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Pittsburgh man accused of shooting 2 men outside Strip District bar
A Pittsburgh man is accused of shooting two men after an argument late last month outside a Strip District bar. Jaquan Steadman, 24, faces charges including two counts each of attempted homicide and reckless endangerment and four counts of aggravated assault, online court records show. Pittsburgh police said they responded...
Pittsburgh’s acting police chief addresses racial profiling, police brutality in City Council interview
Larry Scirotto, Pittsburgh’s acting police chief, said Thursday during a four-hour interview with City Council that his officers should follow a ban on minor traffic stops. City Council voted in late 2021 to ban police from pulling over drivers for minor infractions such as having a burned-out brake light or...
URA creates program to help community land trusts rehab, build for-sale affordable housing
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority has approved creating a program that would provide funding to community land trusts to rehabilitate or build for-sale affordable housing. The program will provide grants and low-interest construction financing “for the purpose of increasing the supply of permanently affordable housing for home ownership,” according to the...
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey names Olga George as new press secretary
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey on Thursday appointed Olga George as his new press secretary. George, of Squirrel Hill, previously worked as an assignment desk editor and producer at KDKA-TV and has more than three decades of journalism experience. She will serve as Gainey’s primary spokeswoman and media liaison. The mayor’s...
NTSB urges bridge owners to fix drainage, corrosion problems that plagued Fern Hollow
Year after year, a devastating mixture of dirt, debris, leaves and water conspired to clog drains and severely corrode the special steel used to build critical components of the Fern Hollow Bridge a half-century ago, federal investigators announced Thursday. But a report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board didn’t...
Teen fatally shot in Homewood invasion, police say
An 18-year-old man was killed Wednesday in a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reports. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner said that Sir Morgan of Pittsburgh died at a residence on Bennett Street. A two-sentence press release from Maria Montano, spokesperson for Mayor Ed Gainey, did not...
Bank of America earns approval to build branch in Pittsburgh’s Waterworks complex
Bank of America received approval from Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission this week to open a new branch in The Waterworks shopping complex. The bank is planning to tear down an abandoned one-story store on Freeport Road in the Lincoln-Lemington complex and build a new one-story bank there. The branch will have...
Jury pool for Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial is set
The panel of prospective jurors who will hear the case against a man accused of killing 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue is set. After 17 days of questioning over four weeks, 69 people have moved into the pool from which 12 jurors and six alternates will be selected...
Firefighters respond to Pittsburgh Airbnb where 2 were killed in shooting last year
Firefighters on Wednesday morning responded to a North Side house where two teens were killed and eight people were injured in an Easter morning shooting last year. Around 10 a.m., smoke was coming from the roof of the home at Suismon Street and Madison Avenue in East Allegheny. By 11:30...
Incumbents cruise to Democratic nominations in Pittsburgh City Council races
Three Pittsburgh City Council incumbents won their Democratic primary races Tuesday night, while two challengers looking to replace retiring councilmen were on their way to locking up party nominations. No Republicans appeared on the ballot in any of the city council races. With 100% of precincts in District 1 reporting...
Dugan knocks off longtime incumbent Zappala in Democratic race for Allegheny County DA
Allegheny County Chief Public Defender Matt Dugan knocked off longtime District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. in Tuesday night’s Democratic primary race for DA, unofficial tallies showed. But it might not be the last time the candidates face each other. With nearly 168,000 votes tallied and 98% of precincts reporting...
Plans move ahead to redevelop East Liberty’s Enright Park
Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission on Tuesday approved plans to redevelop East Liberty’s Enright Park. Plans include a basketball court, a playground, picnic tables, a pavilion and lawn space, said Andrea Ketzel, a senior landscape architect with the city’s Department of Public Works who is managing the project. She said the park...
Pittsburgh Planning Commission approves master plan for riverfront development in Strip District
A master plan laying out the general vision for riverfront development in Pittsburgh’s Strip District earned Planning Commission approval Tuesday. New York City-based North River Company bought more than seven acres along the Allegheny River near the 31st Street Bridge in 2017. The developer is planning a redevelopment of the...
Larry Scirotto takes reins of Pittsburgh police with list of priorities
The man in line to become Pittsburgh’s next police chief will be tasked with improving more than just public safety. Observers say Larry Scirotto also will need to improve discipline, morale, diversity and training within the Pittsburgh police department, while boosting recruitment and community relations outside of it. “You have...
Bedford Dwellings death ruled a homicide
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the Jan. 27 death of a woman in Pittsburgh’s Bedford Dwellings as a homicide. Markeyta Daniels, 24, of the North Side, was found unresponsive in a residence in the 2200 block of Somers Drive around 1 a.m. and later pronounced dead, the...
Lifeguard shortage puts opening of all Pittsburgh pools in jeopardy
Pittsburgh needs to recruit about 40 to 50 more lifeguards to open all of the city’s pools this summer, officials said. Maria Montaño, a spokesperson for Mayor Ed Gainey, said the city is “recruiting hard” to get enough lifeguards to open all the city pools, but they’d need a total...
Hill District Federal Credit Union gets $1.1 million from FNB
The Hill District Federal Credit Union received a $1.1 million investment from F.N.B. Corporation, the holding company of First National Bank, with the goal of boosting financial services to the neighborhood. Pittsburgh-based FNB is building its headquarters in Lower Hill. Construction on the FNB Financial Center began in September 2021...
Duolingo to open full-service taqueria in East Liberty
Pittsburgh’s largest tech company is expanding, but not in the sense the language app’s users might think. The East Liberty-based Duolingo is opening a full-service Mexican restaurant and bar next door to its offices on Penn Avenue. The restaurant, called Duo’s Taqueria, will be open starting Tuesday. Duolingo’s venture into...
Pittsburgh’s URA provides 1st loan to help convert vacant Downtown office space into housing
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority is awarding its first loan from a program that aims to help developers create affordable housing in vacant Downtown office space. Last week, the URA board unanimously approved providing a $300,000, 0% interest loan to Hullett Development Triangle to help it convert unused space in the...
Pittsburgh URA approves 1st loan to maintain affordable housing in Knoxville
Twenty-five apartments in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood will remain affordable for low-income residents for at least 40 years after the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority board last week approved the first loan from its new Housing Preservation Program. The program, which launched last month, provides financial assistance to people who own or...
Residents of North Oakland condos without water after water line break
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority shut off water at a break, leaving a North Oakland condominium without water Sunday, an authority spokesperson said. The break occurred on a private water line connecting to Park Plaza Condominiums on North Craig Street, authority spokesperson Rebecca Zito said. Water authority crews isolated...
Urban Redevelopment Authority moves ahead with first phase of Bedford Dwellings project in Hill District
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority board last week approved plans to sell 28 parcels in the city’s Hill District to advance the first phase of the Bedford Dwellings project. Pittsburgh-based Trek Development has teamed up with the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh for the first phase in the development,...
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority approves entertainment venue, parking at Lower Hill District site
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority board on Thursday unanimously approved plans for an entertainment venue and parking garage on the former Civic Arena site in the Lower Hill District. Their vote clears the way for construction to start. The $110 million project is slated to built on a 2.6-acre site near...
CitiParks announces Dollar Bank Cinema in the Park schedule
The City of Pittsburgh has announced the 2023 Dollar Bank Cinema in the Park summer schedule. All movies are free of charge and begin at dusk. The movie season begins in June with a monthlong schedule of pop-up films at a variety of parks throughout Pittsburgh. To learn when and...
CLO Construction Center for the Arts in Springdale plays a lead role in theater productions
Some of the physical sets that audiences see on theater stages here and across the country began inside the Pittsburgh CLO’s Construction Center for the Arts in Springdale. More than 50 musical theater sets, ranging from classics such as “1776,” “The Sound of Music” and “Annie” to blockbusters “Mary Poppins”...
