Western PA Local News category, Page 2789
2 people reported injured in head-on collision in Ligonier Township
Two people were reported injured in a head-on collision Sunday at the intersection of Routes 711 and 271 in Ligonier Township, according to a Westmoreland County dispatch supervisor. The accident occurred about 3:15 p.m. in the village of Waterford, the dispatcher said. The two people injured were expected to be...
No injuries reported in 3-vehicle collision in McCandless
Emergency responders were called to the scene of a three-vehicle collision Sunday afternoon in McCandless. The crash was reported just before 2:30 p.m. on the 9100 block of Babcock Boulevard, near UPMC Passavant hospital. An Allegheny County 911 dispatcher said no injuries were reported. McCandless police couldn’t immediately be reached...
Impeachment rules the day, but Pennsylvania lawmakers push bipartisan initiatives
Impeachment proceedings continue to divide much of the country and seemingly the whole of Congress, with predictable partisan stances sounding loudly in the overarching narrative. Firmly in President Trump’s corner has been U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, a first-term Republican from Peters, Washington County, who has repeatedly dismissed the process as...
Political signs waning in mid-November
From Labor Day through early November, most busy roadsides and intersections are awash in political campaign signs. The small placards emblazoned with a candidate’s name appear by the thousands as office seekers fight for name recognition and public awareness of their campaign efforts for the hundreds of political offices up...
All Steel Valley schools will be open Monday following alarm system repairs
All schools within the Steel Valley School District in Munhall will be open on Monday. The district posted on its website Saturday that repairs to the high school and middle school emergency fire alarm system had been completed, the system had been fully tested, and the Munhall Fire Chief had...
Pittsburgh police investigating rollover SUV crash on Washington Boulevard
A woman was taken to a hospital after she fell asleep while driving on Washington Boulevard early Sunday and rolled her SUV, Pittsburgh police said. The crash occurred around 1:30 a.m. The woman told police she had been driving eastbound toward the Zone 5 police station when she fell asleep...
Police: Man arrested in fatal Wilkinsburg shooting, victim ID’d
A 32-year-old man was in the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh awaiting arraignment on homicide charges after shooting and killing a 46-year-old man during an argument in Wilkinsburg late Saturday, according to county police. County homicide detectives reported Dilon Bartifay, formerly of North Versailles, was arrested shortly after the 10:25...
23-year-old man found shot, lying in road in Penn Hills after being thrown from car
Allegheny County Police are seeking information on a shooting Saturday that critically injured a 23-year-old man. Police were dispatched just before 8 p.m. Saturday to the 7500 block of Manilla Street in Penn Hills for a report of a man found shot in the street. Penn Hills Police and paramedics...
Man struck and killed by car on Parkway West
The Fort Pitt Tunnel outbound reopened to traffic about 8:15 a.m. Sunday after the highway was closed for nearly three hours while authorities investigated a fatal pedestrian accident on I-376 West near the Banksville Road exit, according to state police. State Trooper Melinda Bondarenka said a 45-year-old man was struck...
Search for time capsule at former Riverview Elementary School in Harrison comes up empty
The whereabouts of a time capsule buried on the grounds of a former elementary school in Harrison remains a mystery. During the 1950s, 10-year-old Edward Zembrzuski stood outside near a flagpole at Riverview Elementary in Harrison, watching as each class presented an item for inclusion in a school time capsule...
Rahmael Holt joins list of Southwestern Pa. men on death row
On death row There are 136 men on death row in Pennsylvania, including the following from Southwestern Pennsylvania: ALLEGHENY • Richard Scott Baumhammers, 54, sentenced in September 2001, convicted of killing five people in 2000 shooting spree. • Leroy Fears, 57, sentenced February 1995, pleaded guilty to molesting and strangling...
Cop killer Rahmael Holt’s execution could be years away, experts say
Convicted cop killer Rahmael Holt’s appeal of his death sentence to the state Supreme Court could take a year to 18 months to resolve, says a Westmoreland County attorney representing another convicted killer on Pennsylvania’s death row. It may take even longer to be carried out, as there are people...
‘Dynamic’ pastor from Detroit taking over at First Baptist Church in TarentumVideo
Felicia Brock had no intention of leaving Detroit, where she was born and had lived her entire life. That changed when she said “God’s spirit’’ led her to Western Pennsylvania to become pastor of First Baptist Church in Tarentum. She will be officially installed at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The service...
Greensburg Salem grad commanding region’s Naval operations support center
When Christine Komoroski was an outside hitter on Greensburg Salem’s volleyball team in the mid-1990s, she was so good she received a recruitment letter from the Naval Academy to attend its elite volleyball camp. It was an invitation that set her on a different career path and a journey in...
Greensburg, Carnegie made phone history as the first cities with touch-tone phones
Southwestern Pennsylvania made telephonic history in November 1963. Carnegie and Greensburg were first cities in the nation to get Bell Telephone’s touch-tone phones, which would eventually eclipse the old-fashioned rotary models. Bell used the municipalities as test sites before bringing the phones nationwide. According to newspaper reports from the time,...
Hempfield volunteer fair recruits quite the hype man: Andrew McCutchenVideo
When you’re trying to get your first-ever student volunteer fair off the ground, it’s always helpful to have good collaborators, people who can get others excited for the event. Landing former Pittsburgh Pirate Andrew McCutchen as a spokesman, for example, is a pretty good way to draw attention to Hempfield...
Baldwin student’s play produced at EQT Young Playwrights FestivalVideo
Walking through the hallways at J.E. Harrison Middle School, Ava Weidensall noticed a flier for City Theatre’s Young Playwrights contest. She had to know more and sought out answers from a teacher who explained that middle and high school kids have the opportunity to submit one-act plays in the contest....
The Stroller, Nov. 17, 2019: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Casino Theatre to offer annual Christmas show The Casino Theatre, Vandergrift, will present the 24th annual Hometown Christmas production, “Counting Down to Christmas,” at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 and 7 and 2 p.m. Dec. 8. Tickets are $17and $10 and are available at Pomfret’s Paint and Variety, 149 Farragut Ave.,...
Penn Hills police investigating shooting
Penn Hills police are investigating a shooting of a man found along the 7500 block of Manilla Street near the Verona line. According to Allegheny County 911 messages, the man was hit more than once. A 911 supervisor said there was a heavy police and rescue crew presence at Manilla...
Pittsburgh police searching for city man suspected of shooting 2 teens in Carrick
Pittsburgh police detectives have an arrest warrant for a city man wanted in connection with the shooting of two teenagers in Carrick on Thursday. Cody Smith, 23, of Pittsburgh is wanted on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, robbery in addition to other charges, police said Saturday. Anyone with information...
Runners ignore cold day to kick off Red Kettle season for Brackenridge Salvation ArmyVideo
Chassity Mays has a goal of racing in every state. On Saturday, Mays of Brownsburg, Ind., turned in the best time for a woman racing in the inaugural Red Kettle Run for a Reason. The 5K race is a fundraiser for the Salvation Army Allegheny Valley Worship and Service Center...
Allegheny County detectives injured arresting armed Hays youth in Homestead
A pistol-toting Hays youth is accused of fighting two Allegheny County police detectives before he was subdued in Homestead on Friday night. Police said Jymein Brian Chandler, 17, who was already convicted as an adult in June, was walking along 16th Avenue in Homestead where the two unidentified detectives were...
At least 2 hurt in Route 910 crash in Richland
At least two people were injured in a multi-vehicle crash along the 3800 block of Gibsonia Road in Richland on Saturday afternoon. The wreck on the road, also known as Route 910, was reported to police and Allegheny County 911 at about 2:20 p.m. Northern Regional Police are investigating. No...
Springdale family’s 50-foot tree ready to be spruced up for Pittsburgh’s Light Up Night
A 50-foot blue spruce that grew in the yard of a Springdale couple was moved to the City County Building in Pittsburgh on Saturday to be decorated for Christmas. Lindsay and Dennis Malinowski donated the tree, which, in 1987 was a 5-foot-tall Christmas tree of the property’s previous owner, who...
Medical examiner: Penn Hills man whose car crashed into Plum pool drowned
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Saturday said a driver whose car crashed into a backyard swimming pool in Plum last August drowned. William Gibson, 49, of Penn Hills was driving along Repp Road at about 7:40 a.m. on Aug. 21 when his car went off the road, crossed...
