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Monroeville Mall shooting victim remembered as selfless, loving
Saheed Gayle was at work at the Monroeville Mall on Oct. 7 when he was shot and killed. The 20-year-old had last spoken to his mother, Theresa Kallon of Laurel, Md., on the phone the evening before he died. He had called her to get ideas for what to buy...
ATF searching for person who stole guns from Monroeville Dunham’s
Federal and local police are searching for a person who they say stole three guns out of Dunham’s Sports in Monroeville in August. The Philadelphia division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a $5,000 reward to whoever leads police to an arrest. Police say a...
Allegheny County adds 97 new coronavirus cases
Allegheny County reported 97 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the sixth straight day in double digits after hitting triple digits twice earlier this month. The 97 new cases bring its total to 13,533, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. Of those 97 cases, 55 are confirmed and 42 are...
Nearly 29K Allegheny County voters receive wrong mail-in ballots
Nearly 29,000 Allegheny County voters have received the wrong ballot because of a programming and printing error by the company hired to print and mail the county’s ballots, officials said Wednesday. Elections officials began hearing of the misprinted ballots on Friday, said Elections Division Manager David Voye. About 20 county...
Police: Man shot in Penn Hills in ‘drug deal gone bad’
A man is recovering in a hospital after being shot three times in Penn Hills on Tuesday. Police Chief Howard Burton said the victim, a white man in his 20s, made his way to the GetGo gas station near Frankstown and Coal Hollow roads around 3 p.m. He was shot...
3rd gun found in 5 days on passengers at Pittsburgh International Airport
Transportation Security Administration agents caught a Texas man with a handgun at Pittsburgh International Airport on Saturday, which was the third gun found on passengers in five days. Last Tuesday, TSA agents stopped two passengers with guns at an airport checkpoint. “What would make someone think they could bring a...
Allegheny County reports no new covid-19 deaths for 4th day
Allegheny County reported 74 new covid-19 cases Tuesday. There were seven new hospitalizations and no new coronavirus-related deaths reported. Total cases in the county are now 13,436. Total hospitalizations are now 1,293 and the death toll remains at 397. Allegheny County coronavirus by dayInfogram There has not been a new...
Allegheny County Judge John A. Zottola, creator of Veterans Court program, dies
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John A. Zottola, who founded the Veterans Court program and was revered for his compassion, died on Monday. Zottola was 63 and lived in Fox Chapel. A graduate of Central Catholic High School who earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Zottola also...
Allegheny County council president wants Columbus statue to remain
Allegheny County Council President Pat Catena on Tuesday called on local leaders to reconsider removing a controversial statue of Christopher Columbus from Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park. Last week, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto echoed the recommendation of the Pittsburgh Art Commission to remove the statue. He directed the statue be displayed on...
Fox Chapel Area School Board approves 5-day in-person class for elementary students
Fox Chapel Area elementary students will return to the classroom full-time in November, while those in middle school and high school will continue hybrid and remote learning models for at least the next nine weeks. The school board on Monday night voted 7-2 to give kindergarten through fifth-grade students the...
Gisele Fetterman grateful for support after enduring racial slurs while shopping
Gisele Fetterman, wife of Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, said Monday she is grateful for the support she has received after a stranger verbally attacked her at a grocery store near her home. “Everyone from the governor (Tom Wolf) to our attorney general (Josh Shapiro) to our senator (Bob Casey), they are...
Police issue arrest warrant, file charges in fatal shooting at Monroeville Mall
Allegheny County Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a man believed to have shot and killed a 20-year-old at the Monroeville Mall. Lawrence Mark Murphy, who police believe is from the Braddock area, is believed to have shot Saheed Gayle, 20, in the torso just outside the...
Crack’d Egg in Brentwood files for bankruptcy
The Brentwood restaurant that made news last month for continuing to operate despite a health department order requiring it to close has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The process will allow the Crack’d Egg to reorganize its debt while continuing to operate. According to the voluntary petition filed Friday in...
Allegheny County adds 179 new covid cases over past 2 days
On Monday, the Allegheny County Health Department announced it found 179 new cases of coronavirus over the past two days. The breakdown — 97 cases on Sunday, 82 on Monday — were from 2,320 PCR tests conducted from Oct. 4-11. Of those new cases, 156 were confirmed, 23 probable. The...
Lt. governor’s wife says she was verbally assaulted while shopping at grocery store
The wife of Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor says she was verbally assaulted while picking up some items at a grocery store near her home on Sunday. In a post to her Twitter account, Gisele Fetterman, wife of Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, said she went “to the local grocery store and was...
Allegheny Conference summit focuses on economic recovery from pandemic
An economic summit focused on restoring the Pittsburgh region’s economy to pre-pandemic levels was held last week by the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. As part of the summit, the organization prepared a robust report on how severely the region’s economy has been disrupted during the pandemic. The report did...
Covid-19 case suspends football for Serra Catholic High School; 1 infected, 40-plus quarantined
Serra Catholic High School football players are prohibited from practicing or playing games for at least the next two weeks in an attempt to thwart a possible spread of covid-19. More than 40 student athletes and football staff are under quarantine because a person involved with the team has tested...
Drink it up: Steelers’ Smith-Schuster teams with Salud Juicery for ‘JuJu Juice’Video
Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is offering up some liquid refreshment. The athlete teamed with Salud Juicery for “JuJu Juice.” It’s a blend of mangoes, oranges and apples, enhanced with “JuJu Power Sauce,” a fusion of turmeric and maca, which fittingly makes it bright yellow. The color represents the JuJu...
Human skeletal remains found in Boyce Park
A hunter found human skeletal remains Saturday morning in a wooded area at Boyce Park in Plum, officials said. Authorities were alerted to the hunter’s discovery shortly after 9:30 a.m., an Allegheny County 911 shift commander said. Detectives with the Allegheny County Police homicide unit were called to the scene,...
Allegheny County reports 81 coronavirus cases
Allegheny County on Saturday recorded 81 new coronavirus cases. The county now has a total of 13,183 cases of covid-19, according to data from the Allegheny County Health Department. Seventy-seven of the new cases are confirmed, while 4 are listed as probable. No new deaths were reported, leaving the total...
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital’s clinic specializes in patients with disabilitiesVideo
Joycelyn Banks gets off the lift of the accessible van. She maneuvers her way into the hospital lobby, onto an elevator and gets off at her floor. Banks enters the doctor’s office, where she’s greeted by registered nurse Jennifer Stephens. The two enter the patient room. Banks gets onto an...
Allegheny County investigating after voters receive wrong mail-in ballots
The Allegheny County Elections Division is investigating after receiving numerous reports from voters who say they received the wrong mail-in and absentee ballots. About 20 Allegheny County voters contacted the Elections Division Friday afternoon and evening, according to an announcement from the county. Officials have not determined how the errors...
Top stories for the week of Oct. 5Video
Here are some of the top stories from the week of Oct. 5: - U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey won’t seek re-election. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, confirmed that he won’t seek re-election and moreover, he won’t run for governor, as was widely speculated. The move sent potential candidates into...
‘Hydration station’ coming to Great Allegheny Passage Boston trailhead
Riders and walkers on the Great Allegheny Passage will have a new place to take a water break next year, as a “hydration station” is being installed at the Boston trailhead in Elizabeth. The work is funded through a $19,000 grant from Pennsylvania American Water to the Mon/Yough Trail Council,...
Death toll reaches 10 in covid outbreak at Kane in Scott, with 78 active casesVideo
Ten residents of Kane Community Living Center’s Scott location have died from covid-19 in an outbreak that was first detected in mid-September, facility officials said Oct. 9. Kane has three other facilities, in Ross, Pittsburgh’s Glen Hazel neighborhood and McKeesport. Residents range from young people with disabilities to older patients...
