Allegheny County News category, Page 163
2 arrested after SWAT scene, car chase in Penn Hills
Two people are in jail after a SWAT situation and car chase through Penn Hills Saturday night. Pittsburgh Police and responded to the 5900 block of Second Avenue in Hazelwood after a man called and said he had been robbed at gunpoint by a man and woman and had his...
East Hills shooting victim in critical condition
Pittsburgh police detectives are investigating the shooting of a man Saturday morning in the city’s East Hills neighborhood. The incident reportedly happened in the 2300 block of East Hills Drive just after 11 a.m., according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety release. City detectives already working in the area found the...
Police charge pet owner for killing dog she left tied to a door after moving out of Hill District apartment
A Hill District woman is accused of tying her dog to an apartment door and leaving it behind this spring when she moved out of the unit, leading the dog to starve to death. Talazia Monique Johnson, 22, of Bedford Dwellings, told police she lost her job in April and...
Allegheny County DA candidate Matt Dugan lays out plan to make Downtown Pittsburgh safer
Democrat Matt Dugan said Friday that he would work to restore Downtown Pittsburgh as a safe, clean place for residents, businesses and visitors if elected Allegheny County’s district attorney. “It’s vitally, vitally important that we as leaders provide a safe and clean Downtown area so that our existing businesses can...
Pittsburgh man in fake cop uniform had knife when he went to courthouse to harass judge, police say
A Pittsburgh man is accused of going into Allegheny County Courthouse while wearing a fake police uniform and carrying a knife to harass a Common Pleas judge. Christopher Hall, 29, of the Hill District, tried to enter Common Pleas Judge Edward Borkowski’s courtroom around 10:40 a.m. Tuesday dressed in a...
Serra Catholic officials describe student killed in van crash as ‘beating heart of her class’Video
The morning unfolded in chaos. When Serra Catholic High School Principal Bob Childs heard that a school van carrying four of his students to the McKeesport school had crashed around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, he immediately went to the scene. By the time he arrived near Mansfield Bridge in Dravosburg, paramedics...
Quaker Valley High School student soars as 1st female Eagle Scout in Sewickley
Once 14-year-old Katie Steinfurth has a goal in mind, there is little that can stand in her way on her path to accomplish it. The Quaker Valley High School student maintains above a 4.0 grade point average, competes on the track and cross country team, and participates in student council...
Ross man does his part to remove litter from Ohio River
There are times when Tommy Ross feels like his actions are futile, perhaps even Sisyphean. While Ross is not condemned to eternally roll a boulder up a hill only to see it tumble back down, the task he’s set himself to can seem similar in its hopelessness. Ross, 49, regularly...
McKeesport Catholic school community gathers to mourn death of 15-year-old student
Small but meaningful details stole the spotlight as the Serra Catholic High School community gathered on a football field Thursday night to mourn one of their own. • Fingers gently cupped around hand-held candles, their orange, sometimes-flickering glow cast defiantly against the dark-blue cover of dusk. • The way the...
Turtle Creek woman gets jail time for fatal hit-and-run
A Turtle Creek woman will spend at least nine months in jail for killing a pedestrian in McKeesport last year and leaving the scene. Hanna Nickole Frank, 20, pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle in June. As part of a plea agreement, Frank must serve nine to 18 months in...
Family of McKeesport man who died in Allegheny County Jail files wrongful death lawsuit
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court claims Allegheny County Jail officials didn’t provide a wheezing inmate who had chronic asthma with his inhaler for up to 30 days. Paul C. Allen, a McKeesport barber and father of three who was supposed to use his inhaler eight times a day,...
Vigil planned for Serra Catholic student killed in Dravosburg crash
Friends, classmates and others plan to gather at McKeesport’s Serra Catholic High School on Thursday night to honor the life and mourn the death of Samantha Lee Kalkbrenner. Kalkbrenner, 15, a Serra Catholic student from Dravosburg, was killed Wednesday after the school van she was riding in crashed, authorities said....
Teen killed in Pittsburgh’s Allentown linked to earlier Braddock double homicide, police say
The teen killed Tuesday in a Pittsburgh shooting was linked to an Aug. 27 shooting in Braddock that claimed the lives of two Woodland Hills High School seniors, authorities confirmed Thursday. Pittsburgh police and Allegheny County Police said the teen was present at the earlier shooting in Braddock, but stopped...
Home remodeler accused of taking deposit for work in Pine that was never completed
Northern Regional Police accused a home improvement contractor from Ohio of taking a $2,700 down payment in May to remodel a basement in Pine and never showing up to do the work. Joseph Wayne “Joey” Ward, 32, of West Manor Avenue in Youngstown was charged Sept. 6 with felony counts...
North Allegheny unable to provide transportation for students at 3 private schools
North Allegheny School District has so far this academic year been unable to provide transportation for students who live in the district and attend three private schools, a district spokesperson said Sept. 18. The school district transports about 9,500 students to and from school, district spokeswoman Brandi Smith said. Approximately...
Man shot in Coraopolis
A man who was shot on Wednesday afternoon in Corapolis was hospitalized in critical condition, Allegheny County Police said. The victim, who was not identified, was found in the 500 block of Mount Vernon Avenue suffering from gunshot wounds, police said. The shooting was reported at about 5:30 p.m.. Allegheny...
Teen shot multiple times last month in Braddock now charged in the deaths of 2 others
The lone survivor in an incident in Braddock last month in which three teenagers were shot has been arrested and charging with killing the other two teens. Jerell Rockymore, 16, was found shot multiple times in a residence on Center Street after two other teens were found shot dead in...
Innamorato, Rockey accuse each other of extreme politics
Sara Innamorato, the Democratic nominee for Allegheny County executive, is attacking her Republican opponent Joe Rockey, claiming he isn’t being upfront about his conservative support. Rockey, who has billed himself as a moderate and garnered some labor support, said Innamorato is lying and Innamorato is hiding her far left-wing history....
U.S. Steel to test technology for capturing carbon emissions at Mon Valley Works
U.S. Steel plans to test new technology to capture emissions at its Mon Valley Works in Allegheny County. The Pittsburgh steelmaker is partnering with the National Energy Technology Laboratory to use an “advanced membrane technology” to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock. The unit is...
Oakmont woman gets life in prison for starvation, torture death of 3-year-old girl
No one was there. No one sat in the courtroom gallery wearing shirts that read “Justice for Bella.” No one told the judge what a great 3-year-old that Bella Seachrist was. How she loved to dance and would eat anything. How she was a giggly, bubbly, playful and loving child....
Release of suspect in $1.6M drug case ignites political firestorm in Allegheny County
Allegheny County court officials are still trying to figure out how a man accused of carrying $1.6 million in fentanyl in Pittsburgh was released from custody this month, and now another judge is reportedly involved in the snafu. A nationwide arrest warrant was issued for Yan Carlos Pichardo Cepeda, 27,...
Serra Catholic student killed in school van crash in Dravosburg
A 15-year-old girl was killed Wednesday in a school van crash in Dravosburg, authorities said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the girl as Samantha Lee Kalkbrenner of Dravosburg. Three other juveniles, all students at Serra Catholic High School in McKeesport, were injured and taken to a hospital in...
Morning Roundup: 2 hurt in garbage truck crash in Overbrook; vandalism in Squirrel Hill; 2 shot in Mt. Oliver
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, Sept. 20: 2 injured after garbage truck crashes in Overbrook Two people were reported injured when a garbage truck crashed Tuesday in Pittsburgh’s Overbrook neighborhood. Surveillance video showed the truck traveling down a hill before hitting several vehicles...
Lindsay Powell declares victory in special election race, giving Dems slim majority in state House
Democrats have declared victory in an Allegheny County special election and are poised to claim a slim majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Lindsay Powell, a Democrat from Lawrenceville, declared victory Tuesday night in the 21st District special election after receiving more than 65% of the vote with 96%...
Coraopolis woman gets 3 to 6 years in prison for DUI crash that killed pedestrianVideo
Jeremia Scales always wanted to be the first, texting or calling his family at the stroke of midnight to wish them a happy birthday or happy Mother’s Day. The 25-year-old from West Mifflin loved music. He could play piano, drums, trumpet, harmonica and guitar, and served as assistant director of...
