Chuck Biedka stories, Page 20
Pittsburgh police: Resident, suspect in Knoxville home invasion shot; suspect critical
Pittsburgh police are investigating an alleged home invasion in the Knoxville neighborhood in which two people were shot Friday night. Soon after arriving at the 300 block of Moore Avenue about 7 p.m., police found “multiple shell casings and a male resident with a gunshot wound to the hand,” spokesman...
Ice causes crashes across Alle-Kiski Valley
Ice on a sunny, but cold afternoon apparently caused two accidents within 20 minutes in the Alle-Kiski Valley and numerous others across the region. An Apollo man was driving down a small car down South Leechburg Hill in Allegheny Township at about 5:40 p.m. when he hit a patch of...
Flooding closes both ‘bathtub’ on Parkway East and nearby Parkway North ramp, detours announced
Flooding has closed both the westbound “bathtub” section of the Parkway East (Interstate 376) and the southbound Parkway North (I-279) ramp to the Parkway East outbound in Pittsburgh. The closures occurred at about 8:20 Friday night. The dip in the Parkway East known as “the bathtub” was expected to close...
Bridgeville suboxone clinic owner gets federal prison sentence, fine
An Upper St. Clair woman was sentenced Friday to serve more than a year in federal prison and pay a fine for violating federal drug dispensing laws and defrauding an insurance company. U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer sentenced Terri C. Brown, 53, of Morrow Road to a year and...
Power outages reported in Plum, Ross, Lower Burrell
At least 130 Duquesne Light customers in Plum lost electric service starting at about 8:30 p.m., spokesman Gerald Lucci said. The outage was caused by an underground cable failure at Kellywood Estates. Crew discovered that the outage was caused by a fallen tree, Lucci said. He said service could be...
Police: Pedestrian struck by hit-and-run driver on Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh police are investigating a pedestrian who was struck along the 900 block of Fifth Avenue on Thursday evening. Police say the driver did not stop after striking a man and then hitting a vehicle just before 6 p.m. The injured man apparently had a head injury. An ambulance took...
Police say they’ve seized $62k in drugs, guns from Monroeville house
Authorities say a raid at a house in Monroeville on Tuesday netted illegal drugs with a street value of about $62,000. Allegheny County and Monroeville police and the FBI on Tuesday searched a house in the 2500 block of Monroeville Boulevard. County police Inspector Andrew Schurman on Wednesday said they...
Paws Across Pittsburgh steps in to help 9 more dog, cats
Princess was in sad shape when Paws Across Pittsburgh volunteers met her last weekend. “The dog was in shutdown,” said Paws volunteer Vicki Marietta of Harrison City. “She wasn’t eating. She didn’t want to be touched. She was depressed and broken.” Princess, Bear, Charley, Dinky and five other dogs and...
Fire displaces family at Maple Street in Pittsburgh, family owned it for decades
Fire forced a family from a Maple Street house in Pittsburgh just after 6 p.m. Wednesday, but everyone inside got out safely. First District Fire Batallion Chief Greg Lowman said no one was injured in the blaze that heavily damaged the house thought to be about 100 years old. The...
2 houses in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood evacuated because of mudslide
A mudslide down a steep hill caused two houses to be evacuated Wednesday as a precaution along Arlington Avenue in Pittsburgh just after 5 p.m. The Trib’s news partner, WPXI-TV, said the mud and water came from the 900 block of McCain Street in Allentown. An engineer was expected to...
Pop-up parade starts Burrell High wrestlers on trek to state championships in Hershey
Burrell High School’s wrestlers got a pop-up parade Wednesday afternoon as they left town. The grapplers were starting their bus trip to the state championships in Hershey. The repeat WPIAL champs didn’t leave quietly. It was lights and sirens all the way through town. A brief Facebook announcement at 3:30...
Johnstown addiction clinic owner accused of violating federal drug and Medicare laws, money laundering
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on Tuesday indicted a drug addiction treatment clinic operator for allegedly conspiring with two doctors to violate drug and health care laws, as well as laundering money from drug sales. Stephen K. Shaner, 69, of Bulger, about 30 miles from Pittsburgh, is the owner/operator...
Here comes the rain, Western Pa.
The warm start to this week will turn wet as a couple of inches of rain could fall in the Pittsburgh region, according to the National Weather Service. “Tuesday will be a nice day with a cold front moving. We will have a high of 48 but that is still...
South Buffalo looks for ways to bring public sewage to township
South Buffalo officials are looking for ways to bring public sewage service to the township, and believe doing so could help spur growth there. “When you drive up Route 28, we are the first township you enter (in Armstrong County). If Armstrong County has a chance to grow, it will...
County detectives probing North Braddock shooting that wounds man along Jones Avenue
A 25-year-old man was wounded Friday afternoon in North Braddock, Allegheny County police said. Allegheny County homicide detectives were told the man was hit by gunfire along the 800 block of Jones Avenue at about 5:20 p.m. The man was hit twice, according to Lt. Ken Ruckel. At last check,...
Port Authority’s light rail Red Line back in operation after water break woes
Port Authority used shuttle buses between Mt. Lebanon and Castle Shannon light rail stations for almost 2 hours Friday night after a water main break on Cooke Lane in Castle Shannon flooded the tracks. The water main break, which occurred at about 7 p.m., forced the Port Authority to close...
Fire destroys Buffalo Township house in Parker Road neighborhood
A Buffalo Township couple’s house along Parker Road was heavily damaged by a fire just before 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. Sarah Ehrmentrout and Brett Carson arrived their rented two-story brick home, which is along the 600 block of Parker Road, and found smoke throughout the house, a...
Goodwill and Girl Scouts team up for regional clothing drive
Girls Scouts of Western Pennsylvania and Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania will team up next month to collect clothing. The gently used items will be sold by Goodwill to provide job training and education to help people with barriers to gain employment. It will also be a service project for the...
Fatal Carrick fire intentionally set, police say
A White Hall native died in an intentionally set fire in a vacant house in Carrick last August, Pittsburgh police said Tuesday. Martin Thomas Boehm, 53, died in an Aug. 17 fire. However, his remains were not found until three days later by a cadaver dog after police learned Boehm...
Man shot in Homewood North on Monday remains hospitalized
A man with a gunshot wound flagged down a Pittsburgh police car in Homewood along Frankstown Avenue and Murtland Street just before 4 p.m. Monday, police said. The man had a wound to his abdomen. A police spokeswoman said he was taken to a hospital and was listed in stable...
Carrick fire death in August classified as homicide
A 53-year-old man’s death in a house fire last August has been classified as a homicide, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said Friday. Martin Thomas Boehm died Aug. 21 — four days after he was injured in a house fire along the 1600 block of Leolyn Street in Carrick....
Police: Boy, 10, slips on ice under moving van on Polish Hill, critically injured
Pittsburgh police said a 10-year-old boy was pulled from under a loaded passenger van at the West Penn Rec Center on Polish Hill just before 8 p.m. Friday. He was in critical condition in a local hospital, a city public safety spokeswoman said in a news release. Police, medics and...
Mike Diebold’s pending release from jail irks some Leechburg residents
Former Leechburg police Chief Mike Diebold’s plan to move into his mother’s Siberian Avenue home after his expected release from prison on Sunday is irking some residents, who say the convicted sex offender shouldn’t be allowed to live there because it’s too close to three schools. But there’s nothing they...
Tamburitzans will leave building but not Pittsburgh, official says
The Tamburitzans, Pittsburgh’s consummate Eastern European folk music and dance group, is making plans to leave its building, but will stay in the city. There is a pending sale for the Tamburitzans building in the city’s 1800 block of the Boulevard of Allies, said Pam Pleash Weigand, a former performer...
Reward offered for info on Braddock man who fled hospital with IV still attached
Area police are seeking the public’s help to find a man accused of robbery, assault and other charges and fleeing a hospital with an IV attached before police could arrive to arrest him. Jerome Solomon, 30, of Braddock, is named in Allegheny County Police warrants for a May 11 incident...
