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A Pittsburgh mother of two reports that she was the victim of a racist attack last Sunday. A Pittsburgh mother has said that she feared for her life when she was attacked by a group of teenagers in the city’s North Side on Sunday as they beat her while calling her racial slurs. [LINK] 1st they threw a bottle at her car, and when she confronted them on their behavior, they beat the white out of her. ‘I was mad. I knew they were younger,’ said Slepski. ‘I thought they were in their early 20s. I got out and said,...

As the black mob kicked her in the face, pulled her hair and punched her – all the while directing racial slurs at her – Ginger Slepski thought she was going to die. She didn’t. This Pittsburgh electrician and mother of two escaped with torn ligaments in her shoulder and cuts and bruises that most police reports call “minor injuries.” The black mob attack happened Sunday as Slepski pulled up to a stop sign in the black part of Pittsburgh. Channel 11 News in Pittsburgh picks up the story: Slepski was savagely beaten after the girls threw a bottle at...

PITTSBURGH — A woman who said she was brutally attacked by a group of black teenagers in Pittsburgh’s North Side Sunday said the girls savagely beat her while calling her racial slurs. Ginger Slepski said she suffered multiple injuries, including torn shoulder ligaments. She said she thought the girls were going to kill her. “I thought it was so animalistic. So violent. I’m so afraid for these girls to get out and walk the streets,” Slepski said. Police said Slepski was savagely beaten after the girls threw a bottle at her car on Concord Street and she stopped to confront...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Police are searching for two men carrying AK-47s near Frankstown Avenue. Officials say two black males wearing hoodies were reportedly seen carrying AK-47s around noon and heading toward the bus stop at Standard Avenue and Frankstown Road. It’s unclear if anyone has been shot.

The global ketchup maker spent Tuesday morning telling hundreds of workers that they would no longer have jobs with Heinz, as 600 office positions, including 350 jobs in Pittsburgh, were cut across the company's operations in the U.S. and Canada.

My notes from the press conference: Bishop Hanson was first introduced, but it was announced he would not be taking questions: Hanson: Great honor to sit with bp elect Eaton. “Always being made new” theme of this assembly, and this call process was a call process for new leadership. In 25 years we’ve never looked back, always looked ahead. “A young church is a very mature church”—we have confidence we can engage in decisions that will not lead to divisions. It is wonderful to pass on mantle of leadership with confidence. We have a staff that will receive her as...

I’ve known Rick Santorum for 22 years, having first met him in 1990 before he’d won his first campaign for Congress. I interviewed him on WORD-FM, an evangelical Christian radio station where I was a frequent guest host (and eventually a full-time host) early in his campaign. If I was not the first media personality to interview Rick, I was one of the first. I had Rick as a guest at the request of my friend, Mark Rogers, who was running Rick’s campaign. Over the years I interviewed Rick at least a dozen times and debated him several times as...

CAIRO — An American-Egyptian man born in Pittsburgh is missing in Syria and reported dead in fighting between Islamic militants and Kurdish militia. If true, Amiir Farouk Ibrahim, 32, would be the second American known to have been killed in Syria's civil war. Family members said he traveled to Turkey in February or March and later crossed into Syria, where Syrian rebels and foreign Islamist fighters have battled government troops for more than two years. Ibrahim told his parents that he was providing humanitarian assistance there, although his father said he did not believe that. His Facebook page contains numerous...

A job for life. That's what they were promised. It wasn't in a contract, but to the 20 men who gathered for Bud Lights and commiseration Wednesday night in Greene County, working at a power plant was the equivalent. "This was the job everybody wanted," said Ray Christner Jr. of Brownsville. "We had it. And now it's gone."Nine days had passed since FirstEnergy announced it will shut down two power plants: Hatfield's Ferry, Greene County, across the Monongahela River from Masontown, Fayette County, and Mitchell in Union Township, Washington County, by Oct. 9 -- leaving 380 people without work."First, we...

Protesters concerned about race relations in Pittsburgh camped outside Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's office overnight, and, when he failed to materialize by morning, they headed to his house... “I wholeheartedly believe in the right to peaceful assembly, however, that does not give anyone the right to damage private property and to frighten people's young children,” Ravenstahl said. Ravenstahl has a son, Cooper, 4.

PITTSBURGH — A 25-year-old Penn Hills man was arrested Wednesday morning after authorities said he damaged several Zone 5 police cruisers parked at the station. Police told Channel 11’s Jodine Costanzo that Anton Orlichenko was at the station Wednesday complaining about President Obama, but eventually left. Officers told Costanzo that they heard banging noises outside about 10:30 a.m. When they went outside to investigate, they noticed Orlichenko vandalizing at least three cop cars with a metal C-clamp. --snip-- Orlichenko is charged with criminal mischief and assault, and because a complaint against the president was made, the FBI and Secret Service...

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police said a 6-year-old pulled a knife on another 6-year-old at a Northview Heights playground and stole the child’s iPod. According to police, the incident happened at a playground on Mt. Pleasant Road on July 9. Investigators said a group of children were playing when one child pulled out the blade on a folding red Swiss Army knife and asked another child for his iPod. Officers said the victim gave the child the iPod in fear and went home to tell his parents. --snip-- In an unrelated story from Tuesday, another Pittsburgh 6-year-old is accused of attacking...

Just south of Gettysburg, a young soldier named John Nevin leads a Pennsylvania regiment across fields freshly scarred by a horrifically violent, three-day clash between two great armies. Trees are shattered and pocked with holes, crops and orchards mowed down by flying lead, fields trampled by tens of thousands of marching men, fences torn apart. A barn and a house, trapped between the two armies, have burned to the ground. Nevin sees human slaughter on a massive scale, with an estimated 8,000 killed, many as yet unburied. The dead, Nevin writes, are "strewn around in various forms of horror," the...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Obamacare is the law of the land, but it may be the law of unintended consequences. Some employers say they find the Affordable Care Act – unaffordable. Instead of extending coverage to some employees, they’re cutting their hours. Clint Benjamin cobbles together a living teaching writing at both CCAC and Duquesne University, but this school year CCAC cut his hours. “I’ve got a kid to raise, bills to pay, etcetera, etcetera. Everyone has those issues, but it certainly makes the limited dollars leaner and scarcer,” Benjamin said. The reason was not his performance in the classroom, but...

In Niagara Falls, a black mob of 20 attacked a mother and her family on a picnic. They hurled racial slurs and told them they did not like their “Puerto Rican (expletive) music.”The Niagara Gazette described what happened next as a “fight,” although many would call it an assault: “Her son was punched and kicked by several people and fell to the ground. When her son picked himself up, the woman said a man from the group pulled out a pistol and pointed it in her son’s face. She said someone in the group was yelling, ‘Shoot him … shoot...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It’s the latest chapter of the Jesse White saga. He’s the local state representative who admitted to using online aliases to bully constituents. KD Investigator Andy Sheehan broke the story, and now it’s taking a bizarre twist. White concedes he did it; used fake names to attack people on the Internet. But of the half dozen or so aliases used to post his attacks, the most disturbing one is Victoria Adams. A beautiful young woman whose fake Facebook profile said she resided in Pittsburgh, Pa. But until recently, there were only three people named Victoria Adams in...

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) - Former Rep. Anthony Weiner launched his campaign for mayor of New York City this week, but his website seems to indicate he is running for office in Pittsburgh. The stylized and colorized image used in the "Weiner for Mayor" banner shows a bridge and a skyline. But that's not New York. The picture is of the Roberto Clemente Bridge in the Steel City, according to several Tweets and blog posts.

I need to workout but I'm procrastinating & all this Live Action/Gosnell stuff has me in an uproar, so I was purusing some of the websites of Pittsburgh abortion clinics. Lo & behold, it appears Planned Parenthood in Pittsburgh has set up voter registration in its lobby & waiting room. How absolutely disgusting. Visit the link to see for yourself. Our Title X tax dollars are paying for what amounts to a political action committee that murders babies.

Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down —And Facebook Hasn’t Contacted Him to Say Why When TheBlaze first spoke with Erik Lowry, he was running a contest on Facebook to give away an AR-15. Now, a couple months later, the fan page for Pittsburgh Tactical Firearm, Lowry’s store, has been shut down, along with a secondary page he established to replace it a couple days ago. “I still don’t know what’s going on,” Lowry told TheBlaze in a phone interview Sunday afternoon. Lowry said three days ago he awoke to calls and emails from fans...

Pittsburgh police and the Allegheny County bomb squad were called to the Cardello Building on the North Shore area of Pittsburgh after a suspicious package was discovered. Police say a wife of one of the workers at the building ordered a pressure cooker, and had it shipped to her husband’s office at the building.