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5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Nov. 11-13
This weekend is a great time to celebrate movies, music, dance, cultural heritage and chocolate in Pittsburgh. Film festival The Three Rivers Film Festival continues through Nov. 16, featuring 18 independent feature films not showing elsewhere. Films are screening at the Harris Theater downtown and The Tull Family Theater in...
Pittsburgh Career Institute to close after losing accreditation
The Pittsburgh Career Institute will close its doors before Thanksgiving because the healthcare training school lost its academic accreditation this summer, the Downtown Pittsburgh school said Thursday. The private, for-profit school with six degree programs said it will shutdown its classes on Nov. 23. It said it will continue to...
Portion of Brookline Memorial Park may be converted into urban farm
An empty field in Brookline Memorial Park could be converted into an urban farm, which would produce food for city residents and local food banks. City Councilman Anthony Coghill said the site, located within the roughly 20-acre park in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood, was the last active farm in Pittsburgh. He’d...
Man fatally stabbed in Knoxville home invasion identified; woman suffers facial injuries
Officials have identified a Pittsburgh man found stabbed to death Thursday afternoon inside a home in the city’s Knoxville neighborhood. The victim, who died at the scene, was 52-year-old Victor Sawyer, according to a report from the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Pittsburgh police said they also found a woman...
Repeat offender apprehended in Elliott homicide
Pittsburgh police have arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with an Oct. 1 homicide in the city’s Elliott neighborhood. Donte Brewer, of Pittsburgh, was apprehended Wednesday by Pittsburgh police and U.S. Marshalls Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force in the shooting death of Carrington Keys, 41, in Elliott. He is charged...
New public works facility won’t be ready to help Pittsburgh’s South Hills neighborhoods this winter
Residents in Pittsburgh’s South Hills neighborhoods might not be wishing for a white Christmas this year. A Department of Public Works facility that was supposed to bring snow plows, salt and other supplies to the district won’t be built this winter, Councilman Anthony Coghill said. Coghill represents Pittsburgh City Council...
Pitt unveils plans for $240M athletic center in Oakland
The University of Pittsburgh has approved plans for a $240 million athletic center called Victory Heights that will include a 3,000-seat arena, as well as space for training and sports performance and sports medicine facilities for many of Pitt’s student-athletes. Pitt’s Property and Facilities Committee OK’d the project Thursday, according...
Pittsburgh man faces charges in connection with deadly shooting in East Liberty
A Pittsburgh man is facing charges in connection with the September death of a man in East Liberty. Pittsburgh police said Rayvaughn Perkins, 25, approached a white SUV around 5:30 p.m. Sept. 29 in the 600 block of North St. Clair Street and got into an argument with the vehicle’s...
Pittsburgh City Council president says West End ‘excluded’ from public discussions about police chief search
Pittsburgh City Council President Theresa Kail-Smith on Wednesday said she felt her West End council district was “excluded” from conversations about what city residents hope to see in the city’s new police chief. Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration held listening sessions over the past few weeks at Carrick High School, PPG...
Route 28 lane restrictions set Saturday in Pittsburgh during walkway inspection
PennDOT District 11 is alerting motorists of lane restrictions Saturday on Route 28 in the City of Pittsburgh. Single-lane restrictions, weather permitting, will occur from 6 a.m. to noon in both directions near the East Ohio Street (Exit 1B) off-ramp as crews inspect the Charles J. Lieberth Pedestrian Walkway. Ramp...
Braddock man faces charges in connection with deadly shooting in Highland Park
A Braddock man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the October death of a man in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood. Deashawn Watson, 20, faces charges for criminal homicide and unlawfully carrying a firearm. First responders found Omar McCord Jr., 18, unresponsive with gunshot wounds on Oct. 25 in the area...
Person in critical condition after crashing into utility pole in Downtown Pittsburgh
One person was critically injured when a car crashed into a utility pole in Downtown Pittsburgh early Thursday, officials said. The crash happened around 2:15 a.m. in the area of Grant Street and Fort Pitt Boulevard, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. Medics took the injured person to an area hospital....
Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh commemorates 84th Kristallnacht anniversary
The persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany began at least five years before the events of Kristallnacht, but what happened on the “Night of Broken Glass,” as it’s known in English, took that persecution to another level. On Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, the Nazis burned synagogues, looted Jewish businesses...
Pittsburgh officials look to clean up homeless encampment under 10th Street Bypass
Pittsburgh officials are hoping to relocate homeless people living in an encampment under the 10th Street Bypass and clean out the site. Outreach workers from the city, the county and various organizations have worked with the “small handful” of homeless people who actually live at the site to help them...
David R. Cashman, longtime jurist in Allegheny County, dies at 76
For many judges in Allegheny County’s criminal courts division, giving the opening instructions in a jury trial can be monotonous. The information — outside of the name of the defendant and charges they face — doesn’t change. It’s page after page of reading aloud to make sure jurors know how...
Portion of Pittsburgh’s Liberty Avenue to close for Veterans Day parade
A portion of Liberty Avenue will be closed Friday morning for Pittsburgh’s annual Veterans Day Parade, city officials said. Liberty Avenue will be closed between 10th and 26th streets starting at 9 a.m. The parade, which starts at 10 a.m., will march from 10th Street and Liberty Avenue to Commonwealth...
Drunken man runs through traffic, threatens 2 PennDOT workers at Fort Pitt Tunnel, police say
State police arrested a man Tuesday who they say ran through traffic, threw rocks at a PennDOT vehicle and armed himself with a brick at the Fort Pitt Tunnel in Pittsburgh. Bilgehan Muhlis Dogrusoz, 44, who is transient and does not have a permanent address, faces charges including two counts...
Sheraden woman pleads guilty to killing girlfriend last year
As detectives investigated the Oct. 3, 2021, shooting death of Kia Reynolds, they learned from her family that she’d been trying to leave her girlfriend. They also discovered a Valentine’s Day card that Unique Lane gave to Reynolds. In it, Lane wrote, “’til bullets do us part.’” On Wednesday, Lane,...
9 people injured after vehicle crashes into Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in Oakland
Nine people suffered what officials described as non-life-threatening injuries late Wednesday morning when a Jeep crashed into a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus, shattering its windshield. The crash happened around 11 a.m. at Allequippa Street and Sutherland Drive in Oakland near the University of Pittsburgh campus when a Jeep swerved around...
Warwick up big in Pittsburgh City Council special election race
Democrat Barb Warwick held a commanding lead Tuesday night in a special election race to fill a vacant Pittsburgh City Council seat. With about nearly 83% of precincts reporting results in the 5th District as of 10:05 p.m., Warwick had collected over 76% of the votes counted compared with under...
Man fatally shot in Pittsburgh
A man is dead after being fatally shot in Pittsburgh on Tuesday evening. Public Safety spokeswoman Amanda Mueller said Zone 3 officers were dispatched for two Shotspotter alerts shortly after 8:30 p.m. One alert was along the 200 block of Wilbur Street, and the other was along the 1000 block...
Syrian man who plotted to blow up North Side church gets 17 years in federal prison
Mustafa Mousab Alowemer told a federal judge Tuesday that coming to the United States in 2016 from war-torn Syria where he witnessed dozens, if not hundreds, of atrocities as a child made him “feel like a human being, safe, conflict-free and peaceful.” It was a place that should have been...
Pittsburgh leaders seek solutions to reduce gun violence
Pittsburgh City Council members on Monday met with outreach workers to discuss possible solutions to help quell the uptick in homicides and protect the city’s youth. “We’re attempting to treat this disease of violence,” said Taili Thompson, director of Operation Better Block’s Violence Prevention Initiative. Thompson and others who are...
Pittsburgh police searching for missing man with dementia
Pittsburgh police are seeking the public’s help in finding a missing man with dementia. Raymond Henry, 77, was last seen at 5 p.m. Monday in East Liberty. At that time, police said he was wearing a blue shirt, blue jeans and gray shoes. Henry has a gray beard and walks...
As RSV surge continues, UPMC Children’s adds tent to deal with influx of patients
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has put up a tent outside its Lawrenceville hospital so it is prepared to deal with the influx of patients sick with RSV, the director of the hospital’s emergency department said in a video shared on social media Monday. “The tent is a space that...
