@bencschmitt

@triblive deputy managing editor/digital I write a column called Offbeat Pittsburgh. Raised in Pittsburgh. Peabody HS.

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Chris Adamski@C_AdamskiTribOct 24
At a Paris bar earlier this evening
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‘It just hasn’t been long enough,’ Jobeth Olson's family says as West Mifflin killer approaches parole eligibility triblive.com/local/it-just-h…

‘It just hasn’t been long enough,’ Jobeth Olson’s family says as West Mifflin killer approaches...

Retired Allegheny County prosecutor Lisa Pellegrini tried dozens of homicide cases over the course of her 30-year career. But one verdict, she said, continues to haunt her. Pellegrini described...

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Offbeat Pittsburgh: Clara Kent turns up volume on emerging artists

Clara Kent believes if she can make it in Pittsburgh, she can make it anywhere. The city’s music fans can be tough, opinionated and not always open-minded, says the musician, artist and WYEP (91.3...

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For an idea of how windy it is today in Paris, here is a Steelers flag blowing (outside of a Canadian bar in France that shows American football, incidentally and oddly enough)
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GetGo begins charging for air triblive.com/local/regional/…

GetGo begins charging for air

GetGo has started charging for air. A statement from Alimentation Couche-Tard, the company that owns GetGo, said it started transitioning to paid air services in September to coincide with the...

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Man found guilty of killing father in East Pittsburgh triblive.com/local/man-found…

Man found guilty of killing father in East Pittsburgh

A Pittsburgh man who shot and killed his father following an argument last year was convicted Thursday of third-degree murder. Tayron Reid, 20, of the Middle Hill District, will be sentenced by...

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Jury deliberates 20 minutes before returning not guilty verdict in South Side barbershop slaying triblive.com/local/jury-deli…

Jury deliberates 20 minutes before returning not guilty verdict in South Side barbershop slaying

A jury deliberated just 20 minutes Wednesday afternoon before acquitting a Baldwin Borough woman of criminal homicide. Myairah Carter, 26, fatally shot Rayon Williams, 26, of McKeesport on Oct. 4,...

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Innamorato signs Allegheny County's new parental leave policy triblive.com/news/health-now…

Innamorato signs Allegheny County’s new parental leave policy

Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato signed a historic paid parental leave policy Thursday, making Allegheny County the first county in the nation to mandate the benefit in a state without a...

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Per Kyle Dubas, Ben Kindel suffered from a bout of vasovagal. Per the Mayo Clinic, it causes “heart rate and blood pressure to drop suddenly” when the “body overreacts to certain triggers.” Kindel is home in Western Pa. No timeframe for recovery as of yet.
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36 pounds, 2 ounces: New Pa. record channel catfish pulled from Allegheny River | Link in bio
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36 pounds, 2 ounces: New Pa. record channel catfish pulled from Allegheny River triblive.com/local/westmorel…

36 pounds, 2 ounces: New Pa. record channel catfish pulled from Allegheny River

The new state record channel catfish — weighing in at a whopping 36 pounds, 2 ounces — was pulled from the Allegheny River. Friends David Taylor Jr. of Munhall and Alex Atkinson of Rillton were...

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Pittsburgh youth football leader lauded for volunteer work accused of cocaine trafficking triblive.com/local/pittsburg…

Pittsburgh youth football leader lauded for volunteer work accused of cocaine trafficking

A federal grand jury indictment has accused the head of a Pittsburgh youth football organization of dealing cocaine — the same charge that landed him in federal prison more than 20 years ago. Federal...

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Allegheny County Council approves landmark paid parental leave policy triblive.com/news/health-now…

Allegheny County Council approves landmark paid parental leave policy

After months of debate and pushback from some local business owners, Allegheny County Council approved a landmark policy Tuesday requiring employers with at least 15 workers to provide 12 weeks of...

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Megan Trotter and Zac Gibson are here for @TribLIVE to bring you the vote on paid parental leave. But it sounds like there are a lot of people signed up to comment first. triblive.com/news/health-now…

5 things to know about Allegheny County’s proposed 12-week paid parental leave policy

Allegheny County Council is set to make a potentially historic vote Tuesday night on a proposal that would establish 12 weeks of paid parental leave countywide. If approved, the measure could make...

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Pitt police evacuate Posvar Hall over threats to department; 1 in custody triblive.com/local/pitt-poli…

1 person in custody after Pitt police respond to threats at Posvar Hall

University of Pittsburgh police Tuesday afternoon evacuated the largest academic building on the school’s Oakland campus amid “threats made toward a department” inside. A large police presence...

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Penguins forward Ben Kindel hospitalized in Utah triblive.com/sports/penguins…

Penguins forward Ben Kindel hospitalized in Utah

Pittsburgh Penguins forward Ben Kindel was hospitalized Tuesday in Salt Lake City after experiencing what was termed a “medical episode,” according to a statement issued by the team. The nature or...

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Christina Applegate announced Tuesday that she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, more than five years after announcing she had been told she had the chronic condition. cbsn.ws/47A8dDk

Christina Applegate reveals she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis: "Not happy at all"

Christina Applegate said on her MeSsy podcast that her doctor recently revealed she did not have multiple sclerosis.

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This could have been catastrophic. Dodged a bullet, dodged a pole triblive.com/local/commercia…

Commercial Street Bridge light pole collapse caused by equipment failure, PennDOT says

PennDOT narrowly avoided a tragic accident on Sunday morning when a light pole fell from the new I-376 Commercial Street Bridge and landed just feet in front of a vehicle — an incident caused by an...

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