Sunday, February 10, 2013
A man's body was found near Old Route 40 in Washington County in February 1972. The death was ruled a homicide, but authorities have never been able to identify the man.
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Sunday, February 10
An Avella resident was hitchhiking on Old Route 40 in Donegal Township, Washington County, about 9:20 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 18, 1972 when he spotted the badly decomposed body of a man. The man was down an embankment, about 65 feet south of the roadway. His skeletal remains were found in a briar thicket, near a small trash dump, about two miles west of Claysville. It was estimated that he had been there for about 8 to 10 weeks. The man's death was ruled a homicide, according to the Pennsylvania Missing Persons website. The man had gunshot wounds in his left torso, possibly from a .22-caliber weapon. While details about the man's appearance and clothing are many, there are no clues as to who he was, where he came from or why he died. The man …
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The former U.S. Senator died Sunday morning, according to several sources.
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter died Sunday morning due to complications from non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, according to reports from numerous news agencies. Specter was 82. The Pennsylvania senator was elected to the Senate in 1980 and served for 30 years, which is longer than any other Pennsylvania senator. He lost the seat in 2010 after switching from the Republican to the Democratic party and losing a primary campaign against Joe Sestak. Specter suffered a number of illnesses over the past two decades. For a full report from CNN, including a brief biography, click here. Numerous sources are reporting on his life, career, and death, including KDKA, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The Mercer County man working at an industrial park near Carnegie apparently fell 30 feet to his death Tuesday.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Authorities have identified the Mercer County man who died Tuesday afternoon after he fell from the roof of an industrial park near Carnegie. Melvin Kinsinger, 38, Greenville, was working on the roof of the Future-All Incorporated building at Gregg and Hammond streets in the Scott Township industrial park when he fell 30 feet from the roof, according to the Allegheny County medical examiner's office. Glendale Volunteer Fire Department officials said he fell shortly before 3 p.m. Scott Township police and firefighters from Glendale and East Carnegie were called to the industrial park to assist the Allegheny County homicide investigators at the scene. An autopsy will be conducted Wednesday, according to the medical examiner. Continue to …
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Terry Jones
10:21 am on Monday, October 15, 2012
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