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Allegheny County reports additional 61 cases of coronavirus
Allegheny County health officials reported an additional 61 cases of covid-19 Saturday morning. That is more than twice the 25 new cases reported from Thursday to Friday. Females make up 110 cases, or 50.2%, and males account for 109 cases, or 49.8%. The age breakdown of cases is as follows:...
Lower Burrell parks closed after public doesn’t adhere to social distancing
Lower Burrell parks are closed until further notice because of coronavirus concerns. City police posted the announcement Friday on the department’s Facebook page. “Due to instances in which individuals utilizing our parks have not been following the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) social distancing recommended guidelines, we have to...
Woman hospitalized after motorcycle crash in Tarentum
A woman was taken to a local hospital Friday night with a head injury suffered in a motorcycle crash in Tarentum. Police and EMS responded to the single-vehicle crash in the 400 block of East Seventh Avenue shortly after 9:30 p.m. Police said the driver, a black man, fled on...
Family Video in New Kensington to permanently close
Family Video in New Kensington will permanently close shortly after it, and other non-life-sustaining businesses in Pennsylvania, reopen. All Family Video locations companywide were closed Monday due to the coronavirus pandemic. There are about 18 locations in Pennsylvania, four in eastern Ohio and more than 550 in 20 states and...
Giant Eagle employees in New Kensington, North Huntingdon and Wexford test positive for covid-19
Employees at five Giant Eagle stores have tested positive for coronavirus, including stores in New Kensington, North Huntingdon and Wexford, the company announced Friday. All five of the affected grocery stores have been thoroughly sanitized and are open for business, the company said in a statement. “Like other essential businesses,...
Adapting: Harrison family livestreams concerts from their living room to cope with pandemic
Editor’s note: Adapting is a regular series spotlighting the ways a global pandemic is changing the everyday lives of people in Western Pennsylvania. Christa Beck could not stop sharing music. It’s what she has always done as an instructor with Kindermusik, a children’s music education program. The covid-19 pandemic and...
Garbage collection set for Saturday in Pittsburgh
Saturday has been added as a garbage collection day this weekend in Pittsburgh. Crews are working to pick up trash left at curbsides on Wednesday, when pick-ups were suspended over issues related to the covid-19 crisis. The city’s environmental services workers were sent home with pay Wednesday after voicing concerns...
Police: Pittsburgh man robs Hazelwood pizza shop
A Pittsburgh man was arrested in Squirrel Hill after allegedly robbing a pizza shop in Hazelwood. City police have charged Justin Algiere, 27, with robbery in connection with an incident at 5 p.m. Thursday at Italian Village Pizza along the 5000 block of Second Avenue. Police said Algiere was stopped...
Week in review: Cornavirus sweeps nation, causes local leaders to take actionVideo
As the coronavirus continues to spread across Western Pennsylvania, several actions were taken by local leaders to help keep communities safe. Here’s a look at what happened this week. Businesses investigated After Gov. Tom Wolf ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses to temporarily shutter last week, a handful were investigated by local...
Seton Hill Child Care: Coronavirus case discovered after closing
A person associated with Seton Hill Child Services Inc.’s Greensburg Center, which has been closed since March 18, tested positive for the coronavirus, a Child Services official said Friday. Seton Hill Child Care representatives were not notified that the person tested positive for the coronavirus until after the center closed...
Butler County added to growing list of areas under Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order
Butler County on Friday joined the growing list of Pennsylvania counties under Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order. The order was scheduled to take effect at 8 p.m. Friday and continue until April 6. Individuals must stay at home “unless someone’s life depends on your leaving,” according to the order. In...
Congressman Mike Kelly of Butler tests positive for covid-19
U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly said Friday that he has tested positive for covid-19. The Republican from Butler, 71, said his symptoms are not severe and that he will continue to work from home until they subside completely. “My symptoms remain mild, and I will serve the 16th District from home...
Average U.S. gas price falls below $2 a gallon
The national average price of gasoline has fallen below $2 a gallon for the first time in four years, price-watching service GasBuddy announced Friday. The last time the U.S. average was $1.99 a gallon was March 23, 2016. In Pennsylvania, the top 10 lowest prices ranged from $1.55 to $1.79...
PUC asks residents to delay digging projects during covid-19 emergency
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is asking the public and businesses to delay nonessential digging projects. “While the Pennsylvania One Call system has remained fully operational through this pandemic, we join them in asking consumers, businesses and contractors to not begin any nonessential construction,” PUC Commissioner John F. Coleman Jr....
Allegheny County map shows where coronavirus patients live
Allegheny County officials on Friday released a map showing where residents who have tested positive for covid-19 live in the county. The color-coded map can be found on the county’s website. Of the 158 people who have tested positive, 59 live in the City of Pittsburgh, the highest total of...
Bouquet Park Pool to close for season, perhaps permanently
The board members of Bouquet Park Pool were frantically trying to sell memberships so they could open the pool this year, but the spread of covid-19 will close the pool for the season and perhaps permanently. The private, nonprofit community pool in Springdale Township has operated since 1965. In recent...
Experts: Little worry about groceries transmitting coronavirus
Relax, your food isn’t trying to kill you — probably. While grocery stores have increased sanitation measures amid the coronavirus pandemic, some consumers are worried they have more cleaning to do when they get their goods home. Pittsburgh-based infectious disease and critical care physician Dr. Amesh Adalja doesn’t think shoppers...
Nonprofits adjust services, volunteer opportunities to keep serving communities
As businesses close and workers face drastic pay cuts, the need for functioning nonprofit organizations has never been greater, said Phil Koch, executive director of the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County. Unfortunately, those nonprofits are facing the same challenges as everyone else. “Many of our nonprofit organizations rely on events...
2 firefighters injured trying to save West Deer teen from fatal blaze
Two firefighters who responded to a two-alarm house fire Thursday in West Deer suffered minor injuries trying to rescue the teenage girl who was trapped inside, a fire chief said. Dayanna Shaffer, 14, reported the fire by calling 911 from an upstairs bedroom about 9:15 a.m., said Josh Wiegand, fire...
Kane Center residents test positive for coronavirus days after employee also did
Two residents in a Kane Community Living Center have tested positive for the coronavirus, Allegheny County officials said Friday. Both residents live in the Glen Hazel facility, where an employee tested positive for covid-19 earlier this week. Dennis Biondo, executive director of Kane, said in a statement the residents were...
Westmoreland County under stay-at-home order as confirmed coronavirus cases grow
Westmoreland County residents have been ordered to stay at home. Gov. Tom Wolf announced an additional nine Pennsylvania counties will be under restrictions as part of the state’s efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The new order, which is in effect from 8 p.m. Friday through April 6,...
Western Pa. health systems provide masks to staff to combat covid-19 spread
Health care systems in Western Pennsylvania are working to equip all employees in clinical areas of its hospitals with protective masks. UPMC said it is also providing masks to staff and visitors to hospitals after they pass a screening test. Westmoreland County-based Excela Health, which has hospitals Greensburg, Latrobe and...
Pennsylvania reports 531 new coronavirus cases as total tops 2,000Video
Coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania rose by more than 500 from Thursday to Friday, bringing the total statewide to more than 2,000. The state Department of Health reported 531 new positive tests, the second day in a row in which new cases topped 500. The total stands at 2,218. That total...
UPMC experts on coronavirus: ‘We are prepared for a surge we hope never arrives’
Experts at UPMC said Friday they believe community spread of the coronavirus might be less intense locally than in other parts of the country. Dr. Graham Snyder, chief of infection prevention, said that out of 1,743 covid-19 tests done by UPMC facilities, 141 have been positive — about 8%. He...
Allegheny County adds 25 coronavirus cases, total reaches 158
Allegheny County reported 25 additional active cases of the coronavirus Friday, bringing the total to 158. That’s compared to the one-day increase recorded from Wednesday to Thursday, when the county reported 45 new cases. That total does not include two Allegheny County residents who have died from complications from covid-19....
