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New Kensington Donut Connection sells $2M Powerball ticket
A winning Powerball ticket worth $2 million for the May 22 drawing was sold in New Kensington. The ticket with the Power Play option matched all of the five white balls drawn, 07-10-20-44-57, but not the red Powerball 03, to win $2 million. Without the $1 Power Play option, the...
Woman injured in hit-and-run crash in South Side
A woman was injured in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood on Sunday after she was hit by a car that fled the scene. According to Pittsburgh police, officers responded to a hit-and-run crash involving a pedestrian at the intersection of Carson and South 18th streets around 12:30 p.m. The woman suffered...
Thunderstorms take down large branch at Prospect Cemetery
Severe thunderstorms that blew through the region Saturday evening took down a large tree branch at Prospect Cemetery in Brackenridge, narrowly missing the cemetery office and nearby headstones. There are only a few headstones in that area and none of them were damaged, said Cindy Homburg, president of the cemetery....
Weather can’t dampen respect for Brackenridge’s Honor Roll memorial
About 100 people turned out Sunday to join in the Memorial Day observance by the Brackenridge American Legion despite the weather moving the majority of activities inside. The events held at Brackenridge Memorial Park included the rededication of the 54-year-old Honor Roll memorial that had been cleaned and restored after...
Westmoreland County Airshow wows crowds on second dayVideo
Bob Hanko of Westmoreland City sat in a comfortable chair Sunday on the tarmac of the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe, watching fighter planes whiz by at ear-splitting speeds as they performed aerial maneuvers during the Shop ’n Save Westmoreland County Airshow. “I love to see the planes. I’ve come...
Apollo-Ridge students laid wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The lead up to Memorial Day this month was extra special for some Apollo-Ridge Elementary School students. Under the guidance of teacher Chad Danka, 27 students visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Three of the students – Julianna Saxion, Caleb Coy and Mackenzie Magness –...
Man arrested after car, foot chase near Westmoreland County Airshow
A man who fled from a state police traffic stop on Route 30 near the entrance to Saint Vincent College was caught after jumping the fence at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport during the airshow. State and Westmoreland County Park said the man drove his car off the road and...
Tarentum man spent decades building relationships with man’s best friendVideo
Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series that features Alle-Kiski Valley residents and the notable things they do. Most of Fawn Township native Bruce Ringer’s life has gone to the dogs. The Highlands High School grad has owned and operated a doggie daycare and training business in Tarentum...
Man caught after fleeing traffic stop, jumping fence at airport during the airshow
A man who had fled from a state police traffic stop on Route 30 near the entrance to Saint Vincent College was caught after jumping the fence at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport during the Shop ‘N Save Westmoreland County Airshow. The man drove his car off the road and...
Ohio man attacked by bull near Pennsylvania gas well dies
ALBION, Pa. — Officials say an Ohio man attacked by a bull while he was checking or tending a northwestern Pennsylvania gas well earlier this month has died. The Erie Times-News reports that the Erie County coroner’s office said Sunday that 69-year-old Clovis Stephens died Saturday afternoon at UPMC Hamot....
Uniontown man sought in Fayette shooting
A Uniontown man is wanted for allegedly shooting another man several times outside a bar late Saturday night, state police at Uniontown said. The suspect, David Dwayne Brooks, 26, is accused of shooting a 25-year-old Uniontown man outside Bar None at 231 Pittsburgh Rd., North Union Township, at about 11:30...
Crews repairing water main break in Dormont
Residents of Beacon Hill Avenue in Dormont could be without water for most of the day while crews repair a water main break. Pennsylvania American Water released a notification to customers around 10:30 a.m. Sunday that crews were making emergency repairs to a broken water main. The repairs are expected...
Woodland Hills, Elizabeth Forward, big winners with ‘Mamma Mia’ at Gene Kelly Awards
The musical “Mamma Mia!” and schools performing the popular musical turned out to be the biggest winners of the night at the Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater Saturday. Three schools performing “Mamma Mia!” — Deer Lakes, Elizabeth Forward and Woodland Hills — won in the...
Kennywood offering holiday weekend tickets sale
Kennywood Park is offering ticket promotions for the Memorial Day weekend. The West Mifflin institution is offering a buy-one-get-one offer on Sunday. Tickets are $54.99 for adults, $36.99 for juniors (people under 46” tall); and $28.99 for seniors. To get the BOGO deal you must order tickets online. On Memorial...
McKeesport senior shot and killed days before graduation
A teen was shot and killed early Friday morning in the South Side just days before she was set to graduate from high school. According to Pittsburgh police, the shooting happened at South 27th and Jane streets shortly after 3 a.m. The teen, identified by the medical examiner as Morgan...
Arrest warrant issued in Stowe fatal shooting
Allegheny County homicide detectives police identified a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man in a Stowe Township bar early Sunday morning. Police issued an arrest warrant for Omarr Harris, 36, on charges of criminal homicide and a firearms violation. Harris, whose address was not revealed by police,...
After cloudy morning, storms expected Sunday afternoon
A partly cloudy morning is expected to give way to rain on Sunday afternoon across western Pennsylvania. Showers and thunderstorms are likely to hit the region around 3 p.m. Sunday, bringing between one-quarter-inch and one-half-inch of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Moon. Temperatures are expected to rise...
B-52 flyover set for Sunday airshow
A rare sight will be visible in the sky above the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe on Sunday afternoon — a flyover by a 159-feet-long B-52 Stratofortress. The flyover, as part of the aerial performances at the Shop ‘N Save Westmoreland County Airshow, is scheduled for 12:55 p.m., according...
Regional power outages affecting about 400 customers
The storm that swept through Southwestern Pennsylvania Saturday night has left about 300 FirstEnergy customers without power and about 120 Duquesne Light customers still without electrical service as of Sunday morning. FirstEnergy reported that it expects to restore power at various times from Sunday morning through the afternoon in communities...
Tribune-Review earns 22 Golden Quill nominations from Press Club of Western Pa.
Tribune-Review stories about the Tree of Life massacre, the killing of Antwon Rose and compensation programs set up after the clergy sex abuse scandal in Pennsylvania are among the top nominees in this year’s Golden Quill Awards. In all, the Trib garnered 22 nominations for the awards, which are presented...
Group wants to turn former Jeffery Primary into community center
A group presented plans during a May 8 Shaler Area School Board meeting to run a nonprofit community center in the former Jeffery Primary School. “We are calling ourselves Generations Community Center because we would like to address all of the communities in Shaler School District, including Etna, Millvale, Reserve...
Braddock’s Battlefield museum gets boost from Fort Ligonier
The Battle of the Monongahela has become known to many as “Braddock’s Defeat.” British Gen. Edward Braddock failed in his 1755 campaign to wrest Fort Duquesne — the future site of Pittsburgh — from French forces. He was mortally wounded, and his forces routed in the July 9 battle with...
UPMC workers looking to unionize plan to confront hospital board members
The Carnegie Mellon University graduate hasn’t been working at UPMC all that long, but Anna Nelson is among the most vocal critics ready to confront a group of UPMC hospital board members this week with a spate of reasons why the nonprofit behemoth needs to take better care of its...
Aquinas Academy student named finalist for writers contest
Felicity Koble, a fifth-grade student at Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh, was selected as a finalist for the 2019 PBS KIDS Writers Contest made possible locally by the EQT Foundation. Twenty-seven winners were chosen from more than 1,000 stories received from throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland and Delaware. Until May...
President Washington’s first crisis
The final workshop in the Bridgeville Area Historical Society’s series on George Washington’s influence on Western Pennsylvania focused on the Whiskey Rebellion and Washington’s key role in it. No one was surprised when Washington was elected our first president in 1788. When available revenue was insufficient to support the cost...
