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Local musicians will take the stage in A Very Yinzer Christmas concert
Certain holiday music is often associated with a specific singer — such as Andy Williams’ voice in “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” What if the sounds of that song brought to mind one of Pittsburgh’s well-known musicians? Well, they just might because Scott Blasey, lead vocalist of...
Families of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack unveil a memorial design
PITTSBURGH — In the years following the deadly 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack, relatives of those slain have gone through their own private grief, public memorial services and the trial and death sentence of the perpetrator. They’ve also been deliberating, slowly and methodically, on what kind of permanent memorial should be...
Pittsburgh looks to use some money from anti-violence trust fund on parks, recreation
Pittsburgh officials are considering allowing a portion of its Stop the Violence trust fund money to go to the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation. The trust fund currently must use 60% of its budget to support outside organizations. That money goes to nonprofits across the city in the form...
Pittsburgh pays Dr. Bennet Omalu $10K to investigate man’s death after police run-in
Pittsburgh paid a famous pathologist $10,000 this week to investigate the death of a homeless man who city police shocked repeatedly with a Taser in October 2021. Tuesday’s payment to Dr. Bennet Omalu came eight months after the city settled a lawsuit with the man’s family for $8 million. The...
Community Market developer calls zoning rejection for Bloomfield site ‘arbitrary’
The developer of a proposed mixed-use housing and grocery store site in Bloomfield is challenging the city’s zoning variance rejection that stalled the project last month. O’Hara-based Echo Realty sought to increase the maximum height allowed on a site at the intersection of Liberty Avenue and the Bloomfield Bridge. Echo...
Pittsburgh police seek missing juvenile
Pittsburgh police are seeking information about a male teen reported missing on Wednesday. Police said they are looking for Sh’Kia Ross, 14, of Pittsburgh, last seen Downtown on the 1400 block of Forbes Avenue. He is a Black male, 5-feet-9-inches tall and 150 pounds with brown eyes and black hair....
Pitt students, friends hold memorial vigil for pedestrian killed by UPMC shuttle bus
Emily Watson read books voraciously, exercised each day at the gym, and drove frequently to Presque Isle Beach, where she liked to watch the sun set over Lake Erie and reflect. A Pittsburgher and Point Park University alumna, Watson supervised the transport department at UPMC Presbyterian hospital in Oakland and...
Western Pa. lands $144M in federal funding for expanded passenger rail service
It’s all aboard for more passenger rail service in Western Pennsylvania. Federal lawmakers said Wednesday that the Federal Railroad Administration is putting $144 million toward a project that will add a daily round trip on Amtrak’s passenger rail line between Pittsburgh and New York City. The funding will be used...
Pittsburgh considers banning fur sales, horse-drawn carriage rides, foie gras
Animal-rights legislation being considered by Pittsburgh City Council would ban fur sales, horse-drawn carriages and the French delicacy foie gras in the city. The would-be ban on fur sales and manufacturing is needed because of the “tremendous suffering” that millions of animals face each year when they are killed for...
$10M to go toward affordable housing programs in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh City Council has approved a $10 million budget for a trust fund supporting affordable housing programs in the city. The amount of money provided to the Housing Opportunity Fund in 2024 could be adjusted in the coming weeks as City Council finalizes the city’s budget, Councilman Bruce Kraus, D-South...
Pitt grad identified as fatal shark attack victim in Bahamas
A University of Pittsburgh alumna was attacked and killed by a shark while vacationing with her husband in the Bahamas. Lauren Erickson Van Wart, a 44-year-old Boston resident, was paddleboarding with her husband on Monday when she was bitten by a shark, according to Royal Bahamas Police Sgt. Desiree Ferguson....
Man shot by Pa. Attorney General’s agents at Pittsburgh’s Greyhound station
A man was in critical condition Wednesday after two state Attorney General’s Office agents shot him at the Greyhound bus station in Downtown Pittsburgh, police said. Two men began fighting on a bus around 6:40 a.m. and their altercation continued outside on the station’s concourse, police spokeswoman Cara Cruz said....
Survivors of Hamas attack to speak in Squirrel Hill as Hanukkah begins
Hila Fakliro was a bartender during an all-night music festival in Israel on Oct. 7. At daybreak, she looked up at explosions in the sky. She thought they were fireworks. Hamas fired rockets from Gaza during a terrorist attack that killed hundreds of festival attendees. Fakliro ran. She hid in...
Former Pittsburgh VA worker pleads guilty to embezzling $17,000 from veteran accounts
A former Veterans Affairs Medical Center worker from Pittsburgh pleaded guilty to embezzlement and mail fraud on Tuesday, after federal prosecutors said he stole money from disabled veterans and receive undue pandemic benefits. Corey Mizell, 51, of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty to four counts of embezzlement and one count of mail...
Pittsburgh looks to extend police headquarters lease for $1.3M
Pittsburgh officials are considering a six-year lease extension for the police bureau’s headquarters for more than $1.3 million per year. The city has leased the Western Avenue location in Pittsburgh’s Chateau neighborhood since it sold the prior police headquarters building in 2002. The old site is now a parklet near...
Man accused of fleeing from traffic stop, assaulting and trying to disarm Arnold police officer faces charges
A Pittsburgh man accused of assaulting and trying to disarm an Arnold police officer told investigators that he fled from a traffic stop because he was wanted on a drug warrant and had a large amount of crack and heroin in the SUV he was driving, according to authorities. Tyrone...
Suspect in deadly Carrick bar shooting turns himself in
A Pittsburgh man suspected of fatally shooting a man over the weekend in Carrick turned himself in on Monday. Corey Anthony Rall, 25, Pittsburgh, was arraigned on a charge of criminal homicide and taken to Allegheny County Jail after being denied bail. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the...
3 hospitalized after fire in 6th-floor cell at Allegheny County Jail
Three people were hospitalized late Monday after a small fire broke out at the Allegheny County Jail, Pittsburgh police said. Police and firefighters responded to the jail on Second Avenue at about 10:30 p.m. for reports of “smoke inside the building,” police spokeswoman Cara Cruz said. Firefighters found the smoke...
Morning Roundup: Burglar targets West Homestead convenience store; Wible Run Road reopens in Shaler
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Tuesday, Dec. 5: Burglar targets West Homestead store West Homestead police said a burglary occurred early Monday at a convenience store along West Run Road in the borough. Police told TribLive news partner WTAE that a man in a...
Morning Roundup: Man injured in Mt. Oliver shooting; 2 hurt in head-on crash in Pittsburgh
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, Dec. 4: Man injured in Mt. Oliver shooting Pittsburgh police are investigating a shooting that sent a man to the hospital Sunday evening. City police responded at about 7 p.m. to the 220 block of Brownsville Road in...
Man dies from gunshot wounds in Carrick
A man was fatally shot Sunday in Carrick after an apparent altercation, according to Pittsburgh Police. Witnesses told investigators there was a fight between two men before the shooting around 1:30 a.m. on Brownsville Road. The suspect then fled. Police were summoned to the scene and said they found the...
Astronaut Warren ‘Woody’ Hoburg, a Pittsburgh-area native, to lead Terrible Towel twirl at Steelers game
Most know that Steelers fans and their Terrible Towels are a force to be reckoned with come game day. But a certain Terrible Towel to be waved at Sunday’s Steelers-Cardinals game, and the man behind it, are quite actually out-of-this-world. Astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, 38, of Houston, Texas, but who...
Mildred Miller Posvar, famed mezzo-soprano and founder of Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, dies at 98
Mildred Miller Posvar, a Rust Belt singing sensation who soared to stardom on some of the world’s biggest opera stages before finally alighting in Pittsburgh, where she coached voice for decades, founded an opera company and became an indefatigable booster of the arts and the University of Pittsburgh, died Wednesday....
Wood Street T station to close for 2 weeks in Pittsburgh
The Wood Street light-rail station will be closed for two weeks starting next week while Pittsburgh Regional Transit completes four escalator replacements and an ongoing light-rail construction project. The closure of the station, also called a T station, will begin in the morning of Dec. 8 and is expected to...
Homeless emergency plan for cold weather is ready in Allegheny County
With freezing temperatures coming as winter approaches, Allegheny County officials have announced their emergency plan for homeless residents. Mark Bertolet of the county’s Department of Human Services said a Code Blue Action Plan will be initiated when the National Weather Service forecasts the air temperature will fall below 26 degrees...
