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Mt. Pleasant, Franklin Regional schools register covid-19 cases
Norvelt Elementary students will return on Thursday and Franklin Regional Senior High will remain open after district officials were notified that a student in each building had tested positive for coronavirus. Mt. Pleasant Area School District officials were notified Nov. 9 that a Norvelt student had tested positive. The school...
Lt. Gov. Fetterman seeks claim of $1M voter fraud reward from Texas lieutenant governorVideo
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is asking for his share of a reward after he offered up a case of voter fraud to Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick via Twitter. Patrick had announced that he is giving out $1 million in rewards for information that leads to voter fraud...
Western Pa. hospitals on alert as covid cases surgeVideo
Hospitalizations are on the rise in Western Pennsylvania, but the region’s health systems are projecting confidence in their ability to maintain capacity as covid-19 cases surge again. “We’ve been planning and preparing for a variety of surge situations over the past many months,” Dr. Rachel Sackrowitz, chief medical officer of...
Pittsburgh-area Pilgrim descendants celebrate 400th anniversary of Mayflower Compact
Four hundred years ago, a group of 102 people, all hoping to start a new life on the other side of the Atlantic, left England and sailed to the New World. Fleeing religious persecution, they left behind everything they knew as they boarded a small boat named the Mayflower. They...
Arnold assistant fire chief and his son face kidnapping charges
An Arnold assistant fire chief and his teenage son are accused of kidnapping the son’s pregnant girlfriend and holding her against her will for over a month, according to court records. Brian James Gouza, who has been suspended from Arnold Citizens Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, said the allegations are...
Neighbor charged in fatal Brighton Heights shooting
A SWAT situation on Wednesday ended with the arrest of a man accused earlier in the week of opening fire on a couple as they walked to get a bite to eat on Pittsburgh’s North Side, authorities said. The shooting happened about 3:30 p.m. Monday near the intersection of Brighton...
Derry Township assault victim hid inside van until troopers arrived
State police responding to a domestic assault in Derry Township early Wednesday said the victim fled her home and hid inside a van until troopers arrived. Jordache R. Larrabee, 31, of Derry Township, was charged by with assaulting, choking and threatening the woman during the 1:23 a.m. incident along Torrance...
Greater Latrobe School Board eyes bond refinancing, $200K savings
Greater Latrobe School District could save more than $200,000 by refinancing bonds issued in 2016 to help build the new Latrobe Elementary School. The school board this week set parameters for refinancing no more than $10 million of the bonds to take advantage of lower interest rates. “To be considering...
Delmont will vote on $1.7 million balanced budget next month
Delmont officials will advertise a $1.7 million balanced budget for 2021 that does not call for a tax hike. Following two public budget workshops, council voted Tuesday night to advertise its 2021 budget. Taxes will remain at 18 mills. This year’s budget is about a half-million dollars larger than the...
Pittsburgh allocates $1.8 million for Riverview Park landslide repairs
More than $1.8 million will be allocated to address landslides around Riverview Park on Pittsburgh’s North Side, Mayor Bill Peduto’s administration announced Wednesday. The money will come from the Regional Asset District’s capital fund and the first area to be addressed is the hill near Riverview Park’s Chapel Shelter. “Residents...
Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania people named to Biden’s transition team
President-elect Joe Biden has named several people with Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania ties to the agency review teams that will guide a transition before Jan. 20, when Biden is scheduled to take office. Although they don’t have a say in the matter, political science experts in the region say Biden should...
Alle-Kiski Valley couple celebrates 70 years of marriage, 75 years in loveVideo
An instant schoolgirl crush proved to be a life-changer for Vivian Beers. “I saw a guy sitting outside with a bunch of boys and I said to my girlfriend, ‘See that boy over there? I’m going to marry him,” said Vivian Beers, 89, of Winfield. That boy was Jim Beers,...
Allegheny County tallies nearly 15,000 more votes, count continues Thursday
Allegheny County counted another 14,969 ballots Wednesday, bringing the total number of ballots cast in the county to nearly 718,000, officials said. The Return Board counted the last 7,000 ballots that remained to be processed from the batch of 29,000 that had to be set aside because of a printing...
Veterans Day bike tour in Pittsburgh rides on despite the rainVideo
Rainy weather wasn’t going to put the brakes on for these cyclists. The 20-mile ride Wednesday — Veterans Day — went on as planned with a few adjustments. The first Veterans Day Bike Tour was to include stops at the Southwestern Pennsylvania World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial,...
Brentwood School District remains open; 5 TB cases are latent
Brentwood Borough School District will remain open as officials there and at the Allegheny County Health Department continue to investigate the presence of tuberculosis in a student and five employees. Amy Burch, the school district’s superintendent, said an informational meeting with staff Nov. 9 went “extremely well.” The meeting came...
Greensburg Salem elementary teacher tests positive for coronavirus
A teacher at Nicely Elementary in the Greensburg Salem School District tested positive for the coronavirus, administrators said Tuesday. “We have contacted faculty and families whose children may have been in close contact with this teacher to inform them of the situation and to recommend quarantine and testing,” Superintendent Gary...
Sloan Elementary architects discover damaged fire walls not up to code
In early 2017 while discussing a facilities study that outlined more than $70 million in improvements the Franklin Regional School District would need over the next decade, former board member John Koury said previous school directors had “a Band-Aid mentality” when it came to maintenance. The current board saw an...
Westmoreland County sees 2nd-highest report of new coronavirus cases
Westmoreland County saw 138 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the second highest total since the pandemic began in March. The new cases — 89 confirmed and 49 probable — bring the county’s total to 5,431, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The county’s previous of 148 was set on...
St. Vincent de Paul readies new Jeannette store for opening next weekVideo
The clothing racks are filling in and items are being priced for sale — the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store’s new Jeannette location is getting ready to reopen. After more than 10 months of being closed when the faith-based nonprofit was forced out of its Clay Avenue location in...
Manor library offers online readings, free fall craft bags for children
The Manor Public Library’s preschool program is well attended and, when it was forced to go on hiatus as the coronavirus pandemic locked down much of the country, children’s library assistant Melissa Paris immediately began thinking about how to keep things going. “Our biggest goal was to keep kids engaged...
Allegheny County reports record 366 new coronavirus cases
Allegheny County reported a record 366 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The new additions tallied by the Allegheny County Health Department bring the total to 18,339 cases since the pandemic began in March. It’s the third time the county has reported more than 300 cases, with 317 on Tuesday and...
North Hills reports 11th covid case since Sunday, active total at 19
Two North Hills High School students and a student at the middle school have tested positive for covid-19, district officials announced. The new cases bring the active total to 19 — 14 students and six staff members, according to an online tracker created by the district. Because of the time...
Pittsburgh posts ‘No Hunting’ signs in Frick Park
There are now “No Hunting” signs in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park. The city’s Public Safety Department put up the signs at key points in the more than 600-acre wooded greenspace in the city’s Squirrel Hill, Point Breeze and Regent Square neighborhoods. “There are numerous children, bicyclists, pedestrians and pets within the...
3 students test positive for covid-19 at Hempfield Area High School
Three Hempfield Area High School students tested positive for coronavirus over the past two days, according to Superintendent Tammy Wolicki. The new cases bring the district total to seven positive cases and three presumptive cases, when someone has been tested but is awaiting results, for the period between Oct. 28...
Woman accused of twice assaulting Ligonier Valley police officer
A 31-year-old Latrobe woman is accused of twice nearly running over a Ligonier Valley policeman who was trying to arrest her for violating a protection from abuse order last weekend. Amanda Jury was arraigned Sunday on two counts each of aggravated assault on a police officer and fleeing and eluding...
