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By Patrick Damp, Lauren Linder

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    PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A teenage boy remains in grave condition at a local hospital after he fell 30 feet at a construction site in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood on Thursday morning.

It happened on Bryant Street, when the teen was doing roof work.

For those in the area, they’ve been concerned about something like this happening for quite some time.

“Seeing that gives you kind of a funny feeling in your stomach,” said David Boynton, owner of Priority One Personal Training and Wellness.

That was Boynton’s reaction when he saw first responders outside of his business on Thursday morning.

Just 20 minutes earlier, he saw workers across the street at the construction site for new condos and retail spaces – some of them on a forklift, and others cleaning sawdust off the roof.

Then, around 10:30 a.m., he noticed one of them on the ground.

“I saw someone being brought out or put onto a gurney,” he recalled.

Police said the teenager was doing roofing work when he fell about three stories and was taken to the hospital in grave condition with a serious head injury.

“It’s just really, really sad,” said Shawn McCrorey, a trainer at Priority One. “I saw them just kind of throwing stuff up from the outside of the building, and catching it over the side, and bringing it in.”

Boynton and his employee McCrorey said what appeared to be an Amish crew, including teenagers, had been working at the site for 2-3 months, constructing the building from the ground up. They said it seemed they didn’t take many safety precautions, not wearing harnesses and walking across the beams.

“There’s no way that can be safe,” McCrorey said. “You’re thinking, in your head, something is bound to happen.”

Allegheny County property records show the current owner as Gupta Properties, and KDKA-TV has reached out for comment, but has not heard back. Other contractors listed include Certasite Pro, and they told KDKA-TV their workers were not involved.

Meanwhile, Boynton hopes for some answers and a change.

“Shouldn’t there be more oversight of these projects to make sure that things are being done safely, and not allowing individuals who are very young to work in situations like this?” Boynton asked.

Pittsburgh police are continuing to investigate, and OSHA has also confirmed to KDKA-TV that they have opened an investigation.

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By Patrick Damp, Lauren Linder

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    PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A teenage boy remains in grave condition at a local hospital after he fell 30 feet at a construction site in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood on Thursday morning.

It happened on Bryant Street, when the teen was doing roof work.

For those in the area, they’ve been concerned about something like this happening for quite some time.

“Seeing that gives you kind of a funny feeling in your stomach,” said David Boynton, owner of Priority One Personal Training and Wellness.

That was Boynton’s reaction when he saw first responders outside of his business on Thursday morning.

Just 20 minutes earlier, he saw workers across the street at the construction site for new condos and retail spaces – some of them on a forklift, and others cleaning sawdust off the roof.

Then, around 10:30 a.m., he noticed one of them on the ground.

“I saw someone being brought out or put onto a gurney,” he recalled.

Police said the teenager was doing roofing work when he fell about three stories and was taken to the hospital in grave condition with a serious head injury.

“It’s just really, really sad,” said Shawn McCrorey, a trainer at Priority One. “I saw them just kind of throwing stuff up from the outside of the building, and catching it over the side, and bringing it in.”

Boynton and his employee McCrorey said what appeared to be an Amish crew, including teenagers, had been working at the site for 2-3 months, constructing the building from the ground up. They said it seemed they didn’t take many safety precautions, not wearing harnesses and walking across the beams.

“There’s no way that can be safe,” McCrorey said. “You’re thinking, in your head, something is bound to happen.”

Allegheny County property records show the current owner as Gupta Properties, and KDKA-TV has reached out for comment, but has not heard back. Other contractors listed include Certasite Pro, and they told KDKA-TV their workers were not involved.

Meanwhile, Boynton hopes for some answers and a change.

“Shouldn’t there be more oversight of these projects to make sure that things are being done safely, and not allowing individuals who are very young to work in situations like this?” Boynton asked.

Pittsburgh police are continuing to investigate, and OSHA has also confirmed to KDKA-TV that they have opened an investigation.

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By Mike Darnay, Christopher DeRose

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    LATROBE, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Country music star Luke Bryan’s Farm Tour concert Thursday night in Westmoreland County has been called off.

The show was canceled late Thursday morning because of the wet and muddy field conditions at 1846 Farms in Unity Township near Latrobe, where the concert was slated to take place.

Bryan apologizes for cancelation Several hours after the cancelation was announced, Luke Bryan took to his Instagram page, where he posted a story saying in part that he was “so sorry” and that the decision was made in the name of safety.

“Please hang on to your tickets and parking passes,” Bryan said. “We are working on the next steps and will update y’all as soon as a decision is made.”

The website for the show says that people with tickets will receive information by email.

There is no word on a rescheduled date, but KDKA can confirm Bryan’s people reached out to the Westmoreland County Fairgrounds about a potential new show date in the not-too-distant future.

Muddy field conditions blamed Aleisha Stas, the general manager of 1846 Farms, said that she and her team are devastated that the show was called off.

“Luke and his team made the call. It was not on us,” Stas said. “But the conditions of the mud, the ground is just too soft to have millions of dollars of equipment and it is just not safe either for people to be parking. There was a risk of people sliding in their vehicles and people falling so, it was overall the better choice for everyone’s safety.”

One by one on Thursday, the tour buses and trucks had to be pushed, moved and towed out of the soggy, sunken earth, made even worse by a heavy Thursday morning rain that lasted for well over two hours.

“This is the life of the American farmer,” Stas said. “This is what we deal with every single day. No matter how tirelessly you work, how hard you work, you can’t help Mother Nature. So that’s all I can say: God bless American farmers.”

Approximately 15,000 to 20,000 people were expected to attend the show at the farm.

One Luke Bryan fan, Kristin Carter, came all the way from Florida for the show. She said she had to come to the farm Thursday afternoon to see for herself just how bad the conditions were.

“As much money as I spent to get here, I could have bought a Louis Vuitton purse,” she joked. “But here I am … I get it for safety why they had to do it, of course. But it is disappointing.”

In 2024, Luke Bryan played a similar farm show to the one that was planned for the Latrobe area when he played near Smithton at the Cunningham Family Farm.

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By Kerri Corrado

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    SICKLERVILLE, New Jersey (KYW) — A South Jersey family-owned ranch sits on a sprawling 33 acres in Sicklerville. It’s called Circle S: Second Chance Ranch, and its name speaks for itself. Its mission is to save and care for as many horses and animals as they can.

“Some of ours have been directly saved from slaughter,” Kevin Schultz, who owns the ranch with his wife Hilary, said, “and some have been pulled out of the auction pipeline.”

They say they never thought it would bloom into what you see here today, especially knowing nothing about horses or ever owning this much land and pastures.

“We started out rescuing one horse, and it quickly led to two and three, and our mission developed into what it is now,” he said.

CBS News Philadelphia met Rescue, one of the seven horses that called the ranch home, along with some other fellow farm friends like goats and pigs. He was pulled from slaughter 15 minutes before being loaded on a truck.

“Rescuing feels natural to us because we always rescued our cats and dogs,” Hilary Schultz said.

The ranch hosts events, field trips and school visits, welcomes volunteers and has its own nonprofit called the Second Chance Ranch Foundation to support its mission and give back to the community.

A big piece of their heart is also dedicated to helping first responders and vets. They have a program that helps with PTSD and anxiety.

While keeping up with the ranch is no easy task, the reward means everything to them.

“We really felt like we wanted to allow the community to experience the blessing that we get to experience every day,” she said.

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By Laura Fay and Web Staff

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    PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Health officials in Philadelphia are warning about possible measles exposures at a children’s hospital in the city.

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is reporting a possible measles exposure at the main campus of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on Sept. 11.

CHOP, the Pennsylvania Department of Health and city health officials are working to give babies in the neonatal intensive care unit a preventive antibody product to prevent measles or lessen severe disease. They are also taking steps to prevent additional spread of the disease, according to a press release from the city health department.

The possible exposures happened at these locations:

– CHOP NICU West: 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. – CHOP NICU West family lounge: 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. – CHOP Atrium: 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. – CHOP main cafeteria: 12:05 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

A person visiting the hospital that day has tested positive for measles, the city health department told CBS News Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is also encouraging people to check their vaccination status and watch for symptoms. Measles symptoms include fever, runny nose, cough and red, watery eyes, followed by a rash, officials said.

“We encourage people to get vaccinated not only to protect themselves, but to protect those who cannot get vaccinated. This is why it is imperative that everyone who is eligible gets up to date on the vaccines they need so we can protect our most vulnerable,” Health Commissioner Dr. Palak Raval-Nelson said.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia declined to comment or share more information.

What is measles? Measles is caused by a virus and is transmitted through the air from coughing and sneezing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It spreads very easily because it can linger in the air for hours.

Two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine are the best protection against the virus. Measles protection is also part of the MMRV vaccine, which includes varicella (chickenpox).

The vaccine is safe and is extremely effective at preventing measles, and adults can be vaccinated as needed, Philadelphia health officials said.

If you are not immune to the virus and develop symptoms through Oct. 2, you should contact your doctor right away, according to the health department. You should let your doctor know you may have been exposed to measles if that’s the case, and contact your local health department as well.

Ongoing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania The exposures in Philadelphia come amid an ongoing measles outbreak in the state. As of Thursday, Pennsylvania is reporting a total of 731 cases in the state this year, including 117 in the past seven days.

So far this year, four cases have been reported in Berks County, 67 in Chester County, 2 in Lehigh County, and 3 in Montgomery County, according to a state dashboard.

The state is also reporting four measles-associated deaths in 2026.

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