Western PA Local News category, Page 2795
URA to vote on $1.6 million purchase of former Hill District grocery property
The Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority is moving to acquire a former grocery store complex on Centre Avenue in the Hill District. URA directors are scheduled to vote Thursday on purchasing the 2.6-acre property from Dollar Bank for $1.6 million. The complex previously housed a Shop ’n Save. The Hill House...
Officer Brian Shaw’s mother to Rahmael Holt: ‘I will never forgive you’Video
Lisa Shaw says she is still waiting to wake up from the nightmare of losing her son, New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw. “All he wanted to do was make a difference in the community,” Shaw told jurors Wednesday on the first day of the sentencing hearing of Rahmael Holt,...
Police: Crafton Heights man charged in 2 recent robberies
A Crafton Heights man was arrested Tuesday on robbery charges stemming from two business robberies, according to Pittsburgh public safety spokesman Chris Togneri. Deven Green, 20, is accused of an Oct. 30 robbery at Rite Aid in the 800 block of Pennsylvania Avenue on the city’s North Side and a...
Cops: Jeannette man attempted to flee undercover drug deal
Police say a Jeannette man was in possession of various drugs when he attempted to run from undercover state narcotics agents and city police as they closed in during a drug sting Tuesday. Shelton A. “Pops” Hannibal, 26, was arraigned Wednesday on charges of illegal possession and delivery of controlled...
Norwin Play It Forward Fund plans 10th annual ‘Wind-Up, Wine Down’ event
The Ziemski family of North Huntingdon has good reason to give back to their community. “When we were young and our kids were in school, my husband lost his job and someone anonymously paid the balance of our children’s parochial school tuition,” said Paula Ziemski. “We never found out who...
West Deer, Fawn to receive $100,000 each for Bairdford Park, road improvement projects
Two Alle-Kiski Valley townships have been awarded $100,000 in state funding for improvement projects. The money for West Deer and Fawn comes from Allegheny County’s Gaming Economic Development Fund Grant. The program is funded through gambling revenues and doesn’t use money from the state general fund money. West Deer’s money...
Food Podcast: Moon Twp.-based band gets in Christmas spirit — and fights hunger
A Moon-based band is in tune with the Christmas season — and giving back to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Chip & The Charge Ups has released a new song, “Black and Gold Christmas” to celebrate Pittsburgh pride designed and T-shirt that goes along with the song. All proceeds...
Feds: Pittsburgh area brothers tried to evade immigration laws with fake marriage
Two Indian brothers living in the Pittsburgh area have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to marriage fraud in order to evade immigration laws, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh announced Tuesday. Makhan Singh, 53, of Monroeville paid a woman to marry his brother, Rajinder Singh,...
Blair County mother reported missing arrested on drug, child endangerment charges
Charges were filed Tuesday against a Blair County woman who, along with her two children, was reported missing and possibly in danger with her father-in-law, but were later found safe in Indiana County. Trooper Cliff Greenfield said Alicia Rose Brumbaugh, 31, of Imler, is charged with child endangerment, drug possession...
Westmoreland courts holding $80,000 owed to crime victims
Nearly $80,000 owed to about 250 crime victims is being held by Westmoreland County, according to Clerk of Courts Bryan Kline. The cash represents court-ordered restitution payments to victims who moved and have not updated their home addresses with the county, he said. Money can be held for a year,...
Latrobe seeks grant to shore up Loyalhanna embankment, eyes 2020 budget
Latrobe officials are hoping a state grant will offset some of the city’s cost for repairing an eroded embankment where Unity Run empties into Loyalhanna Creek. City council on Tuesday agreed to apply for a $151,282 grant through the state Department of Community and Economic Development. If approved, it will...
Pittsburgh breaks record low as cold snap hits region
It’s official. The bone-chilling temperatures in the Pittsburgh region Wednesday morning broke a 108-year-old record-low for Nov. 13. Just before 7 a.m., temperatures dropped to 12 degrees, edging past the record previously set in 1911. As of 6:59 am this morning, the low temperature at Pittsburgh International hit 12 degrees,...
SWAT officers called to McKeesport
Police continue to investigate along a McKeesport street early Wednesday after SWAT officers spent five hours there Tuesday night, WPXI reported. Details of the incident were not clear but police were called at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday to Locust Street. Neighbors reportedly heard gunshots, with one man saying he hid...
The Stroller, Nov. 13, 2019: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Musical food drive to benefit Allegheny Valley Association of Churches Food Bank “Will Sing for Food,” a food drive to benefit the Allegheny Valley Association of Churches food bank, will be from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Natrona Heights Veterans of Foreign Wars, 894 Veterans Drive, Harrison. The...
New Venture Outdoors executive director to move Kayak Pittsburgh hubVideo
Valerie Beichner, the new executive director of Venture Outdoors, said her to-do list includes moving the nonprofit’s Kayak Pittsburgh outfitter hub from beneath the Sixth Street Bridge on Pittsburgh’s North Shore to another location in 2020. Beichner promises to keep a Kayak Pittsburgh location in the Pittsburgh navigational pool, or...
Latrobe hires local native, former IBM manager as new city manager
Latrobe Council selected a local native with management experience at New York City firms as the next city manager. Council on Tuesday unanimously agreed to hire John Antinori of Unity, a 1983 Greater Latrobe graduate, for the vacant post, pending agreement on a contract. Councilman Gerald Baldonieri was absent. City...
Whitaker family assisted by American Red Cross after fire
Fire crews were still on the scene of a house fire in Whitaker after 11 p.m. Tuesday. The blaze at 1222 River Road was reported shortly before 9 p.m., according to Allegheny County dispatchers, who said there were no injuries reported. A family was being assisted by the American Red...
West Deer family displaced by fire
Members of a West Deer family discovered their house was on fire Tuesday night when the lights snapped off and they went to investigate, according to a township fire chief. “It probably was the fire burning some of the circuits,” said West Deer No. 3 Fire Chief Josh Wiegand. The...
Pitt researcher’s work featured by U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
A University of Pittsburgh researcher was featured in a U.S. Patent & Trademark Office report for patenting a robotic strong arm that can help wheelchair users grab items. Rory Cooper, who was recognized earlier this year by the office with a trading card created to honor U.S. inventors, holds more...
Grants to fund hillside stabilization, demolition in Pitcairn, Wilmerding
About $400,000 in state grants will be put toward projects in Pitcairn and Wilmerding, state Rep. Brandon Markosek announced on Tuesday. The state’s Multimodal Transportation Fund will commit $300,000 to road repairs and slope stabilization along Hillside Avenue in Pitcairn, between Broadway Boulevard and Elm Street. An additional $100,000 from...
Winghart’s owners seek former Rivertowne spot in North Huntingdon
A shuttered tavern along Route 30 in North Huntingdon could gain new life next year with a liquor license transfer from Hempfield. North Huntingdon commissioners will hold a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday on a request by Smithfield Holdings Inc. of Mt. Lebanon to transfer the liquor license held...
Saltsburg’s new Boggs Day will honor town’s founder
Saltsburg will celebrate its founding more than two centuries ago with a ceremony Wednesday afternoon at the Saltsburg Area Historical Society’s Rebecca B. Hadden Stone House Museum. Karen Cumberledge, the borough mayor, will proclaim the first Andrew Boggs Day, honoring the man who established the town on his property. The...
Seton Hill welcomes survivors at Kristallnacht interfaith remembranceVideo
For Walter Jacob, Nov. 8, 1938, was largely a day like any other. He was 8 and living in Augsburg, one of Germany’s oldest cities. That night, he walked to the nearby synagogue, where his father was the rabbi, and took a peek inside. “I didn’t realize that it would...
Route 28 crash snarls traffic, no injuries reported
A one-vehicle crash along Route 28 southbound between the Tarentum and Harmar exits snarled traffic Tuesday. State police said no one was hurt when a white van went off the road and into a guardrail shortly before 3 p.m. Southbound traffic was reduced to one lane in the area, and...
Overnight lane restrictions planned in Squirrel Hill Tunnel
Lane restrictions will occur in the Squirrel Hill Tunnel from 9:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, according to PennDOT. PennDOT said crews will be doing antenna work on Tuesday night, restricting eastbound traffic in the tunnel to a single lane. Intermittent, short-term stoppages could occur, PennDOT...
