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A 16-year-old boy was arrested and charged as an adult in connection with a shooting near a Pittsburgh high school that left three people injured, WTAE-TV reported Wednesday night.

Pittsburgh police are responding to a reported shooting at the city's Brashear High School. According to KDKA, police dispatch radio said three people have been shot.

Police didn't want to hear DeAndre Brown's alibi. They wanted him to confess to a crime instead. Never mind that he had no criminal record. A witness placed the 26-year-old Pittsburgh-area security guard at the scene, and that was good enough to lock him up for a month, despite the existence of a surveillance tape showing him at a training event somewhere else.

A 40-year-old Pennsylvania man who was out on bond strapped himself into a suicide vest on Tuesday and blew himself up outside his landlord's house, killing himself and injuring two others in a blast that leveled the building. According to Pittsburgh's WPXI Channel 11, Brad Kollar was due in court Tuesday morning on charges of running an automobile chop shop and of possessing bomb-making materials.