Hero medals go to 2 who saved Pa. bar from gunman

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two men who subdued a gunman in a Pennsylvania bar and a woman who saved an elderly woman from flash flooding in Pittsburgh are among three being honored with Carnegie medals for heroism.

Fifty-one-year-old Kirk Haldeman, of Ligonier, and 52-year-old Michael Ledgard, of Greensburg, are credited with saving several patrons from assault at the Ligonier bar last July.

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