Allegheny County News category, Page 195
Event at Carnegie Museum of Art rings in Chinese New Year
Like Indiana Jones, you may not be especially fond of snakes. But as Qihan Liu demonstrated, they can have a musical purpose. He was among the musicians giving demonstrations of traditional Chinese instruments during Sunday’s 26th Greater Pittsburgh Lunar New Year Show and Fair at the Carnegie Museum of Art...
Allegheny County Bar Association holds Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast
It was a day for honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and those who have been inspired by it. The Allegheny County Bar Association’s Homer S. Brown Division held the 24th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast and Program on Monday at Ebenezer Baptist...
Plum, Oakmont, Verona area happenings, week of Jan. 16, 2023
Friends of the Riverfront meets Friends of the Riverfront is working with Verona, Oakmont, Plum and Penn Hills to develop a safe, accessible and sustainable multi-purpose trail stretching from the Allegheny Riverfront in Verona, through Oakmont and Penn Hills along Plum Creek, to Boyce Park in Plum. The plan is being...
Hampton area happenings, week of Jan. 16, 2023
Museum hosts Doll Tea, lecture A Doll Tea is scheduled for 2 to 3 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Depreciation Lands Museum, 4743 S. Pioneer Road, Hampton. The afternoon of tea, treats and crafts is for children ages 5 and older, accompanied by their favorite doll. This event is geared...
2-year-old girl killed in Shaler fire remembered as ‘angel-like’
Kathy Palmer was working the night shift at a GetGo in Wexford when she got the call from her son as Friday turned into Saturday around midnight. “Something really bad has happened,” Palmer recalled him saying. “There was a fire and Dani didn’t make it.” Danika Deramo, Palmer’s 2-year-old granddaughter,...
Police: One-car wreck in Churchill sends 3 to hospital
A car crash in Churchill sent three people to the hospital, authorities said Sunday. The one-car wreck occurred near the intersection of Lewin Lane and Beulah Road around 3 p.m., according to an Allegheny County 911 shift supervisor. Details were not available on the injuries or conditions of the hospitalized...
Prime Stage Theatre awarded National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Pittsburgh’s Prime Stage Theatre has received a significant financial boost for its plan to produce the world premiere stage adaptation of “Perseverance,” the story of a Holocaust survivor’s life in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Prime Stage has been awarded a $10,000 Grant for Arts Projects from the National Endowment for...
Man killed in Monroeville shooting
A 19-year-old man was fatally shot in Monroeville late Saturday, according to Allegheny County Police. First responders found the man with a gunshot wound to the torso on Bellwood Avenue after a 911 call at 11:30 p.m. He was taken to a hospital where police said he died. The Allegheny...
Police: Masked woman attacked traffic flagger with baseball bat
A Verona woman recently attacked a traffic flagger while wearing a Halloween mask, police say. Northern Regional Police charged Rebecca Metz, 43, with aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, and harassment in connection with the Jan. 5 incident. She was in Saturday at Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh unable to...
Student-run coffee shop proposed for Chartiers Valley High School
Business teacher Christopher Meyer has a vision for Chartiers Valley High School. “Imagine walking in,” he said. “There’s a fully functional coffee shop going on, where students of all ability levels are working hand in hand toward making a really good cup of coffee, while also learning real-world skills that...
Fatal hit-and-run incidents reported overnight in Ross and Pittsburgh
A Mars woman was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Ross late Friday, according to township police. Elizabeth Griser, 32, was struck by a vehicle around 11 p.m. on Babcock Boulevard near a Sheetz gas station and convenience store, not far from the intersection with McKnight Road. She died at...
1 killed, 8 hospitalized in Shaler house fire; authorities identify 2-year-old victim
A 2-year-old girl died after being rescued from a house fire Friday night in Shaler, according to township police. Danika Deramo was found on the first floor of the home and was taken to UPMC Mercy hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 10:34 p.m. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s...
Pittsburgh experts not surprised by recent spike in Allegheny County covid numbers
A recent crest in covid case numbers in Allegheny County was entirely predictable, according to Western Pennsylvania medical experts monitoring the data. Tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classified Allegheny County to be in the “medium” level of covid-19 transmission last week, though officials have confirmed the...
Man’s body discovered in Penn Hills
The body of a deceased man was found on a hillside in Penn Hills Friday afternoon. Allegheny County dispatch confirmed police activity shortly before 3 p.m. along the 9000 block of Frankstown Road. It was still an active scene a few hours later. Mayor Pauline Calabrese said she spoke with...
Electrify Your Symphony returns to Bethel Park for rock-style concert
Addressing a stage full of young musicians, Greg Byers was all about encouragement. “You sound great,” he told students gathered in the Bethel Park High School auditorium. “We’ve got to look great, too. Bring the energy.” The ensemble of mostly stringed instruments was rehearsing the afternoon of Jan. 6 for...
Former WDVE, WXDX radio host ‘Max’ talks addiction on his ‘Recovery Cast’ podcast
When WDVE radio hired Oxford, Ohio, native Pawley Bornstein to be a nighttime disc jockey in the mid-1990s, it was a dream come true. But, that dream contributed to the nightmare of addiction Bornstein was dealing with at the time. Bornstein, 52, has been clean and sober for 16 years...
Western Pa. students invited to Pine-Richland programming competition
Whether students are an expert programmer or amateur coder, there’s a place for them at Pine-Richland’s 2023 “Hack the Ram” programming competition. On Jan. 28, the district will welcome high school and middle school students from across the region to the free competition. “There’s a place for everybody,” Pine-Richland junior...
Police say intoxicated woman hit garbage truck driver in Mt. Lebanon
A Waste Management driver was transported to Mercy Hospital on Wednesday after being struck by a car in Mt. Lebanon, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI. Police said a 34-year-old garbage man on his route was bringing a trash can to the truck when he was struck along Kenmont Avenue...
Allegheny County Treasurer John Weinstein announces run for county executive
One of Pittsburgh’s most veteran public officials announced his candidacy Thursday for Allegheny County executive, joining a large field in the Democratic primary for the region’s top elected official. Allegheny County Treasurer John Weinstein spoke in front of a crowd of around 1,000 supporters at the Heinz History Center in...
Former Allegheny County Jail officer gets 18 months in federal prison for possessing illegal shotgun
A former Allegheny County Jail corrections officer already convicted of selling illegal drugs there will serve 18 months in federal prison for possessing a sawed-off shotgun. Lewis Bagnato, 33, of Kennedy, pleaded guilty to the federal charge before U.S. District Judge Christy Criswell Wiegand in August. He was sentenced on...
UPMC East to add robotic surgical system in Monroeville
UPMC East will join more than 20 other hospitals throughout the health system in adding robotic-assisted surgery as an option for patients. The da Vinci Surgical System allows surgeons to make small incisions and perform surgery using tiny robotic surgical instruments and cameras. At UPMC East, a dual-console system will...
Monroeville couple open Back To The Foodture on 5th near PPG Paints Arena
Joe Giuffre and his son Joey were the first customers. They found a booth near the back and ordered loaded buffalo chicken fries. “The owners are great people, and they are family-oriented,” Joe said about Back To The Foodture on 5th, minutes after it opened on Jan. 2. “It’s a...
Pastor urges Hampton Township Council to exempt churches from stormwater management fee
The Rev. Ted Martin, a senior pastor at Hampton Presbyterian, called on Hampton Township Council during its Jan. 11 meeting to exempt churches from having to pay a stormwater management fee. Citing the right to the free exercise of religion in the First Amendment, Martin said the fee creates a...
PennDOT lifts occupancy requirement on outbound HOV lane
PennDOT has temporarily lifted the occupancy requirement on the outbound High Occupancy Vehicle lanes on Interstate 279 and I-579 because of ongoing utility work near the HOV lane entrance in Downtown Pittsburgh. The occupancy requirement of at least two people per vehicle was lifted Wednesday, allowing motorists traveling alone to...
Northern Regional Police accuse woman of assaulting construction flagger with bat
Northern Regional Police accused a woman of using a baseball bat to assault another woman who was working as a flagger at a road construction site in Pine. Police say that on Jan. 5, a woman who works for Wright Traffic Control Inc. was working as a flagger at the...
