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Opponents urge Greensburg Salem School Board to take stance against mask mandateVideo
Greensburg Salem residents opposed to the state’s school mask mandate repeated their call this week for the school board to defy it. They also questioned the need for a signature from a doctor instead of a parent when a family seeks to have a child exempted from masking inside school...
Breakthrough covid cases jump in Allegheny County
Breakthrough covid-19 cases in Allegheny County have risen in recent months, according to data from the Allegheny County Health Department. Breakthrough infections accounted for 23% of cases in August, Allegheny County Health Director Dr. Debra Bogen said Wednesday as she shared the first county-specific breakthrough data. The instances of breakthrough...
Northbound I-79 at Neville Island Bridge closing again this weekend
Motorists who use Interstate 79 to travel north through Allegheny County can expect another round of traffic delays Friday through early Monday as a third installment of an ongoing $43 million rehabilitation project starts on the Neville Island Bridge. PennDOT District 11 said the northbound lanes of the span will...
The Stroller, Sept. 16, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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. Freeport to celebrate September By the River Freeport Renaissance Association will host its September By The River Festival from noon to...
State trooper in Mercer County suspended after arrest on forgery, tampering charges
Pennsylvania State Police announced a state trooper in Mercer County was arrested Wednesday on charges of falsifying his orders for military service with the Ohio Air National Guard. State Trooper Jamhal Simon, 35, of West Middlesex, is charged with forgery and tampering with records, both first-degree misdemeanors. Simon has been...
Allegheny Township to get a Taco Bell
Taco Bell is coming to Allegheny Township. Township officials approved land development for the fast-food restaurant last month. The eatery will be a standalone establishment, not a combo KFC/Taco Bell, Township Manager Greg Primm said. “It’s always good to see new businesses coming in, especially giving people more options for...
Sewickley approves new 5-year garbage contract with Waste Management, rates to increase each year
Sewickley officials have approved a new five-year contract with garbage hauler Waste Management. The borough was one of 11 communities to bid out their trash service through the Quaker Valley Council of Governments. COG Executive Director Patrick Conners said it was done that way to get a better price than...
Barbecue food truck with deflated wheels drawing attention in Vandergrift
When business gets slow at Robert “Buster” Burnham’s food truck with deflated wheels, he puts on his full-body hot dog suit and goes to the side of the road in Vandergrift to try to flag down customers. “You need a promotion,” Burnham said. “When there’s no customers here, the suit...
Late Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller’s mixtape coming to streaming services
Many Mac Miller fans are still mourning his death just over three years ago. But now, at least, they have a new musical release of the Pittsburgh-born rapper and record producer’s material to look forward to. On Oct. 15, Miller’s mixtape “Faces” will be available on all streaming services as...
Utility offering free virtual training for first responders on dealing with natural gas incidents
Firefighters, police officers, paramedics and other first responders can learn how to properly respond to incidents involving natural gas through a free virtual training program being offered by Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania. The utility also is offering a $1,000 grant or in-kind donation to a local fire department that logs...
Leechburg-Clairton football game to be moved, fans barred amid fallout from hayride shooting
Leechburg’s varsity football team will host Clairton on Friday instead of traveling to the Mon Valley school as originally scheduled, and no fans will be allowed in the stadium, the districts said. “It’s directly related to the unresolved crime in the community, the Haunted Hills Hayride shooting,” Clairton Superintendent Ginny...
Police: Man stabbed in Pittsburgh’s Homewood South, suspect arrested
Pittsburgh police are investigating a stabbing in city’s Homewood South neighborhood. Public Safety spokeswoman Amanda Mueller said officers responded to the incident around 1:15 p.m. along the 600 block of Hale Street. A man was treated for a non-critical stab wound to the back, and another man was taken into...
Unity’s Victory Brinker comes up short in ‘America’s Got Talent’ final voteVideo
She may not have come away with the Vegas contract and the $1 million prize, but Victory Brinker is a winner by any standard. When the votes were counted on the Wednesday’s season finale of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” the 9-year-old opera singer from Unity came up short. Magician Dustin...
Victory Brinker’s ‘AGT’ journey ends short of final 5
The big run on “America’s Got Talent” for a little girl from Unity ended Wednesday. Victory Brinker, 9, fell short of joining the final five group of contestants, based on audience voting. Simon Cowell and fellow judges Heidi Klum and Sofia Vergara last week voted for Victory to move on...
North Huntingdon OKs new trash hauling contract; boosts rates $25 a quarter
A hike in residential garbage collection rates in North Huntingdon next year that is part of a new deal was almost inevitable, given the “below-market rates” charged by the current hauler, township officials said. The four-year contract commissioners approved Wednesday with Waste Management Inc. will boost residential rates to $77.25...
Police: Apollo area residents arrested in Kiski Township during welfare check
Two Apollo area residents were arrested by Kiski Township police following an incident during a welfare check at a township home. Officers responded to a residence along Old State Road around 4:15 p.m. Monday when they found a man believed to have been under the influence of narcotics and a...
Freeport’s September by the River returns this weekend after last year’s cancellation
A celebration of togetherness, local talent and support for nonprofits and small businesses returns to Freeport after a year hiatus due to the pandemic. September by the River is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in Riverside Park along the Allegheny River. “We’re super excited to be able to do it,”...
Breakthrough covid cases jump in Allegheny County
Breakthrough covid-19 cases in Allegheny County have risen in recent months, according to data from the Allegheny County Health Department. Breakthrough infections accounted for 23% of cases in August, Allegheny County Health Director Dr. Debra Bogen said Wednesday as she shared the first county-specific breakthrough data. The instances of breakthrough...
Loyalhanna man sentenced in connection with raid on suspected meth lab
A Loyalhanna man was ordered to serve up to 23 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to two drug charges. Brian Miller, 52, was arrested in April after the state police raided his home and found chemicals and equipment that investigators said were precursors to manufacture methamphetamine. As part...
Shady Side Academy hires Butler man as director of campus safety
Jim Reeder has always had a desire to help others. In his new role as director of campus safety and security at Shady Side Academy, Reeder gets to do just that — help keep all 1,100 students, along with faculty and staff, safe. “I’m really excited that I get to...
Penn Township man pleads guilty to stalking and role in failed jail drug smuggling plot
Tracey Boyle made it perfectly clear she no longer wanted anything to do with her former boyfriend after enduring months of fear and concern over the safety for herself and her children. “No one would logically sign up for you. Your behavior came to be of a child who didn’t...
Salem man pleads guilty to blackmailing local teens for sex photos
A Salem man pleaded guilty to charges he blackmailed local teens to send naked pictures to him. Dylan James Krupitzer, 20, was charged last year after police said he contacted a 16-year-old girl in 2019 through a social media account and demanded she send him pornographic pictures of herself. Police...
Rotary’s car cruise event a hit at Penn Hills Community Park
The Penn Hills Rotary car cruise Sept. 11 at Penn Hills Community Park took place for four hours under beautiful skies. Typically, the Rotary does three to four fiundraising events a year. Much of the money raised by the organization goes to Penn Hills graduates in the form of scholarships,...
West Deer Volunteer Fire Company No. 3 buys former Krigger & Company building
West Deer Volunteer Fire Company No. 3 will soon have a new station to call home. The fire department bought the former Krigger & Company building on 4360 Gibsonia Road for $1.8 million in a deal that closed Sept. 8. The department entered into talks with the property owner in...
Police investigating lunchtime shooting of woman in Wilkinsburg
A woman was shot in the abdomen at about 12:20 p.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of Center Street in Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County police said. Someone called 911 to report the shooting and the woman, who wasn’t identified, was taken to a hospital and is in critical condition. Allegheny County...
