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PITTSBURGH — Authorities say a suspicious package that caused two University of Pittsburgh dormitories to be evacuated contains paperwork and isn't a danger to anyone.
The package was reported around 6:40 p.m. Wednesday by a clerk at a UPS store. The police bomb squad and hazmat team responded.
Pitt Vice Chancellor for Communications Kenneth Service says surveillance video captured images of a man leaving the package.
Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Brian Elledge says the package “probably” was headed to California.
Service says the package contains items identified as “scientific material” and other paperwork and isn't a bomb.
PITTSBURGH — A Western Pennsylvania county judge has barred online access to civil court records when cases are in trial so juries can't read documents and possibly be influenced by information they're not supposed to see.Common Pleas Judge Terrence O'Brien, the administrative judge for the county's civil courts, issued the order last month after a request by the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, a newspaper reported Tuesday.The documents themselves can still be accessed by reporters and others during trial, but only by contacting the judge overseeing the case.“The potential for prejudice to the parties outweighed the minimal restriction to public access,” O'Brien said. “I balanced the two principles, and this is the best I could do.”John Gismondi, a personal injury attorney who heads the trial lawyers' academy, said smartphones make it easier than ever for jurors to access online court documents.Jurors are told not to consider any information except documents and testimony offered in evidence, but some disregard judges' orders and look up court documents on their own.
