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Pittsburgh Police have arrested two teens in the fatal shooting of an Oliver Citywide Academy student last year. Police charged Eugene Watson, 18, and his brother, Brandon Watson, 17, both of the city’s Crafton Heights neighborhood, with criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy, and two firearms violations. They are both charged as adults. The Watsons were both in the Allegheny County Jail without bond on Friday, court records show. They are charged in connection with the Jan. 19, 2022 shooting death of Marquis Campbell, 15. Campbell was shot as he sat in a van outside the school in the city’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood....

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Boats at sea felt only a gentle swell as the Asian tsunami passed under their hulls — but by the time the first giant wave slammed into Sri Lanka's coast it was a monstrous 15 feet high, scientists say. A 15-member tsunami research team found that the wave struck with crushing force in some places, yet washed almost gently over the coast just a few hundred yards away, affected by shoreline and seabed features, the scientists said Saturday, releasing preliminary data at a seminar. The tsunami took an hour and 50 minutes to reach Sri Lanka...