Allegheny County News category, Page 264
Penn Hills Council still at odds over police chief
Penn Hills Council did not vote on police Chief Howard Burton’s separation agreement, nor did it vote on whether or not Lt. Robert Myers would become his replacement at the Nov. 15 council meeting. The inaction comes after an injunction – filed by Councilwoman-elect JoAnne Fascio, Councilman Frank Pecora and...
Port Authority instructor files discrimination lawsuit over Black Lives Matter mask
An instructor at Port Authority’s Ross garage filed a federal lawsuit this week against the agency, claiming racial discrimination after she was suspended for a week for wearing a Black Lives Matter mask. Monika Wheeler-Hanna, of Penn Hills, is also alleging harassment and retaliation. Her lawsuit is the second to...
1 killed, another critically hurt after hit by vehicle in Duquesne
One man was killed and a second was critically hurt after they were hit by a pickup in Duquesne Wednesday morning. According to Allegheny County Police, the collision at Duquesne and Hoffman boulevards was reported shortly after 6 a.m. The men, whose ages were not released, were taken to unidentified...
Pitt gets $100M infusion to build biomanufacturing hub at Hazelwood Green brownfield site
Pittsburgh’s last brownfield-turned-tech hub just got another $100 million infusion. The Richard King Mellon Foundation announced Wednesday that it’s gifting the money to the University of Pittsburgh to develop a large swath of the 178-acre Hazelwood Green development along the Monongahela River into a biomanufacturing powerhouse. The $100 million grant...
Police: 2 men stabbed multiple times inside McKeesport home
Two men were being treated for stab or knife wounds in the wake of an incident in McKeesport on Tuesday. Allegheny County Police said the incident occurred shortly before 5 p.m. inside a home in the 3100 block of Garbett Street. First responders found a 39-year-old man with multiple stab...
Penn Hills gas station robbed at gunpoint
A Sunoco gas station in Penn Hills was robbed late Monday morning. Police Chief Howard Burton said no one was injured in the incident around 11:45 a.m. at the convenience store along the 200 block of Hulton Road. The chief said the robber brandished a silver handgun and demanded money...
McKees Rocks teen, 15, charged with fatally shooting Sto-Rox High School senior
A McKees Rocks teen has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Sto-Rox high school senior. Tavarius Lee, 15, is charged with criminal homicide and possession of a firearm by a minor, Allegheny County Police announced Tuesday. He is accused of killing Hasson Shackelford, 18, on Nov. 8....
Carnegie man gets 5 to 10 years state prison in fatal DUI crash on Parkway West
A Carnegie man pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing a South Park woman in a 2019 crash in which he was under the influence of drugs. Aaron Hutchison, 21, pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, as well as his fourth DUI offense, and related charges. As...
Butler woman pleads guilty in fatal 2020 wrong-way crash on Route 8
In February 2020, Kaitlyn Eckelberry’s life was all coming together. Her years of hard work in college and graduate school had paid off, and she had just passed her boards to become a physician’s assistant. She was hired at her dream job in orthopedics, had just signed a lease for...
Trib CEO Jennifer Bertetto recognized by Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association
The Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association on Tuesday honored Trib Total Media President and CEO Jennifer Bertetto with the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence. The award recognizes outstanding service that reflects positively on the news industry in Pennsylvania. Brad Simpson, president of the Harrisburg-based news association, praised Bertetto for being a...
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...
