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2 candidates in Gateway special election
Voters in the Gateway School District who go to the polls Nov. 5 will choose one of two candidates to fill a two-year term that was vacated in July. Cheryl Boise, a Republican, and Paul Caliari, a Democrat, are vying for the votes. The special election is a result of...
Daily Download: Police heart defibrillators, Katharine Hepburn and Brandon TanevVideo
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 Paul Guggenheimer discusses portable heart defibrillators in Pittsburgh police cruisers, Katharine Hepburn at The Frick Pittsburgh and Penguins forward Brandon Tanev’s improbable goal...
Vandergrift Council candidates to speak at forum
Vandergrift residents will have an opportunity to hear from three borough council candidates Thursday at a candidate forum at the Center on Franklin Avenue. Three four-year council seats are up for election this year. Candidates expected to attend include Republicans Tim Turner and Karen McClarnon and Democrat John Uskaritis. Council...
Libyan student defies odds to return to Hempfield host mom, U.S. classrooms
Whether Sanad Saad would spend his senior year at an American high school ultimately came down to a three-hour visit to a courier office in Dunningsville. Sanad’s host mother, Dar Frederickson, 68, of Hempfield, was trying to send important papers to his home country of Libya this summer and was...
Point Park honors slain Pittsburgh Officer Calvin Hall
The Point Park University Police Department’s training center has been renamed after slain Pittsburgh police Officer Calvin Hall, who formerly worked as a Point Park police officer, the university said Thursday. Point Park renamed the center in a private ceremony Wednesday attended by Hall’s family. Hall spent two years as...
Westmoreland County voting machines get one final test before last hurrahVideo
Westmoreland County’s 880 touch-screen voting machines will be junked next month after the votes recorded in the Nov. 5 general election are made official. County elections officials on Thursday ran the final tests on those machines to ensure they are operational one last time. “I can’t say there was anything...
The 1955 murder story behind ‘Pittsburgh’ the poem, published in The New Yorker
Walter Henry was an unemployed steelworker when he was shot and killed at a Pittsburgh hotel in 1955. He attempted to intervene in a neighbor’s dispute but died in the arms of another tenant while his assailant — a jilted lover who kidnapped an ex-girlfriend, a resident of Henry’s building...
Greensburg Diocese paid $4.35 million in sexual abuse claims
The Greensburg Catholic Diocese paid $4.35 million to settle claims with 57 adults who suffered child sexual abuse at the hands of clergy, church officials announced Thursday. Greensburg was among five Pennsylvania dioceses and one archdiocese that established compensation funds for survivors of clergy child sexual abuse following last year’s...
Events around Western Pa. will honor Tree of Life victims 1 year after attack
Grief defies borders. As the world focuses on commemorating the one-year mark of the country’s most violent anti-Semitic attack, synagogues across Western Pennsylvania will hold special services of their own. Rabbi Amy Bardack of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh is coordinating events marking one year after Oct. 27, 2018,...
Actress Katharine Hepburn’s fashions showcased at The Frick PittsburghVideo
Adjectives used to describe the late, great actress Katharine Hepburn include independent, spirited, confident and quick-witted. She received 12 Best Actress nominations from the Motion Picture Academy, taking four awards home for performances in “Morning Glory” (1933), “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967), “The Lion in Winter” (1968) and “On...
Spain an adventure for Mt. Pleasant studentsVideo
Try to go to high school in a foreign land, listen to teachers give instructions in their native tongue, assimilate into a different culture and live with a family not your own for 10 months. That was the challenge that two 17-year-old Mt. Pleasant Area girls — Natalie Black and...
Fairview Park kicks off capital campaign, marks 75th anniversary in 2020
In 1945, a group of black church leaders from Allegheny and Westmoreland counties set out to create a place where they could come together and enjoy themselves. With segregation restricting the places African-Americans could go, the Monongahela Valley Sunday School Association created Fairview Park in Salem Township. At one time,...
Cops: Argument over beer in Southwest Greensburg results in stabbing, arrest
A 42-year-old South Huntingdon man is in the Westmoreland County Prison after police say he slashed his younger brother’s leg with a knife during an argument over drinking beer. Francis John Hermanson Jr. is charged by police with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and harassment in connection with the...
Officials: Homestead man killed in shooting at McKeesport Family DollarVideo
A man shot and killed Thursday morning inside the Family Dollar on Versailles Avenue in McKeesport has been identified. Dwayne Fuller, 24, of Homestead was pronounced dead shortly after noon, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Allegheny County Police Sgt. Venerando Costa said police are trying to identify...
Mercury to transit between the Earth, sun in November
The planets will align on Nov. 11 this year. Well, two of them, at least. Mercury will transit between the Earth and the sun on Veteran’s Day this year. “When we have a ‘transit’ of the moon, we call it a solar eclipse,” said Ken Kobus of the Amateur Astronomers...
Aliquippa man caught with drugs, stolen gun and $70K gets 10 years in federal prison
A Beaver County man was sentenced in Pittsburgh federal district court to serve 10 years in prison for drug and gun crimes, U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said Wednesday. Senior U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti sentenced Landon Alexander Gatta, 24, formerly of Aliquippa, for the crimes of possession with intent...
6 in race for Carlynton school board
Carlynton School Board candidates say they will focus on the district’s finances, leadership and providing a quality education to students. Six candidates will square off on Nov. 5 for five open, four-year seats on the Carlynton school board. Five incumbents — including Kelly Zaletski, Jim Schriver, Jude Frank, Marissa Mendoza...
The Stroller, Oct. 18, 2019: Events in the A-K Valley
Classical music concert planned in Tarentum The concert series at Central Presbyterian Church, Tarentum, will present, “Variations on a Harp,” at 4 p.m. Sunday at the church, 305 Allegheny St. Harpist Isabel Cardenes, violinist Andres Cardenes and violist Warren Davidson will perform music by Handel, Bach, Faure and others. Donations...
Allegheny County DA defers to state AG in Marsy’s Law suit
The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office will not move forward with efforts to intervene in a lawsuit to challenge the proposed Marsy’s Law amendment to the state constitution, according to a statement Thursday. The office was satisfied with the response filed by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, which will be...
Prantl’s Bakery and Platform Beer collaborate for a 2nd tasty brew
For a second time, 500 pounds of burnt almonds made their way from Pittsburgh to Cleveland — all in the name of beer. Platform Beer Co. and Prantl’s Bakery in Shadyside have collaborated on a second brew: a Chocolate Almond Torte Stout. It’s a twist on the first beer —...
6 candidates to appear on Bridgeville council ballot
Voters in Bridgeville who go to the polls Nov. 5 will find six candidates in the race for three open borough council seats. All are running for a four-year term. Following is information submitted by the candidates as well as their response to questions posed by the Trib: Question 1:...
4 candidates running for 2 open Scott commissioner seats
Two candidates are competing for one Scott Township Ward 1 commissioner seat, a four-year term. Following is information submitted by the candidates as well as their response to questions posed by the Trib: Question 1: What are the two biggest challenges facing Scott Township and what ideas or policies will...
Raccoon in Bethel Park is 25th rabid animal in Allegheny County this year
A raccoon captured in Bethel Park recently tested positive for rabies, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. It was captured near the 1000 block of Clifton Road. The raccoon is the 25th animal that has tested positive for rabies this year. The others to test positive include 18 raccoons,...
Door smashed at Pittsburgh City-County Building
The Grant Street entrance to the City-County Building was closed for several hours Thursday morning while a public works crew made temporary repairs to a glass entrance door that someone smashed overnight. Police said they were checking surveillance cameras with hopes of identifying a suspect. The vandalism occurred between 6...
Game Commission shares video of black bear release in Fayette CountyVideo
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to have a 200-pound black bear charge at you? A video by the Pennsylvania Game Commission of a bear being released from a trap on state game lands in Lower Tyrone Township in Fayette County gives viewers that up close, in-person...
