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City Council's Health and Social Services Committee raised questions about enforcement and e-cigarettes.

Advocates Push to Ensure Akron Includes E-cigs in Raising the Age to Buy Tobacco Products

Akron City Council has again delayed a vote on an ordinance that would raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products in the city from 18 to 21. WKSU’S M...

People rallied in front of the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh on Thursday, protesting the death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr.

'Why Are They Shooting?' E. Pittsburgh Enraged Over Police Killing Of Black Teen

Antwon Rose Jr., 17, was riding in a car suspected of having been used in an earlier shooting. He ran after police stopped the vehicle and was shot three times by an East Pittsburgh police officer.

The state of New York is putting e-cigarettes into the same category as regular tobacco cigarettes, under new restrictions signed into law this week. Here, a man uses a vape device in London last summer, next to a No Smoking sign.

New York Bans Vaping Indoors In Public: State Law Classes E-Cigs With Cigarettes

"These products are marketed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes but the reality is they also carry long-term risks," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

A 2017 file photo of the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in New York City. Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has accused now-President Trump of sexually assaulting her inside the store in the mid-1990s.

Trump Denies New Sexual Assault Allegation By Advice Columnist E. Jean Carroll

Trump says Carroll's allegations, published in New York magazine, are an attempt to sell copies of her new book. Carroll says Trump attacked her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s.