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Truck flips, spills load on Parkway East; road open while debris being cleared
Crews are clearing debris from the Parkway East near Churchill after a tractor-trailer overturned and spilled its load across the road and down a hillside, according to authorities. The accident was reported shortly after 2:30 p.m. near Exit 11 and emergency responders were still on the scene at 4 p.m....
Pittsburgh police seek tips from public about Lincoln Place teen missing since March 30
Pittsburgh police are seeking the public’s help to locate a teen missing since Wednesday. Keenu Brooks, 13, was last seen at 6 p.m. on March 30 at at his school, Sister Thea Bowman School in Wilkinsburg. Anyone with information is asked to call detectives with the city’s Special Victims Unit...
Leechburg Area High School students set to perform the musical ‘Annie Get Your Gun’
Prepare to be taken back to the Wild Wild West as Leechburg Area High School students perform the musical “Annie Get Your Gun.” The two-hour musical is a loose fictional adaption of American sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s life and her romance with Frank Butler. It made its debut on Broadway in...
South Carolina educator buys building in hopes of housing private school in Arnold
An elementary school teacher from South Carolina is planning to open a private, nonprofit middle school in Arnold starting in the fall of 2025. Matt DeHart, 26, a fifth grade teacher in Greenville County, S.C., founded the nonprofit Teach from DeHart Foundation in January 2021. He and his wife, New...
Progress being made as Lower Valley EMS works to address financial condition
Progress is coming along as the Lower Valley Ambulance Service works with the Allegheny Valley North Council of Governments to improve its financial condition. The ambulance service is seeking help through two consulting reviews to strengthen its administrative side and gain a better idea of how to reorganize. “No one...
Allegheny 911: 1 person dead, 1 taken to hospital after crash in Baldwin
One person died and another was taken to the hospital with injuries after a crash in Baldwin on Sunday morning, officials confirmed. First responders were called to the 700 block of Becks Run Road shortly after 10 a.m. for reports of a two-vehicle crash, an Allegheny 911 shift supervisor said....
Out & About: Habitat for Humanity brings it on home with revived gala
Central Westmoreland Habitat for Humanity had to cancel its 2020 gala at the last minute, due to the pandemic. Work on its projects also shut down. “It’s been a tough couple of years,” board President Chad Warhold told about 160 attendees at the revived gala, held Saturday evening at Stratigos...
Out & About: Greensburg-Jeannette NAACP hosts annual human rights banquet
The theme of the Greensburg-Jeannette NAACP Annual Human Rights Banquet was “Together We Can Make a Difference.” In terms of politics, education, social and economic inequalities, there’s a lot of work to be done, said President Ruth Tolbert at the Saturday evening event at Greensburg Country Club. “Why are so...
Spring planting day on tap at Tarentum community garden
The Rev. Phil Beck likened the Tarentum community garden to a mini-farm that provides fresh, free produce to anyone. But farms need lots of labor to yield healthy crops. Beck encourages people to get their hands dirty and turn out for spring prep day, 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of April 3, 2022
Bell Acres Estate of Richard Smith sold property at 113 Orris Road to Jeffrey Bruce and Shelley Davies Wygant for $375,000. Edgeworth Walter Reuter III sold property at 329 Sycamore Road to Brandon and Margaret Behun for $585,000. Sewickley Eric Brandon Smith sold property at 36 Beaver St. to Philip...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 3, 2022
Bellevue Cheryl Popatak trustee sold property at 731 Orchard Ave. to Rodolfo Arroyo Diaz and Lorena Arroyo for $175,000. Costas Grekis sold property at 56 S Harrison Ave. to Donna Isoldi and Rosa Perri for $138,000. Bradford Woods J. Ardie Dillen sold property at 119 Boothbay Hbr to Steven and...
Fox Chapel area real estate transactions for the week of April 3, 2022
Aspinwall Jawaid Akhtar sold property at 500 Eastern Ave. to Robert Tenenini and Maggie Cooper for $375,000. Etna Roy Rudl Jr. sold property at 54 Angle Aly to Bonds McGuire LLC for $32,376. Estate of John Winschel Jr. sold property at 342-344 Butler St. to Farine Properties LLC for $155,000....
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of April 3, 2022
Churchill Eleanor Cappuccio sold property at 305 Surrey Pl to Dwight Helfrich and Linda Lieu for $282,000. Edgewood Andrea Sparzak sold property at 210 Elm St. to Unity Properties LLC for $90,000. Forest Hills Kevin Firmani sold property at 524 Barclay Ave. to James David Shenefelt for $180,000. Forest Will...
Lawsuit settled against Fayette County, state police in wrongful conviction of man imprisoned for 26 years
David Munchinski spent nearly 26 years incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. He then waited nearly a decade more to go to trial in the federal lawsuit he filed against the men he said wrongfully convicted him on two counts of first-degree murder. In December, Munchinski, who had long...
Lawyer: No plea deal offered before trial of Greensburg man convicted in Vandergrift woman’s murder
The lawyer for an Export man awaiting trial for his role in the 2017 murder of a Vandergrift woman whose remains were burned beyond recognition in a wooded area near Keystone State Park claims his client did not have a plea deal in place when he testified last summer in...
The Stroller, April 3, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Kiski Area students to present ‘Shrek the Musical’ The drama department of Kiski Area High School will present, “Shrek the Musical,” at...
Region’s school districts leading the way in opportunities for female superintendents
Women long have played a central role in education, but they often are left out of central administration. Women make up up 3 in 4 public school teachers nationwide but account for only about 1 in 4 superintendents, both in Pennsylvania and nationwide. Still, there have been inroads over the...
Female superintendent salaries near parity with male counterparts
Male superintendents may outnumber their female counterparts 3-1, but the gender pay gap is nearly nonexistent. Female superintendents make about 96% of what male superintendents make, according to a study released recently by the AASA, the School Superintendents Association. That’s significantly higher than the average for all women in all...
How $10 million Pressley Ridge donation will benefit Westmoreland locations
Pressley Ridge’s Westmoreland County locations will feel the impact of a $10 million donation gifted to the social service. Last week, Pressley Ridge announced it received the gift from MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos. The McCandless-based organization offers services related to mental health, foster care, crisis stabilization...
Deterioration under Pittsburgh’s Charles Anderson Bridge raises concerns; city says bridge already in rehab process
Squirrel Hill resident William Markley lives just a few blocks away from the site of the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse in Pittsburgh. He is understandably concerned about the state of the region’s bridges. During his daily commute to his case manager’s job at a recovery clinic in the North Side,...
Pandemic isolation helps shape Greensburg family band’s new albumVideo
On “Lonely Telephone,” an EP released by Greensburg band Essential Machine about a decade ago, acoustic-based tunes bubble and float, underpinned by quirky xylophone pings and an indie-folk-music aesthetic. As the band — husband and wife R.J. and Karen Dietrich and their son, 20-year-old Robert — prepares to release its...
Dyngus Day Dash comes to North Park on April 23
Anyone who likes pierogies, polkas and running will find the perfect opportunity in the Dyngus Day Dash 5K on April 23 in North Park, which will help aid the humanitarian effort in Ukraine. The Pittsburgh Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation is hosting the event. Proceeds will be split between supporting...
Fire levels barn in Upper Burrell, horse escapes unharmed to nearby pasture
A barn in Upper Burrell was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning but no animals were injured, according to authorities. Multiple fire companies responded to the fire reported at 6:16 a.m. along Horseshoe Lane, officials said. An assistant chief from the Lower Burrell No. 3 department was the first to...
Westmoreland tire cleanup targets West Nile virus; volunteers needed
Volunteers are needed to help with a special discount tire recycling event set for Saturday, April 9 at Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling. Conducted through a partnership with the Westmoreland Conservation District’s West Nile virus program, the event is intended to help clean up scrap tires that can collect standing water...
Documentary chronicles Lower Burrell veteran’s Vietnam War experiences
Hal Shaffer knows first-hand about the sacrifices and suffering war can bring. Now the 74-year-old Lower Burrell man is sharing his story about serving and being wounded during the Vietnam War as part of a documentary series being produced by John Bailey, “Duty, Courage, Honor: Southwestern Pennsylvania Goes to War.”...
