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Police investigating bank robbery in Downtown Pittsburgh
One man is in custody and another is being sought after the Tuesday morning robbery of a Downtown bank, Pittsburgh police said. The robbery was reported to police at 10:43 a.m. at the PNC branch in the 200 block of Fifth Avenue. A man approached a teller and passed a...
Road work project in downtown Greensburg to be completed next week
Downtown Greensburg still smells like fresh asphalt, but the paving project that has snarled city traffic is almost complete, according to PennDOT. Workers repaved Pittsburgh and Otterman streets. The two one-way roads travel east to west through the heart of downtown. They’re both state roads, maintained by PennDOT. Paving started...
Tarentum jewelers create meaningful relationships with friends, families
Seita Jewelers in Tarentum has been putting engagement rings on people’s fingers for more than 60 years. Owners Curt and Sandi Marino have plenty of stories about how their customers popped the question, from putting a ring inside a specially made hockey puck to proposing on top of a Las...
Sweetwater launches Acoustic Music Series
Sweetwater Center for the Arts in Sewickley has held its wintertime SweetJazz Music Series for nearly 20 years. The concerts frequently sell out, and Sweetwater’s community room transforms into an intimate nightclub setting for each show. The Sweetwater staff has looked to provide a summer music series offering the same...
Governor commutes life sentence of Robert Wideman in 1975 murder case
Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday commuted the sentence of Robert Wideman, who was serving life in prison for his role in a 1975 murder. Wolf affirmed the Board of Pardons recommendation issued in May. Wideman, 68, of Homewood, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Nicola Morena....
Audubon seeks volunteers to collect discarded fishing line in O’Hara, along North Shore
With more than one million birds killed each year from debris like discarded fishing line, the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania is seeking people to help combat those numbers. The group, headquartered at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve in Fox Chapel, is looking for stewards to maintain fishing line recycling bins....
Seton Hill names director of National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education
A new director of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education has been appointed at Greensburg’s Seton Hill University. James Paharik, who has been involved in Holocaust education on international and national levels, started Monday. He has presented several times at the International Conference on Holocaust Education at Yad Vashem,...
New Stanton man charged with assaulting woman in Bell Township
Police say a New Stanton man put his knee on a woman’s throat and held a lit cigarette to her chest during an assault in Bell Township. State police said Cody James Barron, 26, of East Street, New Stanton, also is accused of hitting a woman in the face with...
Youngwood man sent to prison for sexually assaulting 2 teen girls
A Westmoreland County judge sentenced a Youngwood man to 8-1/2 to 17 years in a state prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting two teenage girls in 2016. Darell Deisean Walker, 23, was ordered to spend an additional five years on probation following the prison term. “Your conduct and the testimony …...
Pittsburgh firefighter charged in scuffle with boy at playground
A Pittsburgh firefighter is on administrative leave after police charged him in connection with a June 25 altercation with a 13-year-old boy, authorities said. Officers found Thomas Louis D’Andrea, 46, of Greenfield, holding down the boy at the playground near his residence, police said. The boy suffered a large lump...
Pittsburgh poised to pay woman $52,500 to settle negligence lawsuit
Pittsburgh would pay a West End woman $52,500 to settle a lawsuit she filed in 2014 contending an EMS official struck her with a city vehicle as she was crossing a street in Brighton Heights. Jennifer Batten, 36, of Crafton Heights said in a complaint that she was in a...
Police: North Versailles man tried to flush heroin, cocaine, pot at Indiana County hotel
State troopers say a man attempted to “flush” nearly five bricks of heroin, 24 grams of crack cocaine and a small amount of marijuana down the toilet at an Indiana County hotel Monday as they were closing in to serve a search warrant, according to court documents. But the alleged...
Thomas Jefferson’s new high school will feature an apiary
There’s a buzz at the new Thomas Jefferson High School — literally. Over the hillside behind the school, surrounded by trees and brush and a six-foot fence, a bee apiary, with roughly 60,000 honey bees in four hives, sits waiting to educate students this fall. The apiary is a rarity...
Fox Chapel Area’s Gina Wang earns volunteer award from UPMC St. Margaret
Recent Fox Chapel Area graduate Gina Wang spent the final two years of high school volunteering at UPMC St. Margaret, escorting patients to physical therapy appointments. For her efforts, she earned the 2019 UPMC St. Margaret student volunteer scholarship worth $1,000. Officials at the hospital, near Aspinwall, said Wang was...
One grazed in shoulder in Hazelwood shooting
Police are investigating a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood that left one man injured. The shooting was reported just after midnight Tuesday on the 400 block of Elizabeth Street, according to police. The victim was grazed in the shoulder, police said. Medics took him to a hospital in good condition....
Cops: Men fired guns near Coraopolis police station
Police arrested two men and are looking for a third who they say repeatedly fired guns near the Coraopolis police station early Tuesday morning. Nobody was hurt, according to police. Coraopolis police officers heard the first gunshots as they left their station around 3:15 a.m., said Sgt. Robert Litterini. After...
Pittsburgh man dies in West Mifflin crash
A Pittsburgh man died Monday in the emergency room after a crash in West Mifflin, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office. Thomas Buczynski, 63, was pronounced dead at 3:20 p.m. The crash happened on the corner of Streets Run Road and Propsect Road around 2:40 p.m., according to...
First Greensburg Restaurant Week coming in August
The first Greensburg Restaurant Week will celebrate the city’s culinary scene in August, with 17 restaurants offering discount deals and special menus. “We wanted to bring more awareness to small businesses,” said Ashley Kertes, director of Think Greensburg, which is organizing the event. “We have a really great selection of...
South Fayette man living his dream as restaurant owner
South Fayette resident Raymond Mikesell, owner of Cafe Raymond in the the Strip District, has had his bread served in the White House during the Bush and Clinton administrations. It has been served in the cafeterias of the Smithsonian’s Natural History and American History museums in Washington, D.C. Mikesell got...
Forecasters predicting a hot and rainy Fourth of July
According to the National Weather Service, the flashes of light in the sky this Fourth of July are just as likely to be lightning as they are to be fireworks. As sustained hot weather continues, forecasters are predicting a 40% to 70% chance of daily and evening thunderstorms through Saturday...
AG Shapiro thanks patients face-to-face for fueling UPMC-Highmark truce
A week after rival health giants UPMC and Highmark struck a 10-year deal to preserve access for most Western Pennsylvanians, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro returned to Pittsburgh to meet with some of the patients who stand to benefit. “I can say, unequivocally, you made a real difference,” said Shapiro...
Hempfield dialysis clinic has opening date
A Greensburg dialysis clinic that relocated from Greensburg to Hempfield is set to open next month. Fresenius Kidney Care, formerly located near Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital, will open its doors on Aug. 5, according to Maddie Ronquillo, spokesperson for the clinic. The 8,000-square-foot clinic sits on about five acres along...
Keystone State Park bald eagle sightings part of regional resurgence
Eleven registered participants are planning to spend the first part of their Independence Day holiday on a morning paddling excursion Thursday on the lake at Keystone State Park. They’re hoping to spot two bald eagles that have been seen at the Derry Township park in recent months, as well as...
Woman shot in Pittsburgh recovering at local hospital
A woman was shot in the leg in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. City police were dispatched around 3:30 p.m. Monday to the 2500 block of Bedford Avenue were officers found the woman with a gunshot wound. Authorities said she was transported to a local hospital in stable condition. No information about...
Astrobotic awarded $5.6 million by NASA to deliver moon rover
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology Inc. was selected Monday to develop an autonomous lunar rover with its partner, Carnegie Mellon University. The 13 kilogram autonomous rover, known as MoonRanger, is being developed to provide high fidelity 3-D maps of the moon’s surface in areas such as polar regions and lunar pits, according...
