Patrick Varine stories, Page 98
Man in critical condition following double shooting on Pittsburgh’s South Side
One person was in critical condition following a double shooting early Friday on Pittsburgh’s South Side. Police from Zone 3 responded to a ShotSpotter notification at 1:40 a.m. in the area of East Carson and South 17th streets but found only shell casings. Later, police said two people arrived by...
Minor injuries in Thanksgiving rollover crash on Pittsburgh’s Parkway East
A rollover crash on Thursday afternoon on the Parkway East in Pittsburgh resulted in only minor injuries, police said. The crash happened shortly after 3 p.m. in the Parkway East’s westbound lanes near the Squirrel Hill/Homestead exit. State police said a car driven by a 40-year-old Pittsburgh man traveled across...
Operation Santa Claus has new partner to help needy families
In the early 1980s, the Tribune- Review’s Operation Santa Claus started as an idea in the newspaper’s editorial department. “At the time, George Beidler was the Greensburg editor, and he kind of spearheaded the whole thing to get it off the ground,” said retired Tribune-Review General Manager Art McMullen, who has...
Feds press Pittsburgh-based Poopsenders.com to find client harassing postal employee
Officials from the U.S. Office of the Inspector General were in federal court in Pittsburgh Tuesday trying to determine who has been harassing a U.S. Postal Service employee by mailing multiple, anonymous packages of fake poop. The OIG issued a subpoena in November 2019 to a company called Poopsenders.com, located...
Officials: 1 killed after small aircraft crashes near Grove City
Police, firefighters and federal officials are investigating a plane crash that killed one person Wednesday evening near Grove City, officials said. A single-engine Cessna 210 with two people aboard crashed around 5:45 p.m. in a wooded area near a landfill on TCI Park Drive, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman...
Murrysville: Export Light Up Night, hot-chocolate hike, club meetings and more
Submit news briefs, event listings and more to the Murrysville Star by emailing pvarine@triblive.com. Export Light Up Night set for Dec. 3 Export Borough will host its annual Light Up Night celebration from 6-9 p.m. Dec. 3 at the Export Volunteer Fire Department, 5815 Washington Ave. There will be a...
Franklin Regional board bans using schools for covid-19 vaccine clinics
Although it’s now recommended that children 5 and older get covid-19 vaccines, they won’t be able to get one in a Franklin Regional School District building. The school board voted 7-2 this week to ban the use of district facilities as covid-19 vaccination sites for students. While other schools in...
U.S. Attorneys, Pa. Sheriffs’ Association: Firearms must be checked properly at the airport
As more travelers are expected to head to the nation’s airports over the holiday season, the last thing any of them want is an additional delay. And the last thing airport security officers want is for that delay to happen due to the discovery of a gun in a passenger’s...
Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission survey looks to help expand broadband internet access
Murrysville officials are considering using some of the municipality’s $1.9 million in American Rescue Plan money to expand broadband internet access. “I think it’s vital,” Murrysville Chief Administrator Jim Morrison told Murrysville Council members this week. He encouraged residents to complete a survey being undertaken by the nonprofit Southwestern Pennsylvania...
$1 million settlement approved in 2018 pipeline failure in Beaver County
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Thursday approved a $1 million settlement related to a massive failure of the Revolution pipeline that occurred in September 2018 in Beaver County. On Sept. 10, 2018, a pipeline failure occurred near Ivy Lane in Center Township, releasing more than 3 million cubic feet...
Slippery Rock opens 1st live theater show since pre-pandemic days, ‘Techies’
Tyler Parsonage of Murrysville is grateful for the new opportunities that online theater productions offered during the covid-19 pandemic, “but I don’t think it’ll ever compare to a live show,” he said. The 21-year-old Slippery Rock University junior is part of a group that will bring the first live theater...
Ligonier man worked for Coke, Disney, Steelers, Pitt, and drove limousines
Lelia Tosh can remember being in a grocery store, several thousand miles away from home on one of her family’s many motor home trips, and catching her father straightening up the store’s Coca-Cola display. “We’d say, ‘C’mon, Dad, we’re on vacation!’ ” Tosh said. “But he was just so proud.”...
Murrysville: Gingerbread house contest, Hot Chocolate Hike, ‘Santa at Sardis,’ more
Submit news briefs, event listings and more to the Murrysville Star by emailing pvarine@triblive.com. Library to host ‘Jingles’n’Gingerbread’ The Murrysville Community Library will host its annual holiday event “Jingles’n’Gingerbread” from 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at the library, 4130 Sardis Road in Murrysville. The evening will include multiple performances...
Sheraden man charged with September shooting that injured toddler
A Pittsburgh man has been arrested in connection with September shooting that injured a toddler in the city’s Sheraden neighborhood. Derrick Brandon faces charges of reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child after police say he was involved in a Sept. 26, 2021, shooting on Glasgow Street that...
TribLive Taste Test: National Baklava Day
It’s National Baklava Day! And if you’re like us, after you get through the roughly 15 pounds of gyro meat that always comes with a quality gyro, you’ve barely got enough room left for one of our favorite desserts. So today we skipped the gyro and went straight for the...
Buffalo Trace kicks off holiday round of PLCB’s rare liquor lotteries
Anyone who ever wanted tickets to a massively popular concert is familiar with the scenario: Tickets go on sale, and immediately giant blocks of them are snapped up in the first few minutes. Before the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board instituted its limited-release lotteries in 2015, the same thing happened to...
Pennsylvania will fully ban sale of Japanese barberry by fall 2023
State agriculture officials have had it with Japanese barberry. After considering it previously in 2018, Pennsylvania officials have added the invasive shrub to their list of noxious weeds, and merchants will not be permitted to sell it by the fall of 2023. The shrub is popular with landscapers. Unfortunately, it...
Missing Westmoreland County teen found to be safe, state police say
State police say a missing 13-year-old girl who had been last seen in Derry Borough has been found. Serenity Adams, 13, had been reported missing on Wednesday evening....
Protesters block Grant Street, demand prosecution in Jim Rogers’ death
A group of protesters carrying a banner advocating “People’s Justice for Jim Rogers” demonstrated on the steps of the City-County Building in Downtown Pittsburgh and blocked Grant Street on Friday night. Rogers died Oct. 14, about 24 hours after being struck with a Taser deployed by a Pittsburgh police officer,...
Murrysville area: Marching band concert, Light Up Night, a basketball First Night
Submit news and briefs to the Star by emailing pvarine@triblive.com. FR marching band will host stadium review show The Franklin Regional Panther Marching Band will host a performance of this season’s halftime show, “Rock Legends,” at 7 p.m., Nov. 18 at the senior high school, 3200 School Road in Murrysville....
Ligonier man walks memorial-to-memorial to raise awareness about veteran suicides
In the United States, more than 6,200 veterans committed suicide in 2019. And the suicide risk for veterans that year was 52.3% higher than that of the general population, according to the Veterans Affairs Department’s 2021 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Report. Veteran David Rogers of Ligonier wants more people to...
Pittsburgh vocalist’s EP blends neo-soul, jazz, R&B
Pittsburgh vocalist KELS is looking forward to her 26th birthday later this month. On that date, the Pine-Richland graduate will release her first three-song EP, “Slow Ryde,” after performances this summer at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, Deutschtown Music Festival, Millvale Music Festival and Picklesburgh. Before that, though, she’ll host...
Murrysville physician pleads guilty to drug diversion, fraud charges
A Murrysville doctor pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday on charges of drug diversion and health care fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Dr. Yee Chung Ho, 72, pleaded guilty to four counts of unlawfully dispensing and distributing controlled substances and one count of health care fraud before U.S....
Levin installs 1-megawatt solar array atop Smithton distribution facility
Robert Levin, chairman of Levin Furniture, was a fan of solar energy long before it could earn him tax incentives. Levin had a solar array installed at his Monroeville furniture store in 2004. Almost two years ago, he had solar installed at his home. On Wednesday, Levin flipped the switch...
Delmont installs new councilman, proposes 2022 budget with no tax hike
Typically, election winners have to wait until the new year to take office. Jeff Cunningham barely had to wait a week. The Republican candidate earned a seat on Delmont council in last week’s election. But in the absence of Councilman Bill Marx, who resigned earlier this fall to take a...
