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Music festival Sept. 3 at Hartwood Acres in Hampton, Indiana townships
The Hartwood Acres Park Amphitheatre will rock Sept. 3 with the Allegheny County Music Festival to benefit children and youth. The music begins at 5:30 p.m., with Men Without Hats to take the stage at 8 p.m., according to an Aug. 23 announcement from the Allegheny County Department of Human...
‘Their Stories’ documentary to explore lives of Sewickley’s early Black residents
Filmmaker Rueben Brock was taken by surprise when asked to direct a documentary about the early Black residents of Sewickley. “I said, ‘Wait a minute, there’s a Black community in Sewickley?’” he recalled. Those first Black settlers were important to the success of the community, and it’s high time their...
Morning Roundup: I-79 lanes reopen after truck rollover in Allegheny County
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, Aug. 23: I-79 lanes reopen after truck rollover in Allegheny County Northbound lanes of Interstate 79 were open once more shortly after 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, after a truck rollover in Allegheny County restricted traffic to a single lane...
Like smoke alarms, natural gas alarms can ‘alert you to a potential problem’
Residents of a Plum neighborhood where a house explosion killed six people might soon have natural gas alarms installed in their homes. But these devices are not exclusive to Rustic Ridge. In the wake of explosions from eastern Pennsylvania to New York City and beyond, the use of natural gas...
Longtime defense attorney acquitted in Allegheny County Jail drug caseVideo
A longtime defense attorney accused of sneaking drug-soaked papers into Allegheny County Jail more than four years ago is not guilty. Paul Gettleman, 78, was charged with contraband, drug delivery and conspiracy, after a grand jury said he delivered papers soaked in K-2, or synthetic marijuana, to an inmate at...
TSA confiscates 26th gun of year at Pittsburgh airport, matching last year’s total
An Indiana County man was stopped from carrying a handgun onto a Pittsburgh International Airport flight Monday, bringing the total number of firearms confiscated there since January to 26, matching 2022’s figure, officials said. Transportation Security Administration officers detected the .380 caliber gun in the man’s backpack, TSA spokesperson Lisa...
Police accuse homeless man of pawning Pine parents’ jewelry, coins for nearly $5K
A Pine man is accused of pawning his parents’ jewelry and coins after they they let him sleep in a tent in the backyard and come into the house to eat and use the bathroom. James Sergei Betts, 28, who is homeless, was charged by Northern Regional Police on Aug....
Temporary Cleveland-to-Pittsburgh flight coming this winter
Though just a bit over two hours away by car, Alaska Airlines soon will be offering a flight from Cleveland to Pittsburgh this winter. The daily, afternoon flight only travels one way from Cleveland to Pittsburgh. According to the Alaska Airlines website, tickets start as low as $129. The Seattle-based...
Lawsuit contends Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board violates transparency laws
Two women who regularly attend Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board meetings are suing the board claiming it violates Sunshine Act laws on transparency. Rachel C. Radke and Tanisha Long are being represented, in part, by the ACLU of Pennsylvania. They filed an amended complaint on Friday. Previously, Radke was the...
Schenley Plaza will host ‘Disability Pride PGH’
The nonprofit Disability Pride PA will host “Disability Pride: Weekend Under the Tent,” Friday and Saturday . It will kick off Friday with the Oakland For All 9th annual Ramp Crawl, set for 4-7 p.m. at the Schenley Plaza, 4100 Forbes Ave. The evening will include recognition awards for Americans...
Funeral arrangements set for Keegan and Casey Clontz
A father and son devoted to one another in life will be mourned together this week as Plum residents grapple with the loss from a devastating house explosion nine days ago. Funeral arrangements have been released for Keegan William Clontz, 12, and for his father, Casey Thomas Clontz, 38. They...
Teen shot in Brentwood
A 16-year-old boy was reported hospitalized in stable condition after being shot in Brentwood late Saturday night, Allegheny County Police said. The victim was shot in the lower leg near the intersection of Meadowbrook Boulevard and Brownsville Road at about 10:30 p.m, police said. County police detectives are investigating the...
Damar Hamlin soaks in return to Pittsburgh — and Steelers, fans return the love
Damar Hamlin was happy to be able to soak in the moment. The sights, the sounds. The … smells? “It kind of felt like college again, that feeling I got when I was playing at Pitt,” Hamlin said of his first football game in Pittsburgh as a pro. “Stadium smelled...
Allegheny County Jail corrections officer arrested in connection with inmate contraband
It started at summer’s peak with a fight in an Allegheny County Jail day-room and unraveled Friday into charges alleging a corrections officer helped plant drugs on an inmate. That officer, Scott Stawiarski, 31, of North Fayette, was charged Friday — and indefinitely suspended from his job without pay —...
Allegheny County Police seeking public’s help to find Munhall shooter
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man shot Friday morning in Munhall as Isaac Love. Love, 31, of Homestead, was pronounced dead at 9:29 a.m., the medical examiner said. Allegheny County Police said they responded to the 1800 block of McClure Street just before 8:30 a.m. after receiving...
Plum’s boys and girls golf teams organize outing to benefit Rustic Ridge victims
Plum Senior High School’s girls and boys golf teams are uniting to raise funds for the victims of the house explosion in the Rustic Ridge neighborhood. The Rustic Ridge “Plum Strong” Plum Boys & Girls Golf Teams Charity Outing is scheduled for Sept. 17 at Willowbrook Country Club in Allegheny...
Sara Innamorato picks up key labor endorsements in Allegheny County executive race
Sara Innamorato, the Democratic nominee for Allegheny County executive, secured several key labor endorsements this week, two months after the Republican candidate in the race locked up a few labor endorsements of his own. Innamorato was endorsed Friday by the Allegheny-Fayette Central Labor Council, a local branch of the AFL-CIO...
Plum School District partners with therapists to serve those impacted by explosion tragedy
A few days ago, Erica Kuhn and Melissa Gionta-Oliver were strangers. Now the two therapists from Plum are spearheading efforts to provide an online database of mental health resources for the Plum Borough School District and community after the tragic house explosion Saturday in the borough’s Rustic Ridge neighborhood. The...
Therapy dogs provide comfort in Plum’s Rustic Ridge neighborhood
Gloria Frick says everyone knows the power dogs can have on a person’s well-being. On Thursday, Frick and other members of the Alliance of Therapy Dogs brought some four-legged comfort to Ridge Top Park in Plum’s Rustic Ridge neighborhood, where six people were killed in a home explosion Saturday. Those...
Penn Hills man charged with Scott Township shooting
A Penn Hills man has been charged in connection with a shooting in Scott Township. Juwan Haynes, 26, turned himself in to authorities Thursday night and is being held in the Allegheny County Jail awaiting arraignment, Allegheny County Police said. Police accuse Haynes of shooting a man shortly before 6:45...
Pittsburgh journalist sues Allegheny County over jail ‘gag order’ policies
A Pittsburgh journalist sued Allegheny County in federal court Thursday, claiming a county jail “gag order” violates jail staff’s First Amendment free-speech rights, as well as the press-freedom rights of journalists covering jail issues. The “gag order,” which actually is a combination of multiple county Bureau of Corrections policies, dictates...
Gathering to celebrate life of Plum blast victim Kevin Sebunia set for Sunday
A gathering to celebrate the life of one of the six people who died in last week’s house explosion in Plum will be held Sunday afternoon. Family and friends of Kevin Sebunia, 55, will gather from 1 to 8 p.m. at Larry Mills Park to share photos, stories and messages...
Peoples mum about possible natural gas odor in Rustic Ridge prior to house explosion
Officials at Peoples Natural Gas Co. on Thursday would not say whether they had received reports of natural gas odors in Plum’s Rustic Ridge neighborhood in the days before a fatal house explosion. “It wouldn’t be appropriate for us to share any information on that front, because this is all...
Shaler police identify man found dead in Allegheny River
Shaler police said the man they found dead Thursday morning in the Allegheny River was a missing township resident suffering from dementia. Mark Massimiani, 60, was found in the river near the 31st Street Bridge by a rowing group, Shaler police Chief J. Sean Frank said. Massimiani, who was last...
Remembering soccer/hockey dad who died in Plum explosion: Paul Oravitz’s heart ‘was always in the right place’
Paul Oravitz insisted his friend should come. He had called Andy Zarroli, a neighbor and friend, the night before a St. Patrick’s Day beer crawl that Oravitz and others in their Rustic Ridge neighborhood were attending. Oravitz asked Zarroli if he was coming. “I said, ‘No, I don’t want to...
