Oliver Morrison
ReporterOliver Morrison is a general assignment reporter at WESA. He previously covered education, environment and health for PublicSource in Pittsburgh and, before that, breaking news and weekend features for the Wichita Eagle in Kansas. He started his career in New York reporting for local and national publications like City Limits and The Atlantic. He taught English and theater in the Arkansas Delta for seven years before switching careers in 2013. Oliver is a graduate of Deep Springs College, the University of Oxford and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Email: omorrison@wesa.fm.
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More than $1.25 billion soon will be available to help underserved groups in Pittsburgh and across the country connect to high-speed internet to access jobs, health care, education and other essential activities.
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Congressmen walked the grounds of the Butler County Farm Show, talked to local officials and even got on the roof of the building where the man investigators have identified as the shooter, Thomas Crooks, turned his rifle on the former president. The visit raised several troubling questions about the handling of security at the rally, committee members said.
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WESA reporter Oliver Morrison describes what it was like to cover the rally in Butler County where a man attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
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An expert on mass shootings discussed how the research into mass shootings today was born out of research that looked at political assassination attempts. The profiles of the two kinds of shooters can be very similar, he says.
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WESA analyzed the public statements of two dozen people who knew Thomas Matthew Crooks and have spoken in media reports — the majority of whom were classmates of Crooks at Bethel Park High School. The list also includes a handful of neighbors and people at the college he attended. While most of these people say they didn’t know him well, a portrait of how he appeared to the people with whom he had small interactions through his days is becoming more clear.
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Federal investigators have released the name of the man they say sought to assassinate Donald Trump at a Beaver County rally on Saturday, but much else about Thomas Matthew Crooks remained a mystery on Sunday.
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Investigators termed the shooting an "assassination attempt" but also said they did not know the motives of the shooter yet.
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The former president was whisked away after the incident. Later Saturday night, he posted on his Truth Social media site that a bullet “pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
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The units being purchased were originally part of a larger set of around 141 units, called the Bethesda Homewood Properties. Federal housing regulators declared them uninhabitable in 2017.
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The delegates who will represent the Pittsburgh area at the Democratic National Convention, it seems, are not interested in discussing alternatives to Joe Biden.