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Motorists who travel along Route 28 should be aware of two traffic shifts today. Construction crews will be working in two separate areas in Harmar and O’Hara, with both projects impacting traffic. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., bridge work in the southbound lanes will create a single-lane restriction in...

We moved to Sewickley nearly eight years ago now. My wife is from the region, but not the community. When friends and family at my forever home of the Jersey Shore ask how I like living in Pittsburgh, I always answer, “I like living in Sewickley,” and proceed to let...

“The Kennywood exit!” “Pardon?” I replied. “I take the Kennywood exit to get to your house. First exit after the Squirrel Hill Tunnel.” “Oh, well, yes. That is ‘the Kennywood exit!’ ” This conversation took place as I gave directions to my Swissvale home to someone kind enough to take...

A North Huntingdon exotic dancer wants a local adult night club to pay her more than $58,000 in back wages and damages she says she is owed because the club misclassified her employment status. Deanna Betras, 41, alleges the owners of the former The Filly Corral in South Huntingdon —...

While I live in Glen Osborne, pay substantial tax to support Quaker Valley Schools and have no children who attend schools in the Quaker Valley System, I nonetheless have an opinion about the current dilemma in search of a site for Quaker Valley High School. My understanding is that the...

Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Salvation Army seeking participants for annual Angel Tree program The Salvation Army is looking for churches and companies to take part...

A man was reported in stable condition after being shot in the leg in the Homewood South neighborhood, Pittsburgh police said. Police said they responded to an alert of a shooting around 8:20 p.m. in the 7300 block of Hamilton Avenue. Medics transported the victim to a local hospital and...

Carol Black remembers making the 27-mile drive from her Cranberry home to the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, and turning onto Wilkins Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill. As she headed for the parking lot, she saw her brother Richard walking into the building. It’s the last time...

To the Editor, I would like to respond to Mr. (Robert) Elm’s recent letter (Gateway’s need for equity director is real, Oct. 14) about the equity director position in the Gateway School District. Here are some fundamental questions. Do you want to see an expansion of central office administrative positions...

A Vandergrift man accused in the attempted rape of an Allegheny Township woman in May claims he was improperly questioned by police when he told them he acted to fulfill his accuser’s “rape fantasy.” Defense attorney Duke George, during a court hearing on Tuesday, argued his client, James Randall DeFilippi,...

Candidates seeking political office in Pittsburgh will be allowed to use campaign funds for some childcare costs incurred because of their campaigns starting next election cycle. Under legislation passed by City Council on Tuesday, candidate committees will be able to use campaign funds to pay for childcare expenses incurred during...

Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday introduced an ordinance that it said would address lead exposure, and it also urged Pittsburgh Public Schools and utility companies to take action to reduce potential lead exposure. “About 400 children each year in the region are found to have elevated blood lead levels,” Councilwoman...

Covid vaccine booster shots are rolling out in New Kensington, Springdale and Harrison for those eligible to receive them. The Allegheny Valley School District will hold a vaccination clinic from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday at Springdale Junior-Senior High School. The clinic is in partnership with UPMC Children’s Hospital of...

Covid vaccine booster shots are available in New Kensington for those who are eligible to receive them. Community Health Clinic, at 943 Fourth Ave., began giving booster shots Monday, clinic executive Director Raji Jayakrishnan said. The clinic has boosters for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines. Pfizer boosters are not...

A Westmoreland County judge on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a Greensburg woman who was sentenced to serve a 14-year prison term for the sale of heroin that caused the fatal overdose of a woman last year. Jamie Lynn Dickant, 35, sought to rescind her guilty plea and contended she...

Allegheny Valley School District will hold a vaccination clinic from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at Springdale Junior-Senior High School. The clinic is in partnership with UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. It will be open to students and community members looking to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Third-dose Pfizer booster...

Federal prosecutors say the mass shooting that Robert Bowers carried out at a Pittsburgh synagogue three years ago was preceded by disturbing, hate-filled activity on social media. Since then, social media sites have continued to be linked to — and some say breeding grounds of — acts of violence and...

Corey Mickens, then 15, killed a man who had been his friend by shooting him in the head execution style on Feb. 5, 2019. Two weeks later, Mickens stood up through the sun roof of a car as it drove through North Braddock and shot and wounded a stranger on...

If a FedEx truck driver hadn’t been wearing noise-canceling headphones, he might have avoided crashing into an overturned tour bus in January 2020 as part of a Pennsylvania Turnpike wreck that killed five people and injured 14 in Westmoreland County, according to a civil lawsuit. The complaint, filed in Philadelphia...

Squatters and wildlife in a dozen rundown New Kensington houses may need to find new places to live within a matter of months. City Council, sitting as the Board of Health on Monday, ruled 12 properties to be detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare of the community and...

Pittsburgh police will be required to publish data about certain incidents with breakdowns by demographics like race and gender. City Council on Tuesday approved legislation that requires city police to collect data including information on pedestrian stops; use of force and physical restraints; citations and warnings issued; misdemeanor and felony...

The former director of admissions and financial aid at Sewickley Academy who was fired this summer has settled a federal lawsuit he filed against the school. Federal court records show U.S. Magistrate Maureen P. Kelly signed the order dismissing Douglas Leek’s case against Sewickley Academy on Monday. Attorney Sam Cordes,...

A new Austin’s Playroom has opened at The Watson Institute in Leet. “We’re so pleased to have an Austin’s Playroom in our newly-renovated space and know that it will bring smiles and laughter to our children and families as they await their appointments,” said Barry W. Bohn, president and CEO...