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Morning Roundup: 2 injured in Pleasant Hills driveway crash
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Car lands on Pleasant Hills driveway, injuring 2 Two people were hospitalized late Monday after a vehicle careened off Lebanon Church Road and into a driveway in Pleasant Hills, TribLive news partner WTAE reported. Video...
Patients prescribed Ozempic and other similar drugs facing serious medical issues
Multidistrict litigation filed against Ozempic; cases estimated to reach over 10,000 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rates of obesity have steadily increased over the past few decades, with a staggering 41.2% of adults in the United States considered obese based on their body mass index. This...
Pittsburgh Technical College to close
Pittsburgh Technical College will shut down at the end of the spring quarter, effective August, it announced Monday evening. The move comes days after its accrediting agency said the 80-year-old Oakdale-area college was in danger of imminent closure. In a statement Monday, the college cited declining enrollment, market pressures and...
Sen. John Fetterman and wife in Maryland car crash
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman and his wife, Gisele Fetterman, were in a car crash on a Maryland interstate Sunday morning. They were evaluated at a hospital “out of an abundance of caution” but avoided serious injury, Fetterman’s office said. Fetterman, a Democrat from Braddock, was westbound on Interstate 70 shortly...
Golf cart confusion and the rise of neighborhood electric vehicles
When Kevin Santelli drives what looks like a souped-up golf cart around town, people stop and stare. They notice at the grocery store, the YMCA and restaurants near his Sewickley Heights home. If he stays on roads with speed limits below 25 mph, he can go anywhere he’d like. “It...
Toxicology reports on the deaths of Mt. Lebanon woman and her daughter, 10, could take weeks
A Mt. Lebanon woman who was found dead along with her 10-year-old daughter Friday in South Park was involved in divorce proceedings and a custody dispute. Serena Keona Guan, 43, and Abigail Neal, 10, were found inside a car at a South Park grove after Mt. Lebanon police were contacted...
Horror fans head to Monroeville Mall for Living Dead Weekend
Leonard Lies remembers exactly how he died. “I was zombie-ing through the mall, makeup on, and these people come in on a motorcycle,” he said. “One guy is in a sidecar, and so I zombie past, and I knock him out of the car. And he’s really upset, so he...
Police: Woman, 10-year-old girl found dead in vehicle in South Park
Allegheny County Police are investigating the deaths of a woman and a 10-year-old girl found dead Friday evening in a vehicle in South Park. County police said released a statement saying Mt. Lebanon police were contacted by a male Friday afternoon requesting a welfare check on the 43-year-old woman and...
St. Wendelin Church meant so much to parishioners
Ludwig Henigin laid the cornerstone at St. Wendelin Church 128 years ago. His great-great-granddaughter, Pat Henigin, stopped by the church on a beautiful sunny Friday afternoon to check on the cornerstone as the church was being demolished. “I came here to see where the cornerstone is going to go,” said...
Secretos de mis Abuelos in Homestead a must visit for Puerto Rican cuisine
Five years ago, Felipe Crespo was sitting in the barber’s chair at Primo Cuts, a Puerto Rican barbershop across the street from his apartment. As a new resident of Pittsburgh pursuing his master’s degree at Duquesne University, he was also searching for authentic Boricua food. After inquiring at the barbershop...
A heavy dose of nostalgia: Eat’n Park has been in business for 75 years
Claire “Larry” Hatch took a chance. With no restaurant experience, he got a second mortgage on his home with his wife, Gladys, to get the $75,000 needed to purchase a piece of land along Saw Mill Run Boulevard on Route 51 in Overbrook. Hatch was working for Isaly’s — a...
No tuition increase for CCAC students
Tuition and most fees will not increase for students attending Community College of Allegheny County during the upcoming academic year. The Board of Trustees on Thursday approved a budget of almost $115 million for 2024-25. It keeps tuition for Allegheny County residents at $126 per credit, or $1,890 per full-time...
John McIntire comedy talk show in Oakmont dedicated to Dr. Cyril Wecht
The world’s on fire — and John McIntire is here to make everyone laugh about it. Since 2007, McIntire has been hosting a comedy talk show with a panel of guests — often local political figures, sometimes comedians. The former host of PCNC’s “Night Talk” and KDKA radio voice has...
Want to live in a former funeral home in McKeesport? You can
When Marlene Fait-Schmalz bought her childhood home in 2011, she reclaimed a piece of McKeesport history. The unique Victorian-style residence, once the Richard L. Fait Funeral Home, boasts a parlor, chapel and grand entrance on the main level, while the upper floors offer cozy living spaces. Now on the market...
Monroeville will use state grant to add police vehicle protection
Two Monroeville Police officers have been injured in shooting incidents in recent months, and state grant funding will help increase their protection while inside their cruisers. In November 2023, Bruce Alvarado, 38, of Clairton, was arrested after firing multiple shots at a marked Monroeville police car, striking the officer in...
Man killed in shooting outside of bar in Braddock Hills
A man was shot and killed early morning on Friday in the parking lot of a bar in Braddock Hills, said Allegheny County Police. Police said a man was shot multiple times just before 2 a.m. outside of J Cats Bar on Wilkins Avenue. The man was pronounced dead at...
Innamorato wants 500 affordable housing units in 500 days
Pam Steimer was working two jobs when she was priced out of her Pittsburgh apartment 18 months ago. She moved into a hotel while she searched for a new place to live. But rent prices were “out of my reach,” she said, and often required deposits equal to about three...
Wallaby joey recently born at Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium
The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium in Highland Park has a new resident — a wallaby joey, born to mom Ava. A wallaby is a marsupial, a pouched mammal in the kangaroo family. When they are young, they are called joeys. The animal is spending a lot of time in the...
U.S. Steel closes portion of Clairton Coke Works as part of settlement
U.S. Steel has permanently shut down one of the most prolific batteries at its Clairton Coke Works, part of a settlement reached with environmental groups and the Allegheny County Health Department earlier this year. Battery No. 15 contained around 10% of the facility’s coke ovens, according to Zach Barber, a...
Authorities ID man fatally shot by Brentwood police
Authorities on Thursday identified the man fatally shot a day earlier by a Brentwood police officer as Craig W. McGrath of Pittsburgh. McGrath, 37, was shot multiple times Wednesday in Brentwood. Investigators said that an armed McGrath rammed a police vehicle while driving a stolen car and fought with an...
Morning Roundup: Triangle Tech schools closing after 80 years in operation
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Thursday, June 6: Pittsburgh-based Triangle Tech school closing A school teaching technical skills across Pennsylvania is closing its doors after 80 years in operation. Pittsburgh-based Triangle Tech announced Wednesday it will shut down its six campuses located in Pittsburgh,...
Surviving veterans of D-Day invasion return to Normandy for 80th anniversary
Warren Goss watched as soldiers in front of him dropped — struck down by enemy fire — after the ramp of his Higgins boat lowered near Utah Beach in Normandy, France. Goss, then 19, climbed over the side of the boat and fought the surf to get to land. “I...
Gov. Shapiro, Pitt chancellor give vastly different takes on pro-Palestinian encampment than protest’s leaders
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office late Wednesday called it “unfortunate” that a 30-hour pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Pittsburgh “devolved into documented violence, vandalism, and antisemitic rhetoric.” The statement from Shapiro press secretary Manuel Bonder came hours after Pitt Divest from Apartheid, the group that organized the encampment, offered a...
Man shot in Stowe Township, in critical condition
A man shot was hospitalized in critical but stable condition Wednesday after being shot in the chest in Stowe Township, Allegheny County Police said. The victim was shot in the 400 block of Hemlock Drive, around 5:40 p.m., county police said. Allegheny County Police Department’s Homicide Unit assisted Stowe Township...
County, nonprofits collaborate to serve those displaced by Downtown Pittsburgh shelter fire
Storm clouds gathered above the shuttered Second Avenue Commons homeless shelter as Ronald McGinnis literally planned his next steps. On Tuesday, the 59-year-old homeless man, who entered the Downtown shelter six weeks ago, watched people pour out of the building as flames shot off its roof and smoke filled the...
