Megan Guza stories, Page 50
Festival of Trees to light up River Forest starting Friday
River Forest Country Club’s first Holiday Festival of Trees begins Friday, part of the Freeport area’s Small Town Christmas celebration. The festival kicks off at 6 p.m. with a tree-lighting at the Allegheny Township golf club. Businesses, golf leagues, families and others sponsored 20 small firs at the club, earning...
Wilkinsburg lands $3M grant for downtown revitalization
A six-year, $3 million state grant awarded to the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation will go toward revitalizing the borough’s central business district, the corporation announced. The development corporation plans to use the grant, from the Neighborhood Partnership Program, to finish work on the historic Lohr Building and Train Station, according...
Ex-Jeannette, Ohio State star Terrelle Pryor stabbed in Pittsburgh, faces charges
An alleged physical fight between Terrelle Pryor and his girlfriend ended with the former NFL player stabbed in the chest and both facing charges, according to the criminal complaints filed against the pair. Pryor underwent surgery Saturday and is expected to survive, according to a family friend. He is charged...
Diocese: Sex abuse allegations ‘credible’ against 4 Pittsburgh-area priests
A review board has found sexual abuse allegations against four Pittsburgh area priests credible enough to forward them to the Vatican, a Diocese of Pittsburgh spokeswoman said Wednesday. Bishop David Zubik has agreed not to return the three living priests to the ministry in the meantime. The Rev. John Bauer...
Pair plead guilty in 2003 Pittsburgh shooting turned homicide 15 years later
One man will remain on parole and another in prison for a 2003 shooting in Downtown Pittsburgh that turned into a homicide last year when the man they robbed and shot died of complications from the 15-year-old bullet wound. Marty Allen Armstrong Jr., 35, and Lamont Fulton, 34, both pleaded...
Baldwin High School showcases STEM support launched statewide by Gov. WolfVideo
State and local officials spent Friday morning at Baldwin High School seeing what Head Start and pre-K students are learning through a state grant aimed at providing science and math education. The PAsmart program, launched by Gov. Tom Wolf two years ago, puts $30 million toward STEM (science, technology, engineering,...
Josh Shapiro focused on being Pa. attorney general, not what’s next
Don’t ask Josh Shapiro what’s next. There’s work to do right now. Shapiro, three years into his first term as Pennsylvania attorney general, has risen in profile since taking office. That’s due in no small part to the explosive 2018 grand jury report accusing a half-dozen Catholic dioceses across the...
Canonsburg man found dead on T tracks near South Hills Village
A man was found dead on the T tracks near the Port Authority’s South Hill Village station Saturday morning, police said. The man was identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office as Mark Stephen Setar, 56, of Canonsburg. Setar was pronounced dead at the scene, apparently struck by a...
Cancer victims compel state to fund $3 million studies seeking link to gas wellsVideo
An impassioned confrontation by pediatric cancer patients and their families in Harrisburg this week led Gov. Tom Wolf to announce a pair of studies into potential health issues caused by natural gas drilling, the governor said Friday. “It hit me in the heart and it also hit me in the...
Duquesne University names leader of planned medical schoolVideo
Duquesne University officials chose a doctor already familiar with building a medical school from the ground up to head the university’s planned college of osteopathic medicine. Dr. John Kauffman helped found Campbell University’s medical school, the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine, in 2011. He’s been with Campbell, located...
No criminal charges filed for Garrett’s helmet hit on Rudolph in Steelers-Browns brawlVideo
Authorities are not investigating the late-game melee during Thursday’s Steelers game against the Cleveland Browns, and legal experts say the bar is high for criminal charges to be filed against the Browns’ Myles Garrett. In the brawl, Garrett took the helmet of Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph and used it to...
New Kensington native Anthony Breznican recounts panic after California school shooting
New Kensington native and Santa Clarita writer Anthony Breznican had just dropped off his children at elementary school Thursday morning when he swung around and went back. There’d been a shooting. Not at his children’s school, but a high school nearby. When police officers who live in the neighborhood began...
Pittsburgh attorney Heather Heidelbaugh announces run for attorney general
Former Allegheny County councilwoman and Pittsburgh attorney Heather Heidelbaugh said Tuesday she will run for Pennsylvania Attorney General in 2020. Heidelbaugh, 61, was elected to council’s at-large Republican seat in 2010 and chose not to run again after one term. She is a partner at Leech Tishman in Pittsburgh’s Downtown....
Volunteers to spurn Black Friday, pack meals Downtown
Volunteers will spend Black Friday working to pack 1 million meals for the Pittsburgh area’s homeless and food-insecure at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The event, called Amen to Action, is in its third year. The aim is for volunteers to shrug off the usual consumerism of Black Friday...
Allegheny County tops statewide liquor sales
Drinkers in Allegheny County bought the most booze from state stores last year, purchasing more than $309 million worth of wine and liquor from Fine Wine and Good Spirits stores in Allegheny County, according to the latest state report. In addition, Pittsburgh hosts the general retail location with the highest...
Market Square restaurant hit with health violation
The Allegheny County Health Department hit a Market Square restaurant with a violation after an inspector found insects and unsafe temperatures, according to the report. An inspector on Wednesday found “juvenile American roaches” near a storage area for plates and utensils at Las Velas in Downtown Pittsburgh. Invoices showed the...
WPXI meteorologist Kevin Benson charged with driving under the influence
A Pittsburgh-area weather forecaster faces misdemeanor driving under the influence charges in Washington County, according to court records. WPXI-TV meteorologist Kevin Benson was charged with three counts of driving under the influence and four moving violations after a 911 caller reported an erratic driver on Interstate 79 near the Interstate...
Allegheny County DA Zappala faces challenge from independent Middleman, a longtime public defender
Allegheny County Public Defender Lisa Middleman is the second candidate to try to topple District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr.’s 20-year tenure. Turahn Jenkins challenged Zappala, 62, in the Democratic primary in May. Jenkins, who left his post as the chief deputy director of the county public defender’s office to...
In state Superior Court race, four candidates vie for two open seats
Four candidates are running for two open seats on Pennsylvania’s Superior Court, one of the state’s two intermediate appellate courts. The Superior Court hears all appeals from the Court of Common Pleas and is made up of 15 judges. Appeals are generally heard by a three-judge panel. Only one candidate,...
Judge: Trial of synagogue shooter won’t conflict with High Holy Days next yearVideo
No part of the trial against accused synagogue gunman Robert Bowers will take place during the Jewish High Holy Days next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Federal prosecutors had proposed that jury selection in the capital case begin Sept. 14 – four days before the start of Rosh Hashanah,...
Hundreds fill memorial service for those killed a year ago in Tree of Life shooting
Remember. A packed Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall wept as one as family, congregants and strangers came together to remember the 11 worshippers killed in the Tree of Life building one year ago. Family members lit 11 tall, white candles — 11 burning reminders symbolizing their loved ones. Hundreds of...
A chronicle of gratitude: Police station near Tree of Life keeps thank-you notes for posterity
The cookies, the coffee, the food delivered to the Zone 4 police station in the days and weeks after Oct. 27 are all long gone. The gift cards — $5 to Starbucks, $10 to Coffee Tree Roasters — are still being distributed among the officers at the Northumberland Street station....
Capital case against Robert Bowers in Tree of Life shooting moves slowlyVideo
Federal prosecutors want Robert Bowers, charged with killing 11 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill last year, in front of a jury by this time next year, facing the death penalty. But his attorneys contend there would be no need for a trial if prosecutors had just...
Capital case against Robert Bowers: Prosecution, defense at odds over when trial should begin
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Victims of mass shootings since Tree of Life recognized at North Shore eventVideo
Eleven. Thirteen. Five. Six. Thirteen. Five. Twenty-two. Ten. Eight. Four. Pittsburgh. Thousand Oaks. Sebring. Aurora. Virginia Beach. Santa Maria. El Paso. Dayton. Midland-Odessa. Kansas City. Under blue skies and sunshine on the edge of the Allegheny River, one person stepped forward for each victim killed in public mass shootings since...
