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Greensburg Fire Department delivers Thanksgiving dinner to those in need 
Dozens of Greensburg-area families will have a Thanksgiving dinner this week thanks to the Greensburg Volunteer Fire Department and donations from the community. Firefighters packed 50 boxes Tuesday. Each held a Thanksgiving dinner with the works: turkey, veggies, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, rolls and pumpkin pie. They loaded the boxes...
2 men plead guilty for selling heroin, cocaine in Braddock area
Two men pleaded guilty in federal court last week to narcotics trafficking, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced Tuesday. Larry Dandridge, 24, of Monroeville pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin while Damien Franklin, 26, of Trafford, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Two...
Power restored to the Squirrel Hill Tunnel
Power has been restored and all lights are on at the Squirrel Hill tunnels in Pittsburgh. Electrical issues caused the cameras, traffic signals and half the lights inside the tunnels to go out shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday. PennDOT officials announced the issues were fixed shortly before 11 p.m. The...
Customers flock to Glen's Frozen Custard as season draws to close 
Tuesday’s mild weather prompted many devoted followers of Glen’s Frozen Custard to race to stands in Springdale and Lower Burrell before they close for the season at 10 p.m. Wednesday. Many customers went to scoop up Glen’s traditional cones, while others went for seasonal favorites such as homemade pumpkin roll...
Man rescued after being trapped under tombstone in Pittsburgh
Emergency responders were called to St. Michael’s Cemetery near Pittsburgh’s South Side Slopes neighborhood around 1 p.m. Tuesday after a man was pinned beneath a tombstone. The 47-year-old man was visiting the cemetery with his mother when he lost his balance and grabbed onto the tombstone, said Cara Cruz, a...
West Deer approves new hires, resignations
After nearly 40 years of working with West Deer, administrative assistant Cathy Sopko is retiring. Supervisors last week approved the hire of Sopko’s replacement, Jodi French, at a wage of $16.56 an hour. “I really enjoyed working with the township and working with the people here,” said Sopko, 65, of...
Mayor Peduto: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts must be restructured 
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media, which announced Monday it would close its main building at year’s end, must be completely restructured to secure sustainable funding for future operations. Peduto, who briefed reporters Tuesday during an unrelated event in Garfield, said the city has...
Drink beer, get a free koozie from Allegheny County breweries
Craft beer enthusiasts can drink their way to a free koozie while exploring Allegheny County’s 34 breweries. A new collaboration between VisitPittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Brewers Guild will offer the free koozie (the insulating covers for a can) to anyone who collects five stamps for buying five beers from guild...
Penn Hills deputy mayor calls for removal of economic development committee chair
Small-town politics has reared its ugly head again in Penn Hills. Penn Hills Deputy Mayor Catherine Sapp accused Tyler Tomasino of the “shameful” and “unacceptable” creation of a political cartoon that ended up on social media days before the Nov. 5 municipal election. She said the Economic Development Committee chairman...
Kiski School announces new scholarship
A Westmoreland County boarding school announced Tuesday that it will begin offering a full scholarship for one student every year, beginning in the 2020-21 school year. Officials at the Kiski School, an all-boys boarding school with about 190 students in grades 9-12 in Loyalhanna Township, said a new $1.15 million...
Pair plead guilty in 2003 Pittsburgh shooting turned homicide 15 years later
One man will remain on parole and another in prison for a 2003 shooting in Downtown Pittsburgh that turned into a homicide last year when the man they robbed and shot died of complications from the 15-year-old bullet wound. Marty Allen Armstrong Jr., 35, and Lamont Fulton, 34, both pleaded...
Fayette County woman charged with stealing McDonald's night bank deposit
State police arrested a Fayette County woman on charges she took a night bank deposit bag containing more than $1,000 from a Westmoreland County McDonald’s restaurant where she used to work, according to court papers. Lisa A. Leasure, 42, of Champion, was charged with receiving stolen property and theft before...
New Module homes a 'milestone' for Garfield development 
Private developers are again eyeing Garfield as a good place to build market-rate homes after years of disinvestment. Module, an East-Liberty-based housing startup, on Tuesday outlined $1 million plans to build two single-family homes and a two-unit duplex along Black Street. One of the single-family homes would be offered to...
Scottdale, Smithton on radar for improved transportation plan
A Westmoreland County group has money to explore new ways of connecting Smithton and Scottdale. Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County will use a $25,000 grant to develop a transportation plan that envisions new or improved pedestrian, bicycle and public transit systems between and within the two communities. Known as...
7th defendant pleads guilty in alleged $80 million Medicaid fraud case
A Pittsburgh woman pleaded guilty to federal charges of Medicaid fraud and conspiracy. Tionne Street, 48, was accused of defrauding Medicaid for about $70,000 and was one of about 16 people who were indicted on the alleged conspiracy involving about $80 million in overall fraud. Street is the seventh person...
Father of New Kensington cop killer denied house arrest while awaiting trial
Gregory Baucum Jr. won’t have his bond lowered or be released from jail on house arrest while he awaits trial. Baucum, 49, is the father of convicted New Kensington cop killer Rahmael Sol Holt. Baucum is in the Westmoreland County Prison, awaiting trial on charges of threatening or intimidating witnesses...
Brentwood students celebrate a special Thanksgiving
Friends and family filled their plates to the brim with turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes, along with traditional Nepali momo and samosa. This wasn’t your typical Thanksgiving dinner. But for students in the English as a Second Language program at Moore Elementary School in the Brentwood Borough School District who...
Franklin Regional senior earns $20,000 Bob Hope Band Scholarship Award
Franklin Regional senior Emma Martin is the recipient of the Bob Hope Band Scholarship Award, given annually to a band marching in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and to one of its members. But to keep it a surprise for Martin, her own mother had to essentially become a covert...
Christmas events planned in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Apollo The Apollo Christmas Parade and Party will be from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Apollo Plaza. The parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. and proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue and North Second street into the plaza. The Apollo-Ridge High School Chorus will sing and the Christmas tree...
Police: Wallet, iPhones stolen during South Side robbery
Pittsburgh police are investigating a robbery that occurred Monday evening in the 100 block of South 19th Street in Pittsburgh’s South Side. Two men were walking down the street around 11 p.m. when they were approached by a third man asking for directions, according to Cara Cruz, a police spokeswoman....
Scottdale man charged with DUI, leading police on chase through Unity
A Scottdale man found himself in the county jail on drunken driving and other charges after state police said they chased his pickup truck through farm fields and along miles of rural roads. The pursuit involving Joseph T. Demase, 37, began around 5 p.m. Monday along Route 981 near the...
Chartiers Valley thanks first responders, remembers victims of DUI crashes
Seniors at Chartiers Valley High School carefully decorated a tree in front of their school with two large red bulbs, 15 gold ornaments, 154 red ribbons and 1,054 lights. Each represented a life lost or the crash of a vehicle due to impaired driving in Allegheny County during the holiday...
Point Park grads capture picture-perfect moment with Tom Hanks in Pittsburgh
Danette Levers changed her Facebook profile picture at 7:34 a.m. Friday. There’s a pretty good chance she won’t ever change it again. She waited for months to upload that photo of her standing next to Tom Hanks. She idolizes the actor. She can recite most of his movie lines from...
Pittsburgh man gets 12½ years in federal prison for drug trafficking
A Pittsburgh man was sentenced Monday to 12½ years in a federal prison for distributing crack cocaine in the West End, according to prosecutors. Tyree Davis, 35, pleaded guilty to the offense in July. He was one of several people targeted in an investigation that focused on the GBK street...
Crash causes outage, delayed start for Highlands Elementary 
Highlands School District issued a two-hour delay for its elementary school in Tarentum on Tuesday. According to the district, a crash late Monday evening caused a power outage. Power was to be restored by mid-morning Tuesday. The delay affected only elementary students and staff. HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY FAMILIES: Due to an...


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