Westmoreland courthouse to host veteran benefits clinic
Westmoreland County’s Department of Veterans Affairs will host an open house at the courthouse on Thursday to assist with applications for special benefits authorized by the federal government last year. The clinic will operate from noon to 3 p.m. to provide assistance for veterans and their families to apply for...
Pittsburgh council debates program to cut sidewalk repair costs
Pittsburgh residents and business owners are responsible for repairing the city sidewalks at their properties, but a pilot program proposed by city officials looks to make the process easier and more affordable. Legislation before City Council would create a pilot program that would see Department of Public Works crews performing...
2 hurt in Harrison crash
Two people were hurt when a pickup and an SUV collided on Freeport Road in Harrison Friday. According to Harrison police, the crash happened around 11:20 a.m. at Freeport Road and Dallas Avenue. Police said a 57-year-old man was driving a red Toyota pickup on Dallas Avenue toward Freeport Road....
Dormont home health aide sexually assaulted Pittsburgh woman with physical disabilities, police say
A Pittsburgh woman with physical disabilities was sexually assaulted by her aide, according to city police. Police have charged the aide, Vanessa C. Callender, 30, of Dormont, with one felony count of institutional sexual assault, court records show. Callender was arraigned Friday and District Judge Anthony M. Ceoffe set her...
Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s relatives describe a joyless, withdrawn child
Patricia Fine wishes she could have understood what it meant. She recognized that her 4-year-old nephew was quiet and withdrawn. That he was sad. “He didn’t get excited and giggly. He didn’t get mad,” she testified Friday. “He was always the same. He didn’t have joy.” But Fine, who is...
Carnegie Mellon University gets approval to build new robotics center at Hazelwood Green
Carnegie Mellon University has received approval from Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission to move forward with plans for a new robotics center at the Hazelwood Green site. The university is planning to build a 150,000-square-foot research building with a two-story enclosure for testing robots and drones, according to Bob Reppe, the school’s...
‘The Confluence’ news program on WESA radio to end production
WESA’s flagship daily morning news show “The Confluence” will end next week, according to a statement from the station’s management. Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting President and CEO Terry O’Reilly announced Friday that the show would air for the last time Aug. 4. PCBC owns WESA-FM, the local NPR affiliate, and WYEP....
Some Squirrel Hill business owners miffed over newly painted purple curbs — here’s why
John Mineo hadn’t heard about Pittsburgh’s smart loading zone pilot program until he saw crews painting the curbs purple outside of his Squirrel Hill pizza shop. He said he’s upset city officials didn’t work with business owners before implementing a new system that he says is hurting businesses. City officials...
Police crackdown in Downtown Pittsburgh results in more arrests for drugs, prostitution
To passersby, it might have appeared innocent — just a group of Pittsburghers smoking Downtown. But Pittsburgh police suspected otherwise. Myriah Morris, a 22-year-old Penn Hills woman with dyed-blue hair, was sitting with several people on a Mellon Square Park wall Saturday night. Though she didn’t smoke, she kept taking...
Fayette man accused of trying to lure children into his truck at Whitsett Park
A Fayette County man was charged with two counts of luring a child after police said he asked two children at Whitsett Park to get into his truck. State police from Belle Vernon were contacted about 7:30 p.m. July 27 for a report of a shirtless man who called two...
Dredging estimates at Tarentum pump house nearly double; work likely delayed
Dredging at the Tarentum pump house likely will be postponed after bids came in nearly double what was expected. The work helps make sure that the facility operates efficiently and reduces the amount of particulates to be filtered out at the water treatment plant. Borough Manager Dwight Boddorf said council...
Tarentum to foot the bill for new roof at Summit Hose
Summit Hose Company, one of Tarentum’s three fire departments, could be getting a new roof courtesy of the borough. Or, more accurately, half of a roof. Council on Friday voted 5-0 to spend up to $22,499 to replace the shingled part of the station’s roof at 321 W. Seventh Ave....
Southwestern Pa. under heat advisory with high temps set to scorch region
Southwestern Pennsylvania is in for a scorching hot Friday, with a heat index forecast of 104 degrees in the afternoon. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory in the region from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Temperatures will be hottest — around 95 degrees — between 1 and...
Delmont boy’s fatal injuries were ‘diagnostic of torture,’ doctors say
A 5-year-old Delmont boy who liked to sing country music and play with monster trucks died a torturous death at the hands of his adoptive parents, authorities said Friday. Lauren E. Maloberti, 34, and Jacob N. Maloberti, 33, of Delmont are being held without bail on homicide charges in the...
Turner’s tanker to distribute tea at Penn Hills supermarket
There’s not many things Pittsburghers appreciate more than some Turner’s Iced Tea. And there’ll be plenty of it when Turner Dairy Farm brings a literal tanker truck filled with Turner’s Iced Tea to the Community Supermarket in Penn Hills, according to the company’s Facebook page. The company urges folks to...
Car wash planned at old Teddy’s restaurant location in North Huntingdon
The site of the former Teddy’s restaurant along Route 30 in North Huntingdon is to be razed for an automated car wash, making it the fourth place to clean a vehicle in a two-mile stretch of the highway east and west of Irwin. Express Wash Concepts of Etna, Ohio, plans...
Alle-Kiski Valley High School Reunion news July 28, 2023
• Freeport High School Class of 1955 will have a get-together at 1 p.m. Sept. 6 at River Forest Country Club, Allegheny Township. Classmates and spouses welcome. • Ken Hi Class of 1958 will have a reunion at noon Sept. 21 at Hill Crest Country Club, Lower Burrell. Classmates who...
Morning Roundup: Goat Fest PGH returning to South Side
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, July 28: Goat Fest PGH returning to South Side What’s more “greatest of all time” than taking care of the environment? At Goat Fest PGH on Saturday, working goats from Allegheny GoatScape will lend a helping hoof by...
High school history retold through Hempfield Project archive
A Spartan pennant from the 1960s, rescued from between the pages of a yearbook. A school handbook from 1962. A seat cushion from the 1970s. A mug from the Cotton Bowl, where the district’s band performed in 1971, and a football program from the 1980s. Hempfield Area teacher and English...
Franklin Park, a community in transition, celebrates bicentennial
Franklin Park Manager Rege Ebner admits that the borough’s 200-year history as a sleepy outcropping of Pittsburgh doesn’t include many claims to fame. “The only thing we do know is it was named after Ben Franklin, though we’re not sure why,” Ebner said. Nonetheless, the borough of about 15,000 people...
The Stroller, July 28, 2023: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Summer festival on tap at Concordia Lutheran Ministries The 142nd annual...
Pittsburgh officials look to shift covid relief funds to other projects
Pittsburgh officials are looking to reallocate millions in federal covid-19 relief funds to invest in public safety vehicles, landslide remediation and other projects. Legislation before City Council would shift American Rescue Plan Act money to projects that “we need to spend money on now,” City Council Budget Director Peter McDevitt...
Penn State eliminates funding for well-respected, student-run newspaper The Daily Collegian
Terry Mutchler, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and former Daily Collegian writer, likened Penn State University’s elimination of funding for its storied student newspaper to “ditching the Creamery,” another mainstay on the University Park campus. “Am I aware of it? I had to double my blood pressure medication,” quipped Mutchler, a...
Pittsburgh synagogue shooter ‘actively attempted to present himself as less ill,’ psychiatrist says
The man who killed 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue nearly five years ago doesn’t want people to think he’s mentally ill. So much so, a psychiatrist testified Thursday, that when experts questioning Robert Bowers about his alleged delusions have implied that his thoughts are bizarre, he retracts them....
Crews repair water main break in Lawrenceville
A 6-inch water main break that shut down 40th Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood was repaired early Friday morning. Officials said the break, which occurred about 5:20 p.m. Thursday near the 40th Street Bridge, was patched by 1:15 a.m. Friday. “There have been no residential customers that have been affected...
