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Cigna and AHN have reached a last minute deal to continue in-network care for 20,000 patients. The two sides faced a major impasse over rates with all roads leading to an end to in-network coverage beginning this weekend. But in the 11th hour, Cigna and AHN reached a one-year agreement with plans to negotiate a longer term deal in the coming weeks. Cigna customers will continue to have full access to AHN's services. Those with questions should call their Cigna healthcare rep or AHN's dedicated line for Cigna members. 

It is a Code Red air quality action day in Western Pennsylvania with the return of smoke from Canadian wildfires. A Code Red Action Day means young people, the elderly and those with breathing problems should avoid going outside. Everyone else in encouraged to limit time outdoors and avoid exerting themselves. National Weather Service Meteorologist Bill Modzelewski says the smoke plumb is widespread. Allegheny and surrounding Counties are under the alert.

A man was shot and killed in East Hills last night. ShotSpotter picked up five 5 rounds fired just after 9 p.m. in the 2200 block of Wilner Drive. Officers arrived to find the man with a neck wound and attempted life-saving measures until EMTs arrived, but the man died at the scene.

A little over a week after he was found guilty on 63 counts the next phase of the synagogue shooting trial will determine whether Robert Bowers will be executed or go to prison for life. NewsRadio KDKA's Andrew Limberg has the latest, live at the federal courthouse.

Fatalities on Pennsylvania highways are trending up so far this year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says 265 people died in traffic crashes in Pennsylvania in the first three months of this year. That's a 13 percent increase from the same three month period last year, when the number was 234.  Pennsylvania wasn't alone with fatality increases, there were 18 total states with increases, but just six states, including Rhode Island, Mississipi and North Dakota, had a higher percentage increase in estimated road fatalities than Pennsylvania. The Post Gazette reports Pennsylvania has issued its own Strategic Highway Safety Plan to reduce highway deaths, and has an ongoing safety education campaign to get motorists to change their behavior when they get behind the wheel.

A 39-year-old woman was killed in an overnight hit-and-run incident in McKeesport.  A black sedan with rear window damage struck the unidentified woman around 1:15 a.m. in the 2600 block of Jenny Lind Street. First responders found her in critical condition and she was rushed to a hospital, where she died. Police located the vehicle they were looking for about 7 a.m. and are trying to identify the driver.

Last night was the final night to stay in the Smithfield Street temporary shelter Downtown. The doors close at 7 this morning and at that time, the county says people should disperse and no longer gather in front of the building. The director of the county's Department of Human Services says they've offered places to stay to as many as 125 people but not everybody accepts. 

Tonight could be the last night the Smithfield Shelter will be available to the homeless in Downtown Pittsburgh. On the Big K Morning Show, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald confirmed the low-barrier shelter will close for good in the next day or so. He says the shelter was nothing more than a basement gymnasium with cots on the floor and a bathroom.

It is a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day. The Department of Environmental Protection says with temperatures in the 80s and lingering smoke from Canadian wildfires, ozone pollution will be higher than usual.

We are waiting for word of a verdict in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting trial. Jury deliberations began Thursday afternoon. After the verdict, comes the sentencing phase of the trial. Robert Bowers could get the death penalty or life in prison for killing 11 people at the Pittsburgh synagogue, where 3 congregations were gathered for services on the day of the shooting. Stephen Cohen is president of New Light congregation, which lost 3 of its members. He says the last couple weeks of testimony has been heartwrenching at times. But there has also been a great showing of love and support. He says while a verdict may bring the case closer to justice... foregiveness may never come. Survivors and victims' families will be able to speak directly to Bowers in the next phase of the trial.