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Monroeville area EarlyAct Club promotes ‘Service Above Self’
Last fall, the Monroeville Rotary partnered with Divine Mercy Academy to create the first EarlyAct Club in the school. President-elect Diane Milowicki, along with President John Keating and parent-teacher guild member Tina Cuda, wanted to bring EarlyAct to Divine Mercy Academy and presented the idea to the school. This year,...
Gateway sets the stage for musical ‘Chicago: Teen Edition’
Although this is Diane Milowicki’s first year as Gateway High School’s music director, she has a long history of directing community theater in California, where she spent much of her adult life. She was born in Pennsylvania and returned about four years ago. “I really love working with the kids,”...
Raymond Sims’ children, grandchildren mourn family patriarch, jitney driver at East Liberty vigil
On June 13, 2023, Cassandra Paul lost her 29-year-old daughter, Tanika, to gun violence. Sixteen years earlier, she buried her son, Terry Lee, then 19, after he was killed in a home invasion. On Wednesday night, as wind chilled the air below freezing, the Pittsburgh woman struggled to light candles...
Pittsburgh Public Schools authorizes its attorney to sue Allegheny County to force a countywide property reassessment
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials have authorized their solicitor to sue Allegheny County in order to undergo a countywide property reassessment. But Solicitor Ira Weiss hopes a simple letter to county officials will get the conversation going and a formal legal filing with the Court of Common Pleas will not be...
Homicide victim’s mom calls 22-year sentence slap on wrist for killer of Dravosburg man
A Beltzhoover man will serve at least 22 years in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday to fatally shooting a man eight times in the head. Le’Juane Powell, 30, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the death last year of Kenneth A. Lennex, 34, of Dravosburg. Allegheny County Common Pleas...
New Kensington man accused of threatening to kill woman, offering to pay to drop charges
New Kensington police are looking for a man they say assaulted a woman with a gun, threatened to kill her and then offered to pay her to drop the charges. Police charged Jadrian Race Wade, 30, of Woodmont Avenue with felony counts of aggravated assault and witness intimidation, court records...
Police charge man in Downtown Pittsburgh armed carjacking, gunpoint robberies at The Waterfront; victim tells her story
Laura Stuart has dedicated her life to helping others. One night last week , when a stranger carjacked her in a Downtown Pittsburgh parking garage, she felt someone might have been watching out for her, too. Stuart walked into the garage at 320 Smithfield St. after attending a Greater Pittsburgh...
T riders face closures, detours from upcoming $150M rehab project in Pittsburgh, South Hills
Pittsburgh Regional Transit next month will start a $150 million rehabilitation project for the agency’s light-rail network. The construction will lead to rolling closures of parts of the rail lines and will require significant detours. The agency, the region’s largest public transit operator, said it will repair concrete rail foundations...
Duquesne woman wanted by police in connection with Pleasant Hills stabbing
Police are looking for a Duquesne woman in connection with a stabbing early Saturday morning in Pleasant Hills. Pleasant Hills police and first responders found a 27-year-old woman with multiple stab wounds in the 100 block of Cerasi Drive around 4 a.m. Saturday. She was taken to the hospital in...
Hydrants, waterlines questioned in wake of fatal Jeannette blaze
Jeannette fire Chief Bill Frye said the city’s aging waterlines impacted firefighters’ ability to extinguish an overnight blaze that killed a father and his four young children in a Guy Street home. Both Frye and Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County officials confirmed Wednesday a 6-inch water line feeds into the...
Prayer vigil offers comfort to family of Jeannette fire victims
Delena Lewis ached as she listened to prayers swirl around in the wind outside Jeannette City Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The devastation was fresh — her son Tyler J. King, 27, and four grandchildren, Kyson, 7, Kinzleigh, 6, Keagan, 3, and Korbyn, 1 month, were killed hours earlier in a...
Springdale mom heads to prison in methadone death of daughter, 5
The prosecutor handling the case of a 5-year-old who died from methadone poisoning told the court that there were two unanswered questions. Why was there methadone in Samantha McMunn’s Springdale house on the day her daughter died? And how did it get into her baby syringe? “I just think it’s...
CNX Resources to pay nearly $13K for each 1.5 million gallons drawn from Beaver Run for fracking
A week after water use restrictions were lifted for customers served by Beaver Run Reservoir, a Canonsburg company was given a contract that allows it to buy 51 million gallons of water to use in fracking at nearby gas wells, Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County officials said Wednesday. The authority...
Pittsburgh Technical College put on probation
Pittsburgh Technical College in Oakdale has been placed on probation by the Middle States Commission for Higher Education and warned that its accreditation “is in jeopardy.” In a post to its website, the accrediting body said it acted due to “insufficient evidence that the institution is currently in compliance with...
Maggots, heat, decomposition lead judge to find Munhall funeral director guilty of abusing corpse
The Pennsylvania statute defining abuse of a corpse is simple. All that’s required is for a person to treat a dead body “in a way that he knows would outrage ordinary family sensibilities.” For a funeral home director to let a body sit for several days in summer, decomposing without...
Allegheny County’s elections board OKs ballot drop-off sites with 3-0 vote
Allegheny County’s new ballot drop-off locations are finally official. The county Board of Elections voted unanimously Wednesday to add six locations where voters can drop off mail-in ballots for the upcoming primary election. Staffed drop-off locations will be placed in Squirrel Hill, Moon, McKeesport, North Park, South Park and Boyce...
Greater Latrobe School District to gain $2K through property tax appeal settlements
Greater Latrobe School District expects to see an upward bump of a little more than $2,200 in its tax revenue as a result of tax assessment settlements for two residential properties in Unity. The school board approved settlements of assessment appeals the district filed in Westmoreland County Court, as recommended...
Monroeville native doesn’t let brain tumor stop career in law enforcement
Luke Skledar isn’t one to back down from a challenge. He was a skilled hockey player in high school and achieved a second-degree black belt in martial arts. The Monroeville native, 22, took on another challenge after graduating from Gateway High School in 2020 — becoming the first member of...
Popular event benefits historic Gilfillan Farm in Upper St. Clair
Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. April 6 for an event that sold out in under 30 minutes last year. The annual Gilfillan Farm Barnyard Beer Benefit is scheduled for May 25 at the corner of Route 19 and Orr Road in Upper St. Clair, near South Hills Village...
Police charge man with stabbing wife 17 times in Sharpsburg apartment
A Sharpsburg man on Tuesday stabbed his wife 17 times in their apartment and then, out of breath, called 911, according to police. At 2:01 p.m., Victor Cute, 69, told 911 that he had stabbed his wife and she was lying on the floor bleeding, a criminal complaint said. He...
Tartan Day will celebrate all things Scottish at Bethel Presbyterian Church
When Pam Maniet greets visitors at Bethel Presbyterian Church on April 6, she will be emotional. It will be the first Tartan Day, a day to celebrate Scottish heritage, without her father, Angus MacDonald. He died Dec. 27. “I know I will have a knot in my stomach at the...
Trib Lunch Box: Fatal fire, love triangle, allergies, Mega Millions
Here are some noon headlines from TribLive, Wednesday, March 20, 2024: • Father, 4 children killed in Jeannette blaze Five bodies were recovered after two homes caught fire overnight on Guy Street in Jeannette. The body of a man, 27, and four children were recovered from the scene, according to...
Bethel Park mother, son continue to bring smiles through Easter basket project
Maria Rovers knows the feeling of caring for a child with health issues. There is intense worry and incredible fear, sleepless nights and unpredictable days. “I have been there,” the Bethel Park resident said. “It’s hard to understand unless you’ve lived it.” Rovers’ son Sean, 16, was diagnosed in 2017...
New Kensington’s House of 1,000 Beers remaining open despite closure of 2nd location
Fans of New Kensington’s House of 1,000 Beers don’t have to worry, the longstanding bar and restaurant will remain open despite the closing of its other location in the North Hills. Arthur and Janice Barbus took over House of 1,000 Beers on Freeport Street in 2014. They bought it from...
Early-morning blaze sends Leechburg woman to hospital
A Leechburg woman remained hospitalized Wednesday after an early morning fire tore through her home. Leechburg fire Chief John Foster identified the woman as Mandy Yakovich, who lived alone at the home on Kiski Avenue. Although Foster said she remained hospitalized, he did not have an update on her condition....
