{"id":268071,"date":"2026-08-19T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268071\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:26:15","slug":"final-four-of-2026-tsa-cutest-canine-contest-includes-pittsburghs-yellow-lab-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268071\/","title":{"rendered":"Final four of 2026 TSA Cutest Canine Contest includes Pittsburgh&#8217;s yellow lab Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Pittsburgh, PA) The 2026 edition of the Transportation Security Administration\u2019s yearly\u00a0Cutest Canine Contest is down to its\u00a0final four, and one of the dogs in the running to win it is from Pittsburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Epic works at the Pittsburgh International Airport and is a yellow Labrador retriever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Voting for this contest is open until noon tomorrow on the TSA\u2019s social media platforms and Epic will go against Ember from Orlando International Airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Epic wins that\u00a0match,\u00a0he will take on\u00a0Xaro\u00a0from St. Louis Lambert International Airport or Bolt from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this contest will be announced on August 26th, which is ironically National Dog Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Pittsburgh, PA)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-268071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}