Mike Wereschagin
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Assistant managing editor, data and investigations @post-gazette.com. Co-author, Gone at 3:17, the story of the worst school disaster in U.S. history (http://bit.ly/4lfcKRi). Under water whenever possible.
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Aug 26
Ohio man who left antisemitic flyers in Squirrel Hill guilty of 160 littering violations
A district judge on Tuesday found an Ohio man guilty of the more than 150 litter-related charges filed against him in the aftermath of an antisemitic flyer...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Aug 25
Deadly dust: Missed inspections, enforcement failures imperil the lives of coal miners
Deep in the earth's crust, the toxic substance rises in the air as miners drill into massive layers of rock.
As they work the controls of the big machines,...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Clairton Coke Works employee describes blast that sounded like ‘two trains colliding’ — then silence
The first thing Andrew Macey thought about as he arrived at work at the Clairton Coke Works on Tuesday morning were the cars that remained. Two of them...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Jul 31
5,000 miles away, a Pittsburgh seismograph picked up the Pacific earthquake that triggered tsunami warnings
About 5,000 miles away from one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history, an instrument on the North Side recorded the action.
The seismograph at...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Jul 31
WQED lays off 19 employees following federal funding cuts for public media
Less than two weeks after Congress passed sweeping spending cuts that targeted public broadcasting, WQED — one of the oldest public television stations...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Pennsylvania Democrats, public push for more Epstein files with Trump, while GOP is on defensive
WASHINGTON — Western Pennsylvania Democrats and a majority of voters across the state and country are increasingly pressing the Trump administration...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Washington County coroner alleges he was strong-armed into calling infant’s 2022 death a homicide
The Washington County coroner says he was strong-armed by District Attorney Jason Walsh into filing a fraudulent death certificate in 2022 indicating a...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Thousands of Pittsburghers to see medical debt cleared through American Rescue Plan dollars
More than 40,000 Pittsburgh residents will soon be informed that their medical debt has been erased courtesy of a program funded by dollars the city received...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Jul 29
After ICE arrested staff at a Mexican restaurant in Marshall, customers came to work in their place
When news spread that Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents were raiding Tepache, a Mexican restaurant in Marshall, the community was quick to respond.
In...
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Jimmy Cloutier
@cloutierjr.bsky.social
· Jul 26
Butler GOP Rep. Mike Kelly violated code of conduct during insider trading investigation, House Ethics Committee finds
U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly violated congressional ethics rules and refused to fully cooperate with an investigation into insider trading by him and his wife,...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Jul 21
Rough justice: Former Pa. prosecutor accused in criminal case of targeting political enemies
For years, David Russo wielded unparalleled power from his office in the historic Greene County courthouse amid political battles that would upend the...
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Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
· Jun 26
‘I’m very worried’: Pittsburgh parents navigate UPMC’s curtailing of gender services for ages 18 and under
The change follows a Supreme Court decision last week, United States v. Skrmetti, upholding a Tennessee law banning such care.
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