THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016

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Loved ones mourn young life lost

6-year-old girl shot
Wednesday at a vigil in Mt. Oliver.
Somebody took something from
ICAlaw
reins in
Medical Examiners Office. An in St. Clair at a gathering in Knox-
autopsy has yet to be scheduled, ville in front of the house where

in crossfire Sunday me. Involuntarily, said Patricia

Allen, Isis grandmother. We didnt
a supervisor at the medical exam-
iners office said.
Isis was shot. Father, we pray for
that young brother that lost his

dies in hospital
give her up. They took her from us. Police on Mon- way. Father, I pray that even in that
The little girl who enjoyed play- day night arrested jail cell you will visit him and you
ing kickball, doing arts and crafts Thomas, who told will reveal yourself to him.

finance
by MEGAN GUZA and being a cheerleader for a youth them he shot to- More than 40 people held hands,
AND TONy RAAP football team, suffered a gunshot ward the home to sang gospel tunes and prayed for
wound to the head Sunday night in scare Clay Clips an end to the citys gun violence.
Hours after 6-year-old Isis Al- Knoxville. She was caught in the Thompson, au- Lord, I pray that we will be
len died at Childrens Hospital of crossfire as Kamau Thomas Jr., 19, thorities said. able to see the day when our chil-
Pittsburgh of UPMC on Wednes- of Carrick fired shots at a house on Police original- dren can play in the streets again,
Isis

agency
day, friends, relatives and strang- Zara Street, trying to scare off a man ly charged Thom- Trent said. That people can sit
ers prayed for her, her accused who had threatened him, according as with attempted homicide, ag- on their porches again and not
assailant and for neighborhoods to court documents filed by police. gravated assault and other counts. fear gun violence. Father, do it for
numbed by the fact that someone The child was walking with an The charges are expected to be your glory.
so young had become an innocent adult past the home about 11 p.m. amended, Public Safety spokes- Police interviewed more than
victim of gunfire. when she was shot, according to woman Emily Shaffer said. 20 witnesses in the shootings af-
Isis, I really miss you, and I real- police. She was pronounced dead Father, I pray for this commu- termath.
ly wish this didnt happen to you, at 1:46 p.m. Wednesday, according nity, said the Rev. Maurice Trent
Amier Taylor, the girls cousin, said to police and the Allegheny County of Lighthouse Cathedral Church SHOOTING B6
Wolf signs measure
amid Trib reporting
Piranha
MAKING A SPLASH by CARL PRINE
Gov. Tom Wolf signed sweeping bipar-

fished out
tisan legislation Wednesday designed
to reform one of the two state financial
watchdogs overseeing Pittsburgh.
The legislation came in the wake of

of North
a Tribune-Review investigation that
detailed financial mismanagement
and numerous other problems at Pitts-
burghs Intergovernmental Coopera-

Park Lake
Fish believed to have
been dumped by owner
by bOb FRyE
Someone apparently took
on the job of stocking North
Park Lake.
The Pennsylvania Fish and
Boat Commission annually
puts trout into the lake. But
someone dumped a red-bellied
piranha likely from a fish
tank in there, too.
A woman fishing with her
son caught it Tuesday, ac-
cording to the Allegheny
County Parks Department,
which received a call and
subsequent pictures.
With the help of the
tion Authority and with its controver-
sial former director, Henry Sciortino.
The new law brings more account-
ability and transparency to the ICA
by forcing it to safe-
guard most financial
records for up to
seven years; tightens
ethical standards for
board members and
employees; hikes the
auditing the agency
Sciortino undergoes; and puts
most budgets, con-
tracting and fiscal records online for
the public to inspect.
This is going to be a big change for
this organization, and this is an orga-
nization that needs the support of the
community, Wolf said from Harris-
STEPHANIE STRASBURG | TRIBUNE-REVIEW
burg. This makes it more worthy of
DAndre Davis, 5, of Etna takes a leap over his sister and friends as they play Wednesday at the Etna that support.
Borough Pool. Behind him, his sister Lavanna, 4, watches in amusement. Highs are expected to be in
Formed a dozen years ago to save
the 90s through Sunday. Pittsburgh from municipal bankrupt-
cy, ICA works alongside a similar state
body organized under Act 47 to ap-
prove Pittsburghs budgets.

Corrosion found near blast

Pennsylvania Fish and Boat
Commission, we were able
to confirm that it was a red-
bellied piranha, parks Di-
rector Andrew Baechle said
Wednesday.
Tom Crist, manager of the
agencys regional office in
Somerset, did not return a
call seeking comment. Rick
Levis, the agencys Harris-
burg-based press secretary,
said he was unable to confirm
the type of fish.
PIRANHA B6
If you see it
Anyone fishing in North
Park Lake who catches
what may be a red-bellied
piranha is asked to notify
the Allegheny County
Parks
Depart-
ment by
calling
412-350-
2460 or the
North Park Office
on Pearce Mill Road
at 724-935-1766.
SUBMITTED
Spectra Energy ordered
to verify integrity of line
from Delmont to N.J.
by DEbRA ERDLEy
PAUL PEIRCE
AND
The federal agency investigat-
ing a natural gas pipeline explo-
sion in Westmoreland County has
found similar corrosion on a par-
allel pipeline and ordered Spectra
Energy to verify the integrity of
the entire transmission line from
Delmont to Lambertville, N.J.
Investigation by Spectra and the
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration has shown
that in addition to the failed line,
three others at the Salem Town-
ship site in the same right of way
potentially were damaged or ad-
versely affected by the explosion
and fire and pose a serious risk to
life, property or the environment
if returned to normal operation
without the operator taking addi-
tional corrective actions, Alan K.
Mayberry, acting associate admin-
Charred
trees
surround
a chimney
that remains
from a
home
destroyed
in a natural
gas pipeline
explosion in
Salem.
SEAN STIPP | TRIBUNE-REVIEW
istrator for the pipeline agency, like this happening, said Theresa
wrote in a 13-page order. Mele, owner of My Sisters Bistro,
The rupture of the 30-inch line a sit-down Italian restaurant, near
the morning of April 29 sent a mas- the blast site. If theyre talking
sive fireball hundreds of feet into about corrosion in the same area
... its a scary situation.
the air, scorching about 40 acres of
The federal pipeline agency said
farmland, destroying one home,
preliminary findings indicate the
damaging several others and leav-
ing nearby resident James Baker, Salem explosion was caused by
corrosion at tape-coated welds
26, with extensive burns.
along the pipeline, but officials
That explosion was devastat-
have yet to officially determine
ing for the (James) Baker family
the cause.
and all the people in the area who
have been afraid of something PIPELINE B6
Unlike the Act 47 overseers, ICA can
stop the flow of $10 million in annual
Rivers Casino slot revenues to the city
to force budget concessions a sum
thats risen to nearly $20 million.
A sunset provision in the new law
could make the ICA disappear by mid-
2019, sooner if the Act 47 team goes, too.
A Trib investigation into ICA pub-
lished in early April showed that 92
percent of all ICA spending receipts be-
tween 2010 and 2016 apparently had been
lost or destroyed. Under Sciortinos
watch, all ICA bank records and only
two invoices for his agencys spending
between 2004 and 2009 survived.
Past and present ICA board members
told the Trib that they had no idea Sci-
ortino underwent federal bankruptcy
protection in 2010-11 after he was ac-
cused of bilking a business partner and
then trying to hide millions of dollars
in assets from creditors in a string of
sham companies run out of his Chester
County home. The bankruptcy was
uncovered by the Trib while analyzing
California property records and Phila-
delphia County court filings.
The reporting triggered ongoing
criminal investigations of ICA by the
Allegheny County district attorney,
the state auditor general and attorney
general and federal agents reporting
to the U.S. Attorney for the Western
ICA B6

Study: Millennials tend to put own interests first in business

Duquesne business ethics professor that millennials use moral
reasoning 31 percent of the
might be more concerned
about keeping their job or se-
Weber is planning to take
the research further and sur-
work in a different economy
and did not have to worry as

looks into reasons behind moral gap time, compared to baby boom-
ers who attended college in
curing their success than they
are about confronting their
vey business students at other
universities to explore why
much about student loans.
Were definitely more of an
the 1960s and 70s who used employer about an ethical di- millennials use moral think- independent-thinking genera-
by ELIZAbETH bEHRMAN sity of St. Thomas, surveyed moral reasoning 42 percent of tion, Farah said about mil-
lemma, Weber said. ing less frequently than their
about 300 Duquesne business lennials. I think thats where
A new study from Duquesne students and presented them the time, and Generation X-ers Millennials are less likely predecessors.
people get caught up. They
University shows that millen- with ethical dilemmas in a who attended college in the to remain loyal to a single I now know what, and Im
think were self-serving, but I
nials are more likely to put business setting. 1980s and 90s who used it 37 company throughout their en- trying to figure out why, We-
think were just surviving in
their own interests first in a On average, their research percent of the time. tire career, he said. They may ber said. this environment. I have to do
business setting. found, the students used the Which makes me wonder: bounce between two or three Ashten Farah, a 26-year-old whats best for me.
Duquesne business ethics highest-level moral reason- Is it in a business context jobs every few years. event coordinator in Pitts-
professor James Weber, along ing in their decisions less where the moral reasoning In the old days, youd have burgh, disagreed with the Elizabeth Behrman is a Tribune-Review
with business law professor than 25 percent of the time. drops? Weber said. two or three jobs your whole studys findings, pointing out staff writer. Reach her at 412-320-7886
Dawn Helm from the Univer- Other studies have shown For instance, millennials career, he said. that baby boomers went to or Lbehrman@tribweb.com.

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