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Road 66 in Oaklahoma Borough to close for railroad work
Route 66 in Oklahoma Borough will be closed near Orr Avenue between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday so Norfolk Southern crews can do maintenance work on a railroad crossing. About 11,000 motorists travel that section of Route 66 daily, according to PennDOT. Signs will be posted to guide motorists...
Police: Men went on $1,500 shoplifting spree at Walmarts in Harrison, Frazer
Two men are accused of stealing more $1,500 worth of electric toothbrushes and razors, teeth whitening strips and food from Walmart stores in Harrison and Frazer. Frazer police said they received a tip Saturday from police in Harrison that the two men had shoplifted at the Walmart in Harrison and...
Daily Download: Trump’s visit, Amazon breaks ground and Frank CoonellyVideo
Each day, TribLIVE reporters and editors will break down the biggest news of the day, with video highlights of the people and places making headlines. Today, reporter Maddy Lee discusses President Donald Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh, Amazon breaking ground in Findlay and the Pirates and team president Frank Coonelly parting...
Highlands’ talent show Thursday to raise money toward spring musical
Highlands High School is staging its annual “Fall Follies” talent show on Thursday, Oct. 24. The student-led evening features 24 acts from 78 students in the Highlands Honors and Variations Show Choirs and musical stage crew. The event is a fundraiser for Highland’s spring musical. “The monies raised will go...
Penn Hills council approves consent order to upgrade Plum Creek Sewage Plant
Penn Hills needs to make upgrades to its Plum Creek Sewage Treatment Plant that could cost up to $700,000 within the next two years to prevent sewage from leaking into Plum Creek, according to an Allegheny County Health Department consent order. The ACHD worked with Penn Hills to come up...
Penn woman accused of baseball bat assault in Jeannette
A 32-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday inside a public housing complex in Jeannette where police say she fled after assaulting a woman with a baseball bat. Heather L. Kunkle of Penn was charged by city police with aggravated assault, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, defiant trespass, flight to...
Youngwood man accused of assaulting, threatening relative over use of car
State police arrested a Youngwood man Tuesday for assault and intimidation of a witness after he allegedly got into an argument with a relative about the use of a car. Alexander L. Soroka, 37, was arraigned before night court District Judge Denise Thiel for harassment, intimation of a witness and...
Unity zoning panel OKs small cell antennae in Whitney, HostetterVideo
Six small cellular antennae soon could be rising above the Unity villages of Hostetter and Whitney. The township zoning hearing board this week approved the devices meant to improve service for Verizon wireless customers. Chairman Matt Cavalier, Timothy Thomas, Dorothy Zello and Judge Jim Kelley granted a special exception allowing...
Ex-Fayette County funeral director admits bilking clients out of more than $500K
A former Uniontown funeral director pleaded guilty Tuesday in Fayette County to bilking more than 80 customers out of more than $500,000 worth of pre-paid funeral policy payments. Stephen E. Kezmarsky III, 52, of Uniontown, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of theft by deception, theft by failure to make required...
West Deer bridge project completed ahead of schedule
A project to demolish a structurally deficient bridge in West Deer was completed earlier than expected, officials said. Work at the intersection of Lick and Bairdford roads began Sept. 3 and was expected to continue until November, according to officials with the Allegheny County Department of Public Works. Officials announced...
Wilkinsburg McDonald’s manager tells detectives he stole $241K to fund gambling habit
The manager of the Wilkinsburg McDonald’s told investigators he gambled away $241,000 he stole from the restaurant between November 2018 and January 2019, according to a criminal complaint. Detectives with the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office said Charles Hobi, 49, of Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats neighborhood, told them he was...
North Braddock man pleads guilty for role in fatal overdose
A North Braddock man pleaded guilty in federal court this week to supplying drugs that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors said. Demiyr Johnson, 21, pleaded guilty to a charge of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of a substance containing heroin and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady...
Pa. Democrats slam Trump on jobs, economy ahead of his Pittsburgh visit
Pennsylvania Democrats used President Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh on Wednesday to blast his economic policies, saying their constituents have been left behind. “The Trump economy is not working,” said state Rep. Austin Davis, D-McKeesport. “My Mon Valley constituents are frustrated by closed factories. They’re frustrated by the lack of a...
Amazon breaks ground on Findlay warehouse that will create 800 jobs in Pittsburgh regionVideo
Eight hundred jobs that each pay at least $15 per hour will be coming to Findlay thanks to Amazon, which broke ground Wednesday on a new fulfillment center that is expected to be open by the 2020 holiday shopping season. Construction has already started at the site, adjacent to the...
Cops: Woman who crashed into Greensburg Chinese restaurant was DUI
A 47-year-old Greensburg woman who smashed through the front of a Chinese restaurant over the weekend was driving under the influence and did not have a driver’s license, city police said. Eileen Marie Morreo is charged with DUI, reckless endangerment and reckless driving following the crash into Szechuan Garden at...
Penn Hills adopts new, more specific noise ordinance
Penn Hills adopted an ordinance that regulates noise between certain times throughout the municipality. Council voted unanimously on the new rules aimed at limiting excessive noise. Mayor Sara Kuhn and Councilman John Petrucci were absent from the Oct. 21 meeting. The new ordinance replaces an old one that placed vague...
Multi-purpose turf field planned for new Thomas Jefferson High School
West Jefferson Hills School District leaders are looking to add a multipurpose turf field behind the new Thomas Jefferson High School that would serve as a space for soccer and band practices, as well as physical education classes. The proposal would turn what now is a muddy grass area into...
Police: Man dies after being struck by 2 vehicles in North Versailles
A 63-year-old man died after being struck by two vehicles Wednesday in North Versailles. Allegheny County police said the man, later identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as Ritchie Holmes of North Versailles, was found in the intersection of Taylor Street and Route 30 around 7 a.m. He was taken...
Plum High drummers go head over heels in viral performanceVideo
A pair of Plum High School percussionists have pushed the proverbial envelope and gained millions of views on social media with their performances. Junior Nick Kinek and senior Devin Zerjav, both 17, literally bring the heat and go head over heels to deliver a good show for their fellow students...
Toomey praises Trump for shale gas exploration policies in Pennsylvania, U.S.
Pennsylvania’s junior U.S. senator praised Donald Trump’s policies on shale gas exploration on the cusp of the president’s visit Wednesday to the Shale Insight 2019 conference in Downtown Pittsburgh. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, said the administration’s market-based approach has allowed natural gas production in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale to...
Volunteers pull about 300 tires from Yough River
Sixty-five volunteers pulled about 300 tires from a 4-mile stretch of the Youghiogheny River on Sunday, according to Westmoreland Cleanways director Ellen Keefe. But there is still more work to do. “We are definitely planning to do this next year,” she said. “This will become an annual event it looks...
Police searching for Lawrenceville robbery suspect who shot at victim
Pittsburgh police are searching for a robbery suspect accused of firing a gun during an incident Tuesday in Lawrenceville. Officers were called at about 11 p.m. to the 4000 block of Butler Street. No one was injured, but a man told police he was robbed by a person who fired...
U.S. stronger today, will be stronger tomorrow, Trump says in Pittsburgh speechVideo
President Donald Trump lauded the men and women working in Marcellus Shale and lauded his administration’s efforts to boost American energy production during his speech Wednesday at the Shale Insight conference inside the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. Trump spoke for just more than an hour. Protesters and...
SWAT situation in Pittsburgh’s Arlington section ends peacefully
A SWAT situation in Pittsburgh’s Arlington neighborhood Tuesday was resolved without incident, police said. Officers were called to a possible domestic violence incident in the 200 block of Fernleaf Street and spoke with a man who ultimately barricaded himself in the home, public safety spokesman Maurice Matthews said. The man...
South Park power outage closes 2 elementary schools
A power outage in South Park Township and surrounding neighborhoods is affecting more than 4,000 residents and has forced two elementary schools to closed Wednesday. About 4,100 First Energy/West Penn Power customers are without service after equipment was damaged overnight, the utility company posted on its website. Students at South...
