Rick Earle
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11 Investigates Exclusive: Supervisor of largest FBI facility recalls 9/11 attacks (opens the original)
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Retired FBI agent Tom Bush recently sat down with Chief Investigator Rick Earle to talk about the 9-11 attacks and the impact that day 25 years ago had on the FBI. Bush was working as a section chief at the Criminal Justice Information Center in Clarksburg, W.Va., just about a two-hour drive south of Pittsburgh. âThis is a whole different ball game. This is something, a whole different level of evil and terror that weâve never seen before,â said Bush, who also worked a number of other high
11 Investigates Exclusive:Â Evidence and artifacts from Flight 93 on display for FBI (opens the original)
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Items and artifacts recovered from the crash of United Flight 93 in Somerset County are now on display at the FBI building in Pittsburgh. Chief Investigator Rick Earle recently got an exclusive look at the items and spoke with the FBI and a National Park Service Ranger. Earle learned that it was all done with great care and reverence The items were brought to the FBI building on the South Side under a police escort last week. As they arrived, they were greeted by an honor guard and the playing o
Flight 93: 25 years later, 2 men connected by phone call on 9/11 meet for the first time (opens the original)
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Chief Investigator Rick Earle visited Shanksville to meet with two men connected by one phone call made on the morning of September 11, 2001. That phone call was made by Gordon Feltâs brother, and it went to the 911 center in Westmoreland County, where retired deputy emergency management coordinator Dan Stevens was working that day. âYour brother having the hindsight, if I need help, dial 911, and he took a chance, and it worked,â said Dan Stevens. It was the first meeting between Stevens
11 Investigates: Pittsburgh police widowsâ health care issue resolved? (opens the original)
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PITTSBURGH — 11 Investigates thought it had been resolved: the issue of payments for health care to widows of retired Pittsburgh police officers who passed away. After years of fighting it in court, the new administration agreed to stop the appeal and begin paying the widows. But the police union claims the city has only agreed to pay one widow, who was the subject of an 11 Investigates report back in July. And the union claims several hundred are due reimbursements, totaling millions of dollars
Pittsburgh mayor remembers his father, Former Mayor Bob OâConnor, who passed away 20 years ago (opens the original)
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PITTSBURGH — It has been 20 years since beloved Mayor Bob OâConnor passed away. OâConnor, who served on city council for more than a decade, ran for Mayor and finally won on his third attempt. But six months into office, he was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer. Two months later, he passed away at the age of 61. Chief Investigator Rick Earle has covered both OâConnors. He sat down with Mayor Corey OâConnor as he reflected on his fatherâs legacy and impact on him and the city. Earle: H
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