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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — "Why do this?? To young girls? Just read below," wrote George Sodini, 48. "I kept a running log that includes my thoughts and actions, after I saw this project was going to drag on." The gunman walked into LA Fitness Center with a duffel bag, turned out the lights in a room where a dance class was going on, then opened fire on the women in the room. Reported, photographed and coordinated on-scene team Web and print coverage of mass shooting at suburban Pittsburgh health club. Coverage won first place in spot news category in 2010 PA Keystone Press Awards, among other awards.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Coordinated team breaking and package coverage for digital and print Sunday editions after a gunman ambushed and killed three Pittsburgh Police officers and wounded two others.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — First P-G reporter dispatched to cover the Sago mine disaster in West Virginia. Later helped to report, write and compile this special section examining the explosion, the people involved and the regulatory issues that would lead to multiple government investigations.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — One of the P-G's team of reporters dispatched to cover the rescue of trapped miners in Pennsylvania's rural Quecreek Mine. Later worked with team to produce this special section, which was expanded into a book by Reader's Digest. Section won a national Clarion Award, among other honors.

72.46.232.150 — "United Airlines Flight 93 became an asterisk to a day of horror that claimed almost 5,000 lives, toppled buildings that stood like a twin Colossus on the New York shore, took down one side of the Pentagon, and ushered in a war without rules against an enemy without a state. What made Flight 93 different was a decision reached somewhere over the skies of Western Pennsylvania, after passengers learned on cell phones that they were likely to be flown into a building as the fourth in a quartet of suicide attacks. They became the first casualties in a strange new combat against an enemy as old as hatred and as unclear as the muffled shouts and groans investigators would later hear on the cockpit voice recorder dug out of a reclaimed strip mine on a Pennsylvania hillside. This is their story." One of the first P-G reporters dispatched to cover the crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, PA, during the 9/11 terror attacks. Later reported, wrote and helped to assemble this special section profiling all victims with family/friend interviews as well as outlining exclusive information about the crash investigation. Section won a Clarion Award, among other national and regional honors.

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