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Flag Shop Designs Special Banners For 9/11
CASTLE SHANNON (KDKA) — A flag shop in Castle Shannon is raising funds for the Flight 93 memorial in Somerset County. Cliff Ruderer, owner of The Flag Factory, designed a pair of flags to commemorate...
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NFL, Players Helping To Raise Money For 9/11 Memorials
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The heroism of average Americans was obvious when Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville. Now football heroes and their team owners are stepping up to help fund the 9/11 memorials to be...
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Bikers Ride To Shanksville To Honor Flight 93 Victims
SHANKSVILLE (KDKA) – Hundreds of motorcycles descended on the Pentagon today en route to Ground Zero in New York. The riders are paying homage to the victims of 9/11. Their first stop was the Flight 93...
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Ret Navy Officer Cindy Campbell Discusses 9/11
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – This weekend KDKA Radio is remembering Sept. 11. Rob Pratte talked to Ret. Navy Officer Cindy Campbell who was stationed at the Pentagon at the time of the terrorist...
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Sen. Casey Meets With Vice President Over Future Of 911th Airlift Wing
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Pittsburgh included more than just politicking. He also caught some of Saturday’s NCAA Tournament action at CONSOL Energy Center. But earlier in...
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Ceremony Honors Flight 93 Victims
SHANKSVILLE (KDKA) – The heroes who fought back against terrorists who had hijacked United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, will be remembered Tuesday morning. Nearly 3,000 people were killed that day when...
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Opinion: Even On 9/11 Obama And Romney Can’t Resist Political Attacks
Several weeks ago President Barack Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney agreed to the honorable choice of swearing off any negative advertising hitting the airwaves on September 11 out of...
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Pentagon To Lift Ban On Women In Combat
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Pentagon has lifted its ban on women in combat. United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the historic change on Thursday. But how do people feel about the move?...
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Military Fireworks Show Cut, Even Though Local Company Volunteered To Do It...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Military veterans are upset after the annual Camp Lejeune fireworks show for military members and their families was cut. What makes it even worse: A Pittsburgh area company offered...
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Pittsburgh Firefighter Honors 9/11 Victims With Touching Bagpipe Performance
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — We all remember and commemorate 9/11 in our own way. On this day, the 12th anniversary of the attacks, a Pittsburgh firefighter performed a very special and poignant tribute to the...
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Pentagon: Most Furloughed Civilians Ordered Back
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon is ordering most of its approximately 400,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work. The decision announced Saturday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is based on a...
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Jamie Dixon To Serve On Leadership Panel At Pentagon
PITTSBURGH (93-7 The FAN) – The Pentagon will be hosting a panel of seven college basketball coaches to lead a discussion on leadership with approximately 400 service members, and Pitt’s Jamie Dixon...
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Pentagon Ends Ban On Transgender Troops In Military
WASHINGTON (AP) – Transgender people will be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, the Pentagon announced Thursday, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces. Saying it’s the...
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Obama Denies Payment To Iran Was Ransom, Dismisses Concerns Of Rigged Election
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama vigorously denied on Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was ransom to secure the release of four Americans jailed in Tehran. He defended the...
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Trump To Nominate Retired Gen. James Mattis To Lead Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate retired Gen. James Mattis to be his defense secretary, making the announcement at a post-election victory rally in...
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Pentagon: U.S. Dropped Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb In Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with “the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat...
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Trump Tells Mattis To Indefinitely Ban Transgender Recruits
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday directed the Pentagon to extend indefinitely a ban on transgender individuals joining the military, but he appeared...
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Transgender People Free To Enlist In US Military From 2018 After Court Ruling
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday declined the US government’s request to put on hold an order allowing transgender individuals to join the military beginning in...
View ArticleGoogle Employees Demand Company Stop Work On U.S. Military Project
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter CBS Local — Over 3,000 employees at Google have signed an open letter to the company’s leadership urging them to drop out of the Pentagon’s project to equip drones...
View ArticlePentagon To Release Details Of Niger Ambush, Response
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon says it’s preparing to lay out how an Army Special Forces mission in Niger unfolded last fall and led to a gruesome ambush in which...
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Pentagon Postponing President Trump’s Military Parade
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter By Barbara Starr and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Defense says the military parade originally scheduled for Veterans Day will be postponed. “The...
View ArticleU.S. Service Member Killed, Another Injured In Afghanistan
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. service member has been killed and another wounded in an apparent insider attack in eastern Afghanistan. Resolute Support and U.S....
View ArticlePresident Trump Observes 17th Anniversary Of Sept. 11 Attacks In Shanksville
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday remembered the “band of brave patriots” aboard a Sept. 11 flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, praising...
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Trump Intends To Nominate Uniontown Native Mark Esper As Defense Secretary
(CNN) — President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Mark Esper to be secretary of defense on Friday, the White House said. Trump tapped Esper earlier this week to take the helm of the...
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