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A beloved 81-year-old Staten Island man butchered by an unhinged neighbor was remembered Saturday as the “grandfather” of the block as residents tried to wrap their minds around the bloody melee that ended his life. “It’s heartbreaking. The guy never harmed a fly,” one resident of Sunnyside Terrace said of Frank Pompilii, who was stabbed to death by a longtime neighbor during a bloody clash .
Pittsburgh EMS Chief Ron Romano’s final day in uniform — March 31 — was nearly 14 years to the day since a gunman fatally shot three Pittsburgh police officers while they were responding to a domestic dispute in Stanton Heights. Romano still remembers the sense of urgency to get to