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Morning Roundup: PNC Bank customers report overcharging at gas stations; Seneca Valley adds resource officers
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Nov. 14: PNC Bank customers complain of overcharges Some PNC Bank customers are reporting overcharges from transactions at gas stations. According to TribLIVE news partner WTAE, several Pittsburgh area customers contacted the station to report their bank accounts were...
Proposed $10M budget for Pittsburgh’s affordable housing trust fund moves closer to being finalized
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority has approved a $10 million spending plan for the city’s trust fund supporting affordable housing. The Housing Opportunity Fund budget for next year, which now awaits City Council approval, includes $2 million for the URA’s Rental Gap Program. The program provides loans to nonprofit developers to...
Allegheny General Hospital receives approval for long-range development plan
Pittsburgh City Council on Monday approved an institutional master plan that lays out Allegheny General Hospital’s development goals over the next decade. Under the 10-year plan, all patient rooms at the North Side hospital will be converted to private rooms. The plan indicates the hospital also is considering constructing new...
Gainey says his budget proposal would improve Pittsburgh’s core services, make city safer
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said in his annual budget address Monday that his administration is focused on trying to improve core city services and making the city safer and more welcoming for residents. The mayor’s proposed budget for 2024 includes no tax increase and no cuts for staffing or “critical...
Carnegie Mellon unveils plans for new science hall in Oakland
Carnegie Mellon University plans to open a new $252 million project in Oakland by 2027 and unveiled design plans for the new academic building on Monday. The 338,900-square-foot building will host researchers and students from the university’s Mellon College of Science and School of Computer Science, officials said. A seven-story...
Vandal smashed windows at Squirrel Hill business, removed ‘Support Israel’ signs, police say
A vandal smashed windows at a Squirrel Hill business and a marked business vehicle parked nearby over the weekend, Pittsburgh police said Monday morning. Police from Zone 4 responded to a business early Friday in the 2400 block of Beechwood Boulevard for a criminal mischief report, police spokeswoman Cara Cruz...
Man jailed 19 months before Allegheny County DA’s office drops homicide charge
When Pittsburgh police charged Tyler Sherrell with homicide, claiming he was the getaway driver in a fatal shooting, the only evidence they had was the self-serving word of the man who orchestrated the hit. Matthew Lambert waited two years after his arrest before giving detectives Sherrell’s name. He met with...
‘Veterans need help’: Homelessness among those who served continues to be cause for concern
Robin was standing on the side of the road in Downtown Pittsburgh holding a piece of tattered cardboard, asking for money. “It was my birthday,” said the Army veteran who gave only a first name, tearing up standing on the Boulevard of the Allies. “And I couldn’t even get $1....
North Huntingdon Marine honored during Veterans Day 5K
Members of the Steel City Naval ROTC still look to the legacy of Lt. Col. Chris Raible, who died 11 years ago in Afghanistan while serving in the Marines. The former North Huntingdon resident will be honored during the unit’s 5K race Saturday in Schenley Park near Carnegie Mellon University,...
URA is providing $3.6M in loans to preserve affordable housing in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority is providing $3.6 million in loans to support a handful of affordable housing projects that will preserve 170 apartments. The money is coming from the URA’s Housing Preservation Program, which the authority launched in April with $8.9 million in pandemic relief money. Of the loans approved...
Lego-themed Brick Burger pop-up finds new last-minute home at Penn Brewery
The Brick Burger pop-up establishment is popping up in a new location. A Lego-themed restaurant that was supposed to be at R Wine Cellar in Downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday and Sunday had to scramble to find a new spot. Members of Hidden Media Network, the company bringing Brick Burger to...
’90s-era Pittsburgh ska outfit Skankin’ Homer to play rare reunion show on Saturday
Brian Seese returned to his native Pittsburgh in 1996 after two years in Las Vegas with a bug on his mind. “I wanted to start a ska band,” said Seese, now 48, a utility company worker and father of two who’s planning to move from Butler County to Bellevue. “I...
Pittsburgh’s URA to help fund Oakland housing development for low-income LGBTQ+ seniors
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority is providing a $1.6 million loan to developers who want to build a six-story apartment building in South Oakland that caters to low-income LGBTQ+ seniors. The Oakland Pride development on Forbes Avenue, approved in September by the Planning Commission, will have 48 apartments, all of them...
‘No excuses’: Frick director offers apology over Islamic art exhibition controversy
The head of The Frick Pittsburgh art museum apologized for “failing to communicate clearly and openly” about the initial indefinite postponement of an Islamic art exhibition over perception concerns in light of the Israel/Hamas war. In a statement Thursday evening on the museum’s website and social media channels, executive director...
National Museum of Broadcasting Pittsburgh announces plans for museum site, seeks funding
Nov. 2, 1920, is widely recognized as the day of the first commercial radio broadcast. Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, under the call sign KDKA, broadcast Leo Rosenberg reading the live returns of the presidential election between Warren G. Harding and James Cox. This was the first time...
Morning roundup: Car drives into building in Homestead; woman found critically injured downtown
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, Nov. 10: 1 injured after car drives into building One person was taken to the hospital shortly after 2:30 a.m. Friday morning after a car crashed into a business in Homestead, according to WTAE. Their condition has not...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Nov. 10-12
It’s the weekend with Veterans Day on Saturday. Here are some ways to spend it. Parade The annual Veterans Day parade is at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Downtown. It starts at the corner of 10th Street and Liberty Avenue and continues down Liberty Avenue. Fighter jets from Langley Air Force Base...
Pittsburgh’s URA giving $2.8M to group developing affordable housing where prices have soared
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority is providing $2.8 million in grant money to a nonprofit that wants to develop affordable housing in neighborhoods where housing prices have soared in recent years. The grant, approved by the URA’s board on Thursday, will go to City of Bridges Community Land Trust. The nonprofit...
Remains of Pittsburgh native, shot down over Sicily in 1943, positively identifiedVideo
On July 10, 1943, Pittsburgh native and Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Gilbert Myers was flying a bombing mission over Sicily with crewmates from the 310th Bombardment Group, part of the 381st Bombardment Squadron during World War II. Myers’ B-25 Mitchell was struck by anti-aircraft fire and went down near...
For every goal the Penguins score at home, the Pittsburgh area gets a new tree
Fourth-grader K.K. Cunningham had never planted a tree before Thursday. But the 9-year-old Hazelwood boy was a natural, grabbing a shovel, pivoting and plunging it into soil outside Pittsburgh Mifflin Elementary on what was a gray November morning in the city’s Lincoln Place neighborhood. By the time K.K.’s in eighth...
Pittsburgh office market stabilized in 3rd quarter after being pummeled by pandemic
Office vacancies in Pittsburgh stabilized in the third quarter after the market was pummeled by a pandemic that forced many workers out of offices and into their homes, according to reports from two real estate firms. “One of the reasons why you haven’t seen much adjustment to the overall vacancy...
Former Pittsburgh cop facing wiretapping allegations to receive $6,500 monthly pension
A former Pittsburgh police zone commander who retired amid investigations into whether he wiretapped fellow officers will receive a monthly pension of nearly $6,500 unless he’s convicted on criminal charges, police officials said Thursday. The board of managers of Pittsburgh Policemen’s Relief and Pension Fund voted unanimously Thursday to pay...
Pittsburgh police look to open new Downtown substation on Wood Street
Pittsburgh police are looking to open a new substation in Downtown next year. The new site at 439 Wood St. would replace the existing Zone 2 substation at 604 Liberty Ave., according to public safety officials. Legislation introduced to City Council this week would authorize a $590,150, five-year agreement with...
2 antisemitic incidents in Pittsburgh bring annual tally to nearly twice 2022’s figure
Two antisemitic incidents — a “threatening” Instagram meme and graffiti scrawled at the University of Pittsburgh’s campus — were reported this week to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, bringing 2023’s number of incidents to 242, nearly twice the total reported last year. Security officials released the information Thursday morning,...
Shadyside Gap employee accused of secretly taking photos of customer in changing room
A employee of the Gap clothing store in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside was accused of secretly taking photos of a woman in a changing room in September. Police responded to the Walnut Street store after a caller reported trying on clothes in a dressing room when she saw a phone camera appear...
