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Closer to normal Residents, businesses still recovering two months after tornado By Mike Tony
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Renovation work continues at Laurel Estates near Laurel Highlands High School, two months after a tornado devastated the housing community.
Residents settling back into Laurel Estates as renovations continue after tornado
in Uniontown, her landlord put her and her daughter in ori Hough’s sufanother house on the same fering continued street that sustained less long after the tornado damage. tornado cracked her “Things we find comfort in rib and destroyed … favorite blanket, favorite her home. slippers, favorite sweatshirt – After she came back from gone,” Hough said. the hospital the night of Hough could see much of Feb. 15, when a tornado tore what she was missing just the roof off her house and across the street, through Mike Tony | Herald-Standard others on Millview Street where her first and secondfloor windows used to be before getting blown out by the tornado. And Hough could see what she was missing elsewhere too. She recalled seeing her stove on a truck driving near the CVS in Uniontown two weeks after the tornado, and her daughter called the police after they spotted a girl going inside their home earlier this month. Hough said people have helped themselves to her belongings following the disaster. “I call them vultures,” she said. Having to drive past her old house every day has been tough on Hough. “I have to look back at it,” Hough said. “It takes a toll on Michael Palm | Herald-Standard you.” Above: Lori Hough’s Millview Street home (left) was destroyed by a tornado that blasted Still, she’s grateful for through Uniontown and North Union Township on Feb. 15. Top: Otto Brick Company family and friends who have
“We wanted to go home so bad.” Rebekah Fullem and her mother Pamela spent more than six weeks at the Holiday Inn Express in South Union Township after they and residents of more than two dozen units were displaced from Laurel Estates in North Union Township after a tornado barreled through the housing community on Feb. 15. At 5:30 a.m. the day before Mike Tony | Herald-Standard Easter, the Rebekah Fullem stands in front Fullems left the of Holiday Inn Express in South hotel for good Union Township, where she and after having been notified her mother Pamela stayed for via hand-demore than six weeks. livered letter that they could move back in immediately. Their displacement brought many financial difficulties, from having to dine out all the time and paying $3 every time they washed
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Operations Manager Jason Chiado stands before the company’s destroyed warehouse and back offices off of Pittsburgh Street in North Union Township.
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Brownsville considers letter US to hit Russia with new sanctions requesting police presence For enabling the By Mike Tony
Syrian government of Bashar Assad and its chemical weapons program
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BROWNSVILLE – Borough council members are discussing a letter from residents of Mulligan Manor Apartments, asking them to provide a borough police presence in their 2nd Street building. “We live in a building that is supposed to be secure, but we do not feel safe here anymore,” council member Paul Synuria read from the letter, which he said had 52 signatures. The letter said residents had seen drug deals in the building and the apartment parking lot and requested police presence at various hours both day and night. Mulligan Manor is a public senior housing facility, overseen by the Fayette County Housing Authority. Council President Jack Lawver said that the Fayette County Housing Authority
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Brownsville Borough Council member Paul Synuria reads a letter from residents of Mulligan Manor Apartments on 2nd Street requesting a police presence.
had paid the borough $25,000 in the past for “abovebaseline services,” or more than one patrol per shift. “Baseline service was the patrol around the units,”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his use of the phrase “Mission Accomplished” to describe a U.S.led missile attack on Syria’s chemical weapons program, even as his aides stressed continuing U.S. troop involvement and plans for new economic sanctions against Russia for enabling the government of Bashar Assad. Stepping up the pressure on Syria’s president, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley indicated the sanctions to be announced Monday would be aimed at sending a message to Russia, which she said has blocked six attempts by the U.N. Security Council to make it easier to investigate the use of chemical
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Firefighters extinguish smoke that rises from the damage of the Syrian Scientific Research Center which was attacked by U.S., British and French military strikes to punish President Bashar Assad for suspected chemical attack against civilians, in Barzeh, near Damascus, Syria, Saturday.
weapons. “Everyone is going to feel it at this point,” Haley said, warning of consequences for
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Assad’s foreign allies. “The international
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