Demolition, legal battle continue at former power plant in Springdale
As the fate of the boiler house at the former power plant in Springdale is hung up in the courts, crews continue to take down other buildings at the site. “Generally speaking, we’ve been making progress on some of the other buildings throughout the site,” said Scott Reschly, vice president...
Prominent aid worker for Palestinian causes drums up support during Monroeville visit
A prominent figure in Palestinian humanitarian aid circles visited the Pittsburgh region Thursday, the first stop on a national tour to drum up support for a new nonprofit formed in the wake of the latest Israel-Hamas war. Steve Sosebee, the co-founder and former president of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund,...
‘It gives them the confidence to go beyond’: Stage Right aims to welcome students of all backgrounds with grant
Stage Right in Greensburg distributes $30,000 in scholarships and financial aid to its students each year. About a third of a $175,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation in Pittsburgh will help the nonprofit theater company continue supporting students of all socioeconomic backgrounds, Executive Director Anastasia Robinson said. Stage...
Longwood at Oakmont nurse accused of forging morphine prescription by state Attorney General’s Office
A woman who worked as a registered nurse at Longwood at Oakmont in Plum is accused of forging another nurse’s signature on a prescription for morphine cream. The state Attorney General’s Office charged Kimberly C. Graves, 58, of Penn Hills with a felony count of prohibited acts and misdemeanor charges...
Get Healthy Pittsburgh gets folks curious about a plant-based diet
It can be quite difficult to make a lifestyle change, but at least 70 people did just that with Get Healthy Pittsburgh when they embarked on a seven-day challenge of plant-based eating. It was a challenge created by Humane Action Pittsburgh. They had their celebration and reveal night this week...
Bell Township road to close indefinitely on Monday for landslide removal
A section of Nelson Road in Bell Township will close starting Monday as PennDOT crews address deteriorating slide conditions. Nelson will be closed between Route 380 and Whitesell Street. There is currently no reopening date, and PennDOT officials are awaiting approval to announce an official detour route. Drivers can check...
The Advanced Leadership Institute brings together African American executives from across Pittsburgh
It is tough to be what you don’t see, so cohort by cohort, The Advanced Leadership Institute is dismantling the idea of Black people being an anomaly in leadership and executive roles. On Friday, the leadership program welcomed 21 new members in its sixth Executive Leadership Academy Cohort, during their...
PennDOT continues working to address flooded Ligonier Township road
A small section of Route 381 in Ligonier Township remained closed Friday night due to flooding, PennDOT officials said. Route 381 between Rolling Rock Lane and Route 30 continues to be affected by recent rainfall and now snow melt. Next door in Derry Township, a section of Sleep Hollow Causeway...
Manor police officer accused of impersonating UPMC police, stealing credit cards, key from employee
A Manor Borough police officer is accused of breaking into a UPMC building, impersonating a UPMC police officer and taking credit cards and a key from an employee’s office. Justin R. Hall, 39, of Washington Township, was observed on security camera footage entering the UPMC Baum/Ross Building in Pittsburgh’s Oakland...
Appellate court says state attorney general, and not local DAs, had authority to settle opioid claims
A Pennsylvania appellate court on Friday said that the state Attorney General’s Office had the authority to settle claims against opioid manufacturers over the harms caused by the abuse of the medication. The Commonwealth Court ruling, against the district attorneys of Allegheny County and Philadelphia, wrote in their opinion that...
Police say car was going the wrong way on the Mansfield Bridge in head-on crash
Police are investigating a head-on crash that happened Friday on the Mansfield Bridge in Glassport when one of the cars was heading the wrong way. Allegheny County Police said their initial investigation shows a man driving a four-door Hyundai “traveled the wrong way onto the bridge” and crashed into a...
Westmoreland Register of Wills faces contempt of court allegations
Westmoreland County Register of Wills Sherry Magretti Hamilton has been ordered to appear before a judge in early March to respond to contempt of court allegations. Common Pleas Judge Jim Silvis said Hamilton violated requirements that her office promptly file adoption records. Hamilton, a Republican from Hempfield, was unopposed when...
U.S. Steel settles lawsuit over 2018 fire, power outages in 2019, 2022
U.S. Steel officials have entered into a consent decree with the Allegheny County Health Department and two environmental groups to address a 2018 fire at its Clairton facility that crippled the plant’s pollution controls and caused power outages at the plant in 2019 and 2022. The agreement will include nearly...
Driver to stand trial in fatal ‘drag-racing’ crash that killed Serra Catholic student
It took just two minutes and 18 seconds. A crowded Pittsburgh courtroom fell silent Friday as dash cam footage — time-stamped two seconds after 7:22 a.m. Sept. 20 — showed school van driver Richard Alan Maleski waiting at a stop sign and preparing to enter the intersection at Third Street...
Greensburg man accused of throwing brick at child
A Greensburg man is behind bars after city police said he threw a brick at a 9-year-old boy. Donald S. Meighan Jr., 44, is charged with aggravated assault, child endangerment, simple assault and public drunkenness. A witness who heard yelling in the area of Holloway Way and College Avenue Thursday...
Police confiscate cocaine, 2 guns from Jeannette home
A Jeannette man was denied bond Friday after state police said they confiscated crack cocaine and two guns from his house. Troopers served a search warrant at the Penn Avenue home of Isaiah Morton, 20, around 6 a.m. Friday. They reported in court papers finding three knotted bags of crack...
Perry Mason, Abraham Lincoln inspired Charles Conway as lawyer, Export-area district judge
Charles Conway’s retirement didn’t last long. After nearly a quarter-century on the bench as magistrate in Export, Conway retired last month. But he’s already had the gavel back in his hand as he filled in for his successor, Judi Petrush, during part of last week. “When I was a kid,...
Manor police officer accused of impersonating UPMC police, stealing credit cards, key from employee
A Manor Borough police officer is accused of breaking into a UPMC building, impersonating a UPMC police officer and taking credit cards and a key from an employee’s office. Justin R. Hall, 39, of Washington Township, Westmoreland County, was observed on security camera footage entering the UPMC Baum/Ross Building, located...
Buttigieg pushes for rail safety, touts infrastructure bill in Pittsburgh visit
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Pittsburgh on Friday to tout funding for improvement projects along the Parkway East corridor, part of the Biden Administration’s signature infrastructure funding effort. He also called for enhanced regulations ahead of the first anniversary on Feb. 3 of the East Palestine train...
Commonwealth Court rules Quaker Valley High School project can move forward
A Pennsylvania appellate court on Jan. 26 said that Quaker Valley School District can move forward with its planned construction of a new, $95 million high school. The 19-page Commonwealth Court ruling affirms a decision by the lower court that said that the Leet Township Zoning Hearing Board did not...
3 accused in shooting death of St. Clair woman waive right to hearing
A defense attorney said Friday he believes one of the three suspects accused in the death of a St. Clair Township woman may have taken advantage of the others. Formal arraignments are set for next month for the trio: Melissa S. Fox-Beacom, 49, of New Florence; Robert Patrick Jack, 18,...
Mysterious notes reported in food items, state parks, trails across Pennsylvania
Cryptic notes have been popping up all around Pennsylvania in various cereal boxes and state parks — and it looks like they’re moving west. Originally dubbed the “Schuylkill Notes” by Reddit users investigating, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, some of the messages are said to have a sinister quality...
Springdale woman pleads guilty in connection to daughter’s death
A Springdale woman pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with the death of her 5-year-old daughter in June. Samantha Allison McMunn, 34, of the 40 block of Duquesne Court pleaded guilty to a felony count of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her daughter, Diem McMunn-Gereshenski, according to court records. Springdale...
Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship to plant food forest with help of state grant
It’s not easy to convince a room full of first graders to try broccoli sprouts, but Matt Zuk did just that on a recent Friday morning. As founding CEO of Terroir Designs, Zuk has partnered with Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship since 2018, giving monthly lessons to students in...
Penn Hills to help short-handed Verona police
Penn Hills and Verona have reached an agreement for mutual police aid, putting a longtime understanding between the two municipalities into writing. The memorandum of understanding comes at a critical time for a depleted Verona Police Department. Chief Ron McLemore continues to recover from an assualt during a domestic violence...
