Natasha Lindstrom stories, Page 36
Chelsa Wagner launches site to show impact of UPMC-Highmark split
Judy Hays credits her oncologist and team of health care workers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center with saving her life. Hays, 75, of Crescent Township has spent the past nine years battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia. After undergoing four types of chemotherapy and several new drug treatments, she’s finally found a...
State takes charge of debt-ridden Penn Hills School District’s financial recovery efforts
The Pennsylvania Department of Education has placed the Penn Hills School District in financial recovery status in an attempt to get the debt-ridden, shrinking district back on track to solvency, officials announced Wednesday. The oversight move means that the state will appoint a full-time chief recovery officer to work with...
Forward Township man, 75, dies in house fire, 2 firefighters injured
A man died Tuesday night after a fire ripped through his Forward Township home. Robert Morgan, 75, died at 5:30 p.m. inside his house on Morgan Run Road, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said Wednesday. His cause and manner of death has not yet been released. According to the...
GoFundMe raises $25K for family of Butler County boy killed in bus stop crash
Donations poured in Tuesday from around the country in support of the Butler County family coping with the death of their 11-year-old son, who died after being struck by a car while waiting beside his siblings for their school bus. Mark Fike, 11, died at Butler Memorial Hospital on Monday...
Mercer County woman gets up to 52 years in prison for killing husband after he asked for divorce
A Mercer County woman accused of killing her husband in a fit of rage after he asked her for a divorce was sentenced to 23 ½ to 52 years in prison, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Tuesday. Amy Emmett, 49, of Hempfield Township pleaded no contest to third-degree murder...
Man dies after being shot multiple times in Wilkinsburg
A Monroeville man died after being shot Monday night in Wilkinsburg. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office identified the victim as Tramaine Solomen, 30. He died at an unnamed hospital around 10:35 p.m. Around 8:20 p.m., Allegheny County 911 dispatchers received several calls about shots fired in the 1500 block...
For home-flippers, Pittsburgh region is one of nation’s most profitable bets
Tim Pommer had been managing an auto-repair shop in the Alle-Kiski Valley for nearly a decade when he decided to turn his knack for fixing and reselling cars into fixing and reselling houses. “I figured the profit would be a lot bigger when I flipped bigger things. I wanted to...
Allderdice High stunned by fatal shooting of classmate, 16, a ‘smart, funny’ AP student
Classmates and friends of Jonathan Freeman remembered the 16-year-old Allderdice High School honors student Thursday as a smart, funny boy with what seemed like a bright future while expressing shock and disbelief that he was shot and killed in the city’s Homewood South neighborhood the night before. “The whole school...
AG Shapiro provides answers to students jilted by abrupt closure of Brighton Career Institute
State Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Wednesday offered guidance and resources to students jilted by last month’s abrupt shuttering of Brightwood Career Institute in Downtown Pittsburgh and related vocational campuses across Pennsylvania. “The sudden closing of Brightwood schools left many students across the Commonwealth unsure of their academic status and...
Pennsylvania politicians react to Trump’s national border security address
President Trump’s nationally televised address on border security Tuesday night called on Congress to approve his plan to build a $5.7 billion steel wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and put an end to the second-longest U.S. government shutdown. “The federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason...
Fitzgerald announces re-election bid at political event in Pittsburgh’s South Side
Buoyed by more than $2 million in his campaign coffers, Rich Fitzgerald announced his decision Monday night to seek a third and final term as Allegheny County’s chief executive. “Pittsburgh’s trajectory and Allegheny County’s trajectory is in a positive direction,” Fitzgerald said on a stage flanked by several dozen local,...
Mac Miller tribute fund raises more than $370K for youth programs, community-building
A charitable fund created in honor of Mac Miller — the late Pittsburgh-born rapper who sought to invest in youth programs and safe playgrounds in his hometown — has raised more than $370,000 in donations, fund managers confirmed Sunday. Miller, who rose to international fame after growing up in Pittsburgh’s...
Body of Pittsburgh man found below I-79 overpass in Collier
Police found a man’s body Sunday next to Chartiers Creek below an Interstate 79 overpass in Collier Township, officials said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as Stuart Hayman Hunt, 36, of Pittsburgh. Shortly after 9 a.m., police received a report of an unresponsive man found by...
Lower Burrell woman accused of firing shot on New Year’s Day in Rivers Casino parking garage
A Lower Burrell woman is accused of firing a bullet into the ninth-floor ceiling of the parking garage at Rivers Casino on Pittsburgh’s North Shore shortly after thousands of casino-goers rang in the new year, records show. State police on Saturday charged Julie Ann Renaldi, 37, with discharging a firearm...
Special election to fill Guy Reschenthaler’s Pennsylvania Senate seat to be set for April 2
Voters in southern and western Allegheny County and part of Washington County will return to the polls this spring to fill the Pennsylvania Senate seat left vacant by newly elected Republican U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler. Lt. Gov. Mike Stack, D-Philadelphia, the presiding officer of the state Senate, announced via Twitter...
Husband-to-be U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb taking Turnpike to get ‘to the church on time’
A day after taking his seat in the 116th Congress, U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb raced back to Western Pennsylvania to get hitched. “I’m getting married in the morning,” Lamb posted to his Twitter account Friday afternoon. “Hurrying back from DC with my team & making sure they get me to...
Hospital price lists go public online
A new federal mandate could make it a little easier for health care consumers to shop around, or at least get a clearer idea of what hospitals charge. A rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that took effect Tuesday requires all hospitals to publish standard price lists...
Growing popularity of donor-advised funds is changing philanthropy
For Marie Stapinski, giving isn’t necessarily tied to the holidays. Throughout the year, she reviews lists of needs across the Pittsburgh region’s human services, education and arts sectors and meets with community advisers to narrow down her options. With that information, she periodically doles out grants of $1,000 to more...
‘Hamilton’ opens in Pittsburgh to sold-out crowd
Sarah Owen pounced on the chance to see “Hamilton” when a co-worker told her she had an extra pair of tickets a day before Tuesday’s opening night performance in Pittsburgh. Never mind that Owen, a 27-year-old White Oak native, who lives in San Francisco and was preparing to celebrate New...
DA: Man, 49, beaten to death in Aliquippa in what appears to be self-defense
A man who was stabbed in Beaver County early Tuesday killed the man who attacked him in what appears to be self-defense, officials said. Anthony N. Ingram, 49, died in the incident, Coroner David J. Gabauer said. Cause and manner of death were not available late Tuesday, pending further investigation,...
