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5 key bills O’Connor championed as a Pittsburgh councilman
Pittsburgh Mayor-elect Corey O’Connor will step into the city’s highest office in January. But he’s no newcomer to City Hall. O’Connor previously spent more than a decade on Pittsburgh City Council before moving to his current post as Allegheny County controller. Some of O’Connor’s most notable bills came in response...
Officials identify body found in burned Sheraden building
The body of a man found in a fire-damaged building in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood Sunday afternoon has been identified. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Wednesday reported the deceased to be Moussa Traore, 73, of Sheraden. The fire started just after midnight Saturday in the building in the 700...
CMU researchers find selfish traits in cutting-edge AI
Artificial intelligence can be oh so human. New research from Carnegie Mellon University shows AI systems meant to mimic human reasoning have selfish tendencies, compared to simpler models. Teacher-student duo Hirokazu Shirado, an associate professor at the university’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and doctoral candidate Yuxuan Li released their findings last...
Problems and promise: Pittsburgh Mayor-elect O’Connor inherits good, bad and ugly
Coming off a resounding election win Tuesday night, Corey O’Connor tempered his victory speech with a dose of reality. “The road that we will travel is long and steeply uphill,” Pittsburgh’s mayor-elect warned a jubilant crowd of supporters. Come January, O’Connor acknowledged, he will take over a city facing serious...
Developer proposes Strip District apartments, grocery store on site of departing produce wholesaler
A proposed development in Pittsburgh’s Strip District follows a familiar pattern of replacing the neighborhood’s legacy industry, wholesale produce, with modern apartments and shops. New York City-based Midwood Investment and Development wants to take one of the Strip District’s last produce warehouses, tear it down and turn it into a...
Pittsburgh SWAT responds to midday shooting in Hill District
Pittsburgh police’s SWAT team was called Wednesday afternoon to the city’s Hill District neighborhood after a midday shooting in a public housing development. A woman was shot in the leg in the 2500 block of Bedford Avenue, near the Bedford Dwellings complex, police said online. First responders said she was...
In nod to his father, Pittsburgh Mayor-elect O’Connor hits the streets to thank voters
Twenty years ago, Bob O’Connor crafted a sign that read “Thank you Pittsburgh” and held it up during morning rush hour to show his appreciation for the voters who helped him achieve his lifelong dream of becoming mayor. On Wednesday, his son Corey O’Connor carried on the legacy. Standing on...
Democrats coast to apparent victory in 3 Pittsburgh City Council races
Democrats made a clean sweep Tuesday night across three contested Pittsburgh City Council races, handily defeating their Republican opponents. Voters in the city’s West End neighborhoods, choosing a new council member for the first time since 2010 with the pending retirement of Councilwoman Theresa Kail-Smith, stuck with what they knew....
O’Connor defeats Moreno in Pittsburgh mayor’s race
Democrat Corey O’Connor took the stage before hundreds of supporters at a South Side union hall an hour after polls closed Tuesday night and declared victory in his race for Pittsburgh mayor. “I am humbled and inspired by the great honor and privilege of serving as your next mayor,” O’Connor...
Pitt lab launches $42M project to merge latest in wheelchair, robotic arm tech
A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans. Researchers at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department of Veterans...
Commercial Street in Pittsburgh to close for Parkway East bridge construction
Commercial Street in Pittsburgh’s Swisshelm Park neighborhood will be closed for roughly two months during construction of a new Parkway East bridge that will span over the street. The road will close to motorists on Nov. 17, and remain closed through Jan. 30, as part of the $95 million I-376...
Through the years: Dick Cheney’s visits to Western Pa.
Western Pennsylvania has seen many appearances from former Vice President Dick Cheney over the years. Cheney, who served as as defense chief under President George H.W. Bush and then as vice president under Bush’s son, George W. Bush, died Monday at age 84. During the early 2000s, he made several...
Police rescue trafficked Louisiana runaway, 13, from North Side basement
A phone call about a missing teen near Baton Rouge, La., led an investigation involving authorities in three states to the basement of a Pittsburgh home last week, where the 13-year-old runaway was found hidden in a sheet-covered box. Police on Friday arrested Ki-Shawn Crumity, 26, of the city’s Brighton...
Allegheny County announces winter shelter program for homeless
As temperatures drop, Allegheny County has announced its winter shelter plan for the homeless community. The Allegheny County Department of Human Services said Monday that the plan will be in effect from Nov. 15 through April 30. On Nov. 15, the county will open a winter shelter — which will...
Effects of SNAP cuts are wide-reaching
Madison Shtur lined the shelves of her pay-what-you-can thrift store in Jeannette on Thursday, Oct. 30 with the latest shipment of groceries from the Westmoreland Food Bank. It wasn’t enough. A shipment from the food bank typically lasts about three weeks on Shtur’s shelves. But last week’s shipment lasted just...
Carnegie Mellon president launches advisory board to review student mental health, well-being
A new advisory board at Carnegie Mellon University will evaluate students’ mental well-being and their academic experience. President Farnam Jahanian announced the university will roll out a President’s Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health and the Academic Experience. Jahanian, in a letter to campus, said the board will review...
Retrial in killing of North Hills honors student ends with 1st-degree murder conviction
A jury on Monday found a Pittsburgh man guilty of first-degree murder for killing a North Hills honors student outside his family’s restaurant in the Strip District. Howard Hawkins, 50, who was also convicted of carrying a firearm without a license, will be sentenced Jan. 30 by Allegheny County Common...
Man suffers knife wounds during fight in Marshall-Shadeland
A man is in stable condition after being slashed on the jaw and back with a knife during a fight in Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police were called to the 2600 block of California Avenue around 12:45 a.m. Police said several individuals who’d begun...
27 people rescued from the Mon Incline
It took nearly four hours for 27 people to be rescued from the Mon Incline after both cars stopped shortly after leaving their stations Saturday afternoon, a Pittsburgh Regional Transit spokesman said. The two cars unexpectedly stopped 40 feet from their stations after departing for a trip just before 2:30...
Demolition crew finds man’s body in burned-out Sheraden building
Crews tearing down a fire-damaged building in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood Sunday afternoon found a man’s body inside. The fire started just after midnight Saturday in the building in the 700 block of Hillsboro Street. Fire crews arrived to find flames coming from the second floor. The building is a commercial...
Pittsburgh autonomous vehicle firm Aurora hits the gas on driverless truck rollout
Pittsburgh-based Aurora Innovation is accelerating the rollout of its driverless trucks as it looks to evolve from a promising experiment to a profitable enterprise. A new route that launched last week — the company’s second — runs from Fort Worth to El Paso in Texas. It spans about 600 miles....
Teen girl stabbed in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood on Halloween
Pittsburgh police are investigating a stabbing in the city’s Allentown neighborhood that left one teen hospitalized and another juvenile detained. Officers were dispatched Friday at about 7:20 p.m. to the 700 block of East Warrington Avenue for a group of juveniles fighting. Public Safety spokeswoman Eliza Durham said officers located...
Jury to begin deliberations in fatal shooting of honors student outside Pittsburgh restaurant
A jury next week will begin deliberating the fate of a man accused in the 2021 shooting death of a North Hills honors student outside his family’s Strip District restaurant. Closing arguments took place Friday after a weeklong retrial of Howard Hawkins, who is accused of killing Ahmir Tuli, 18,...
Consequences mount as federal government shutdown, state budget impasse drag on
As the federal government shutdown moves into its second month and the state budget impasse drags into its fifth, the consequences of political inaction are mounting. Affordable Care Act premiums are poised to skyrocket, energy assistance is stalled, and a federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to keep SNAP...
New Italian restaurant Cork & Crust to open in Oakland hotel
Led by an award-winning chef, a new Italian restaurant is expected to open in Oakland by the end of the year. On Thursday, The Oaklander Hotel on on Bigelow Boulevard announced that the new restaurant — Cork & Crust — will have three-time James Beard Foundation Award semifinalist and featured...
