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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...
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...
Layne’s Chicken Fingers to open on Pittsburgh’s South Side
A second Layne’s Chicken Fingers is coming to Pittsburgh, this one on the South Side. Company signage is on the front of the building at 1210 E. Carson St. and City of Pittsburgh permit papers, issued in February, are on the door. The inside is not finished. On the window...
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...
Pittsburgh reinstates limited spay and neuter program for feral cats
Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday approved a contract for spay and neuter services for the city’s feral cats, but the troubled program itself remains on hold. The city in February abruptly halted its spay and neuter services. Officials cited concerns that suburban pet owners were faking their address to make...
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh to offer free admission on the late Fred Rogers’ birthday
Pittsburgh’s favorite neighbor would have turned 96 on Wednesday. To celebrate the life of Fred Rogers, host of the long-running WQED children’s show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side is offering free admission on March 20. Rogers was born on that date in 1928...
Man who triggered Pittsburgh gunfight that left toddler dead gets harsher sentence than killer
Marvin Hill didn’t fire the stray bullet that killed Zykier Young. That was Andre Crawford. But it was Hill, the prosecution said, who started the chain of events in August 2020 that ultimately led to the 17-month-old’s death as he lay in bed on Pittsburgh’s North Side. And it is...
PennEnvironment limited study shows compliance with Pittsburgh bag ban, but also gaps
A limited study of 50 Pittsburgh businesses revealed that most are complying with the city’s ban on plastic bags, though restaurants seem to be slower to conform than retailers. The PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, an environmental advocacy group, randomly visited businesses throughout the city to investigate which retailers and...
Trib Lunch Box: Shooting, spring arrives, March Madness, breweries
Here are some noon headlines from TribLive, Tuesday, March 19, 2024: • 1 dead, 1 injured, 1 in custody after shooting at Blawnox company A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded inside a Blawnox company Tuesday morning during what police said was a domestic dispute involving a...
BOOM Concepts celebrates 10 years as a hub for artists, community in PittsburghVideo
A chance meeting with Darrell “DS” Kinsel at a Hill District bus stop 10 years ago ended up launching Cue Perry’s art career. Perry said had it not been for the founders of BOOM Concepts, Kinsel and Thomas Agnew, he wouldn’t have realized it was possible to have a career...
Pittsburgh vies for ’26 NFL Draft after Philly snags MLB, FIFA, NCAA events
Pittsburgh is running an all-out blitz to host a future NFL Draft, and now the effort is getting support from Pennsylvania’s top public official. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday that he sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell last week indicating support for Pittsburgh to host a draft in...
‘I felt like a kid myself’: Duquesne president Gormley revels in Dukes’ tournament appearance
There are moments in an institution’s life so epic that even a university president becomes just another face in the crowd. Not that Ken Gormley of Duquesne University is complaining. In the 36 hours since its men’s basketball team achieved something it hadn’t in 46 previous years, the Catholic university...
Police charge Rivers Casino dealer, supervisor in alleged electronic roulette scheme
A veteran electronic roulette dealer at Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino and her supervisor have been arrested in what police said was a scheme to rig betting on the game of chance that cost the North Shore casino thousands of dollars. Pennsylvania State Police and the casino started investigating after receiving an...
UPMC pledges seamless transition as dental center closes
State Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Squirrel Hill, says UPMC has assured him that dental patients transferred from its soon-to-close Montefiore center “will be easily absorbed” into the University of Pittsburgh Dental School clinic without undue treatment delays. He said the hospital system said most employees from the Montefiore operation have been...
Pittsburgh police make arrest in Allentown triple shooting that killed 1 man
Pittsburgh police have made an arrest in a triple shooting earlier this month that left one man dead in the city’s Allentown neighborhood. Quincey Gurske, 20, of Mt. Washington was taken into custody Monday morning for the fatal shooting March 3 of Marquese Freeman, also 20 and from Pittsburgh, authorities...
Morning Roundup: Crash in Liberty Tunnel; Allegheny County Police searching for suspect
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, March 18: 2-vehicle crash inside Pittsburgh’s Liberty Tunnel A two-vehicle crash was reported inside the inbound Liberty Tunnel on Monday morning. Allegheny County 911 received reports of the crash a little after 5:40 a.m. According to Triblive’s news...
Pedestrian hit by driver in Friendship
A 40-year-old man was hit by a driver in Pittsburgh’s Friendship neighborhood Sunday morning. Pittsburgh Police said a man was hit at the corner of Baum Boulevard and South Graham Street at about 11:35 a.m. The driver initially left the scene, but then later returned with someone else driving, according...
Human remains found in White Oak
Human remains were found Saturday afternoon in White Oak, said the Allegheny County Police. First responders found the human remains behind a building in the 700 block of O’Neil Boulevard, county police said. The department’s homicide unit was notified at 5:30 p.m. Preliminary investigations suggest there was no foul play...
Man identified in fatal East Liberty shooting
A Pittsburgh man fatally shot in East Liberty Saturday afternoon has been identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner. The victim, Raymond Sims, 70, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the head and neck inside a vehicle at the corner of North Highland and Penn Avenue at about 4:20...
Former CMU president recalled as visionary leader who impacted the university and region
Former Carnegie Mellon University President Jared L. “Jerry” Cohon, who led the university for 16 years, was remembered Sunday as a visionary for the university who had a great impact on the region’s economy. Cohon, 76, who died Saturday in Ligonier, “was widely respected and immensely beloved, and his leadership...
Pittsburgh preps for March Madness maniacs as city again hosts the Big Dance
Sure, the Robert Morris Colonials have hung up their tricornered hats. But the Duquesne Dukes are still dribbling, and the Pitt Panthers might slip in by a whisker despite long odds. No matter how the local teams fare after the brackets are built today for March Madness, college basketball’s premier...
East Liberty shooting leaves man dead
A man was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood on Saturday afternoon, according to Pittsburgh police. Police said they were alerted to a shooting at 4:22 p.m. at the corner of Penn and North Highland avenues, a busy intersection in the heart of the neighborhood’s...
3 men charged in North Side burglary
A woman and a child locked themselves in an upstairs bedroom in Pittsburgh’s North Side early Saturday morning when three men allegedly broke into their residence. Pittsburgh police responded to reports of three men breaking into a home in the 900 block of California Avenue in the California-Kirkbride section of...
Police say man robbed South Side bank
Pittsburgh police reported a middle-aged man robbed a bank Saturday morning in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood. Officers were dispatched to the First National Bank in the 1100 block of East Carson Street at around 10 a.m. where a robbery had reportedly taken place a bit earlier. Police said one of...
