Megan Guza stories, Page 63
Pair gets jail time in 2017 brick attack on Pittsburgh teacher
A judge Monday sentenced a woman and her boyfriend to nearly a year in jail for their 2017 attack on a Pittsburgh Public Schools teacher on the West End Bridge. Daishonta Williams, 30, and Vincent Beasley, 27, both pleaded guilty late last year to aggravated assault and conspiracy for the...
Victim of O’Hara tree-trimming accident identified
Police have identified a man who died Monday when a tree fell on him during tree-trimming work at a home in O’Hara. Adam Hursen, 33, was killed at about 10:45 a.m. at a home on Marberry Drive, said Inspector Andrew Schurman. Hursen was working for Tree Masters, which had been...
Former Duquesne basketball player pleads to disorderly conduct in 2017 rape case
A former Duquesne University basketball player initially charged with rape and sexual assault in 2017 pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct. Nick Washington, 21, received a sentence of one year of probation in exchange for the guilty plea to disorderly conduct, court records show. Charges of rape, involuntary deviate sexual...
Pittsburgh police arrest 2 men suspected in Downtown burglaries
A Pittsburgh police officer arrested a man suspected in a Downtown burglary Friday morning after spotting him near the scene of another heist. Stephen Lamm, 48, of Johnstown, is charged with both burglaries, one at a business on Liberty Avenue and one at a business on Wood Street. A second...
1 shot, 5 escape Baldwin home invasion
Two men opened fire during a home invasion Thursday in Baldwin Borough, critically injuring one man while five others escaped unharmed, according to police. The shooting happened shortly after 10 a.m. at the Leland Point housing complex on Macassar Drive, according to Allegheny County police Inspector Andrew Schurman. Paramedics transported...
Frigid air freezes Port Authority ConnectCard kiosks, free rides for those affected
Outdoor Port Authority ConnectCard kiosks malfunctioned Thursday in the frigid temperatures, according to authority officials. The Port Authority said via Twitter that most of the outdoor machines were offline, and technicians would be out to make repairs. Riders who were unable to load their cards can ride free until the...
Woman wanted in alleged screwdriver attack arrested in North Carolina
A woman wanted for an alleged screwdriver attack and carjacking Monday in Pittsburgh was arrested in North Carolina, court records show. An extradition hearing for Marin Oreski of Washington is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, according to arrest records. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested Oreski early Tuesday morning, though details of the arrest...
Promoted to military captain overseas, Pittsburgh police officer receives 2nd promotion
He waited nearly a year to be sworn in as a Pittsburgh police sergeant, but Robert Connors received another promotion in the meantime. Connors was serving in the Middle East with the Pennsylvania National Guard last year when he was promoted from officer to sergeant, and he could not take...
Health aid accused of assaulting 92-year-old Pittsburgh woman
A home health care aid allegedly assaulted a 92-year-old woman, kicking her so hard that she required stitches, police said. Brightstar Healthcare aid Kweilin Wofford told city police she was headed to the apartment of Bunny Pittsburgh in the Riverview Towers in Squirrel Hill when she heard screaming and swearing,...
Police still searching for 1 in violent Stowe home invasion
Three men opened fire during an early morning home invasion in Stowe on Wednesday, and police continued searching into the evening for one who eluded capture. The home invasion happened about 3:10 a.m., and two people were home at the time, said Inspector Andrew Schurman of the Allegheny County Police....
Swissvale woman charged in infant’s Tylenol overdose
Allegheny County police on Tuesday charged a Swissvale woman with child endangerment and assault in connection with an incident in which an infant suffered organ failure after a Tylenol overdose. The child, who was 19 months old at the time of the incident, was admitted to UPMC Children’s Hospital of...
Hate-crime charges added against accused synagogue gunman Robert Bowers
A federal grand jury has added 13 hate-crime charges to the indictment against Robert Bowers, accused gunman in the Oct. 27 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill. Bowers, 46, of Baldwin Borough, originally faced 44 federal charges in the anti-Semitic attack that left 11...
Happenstance brought radio host, good Samaritan to Parkway East tragedy
Family and friends of two men killed in a tragic incident along the Parkway East are trying to come to terms with the bizarre happenstance of it all. “It’s only fitting he lose his life while in service to strangers,” Danielle Willey said of her friend, Landen Jones. “He was...
Returned Christmas cards anger prison activists, inmates’ loved ones
Local activists demanded an apology from Gov. Tom Wolf and the state Department of Corrections on Monday, alleging the department and its mail handler unfairly kept 500 Christmas cards from prison inmates. The activists are part of the Western Pennsylvania chapter of the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration, or...
Allegheny County Jail inmate died of natural causes
Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that an Allegheny County Jail inmate taken to the hospital Monday afternoon died of natural causes. Edward Davis, 55, of Pittsburgh, was pronounced dead at UPMC Mercy hospital at 1:44 p.m. The medical examiner’s office reported late Tuesday the cause of death was a...
Man claims he was carjacked, stabbed with screwdriver in Pittsburgh assault
Police issued an arrest warrant Monday for a woman who allegedly repaid a favor by beating and carjacking the man who gave her a ride, leaving him with no shoes and a series of stab wounds. David Legrande told police he lent the woman $50 and gave her and another...
Arctic air mass ushering in below-zero wind chills this week
This morning’s frigid temperatures will inch above freezing during the day before giving way to frigid Arctic air that is set to hang around for several days, according to local meteorologists. “We’re going to have a pretty good little bit of warming through Monday with highs right around 38 degrees,”...
Woman, dogs rescued as firefighters face frigid temps, ‘hoarding’ to battle McCandless blaze
Firefighters battled bitter cold outside and difficulties getting around the inside of a McCandless home to rescue a woman and several dogs Sunday afternoon, according to authorities. The fire began at the home on Parkedge Drive just before 3:30 p.m., according to a 911 dispatcher. Multiple dogs were pulled from...
Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley shows off its larger shelter as renovations beginVideo
Visitors got a last glimpse of the former child care center on Church Street in New Kensington on Sunday before renovations begin to turn the vacant building into an animal shelter. The plans to move Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley from its 3,000-square-foot home on Linden Avenue to the Church...
State representative from Pittsburgh holds forum on legalizing marijuana
Navy veteran Derrick Clark suffered a traumatic brain injury during his time serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he hasn’t had a migraine in three years, he said, thanks not to opioid painkillers, but rather medical marijuana. He said he doesn’t have nightmares anymore either, and the cannabis has helped...
Authorities identify 2 men killed in fall from Parkway East onto Second AvenueVideo
Authorities have identified two men who died Saturday when they either fell or jumped from the Parkway East near Oakland during a traffic crash, plummeting to Second Avenue below where they were struck by a passing car. The incident shortly before 4 p.m. involved three vehicles on the Parkway and...
Retired Munhall Catholic priest arrested, charged with child sex abuse
Allegheny County police Friday arrested a retired Catholic priest for the alleged assault of a 10-year-old boy in 2001, authorities said. The Rev. Hugh J. Lang, 88, was a priest at St. Therese in Munhall at the time of the alleged assault, said police Inspector Andrew Schurman. Schurman said the...
Parkland shooting survivor: ‘We need more mayors like Peduto’
A high school shooting survivor praised Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Friday for his gun reform efforts during a Washington, D.C., panel aimed at reducing gun violence. The panel, “City Initiatives to Reduce Gun Violence,” saw Peduto seated next to 18-year-old anti-gun violence activist David Hogg. Hogg rose to national...
‘I’m sick of him:’ McKeesport woman gets up to 15 years in fatal 2017 stabbing of boyfriend
A McKeesport woman who declared, “I’m sick of him,” after she stabbed her boyfriend to death in a South Side apartment building will spend at least 7½ years in prison, a judge ruled Thursday. Cassandra Locke, 53, faces up to 15 years in prison for the Nov. 7, 2017, death...
Cops: Man charged in Dravosburg woman’s death feared she’d rat him out to drug dealer
A West Mifflin man charged with killing a Dravosburg woman allegedly feared she’d tip off a drug dealer that he had stolen $700 and an ounce of crack, according to the criminal complaint filed against the man. The skeletal remains of 46-year-old Heather Short were found Wednesday in a wooded...
