malicious destruction of property by fire resulting in death, does not violate his double jeopardy rights.