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Woodland Hills School District to offer gun buyback program
Woodland Hills School District officials announced they have secured partnerships and funding to provide a gun buyback program within its communities. “This is an idea that has been a couple of years in the making,” Superintendent James Harris said in a press release Tuesday. “Our students and staff have been...
UPMC Mercy hospital’s $510M expansion on track for spring 2023 opening
Hot orange sparks rained down on freshly erected steel beams Tuesday morning as construction workers welded and hammered while harnessed to high-rise scaffolds and aerial lifts overlooking the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. Two giant cranes rotated nonstop, hoisting building materials weighing thousands of pounds across the busy construction site of...
Ex-Pittsburgh defense lawyer lives up to ‘I think like a criminal’ mantra
In 2014, attorney Daniel Muessig created an advertisement for his law practice and posted it on YouTube. In the funny, over-the-top video that had more than 150,000 views, he urged people to hire him to represent them in court because, he said, “I think like a criminal.” Now, seven years...
Man accused of indecent exposure in Richland Target parking lot
A Zelienople man is accused of exposing himself in a Target parking lot in Richland Township. Northern Regional police on Monday charged Kevin Lee Clark, 28, with indecent exposure and disorderly conduct stemming from an incident at 550 Grandview Crossing Drive on Oct. 28. In a criminal complaint against Clark,...
5 kittens abandoned in box left on Port Authority bus, in need of adoption
Someone abandoned five kittens on a Port Authority of Allegheny County bus Monday morning, officials said. The tiny, gray-and-white-furred felines were found huddled inside a cardboard box around 8:20 a.m. on a bus traveling in Wilkinsburg on the P3 route, according to Port Authority spokesman Adam Brandolph. With help from...
Carnegie man gets 4 to 8 years in prison in son’s fentanyl overdose
Avant Redding ate a chicken nugget Happy Meal at a living-room coffee table in his Carnegie home on the night of May 6. A short time later, the 4-year-old boy threw up and had trouble walking. The next morning, he was dead. Detectives say that Avant’s father, Van Marcus Redding,...
Pittsburgh woman pleads guilty to fatal Route 51 crash that killed her cousin
A Pittsburgh woman who had been driving more than 100 mph pleaded guilty Monday to homicide by vehicle for killing her cousin in a crash on Route 51 in February. Allison Matthew, 27, of the North Side, will appear before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jill E. Rangos on Feb....
5 Questions with incoming bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh
Ketlen Solak can remember a time when others were taken aback by her telling them she would one day like to lead the Episcopal Church. But on Saturday, Solak’s wish will be fulfilled when she succeeds Bishop Dorsey McConnell at a consecration ceremony making her the ninth bishop of the...
Beaver Falls 6-year-old cancer survivor to light PPG Tree
It’s been a rough couple of years for Zoey Ward, a 6-year-old cancer survivor from Beaver Falls. Diagnosed at the age of 4 with stage 4 Neuroblastoma, Zoey has spent the last two years undergoing multiple rounds of chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiation, two stem cell transplants, and major surgery to...
Allegheny County municipalities sue PennDOT over proposed I-79 bridge tolling project
Three Allegheny County municipalities have sued PennDOT to halt a bridge project along Interstate 79 that could result in tolls being imposed there to help pay for the work. The bridge, which borders Collier and is located in Bridgeville and South Fayette, goes over Route 50. It has been targeted...
Police charge suspect with killing 70-year-old found on train tracks in Scott
Allegheny County police charged a 28-year-old with homicide after officers found a man dead along railroad tracks in Scott on Thursday evening. Joseph Williams, 70, was pronounced dead at the scene after he was found lying on railroad tracks behind South Hills Self Storage near a homeless encampment, officials said....
Highmark CEO David Holmberg’s pay dipped to $7.8M in 2020
Highmark Health CEO David Holmberg made $7.82 million in total compensation in 2020, about $325,000 less than the previous year, records filed Friday show. The reduced compensation and bonus package amid the covid-19 pandemic follows Holmberg reaping a pay increase of about $660,000 in 2019, an 8.8% hike, according to...
Gun buyback event planned in Wilkinsburg; Giant Eagle gift certificates will be given out
The Wilkinsburg Police Department is teaming up with the Wilkinsburg Sanctuary Project for Peace in an effort to reduce the number of firearms in the community in advance of the holiday season. A gun buyback event is slated for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 in the lobby...
Wilmerding’s Westinghouse Castle coming back to life with new purposeVideo
The lights were back on in the old “Westinghouse Castle” in Wilmerding Wednesday night. A few of the folks who gathered on the lawn in front of the stately Romanesque/Renaissance Revival building probably swore they saw George Westinghouse waving from his old office. The property of the General Office or...
Police: Man found dead along railroad tracks in Scott Township
Allegheny County Police homicide detectives are investigating the case of a man found dead Thursday along railroad tracks in Scott Township. County 911 dispatchers were informed just before 6 p.m. of an unresponsive man along the tracks, off Creek Street. First responders discovered the man was deceased, and county police...
Snow possible as weather turns chilly this weekend
For the first time since last spring, that four-letter weather word — snow — is being mentioned again. And it’s not one bit unusual for this time of year according to Jenna Lake, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Moon Township. “It’s very typical for this time...
A dozen Western Pa. health systems pledge to comply with vaccine mandate for hospital workers
UPMC’s top doctor affirmed Thursday that Pennsylvania’s largest health system and nongovernment employer will comply with a newly issued federal mandate that all health care workers get vaccinated for covid-19 by early January, in line with prior pledges by competing medical providers in recent months. Dr. Donald Yealy, UPMC’s chief...
Pittsburgh International Airport military lounge gets upgrade with support from USO, Sheetz
Military service members now have an upgraded spot to relax and recharge between layovers at Pittsburgh International Airport. Buoyed by funding from Sheetz and individual donors, the United Service Organizations Inc. has invested in renovating the airport’s existing military lounge for active-duty as well as reserve members of the U.S....
Arts & Holiday Spectacular returns to Monroeville Convention Center
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts & Holiday Spectacular will return to full capacity starting Nov. 19 at the Monroeville Convention Center after being limited by the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The 24th edition of the annual event is expected to fill 250 booths with crafts, arts, gift items and holiday decorations...
Food Podcast: Hops for Hunger campaign fights hunger with beerVideo
On this week’s episode of the food podcast presented by Clearview Federal Credit Union on the Trib Live Podcast network, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank talks beer. Feeding Pennsylvania and PA Eats are joining forces with breweries across the state to raise money for hunger relief through the first Hops...
Holiday Mart returns to Sewickley’s Sweetwater Center for the Arts
More than 4,000 items from about 70 local and regional artists will be featured in the annual Holiday Mart at Sweetwater Center for the Arts in Sewickley. And there’s a story behind each one, said Barbara Pontello, the center’s acting executive director. For example, one woodworker sources wood from all...
Allegheny County leaders ask all businesses to require employee covid vaccinations
Allegheny County officials are asking all businesses to require their employees to be vaccinated against covid-19 by Jan. 1. “Jan. 1 will be a year since these vaccines have been available,” Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said during a news conference Wednesday. “We know how safe they are, we know...
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....
Person taken to hospital after Baldwin fire
One person was taken to the hospital after a fire early Wednesday in Baldwin, according to an Allegheny County 911 shift commander. Crews responded to the fire on Curry Hollow Road around 12:30 a.m. The person escaped from the home but was hospitalized with unspecified injuries, according to Tribune-Review news...
Penn Hills police to increase presence at high school Wednesday following social media threat
Penn Hills students will see an increased police presence at the senior high school on Wednesday, after the department worked with school officials to identify the source of a social media threat. “While Penn Hills Police Department does not view this threat as credible and have been able to identify...
