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Photos: Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins FestivalVideo
Hordes of people attended the second annual Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins Festival on Saturday and Sunday on the riverwalk on the North Shore. The Squashcarver team sculpted the #worldrecord #Jackolantern at 2118 pounds at the #Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins Festival. Special thanks to Russ Leno as lead sculptor. Special thanks to Don...
Activists speak out against Trump’s Pittsburgh visit
Local politicians joined with activists in Downtown Pittsburgh to deliver a message to President Donald Trump, who is set to visit the city Wednesday. “It’s been a year since this community issued a challenge to Trump, and it’s been a year that he hasn’t met it,” said Stosh Cotler, CEO...
Patron taken to hospital after car backs into Greensburg’s Szechuan Garden restaurantVideo
A patron dining at Greensburg’s Szechuan Garden suffered apparently minor injuries when a car backed into the front of the Chinese restaurant Sunday afternoon. The driver, a Greensburg woman, and a pet dog that was riding in her Honda Pilot sport utility vehicle weren’t injured in the wreck shortly before...
Springdale water project nears completion
Springdale’s water system renovation project could be completed as soon as next month. Project engineer Kevin Szakelyhidi of Bankson Engineers that the $7.4 million project is 85% completed, based on payouts to contractors. Szakelyhidi said he hopes the project can be completed within the next month or so. In providing...
Justice to go: state Superior Court to hear cases in Greensburg
Pennsylvania’s Superior Court is taking its show on the road. A three-judge panel of the appeals court will hear more than 40 cases at the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Superior Court normally hears arguments on appeals in Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but periodically visits...
North Hills DUI checkpoint in Indiana Township nets 4 arrests
Four people were arrested Saturday at a sobriety checkpoint along Route 910 in Indiana Township, officials said. There were 570 vehicles that passed through the checkpoint and eight people who were given field sobriety tests. Of those tested, one was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and three...
Pittsburgh police looking for man who fled from shooting scene
No one was injured in a Sunday morning shooting in Larimer, but Pittsburgh police said they are looking for a suspect who fled the scene. The shooting took place shortly after 3 a.m. in the 100 block of Putnam Street. Zone 5 police officers were in the area when they...
Strip District shooting suspect arrested; Pittsburgh police file additional charges
A man wanted in an Aug. 1 shooting in Pittsburgh’s Strip District is in the Allegheny County Jail charged with additional gun and drug-related violations. Authorities apprehended Treysaun Lockett-Tillman, 21, on Friday after U.S. marshals spotted him walking into a home on Joslyn Drive in Penn Hills. He was placed...
Man wanted in Florida surrenders after standoff on Pittsburgh’s North Side
A man wanted on a felony warrant in Florida was taken into custody after a three-hour police standoff that began Saturday night on Pittsburgh’s North Side. The incident began about 10:30 p.m. when Pittsburgh officers spotted a stolen vehicle parked outside a residence in the 3200 block of Lecky Avenue,...
Indiana County man killed in farming accident
An Indiana County man was fatally injured Friday afternoon when his jacket became caught in farming equipment. Leonard Mark Johnston, 57, of Creekside, was pronounced dead in a field off Johnston Road in Washington Township, Indiana County Coroner Jerry Overman said. He attributed the death to multiple blunt trauma. Johnston...
Leaf peeper season in full swing in the Laurel Highlands; Pittsburgh, Alle-Kiski Valley must waitVideo
Stunning fall colors in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas like the Alle-Kiski Valley are about a week to 10 days behind other areas in the state that are hitting their peak fall foliage about now, according to experts. The Laurel Highlands is at its peak for foliage-watching now, according to DCNR’s...
Trib Total Media creates scholarship to honor late editor
Trib Total Media has created a scholarship to honor the late Jim Borden, who served as managing editor of the Tribune-Review. The company will give up to $30,000 — paid in $7,500 annual installments — to one student every year, along with a guaranteed yearly internship with Trib Total Media...
South Fayette couple celebrates 60 years
Sylvia (Szramowski) and Phil Makowski of South Fayette, formerly of Heidelberg, celebrated 60 years of marriage Oct. 17. They are the parents of Cindy (Don) Settina, Sharon (Michael) Chabalie and Carla Bonkowski. Sylvia and Phil have two grandchildren, Jason Palas and Tina Chabalie, and three great-grandchildren, Jace, Jere and Lyam Palas....
Mt. Pleasant shopping spree to benefit kids of fallen soldiersVideo
More than 200 children around the country will have a birthday to remember next month thanks to the efforts of volunteers in Westmoreland County. A Soldier’s Child Foundation, based in Tennessee, visited Mount Pleasant Township last week and, with the help of about 60 local people, bought and wrapped birthday...
Westmoreland County controller candidates tout experience, watchdog role
In 2011, political newcomer Jeffrey Balzer campaigned for Westmoreland County controller with one message — the two-term incumbent had been in office too long. Now, eight years later Balzer, 54, a Republican from New Alexandria, is seeking his third term and said his experience in running the office that serves...
A year after Tree of Life shooting, the city still grieves but remains resoluteVideo
David and Cecil Rosenthal. Rose Mallinger. Joyce Fienberg. Bernice and Sylvan Simon. Melvin Wax. Irving Younger. Jerry Rabinowitz. Daniel Stein. Richard Gottfried. The Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill remains empty, an unintended memorial to these 11 congregants from three congregations — Tree of Life-Or L’Simcha, New Light and...
One year later: The path to recovery after the Tree of Life attackVideo
On Oct. 27, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, killing 11 worshippers and wounding two. It was the deadliest act of anti-Semitic violence in U.S. history. Four Pittsburgh police officers were injured by gunfire as they responded to the attack. For the...
‘We must reopen, and we will’: Tree of Life leaders vow to reopen synagogueVideo
One year after a white supremacist with an AR-15 killed 11 congregants in their Squirrel Hill house of worship, the synagogue at the corner of Wilkins and Shady remains empty and tomblike, a hulking reminder of Oct. 27, 2018. It will not stay that way. “For certain we must reopen,”...
A year after the Tree of Life shooting, the city still grieves but remains resolute
The Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill remains empty, an unintended memorial to these 11 congregants from three congregations — Tree of Life-Or L’Simcha, New Light and Dor Hadash — killed by gunfire during Shabbat services on Oct. 27. A year after the country’s deadliest attack on people of...
One Year Later: The path to recovery after the Tree of Life attack
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‘We must reopen, and we will’: Tree of Life leaders vow to reopen synagogue
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Police: 4 shot in Duquesne
A drive-by shooting Saturday in Duquesne sent four people to the hospital, according to Allegheny County police. The gunfire started just after 5 p.m. on Priscilla Street, Lt. Kenneth Ruckel said. Three men in a blue Ford Fusion alleged drove down the street and opened fire on three people sitting...
Pittsburgh’s rich food heritage on display at Heinz History Center eventVideo
Pittsburgh area locals with a passion for food talked cooking, growing, creating and heritage Saturday at the Heinz History Center’s Hometown-Homegrown program. The program, in its eighth year, aims to celebrate locally crafted food and food history in the region. This year, the program was incorporated into Heinztoberfest, a month-long...
Jeannette fest celebrates ethnic traditions, town’s resurgenceVideo
Visitors to Saturday’s fourth annual Ethnic Food and Fall Festival in Jeannette got a sampling of what the town has to offer gastronomically and culturally. “Part of our mission is to build awareness of our town,” said Donna McCullough, secretary of the Jeannette Business Association, which organized the festival. “We’re...
Pittsburgh International Airport auction has highest turnout everVideo
Jet setters departing from Pittsburgh International Airport left thousands of personal items behind last year. And eager auction goers were on hand Saturday to bid on lost, unclaimed and abandoned items left in the airport’s lost-and-found at the annual public auction held by the Allegheny County Airport Authority. Items up...
