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Clairton

American  
[klair-tn] / ˈklɛər tn /

noun

  1. a city in SW Pennsylvania.


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An explosion has killed one person and and injured 10 others at the US Steel Clairton plant outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Monday, officials say.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

Crooks would go on to join an area shooting range, the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club, the BBC reported.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024

Attorney Robert S. Bootay III confirmed to The Times that Crooks, who was shot and killed by Secret Service agents Saturday, was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2024

The environmental groups sued in 2019, after a Christmas Eve fire at the Clairton coke works plant caused $40 million in damage.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

J. Brennan, an able, conscientious attorney of Pittsburgh, and one of the counsel who defended the Homestead strikers in 1892, went to Clairton to get the "rioters" released on bonds.

From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster

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