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CIF state track and field: Pittsburg athletes win two state titles

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When the curtain closed Saturday night at the California Interscholastic Federation state track and field championships in Clovis, four individuals and one relay team stood tallest among Bay Area News Group athletes.

Pittsburg’s 4×100 relay team of Jamar Searcy, Michael Stallworth, La’Rico Tezeno and Tim Edwards opened the meet with a sizzling sprint around the Veterans Memorial Stadium track, posting a time of 40.77 to edge Long Beach Poly by three-tenths of a second.

The East Bay school wasn’t done.

Later, Jathiyah Muhammad captured Pittsburg’s second state title, winning the girls pole vault in 13 feet, 9 inches.

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Muhammad’s brother, Khaliq, took second in the boys pole vault with a mark of 16-4, which was four inches behind winner Kai Anderson of University City.

Acalanes’ Trevor Rogers leaped 24-3 ¾ to capture the long jump one year after placing fourth in the event.

The Cal-bound two-sport standout, who helped Acalanes win a state football title in December, edged Wilcox’s Tyson Bonilla, who took second in 24-1.

Campolindo’s Pinkie Schnayer also stood atop the medal stand after she finished first in the shot put in 47-3 ¾. Aja Johnson of Notre Dame-Sherman Oaks was second in 46-8 ¾.

Bishop O’Dowd’s Brandon Rush celebrated a state championship in the triple jump after he posted a mark of 47-5. He went 48-1 ¼ in Friday’s trials, which ranked second heading into Saturday’s finals.

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Here is how athletes from the Bay Area News Group’s coverage area performed on Saturday:

Girls 4×100

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Oaks Christian, 45.67

No. 7 Pittsburg, 47.08

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Friday’s trials

No. 8 Pittsburg, 46.86

Top time: Calabasas, 45.90

Boys 4×100

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Pittsburg (Jamar Searcy, Michael Stallworth, La’Rico Tezeno, Tim Edwards), 40.77

No. 6 Archbishop Mitty, 41.13

DQ De La Salle

Friday’s trials

No. 2 Pittsburg, 41.30

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No. 5 Archbishop Mitty, 41.51

No. 7 De La Salle, 41.58

Top time: Long Beach Poly, 41.19

Girls 1,600

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Sadie Engelhardt, Ventura, 4:32.06

No. 5 Tatum Olesen, Menlo-Atherton, 4:46.76

Friday’s trials

No. 5 Tatum Olesen, Menlo-Atherton, 4:51.25

Top time: Sadie Engelhardt, Ventura, 4:50.52

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Boys 1,600

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Andreas Dybdahl, Santa Barbara, 4:08.23

No. 4 Benjamin Bouie, Crystal Springs Uplands, 4:10.40

No. 6 Miles Jones, Oakland Tech, 4:11.15

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No. 7 Arrin Sagiraju, Dougherty Valley, 4:11.45

No. 11 Daniel Martinez, Clayton Valley Charter, 4:14.61

Friday’s trials

No. 4 Arrin Sagiraju, Dougherty Valley, 4:11.88

No. 6 Daniel Martinez, Clayton Valley Charter, 4:11.92

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No. 7 Benjamin Bouie, Crystal Springs Uplands, 4:10.99

No. 12 Miles Jones, Oakland Tech, 4:12.53

Top time: Jonah Reynolds, Jesuit-Carmichael, 4:10.59

Girls 100 hurdles

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Anisa Bowen-Fontenot, San Diego, 13.59

Friday’s trials

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Top time: Anisa Bowen-Fontenot, San Diego, 13.74

Boys 110 hurdles

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Saturday’s finals

State champion: Myles Mcfarland, Cosumnes Oaks, 13.69

No. 6 Prince Najeeb Babalola-Buchango, Archbishop Mitty, 14.22

No. 9 Thomas Zang, St. Ignatius, 14.75

Friday’s trials

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No. 3 Prince Najeeb Babalola-Buchango, Archbishop Mitty, 14.07

No. 9 Thomas Zang, St. Ignatius, 14.24

Top time: Myles Mcfarland, Cosumnes Oaks, 13.71

Girls 400

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Payton Smith, La Jolla, 53.39

No. 2 Hannah Rutherford, Mountain View, 53.70

No. 8 Eden Enoru, Heritage, 56.39

Friday’s trials

No. 2 Hannah Rutherford, Mountain View, 54.54

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No. 8 Eden Enoru, Heritage, 55.65

Top time: Morgan Maddox, Culver City, 53.62

Boys 400

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Xai Ricks, Long Beach Poly, 46.79

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Friday’s trials

No locals advanced

Top time: Dylan Ochoa, Northview, 47.24

Girls 100

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Mikaela Warr, Canyon, 11.41

Friday’s trials

No locals advanced

Top time: Amirah Shaheed, Madison, 11.50

Boys 100

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Saturday’s finals

State champion: Brandon Arrington Jr., Mt. Miguel, 10.33

No. 4 Jaden Jefferson, De La Salle, 10.49

No. 9 Nathaniel Guillory, Los Altos, 10.63

Friday’s trials

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No. 5 Jaden Jefferson, De La Salle, 10.40

No. 7 Nathaniel Guillory, Los Altos, 10.51

Top time: Brandon Arrington Jr., Mt. Miguel, 10.27

Girls 800

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Tessa Buswell, Poway, 2:06.51

No. 7 Kylie Hoornaert, Prospect, 2:09.22

No. 8 Zoe Lahanas, Clayton Valley Charter, 2:10.96

Friday’s trials

No. 1 Kylie Hoornaert, Prospect, 2:08.48

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No. 11 Zoe Lahanas, Clayton Valley Charter, 2:12.18

Boys 800

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Cain Evans, Carlsbad, 1:50.21

Friday’s trials

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No locals advanced

Top time: Cain Evans, Carlsbad, 1:51.88

Girls 300 hurdles

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Morgan Herbst, Carlsbad, 41.26

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Friday’s trials

No locals advanced

Top time: Morgan Herbst, Carlsbad, 41.93

Boys 300 hurdles

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Jordehn Gammage, Canyon, 37.35 

No. 9 Thomas Zang, St. Ignatius, 39.39

Friday’s trials

No. 9 Thomas Zang, St. Ignatius, 38.57

Top time: Jonathan Tseko-Biffle, El Capitan, 37.48

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Girls 200

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Amirah Shaheed, Madison, 23.53 

No. 7 Hannah Rutherford, Mountain View, 24.06

Friday’s trials

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No. 3 Hannah Rutherford, Mountain View, 23.99

Top time: Morgan Maddox, Culver City, 23.60

Boys 200

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Brandon Arrington Jr., Mt. Miguel, 20.55

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No. 3 Nathaniel Guillory, Los Altos, 21.27

No. 5 Prince Najeeb Babalola-Buchango, Archbishop Mitty, 21.34

DNS Jaden Jefferson, De La Salle

Friday’s trials

No. 6 Nathaniel Guillory, Los Altos, 21.11

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No. 7 Prince Najeeb Babalola-Buchango, Archbishop Mitty, 21.20

No. 9 Jaden Jefferson, De La Salle, 21.46

Top time: Brandon Arrington Jr., Mt. Miguel, 20.55

Girls 4×800 relay

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Ventura. 8:57.21

No. 6 Granada, 9:10.55

No. 7 Los Altos, 9:11.42

No. 8 St. Francis, 9:12.15

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Boys 4×800 relay

Saturday’s finals

State champion: San Clemente, 7:38.07

No. 2 Granada, 7:40.29

No. 7 Foothill, 7:44.53

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No Friday’s trials

Girls 3,200

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Jaelyn Williams, East Lake, 9:57.11

No. 8 Shea Volkmer, Campolindo, 10:20.57

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Boys 3,200

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Evan Noonan, Dana Hills, 8:43.12

No. 2 Grant Morgenfeld, Palo Alto, 8:44.40

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No. 5 Lucas Cohen, Albany, 8:48.63

No. 7 Landon Pretre, Menlo School, 8:50.47

No. 9 Olaf Dietz, Berkeley, 8:51.77

No Friday’s trials

Girls 4×400 relay

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State champion: Long Beach Wilson, 3:41.40

No locals advanced

Top time: Long Beach Poly, 3:47.95

Boys 4×400 relay

State champion: Long Beach Wilson, 3:12.54

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No locals advanced

Top time: Long Beach Wilson, 3:15.08

Girls discus

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Aja Johnson, Notre Dame-Sherman Oaks, 158-10

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No. 5 Brielle Moseley, Silver Creek, 142-4

Friday’s trials

No. 10 Brielle Moseley, Silver Creek, 138-4

Top mark: Sol Bitners, Davis, 153-5

Boys discus

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Saturday’s finals

State champion: McKay Madsen, Clovis North, 206-8 

No. 3 Kyler Headley, Silver Creek, 197-6

Friday’s trials

No. 6 Kyler Headley, Silver Creek, 184-6

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Top mark: Derek Smith, Buchanan, 206-11

Girls long jump

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Loren Webster, Long Beach Wilson, 20-5 1/4

No. 5 Ellie McCuskey-Hay, St. Ignatius, 19-0

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No. 9 Natalie Lyons, Acalanes, 18-3

No. 10 Kira Gant Hatcher, St. Mary’s-Berkeley, 18-1

Friday’s trials

No. 5 Ellie McCuskey-Hay, St. Ignatius, 18-8 ½

No. 9 Natalie Lyons, Acalanes, 17-11 3/4

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No. 12 Kira Gant Hatcher, St. Mary’s-Berkeley, 17-6 ¾

Top mark: Loren Webster, Long Beach Wilson, 20-9 ¼

Boys long jump

Saturday’s finals

No. 1 Trevor Rogers, Acalanes, 24-3 ¾

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No. 2 Tyson Bonilla, Wilcox, 24-1

No. 6 Jonathan Craft, James Logan, 23-2 ¼

No. 11 Brandon Rush, Bishop O’Dowd, 22-1 ¾

Friday’s trials

No. 1 Trevor Rogers, Acalanes, 24-7 ¾

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No. 2 Tyson Bonilla, Wilcox, 24-3 ¼

No. 4 Brandon Rush, Bishop O’Dowd, 23-7

No. 5 Jonathan Craft, James Logan, 23-6 ¼

Girls shot put

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: No. 1 Pinkie Schnayer, Campolindo, 47-3 3/4

Friday’s trials

No. 1 Pinkie Schnayer, Campolindo, 44-3 ½

Boys shot put

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: McKay Madsen, Clovis North, 62-9 ½

No. 10 Luke Lewis, Serra, 55-6 1/2

Friday’s trials

No. 10 Luke Lewis, Serra, 55-7

Top mark: Brayden Bitter, Clovis North, 64-3 ¼

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Girls pole vault

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Jathiyah Muhammad, Pittsburg, 13-9

No. 6 (tie) Elise Doyle, San Ramon Valley, 12-5

No. 9 (tie) Abigail Goetz, Sequoia, 11-11

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Friday’s trials

No. 1 Jathiyah Muhammad, Pittsburg, 12-7

No. 2 (tie) Elise Doyle, San Ramon Valley, 12-3

No. 10 Abigail (Abby) Goetz, Sequoia, 11-9

Boys pole vault

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Saturday’s finals

State champion: Kai Anderson, University City, 16-8 

No. 2 Khaliq Muhammad, Pittsburg, 16-4

Friday’s trials

No. 4 Khaliq Muhammad, Pittsburg, 15-6

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Top mark: Three tied for first, also at 15-6

Girls triple jump

Saturday’s finals

State champion: Alyssa Alumbres, Vista Murrieta, 40-11

No. 11 Daniela Hughes, Los Altos, 37-2 ¾

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Friday’s trials

No. 11 Daniela Hughes, Los Altos, 37-7 1/4

Top mark: Quincie Richards, Royal, 39-8 ¾

Boys triple jump

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Brandon Rush, Bishop O’Dowd, 47-5

No. 8 Noah Gonzalez, St. Ignatius, 45-7 ¼

No. 11 Anthony Dean, De La Salle, 44-2 ¾

Friday’s trials

No. 2 Brandon Rush, Bishop O’Dowd, 48-1 ¼

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No. 7 Noah Gonzalez, St. Ignatius, 46-7

No. 11 Anthony Dean, De La Salle, 46-2

Top mark: Jordan Carter, Vista del Lago, 48-6 ¾

Girls high jump

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Valentina Fakrogha, Ventura, 5-8

No. 2 Summer Young. Menlo School, 5-8

No. 4 Lelani Laruelle, Monta Vista, 5-7

Friday’s trials

No. 3 (tie) Addison Braitberg, Miramonte, 5-5

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No. 6 Lelani Laruelle, Monta Vista, 5-5

No. 8 Summer Young, Menlo School, 5-5

Top mark: Two tied, also at 5-5

Boys high jump

Saturday’s finals

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State champion: Deshawn Banks, Birmingham, 7-0 ½

ND Alexander Dillon, Milpitas

Friday’s trials

No. 3 (tie) Alexander Dillon, Milpitas, 6-6

Top mark: Two tied, also at 6-6

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Judge calls Pittsburgh crash death ‘textbook example’ of why DUI is illegal

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No one showed up in court for either side.

Not for the victim, a 33-year-old immigrant killed in Pittsburgh last year by a drunken driver.

And not for the defendant, a 22-year-old woman who created a good life for herself and her twin sons despite a string of difficult life circumstances, including an incarcerated father and a mother with mental illness.

Maria Davis, of Uniontown, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to homicide by vehicle, aggravated assault and driving under the influence after police say she crossed the center line on Beechwood Boulevard last year, crashing head-on into Abdulaziz Sharibbaev and killing him.

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Sharibbaev lived in Pittsburgh’s Westwood section at the time of his death. Law enforcement could not confirm where he emigrated from and were unable to reach any relatives for the court proceedings.

As part of a plea agreement, Davis will serve 16 to 32 months in custody to be followed by two years probation. Her attorney asked the court to allow his client to enter an alternative housing program, which the judge said she will consider after Davis has served at least 12 months.

She must also pay $3,500 in mandatory fines.

Davis was driving a black Hyundai sedan north on Beechwood Boulevard toward Squirrel Hill around 12:30 a.m. on March 11 when she crossed the center line and struck a silver Toyota Prius head-on, according to a criminal complaint.

Sharibbaev, who was driving the Prius, had to be extricated by medics.

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He died from his injuries five days later.

Both Davis and a passenger in her car were taken to local hospitals. The passenger sustained facial injuries and fractures from being thrown into the windshield.

A blood test showed Davis had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.163% — more than twice the legal limit for driving of 0.08%.

She also had marijuana in her blood, police said.

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Defense attorney Adam Bishop told Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Simquita R. Bridges that his client had been raised primarily by her great-grandmother after her father was incarcerated and her mother could not care for her.

After her great-grandmother became ill, Davis had to return to live with her mother at age 14, Bishop continued. Three years later, she moved out.

Davis had no prior criminal history and worked as a certified nursing assistant at a facility in Uniontown, Bishop said.

The night of the crash, she and friends were going out to celebrate her birthday.

Davis had gotten a babysitter, drove to Pittsburgh and attended a baby shower that day before checking in to a hotel room.

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At the shower, Davis had a shot of tequila and shared a glass of wine, Bishop said. Then, when Davis returned to the hotel to get ready for her night out, she had a couple more shots.

Davis and her friend arrived at a bar called Eon in Homestead and were waiting outside in line for more than 90 minutes when a fight broke out, Bishop said.

One of the men involved made threats, Bishop told the judge, and fearing he would return with a gun, Davis and her friends left.

Although she had not planned to drive any more that night, Davis got in her car to follow another friend to a bar in Greenfield, the attorney said.

The two vehicles got separated in traffic, Bishop said, and the friend texted Davis the address for the bar.

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She was trying to type the address into the GPS on her phone when she crossed the center line and crashed, according to Bishop.

“It was that act of distracted driving, in conjunction with her intoxication,” Bishop said, that caused the crash.

Bishop described Davis as extremely remorseful and said she accepts full responsibility for her actions.

“She got dealt some bad cards in life,” Bishop said, but still managed to make a good life for her sons, who will turn 2 next month.

“One night can change everything,” he said.

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A ‘poor decision’

No one was in court to describe the impact of Sharibbaev’s death.

Davis told the judge she is sincerely sorry.

“I would never purposely hurt somebody,” she said. “I ask that his family accept my apology. For as long as I live, I hope they can forgive me at some point.”

Davis told the court she is trying to learn from what happened.

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“I tried all my life to be a good person and stay on the right path,” she said. “This night, I just made a poor decision.”

But Assistant District Attorney Jameson Rohrer said it wasn’t just one bad choice.

“This was a series of decisions that (ended) a man’s life and permanently changed the lives of the defendant and her children,” he said.

Bridges agreed.

“You are a textbook example of why drinking and driving is illegal,” the judge said. “Good people sometimes make bad choices. That doesn’t make you a bad person.

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“Your life isn’t over because of this. You can pick yourself up and move on.”



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Man’s body found underneath trailer behind former Shop ‘n Save in Carrick

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Pittsburgh Police detectives are investigating after a man’s body was found underneath a trailer behind the former Shop ‘n Save store in the city’s Carrick neighborhood.

Pittsburgh Public Safety said late Monday night that detectives from the Violent Crime division responded to the area of Amanda Street and Wynoka Street in Carrick after a man’s body was found around 8:30 p.m.

Public Safety said the man’s body was found underneath a trailer and that he was pronounced dead by medics at the scene.

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Pittsburgh Police detectives are investigating after a man’s body was found underneath a trailer in the city’s Carrick neighborhood on Monday night.

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A photo provided by Pittsburgh Public Safety shows officers surrounding a taped off area and what appears to be a refrigerated trailer parked at the loading dock along Amanda Street behind the former Brownsville Shop n’ Save, which closed its doors last month

No details surrounding the circumstances of the man’s death were provided by Public Safety, who said that the cause and the manner of the man’s death will be determined by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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The man’s identity has not been released.

Public Safety said the investigation into the man’s death is “ongoing.”



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Record number of peregrine falcons counted in Allegheny County

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In the early 1960s, the peregrine falcon population declined so sharply that the raptors weren’t even nesting in Pennsylvania. But now, the National Aviary says a record number have been counted in Allegheny County.

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The National Aviary says six peregrine falcons were recorded in the county during the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. The nation’s longest-running citizen science project collects data on bird populations for ornithologists, the aviary says. It also plays a role in guiding conservation action, like what was needed to bring peregrine falcons back from the brink of extinction. 

Because of the use of DDT, peregrine falcons were no longer nesting in the state of Pennsylvania by the early 1960s, the aviary said. But after the harmful pesticide, which negatively affects reproduction rates in birds, was banned in 1972, conservation efforts have helped the peregrine falcon rebound. It was removed from the federal endangered species list in 1999 and Pennsylvania’s list in 2021. 

The record number of peregrine falcons in Allegheny County is thanks in part to the nest on top of Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning in Oakland. For the past two years, biologists with the Pennsylvania Game Commission have banded chicks born in the nest. Three were banded last year, and two the year before that. 

People can watch Carla and Ecco raise their family in the nest on a livestream camera run by the National Aviary. Carla laid her first egg of the breeding season on March 16 last year, so the aviary says the start of another season isn’t too far away. 

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