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Mass Shooting at Pennsylvania Car Wash by Justin Merriman

Family members and friends console each other near Ed's Car Wash where four people were found dead and one injured after a shooting early Sunday morning on January 28, 2018 in Melcroft, Pennsylvania. See more images at Getty Images. (Photo by Justin Merriman/Getty Images)

Vehicle Accident by Justin Merriman


Joe Chau, 22, of Shaler holds his broken nose after being involved in a vehicle accident along Ridge Avenue and Arch Street on the North Side when a Pittsburgh School Police van struck his Nissan. The driver of the police vehicle was taken transported to a hospital for injuries.

Cliff Rescue by Justin Merriman


Rescue workers bring Andrew Scott, 19, of Mount Washington, down the hillside near the Monongahela Incline on Thursday evening on the South Side. Scott was spotted by a passenger on the incline who saw him sitting on the hillside. He had decided to scale down the hillside instead of using the incline, and was more than half-way down when he fell and injured himself, about 50 feet from the bottom of the cliff.

Severe Storms by Justin Merriman




TOP: Harry Orlando, 74, is consoled by Kathy Vargo, who works nearby along Fifth Avenue in the Soho section of the city, and came to check on his safety after the building where his business is located collapsed during severe thunderstorms that passed through the region on Thursday evening, August 9, 2007. MIDDLE: Geneva Johnson, 18, embraces her aunt Mary Broddie, 77, who's home along Fifth Avenue was heavily damaged and partially collapsed. BOTTOM: Harry Orlando, 74, stands across the street from his barber shop along Fifth Avenue where he has worked since he was 6 years old.

Standoff by Justin Merriman


A suspect argues with police officers after being captured in a raid on an apartment building on Tuesday afternoon, July 17, 2007 in Crafton Heights. Three people in all were arrested after Pittsburgh police SWAT officers surrounded and searched the apartment complex. The response was apparently connected to an incident in the Fairywood neighborhood earlier today in which men in a car fired shots at police officers.

Flooding by Justin Merriman


Joseph Junak, owner of Joseph R. Junak's Auto Repair and Snow Removal, sits in his flooded garage along Franklin Avenue in Aliquippa after flash flooding filled the street and his business with several feet of water, mud and debris on Thursday afternoon, July 5, 2007.