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Mason Rudolph’s unlikely renaissance will continue into the playoffs. Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin says he is sticking with the former third-string quarterback ahead of a trip to AFC East champion Buffalo.
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Pittsburgh clinched a wild-card spot when Tennessee upset Jacksonville, giving the Steelers a playoff berth that seemed unlikely following a three-game skid that included losses to lowly Arizona and New England.
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Michael Burham, 35, was sentenced Friday in Warren County Court after pleading guilty in November to charges in the July escape and the earlier kidnapping of a Pennsylvania couple. He apologized to the victims and "everyone in Warren" and also to Erie County correctional officers whom he said he had "treated poorly."
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U.S. Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having "dark conversations" about harming himself before he hit "the emergency brake" and sought treatment for depression. In an interview with NBC's `"Meet the Press," the Braddock Democrat described his thoughts at that time as, "I can't be a blueprint for my children. I can't let them be left alone or not to understand why he would have done that."
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Residents in a western Pennsylvania county are calling for the resignation of an official who is facing felony animal cruelty charges after authorities say her dog starved to death.
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A former Pennsylvania death row inmate who spent more than two decades locked up has been released from prison following the dismissal of murder charges in two 1998 killings that he blamed on his brother, who died in prison. Noel Montalvo, who turned 59 Tuesday, was freed Monday after York County prosecutors dismissed murder and other charges and he pleaded guilty to evidence tampering.
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Two men accused of racing on a public highway in western Pennsylvania are facing charges in a crash involving a school van that left a teenage girl dead.
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The resignation of Rep. John Galloway, a Democrat from Bucks County, will tee up another special election on Feb. 13 to determine the chamber’s majority early next year.
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The change would let schools complete the academic year in either a minimum of 180 days or 900 hours at the elementary level and 990 at the secondary level.
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The top U.S. cyberdefense agency says hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and sewage-treatment utilities.