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State grant will help Pittsburgh improve 3 senior centers
Pittsburgh has received more than $200,000 for repairs and upgrades at three city senior centers, courtesy of grants approved by Gov. Tom Wolf and the state Department of Aging, the Mayor’s Office reported. Healthy Active Living Centers in Brighton Heights, Greenfield and Homewood will benefit from the grants, according to...
Monroeville Mall shooting suspects identified, DA says
Police have identified suspects in last month’s shooting at the Monroeville Mall and arrests are imminent, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Wednesday. Zappala said investigators used surveillance cameras and license plate recognition software to identify the suspects in the April 12 shooting at a first-floor entrance...
Suspect in disappearance of Whitehall woman had her cellphone, DA says
A McKeesport man suspected in the disappearance of a Whitehall woman who is presumed to be dead had the woman’s cellphone and used it to send a text message, according to Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. Zappala said Elizabeth Wiesenfeld, 67, who has been missing since April...
Year-long road work in Monroeville to include ‘numerous’ restrictions
Work that will last a little over a year on one of Monroeville’s busiest roads will start Friday. The nearly $11 million project includes replacing traffic lights, repaving, drainage improvements and structure work on the bridge connecting Route 22 to Route 286, said Steve Cowan, a PennDOT spokesman. Cowan said...
Allegheny Land Trust eyeing former Churchill Valley Club site
A nonprofit wants to preserve the land on which the defunct Churchill Valley Country Club once sat. Representatives of Allegheny Land Trust said May 8 they are working to raise the money needed to buy the 148-acre property along Beulah Road in Penn Hills and Churchill in order to preserve...
Ross cops issue warning about solicitors without permits in township
Ross Township police have issued a warning to residents after receiving complaints about a pair of men who are soliciting in the municipality without a permit. Police said the two men have been seen between noon and 9 p.m. wearing black pants and black vests, and in some cases, yellow...
Pittsburgh grand jury indicts 2 Israelis in alleged Darknet conspiracy
Two Israeli citizens are accused of facilitating online sales of illicit drugs and guns in exchange for nearly $15.5 million worth of Bitcoin kickbacks. U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady described the case Wednesday as “the single most significant law enforcement disruption of the Darknet to date.” “This case represents the...
Marshall residents can ditch hard-to-trash items at free event
Marshall Township residents can sign up to dispose of unwanted electronics and household chemical and hazardous materials for free from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 18. Residents are permitted to dispose of paint, thinner, cleaning products, pesticides, vehicle and household batteries, light bulbs and fluorescent tubes, pool chemicals, vehicle...
Children can learn to act at Aspinwall summer camp
Children can get a taste of the spotlight during a summer theater camp in Aspinwall. Stage Right Performing Arts & Education will host two sessions, one in June and one in July, for youngsters who would like to try their hand at acting. It will be hosted amid the scenic...
Bike Pittsburgh giving away free lights in Oakland
Cyclists who are biking without lights will be treated to free light sets from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday on Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. The pop-up event is sponsored by Bike Pittsburgh and its Operations Illumination program. Those biking without lights will be flagged down so volunteers can...
Pittsburgh employees rescue 10 ducklings from West End storm drain
A group effort by Pittsburgh paramedics, police and Public Works employees helped save 10 ducklings from a West End storm drain Wednesday morning. Paramedics were driving on South Main Street at about 6:30 a.m. when a woman flagged them down and alerted them to the trapped ducklings, said Public Safety...
Cops: Mt. Pleasant fugitive found hiding under bed at mother’s home
A Mt. Pleasant area man wanted for skipping several court hearings following recent drug arrests was discovered by Westmoreland County sheriff deputies Tuesday hiding under a bed in his mother’s house with several baggies and a jar of crystal methamphetamine nearby, according to court documents. Members of the sheriff’s department...
Idlewild offering free admission for veterans, service members
Military veterans and service members will get free admission to Idlewild & SoakZone on May 25 through Veteran X, a peer-support program in Westmoreland County. Three immediate family members of the veteran or service member also will get into the Ligonier Township amusement park for free. A free lunch will...
Man rammed police SUV, drove at cops in Kennedy shooting, officials say
A man shot and wounded by police during a drug sting in Kennedy rammed a police SUV twice then sped toward other officers, prompting them to fire at the man, authorities said Wednesday Chase Kenney, 27, remains in Allegheny General Hospital recovering from two gunshot wounds to his right forearm...
Trump: GM to sell Lordstown, Ohio, plant to electric truck company
DETROIT — General Motors plans to sell its shuttered factory in Lordstown, Ohio, to a company that builds electric trucks. President Donald Trump announced the deal with a company named Workhorse on Twitter Wednesday morning. He also wrote that GM plans to spend $700 million at three locations in Ohio...
Pittsburgh Symphony announces fellowship recipient
Shantanique Moore will be playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The flute player is the recipient of the symphony’s two-year fellowship designed to place one young African American musician on an orchestral career path. Moore, of Redford Township, Mich., will be the eighth person awarded the opportunity which is part...
Fish Rodeo for Veterans at O’Hara’s Squaw Valley Park
The weather couldn’t have been better for the seventh annual Fish Rodeo for Veterans on Wednesday at Squaw Valley Park in O’Hara. Dozens of hospitalized veterans were transported for a day at the park, thanks to Morningside VFW Post 3945. Members have been hosting the festivities every year in an...
Gas leak leads to building evacuations in Duquesne
A gas leak Wednesday morning closed a street and caused buildings to be evacuated in Duquesne, the city’s police department said in a post on its Facebook page. The leak started about 10:30 a.m., when a contractor struck a gas line near 46 S. Linden Street in the Regional Industrial...
Animal response team works to corral part of roaming cow herd in Murrysville
Not all of the black Angus cows wandering through south Murrysville have been spotted, but a group of three has been regularly visiting a temporary feeding station set up by members of the Westmoreland County Animal Response Team. “We added more panels to a temporary corral around the feeding trough,”...
McCandless hosting free program on getting garden soil into shape
Gardners can learn more about improving the health of their soil at a free program at 7 p.m. on May 30 at McCandless Town Hall. Juliette Olshock, an instructor with the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, will lead the presentation on soil health and composting. Olshock is a graduate of Slippery...
Lidia’s in the Strip District gets a health department consumer alert
Lidia’s Pittsburgh, an Italian restaurant in the Strip District, received a consumer alert Tuesday from the Allegheny County Health Department. The health department said the restaurant’s prep coolers were not working and not maintaining safe temperatures for cold food. The restaurant also kept “potentially hazardous food” past the use-by date,...
Greensburg man gets probation in fight with agents investigating his son for child porn
A Greensburg man will serve one year on probation in connection with a late January fight with agents from the state Attorney General’s office who were investigating his son for child pornography. Mark Edward Bittner, 50, has already completed anger management classes and written an apology letter to the officers,...
Surveillance cameras capture Vandergrift Dollar General robbery
The search is continuing for a man who robbed the Dollar General store in Vandergrift last week. Vandergrift police have released surveillance photos of the April 30 crime and are seeking tips regarding the case. The photos show the robber entering and leaving the store in the 500 block of...
Orphaned bear cub rescued behind Rite-Aid in Pottsville
Pennsylvania Game Commission wardens received a call last month about a lone bear cub behind a Rite-Aid drugstore in Pottsville, Schuylkill County. Sure enough, Game Warden James Macunas and state police found the small cub without a mom in sight on April 28, according to a game commission account on...
Ed Asner discusses Holocaust play in Pittsburgh, Tree of Life, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’Video
Actor and activist Ed Asner has been in Pittsburgh this week playing a Nazi concentration camp survivor in the stage play “The Soap Myth.” Asner’s character Milton Saltzman swears that he is a witness to the Nazis manufacturing of soap made from the corpses of murdered Jews. Not everyone believes...
