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Pittsburgh Police searching for teen missing from North Side
Pittsburgh Police seek the public’s help locating a missing teen. Public Safety spokesman Maurice Matthews said Antonio Toliver, 13, was last seen Monday in the city’s central North Side neighborhood wearing a khaki pants, navy shirt, black hoodie and white shoes. He was described as 5 feet 3 inches tall,...
Woman rescued from Mt. Washington hillside
A woman was rescued after she fell about 20 feet down a Mt. Washington hillside on Sunday, Pittsburgh police said. According to a report from the police, the woman had been bicycling along East Sycamore Street when she struck a median and tumbled down the hill and became stuck. Pittsburgh...
2 injured in shooting on South Side
Two people were injured in a shooting on Pittsburgh’s South Side late Sunday, according to Pittsburgh police. At 9:14 p.m., officers received a Spotshotter alert on the 90th block of South 10th Street, according to a report from Pittsburgh Public Safety. Police said they determined the shots came from a...
Community meetings set in search for next Pittsburgh police chief
Beth Pittinger thinks about Pittsburgh Police’s next chief and sees a world of opportunity. The director of the Citizens Police Review Board believes retired Chief Scott Schubert’s successor, who Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey plans to appoint after a national search, could be a beacon for accountability. “It would need to...
City Council, activists call for $10 million ‘food justice fund’ from federal covid money; mayor says money isn’t there
In a public hearing this week, Pittsburgh City Council members and activists called for the creation of a $10 million “food justice fund” using American Rescue Plan Act dollars, though the Mayor’s Office said that federal funding isn’t available for such an initiative. Councilwoman Deb Gross late last year sponsored...
City Council, activists call for $10 million ‘food justice fund’ from federal covid money; mayor says money isn’t available
In a public hearing this week, Pittsburgh City Council members and activists called for the creation of a $10 million “food justice fund” using American Rescue Plan Act dollars, though the Mayor’s Office said that federal funding isn’t available for such an initiative. Councilwoman Deb Gross late last year sponsored...
Pittsburgh man arrested in connection with August shooting
Pittsburgh police said a Spring Hill man has been jailed in connection with the shooting of a man in that neighborhood in August. Juan Still, 30, is accused of shooting the man in the chest and lower extremities around 9 p.m. Aug. 28 in the 1100 block of Brabec Street....
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey announces measures to make neighborhoods safer
Pittsburgh is nixing a requirement that crossing guards have driver’s licenses. The city is also moving ahead with plans to install traffic calming measures in the city’s Glen Hazel neighborhood. The measures, which Mayor Ed Gainey said aim to create safer neighborhoods, were spurred in part by a community meeting...
Squirrel Hill residents concerned about intersection near Fern Hollow Bridge
Some Squirrel Hill residents are petitioning Pittsburgh officials to temporarily hold off on reconfiguring a dangerous intersection in their neighborhood. City officials, however, claim the proposed work needs to be done quickly because money for it is included in the $25.3 million of federal funding being used to pay for...
11-year-old hit by car in Pittsburgh
An 11-year-old girl was hospitalized after being hit by a car Friday afternoon near a school in Carrick. The girl, who was identified as a Pittsburgh Southbrook School student, was meeting a younger sibling who attends Pittsburgh Concord School when the incident occurred, school spokesperson Ebony Pugh said. The girl...
New homeless shelter to open in Downtown Pittsburgh
A new 45,000-square-foot facility homeless shelter in Downtown Pittsburgh will soon open to help provide services and beds for people in need. The Second Avenue Commons is run by Pittsburgh Mercy, in collaboration with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, Community Kitchen Pittsburgh, Second Avenue Commons, Inc. and UPMC....
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Oct. 21-23
There’s more spooky season fun this weekend in the Pittsburgh area — and that’s not all there is to do. Not-so-scary ZooBoo ZooBoo, the annual kid-friendly Halloween celebration, is planned for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and Oct. 29-30, at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium in...
Pittsburgh police: Delivery driver victim of carjacking in Garfield
Pittsburgh police are investigating a carjacking that targeted a food delivery driver Wednesday evening in the city’s Garfield neighborhood. Officers responded shortly after 6 p.m. to a report of a stolen vehicle in the 200 block of Fern Street. The driver told police two male suspects drove up as he...
Suspended Pitt basketball player accused of assaulting woman to stand trial on 2 counts
A highly touted Pitt basketball player will go to trial on two counts — strangulation and simple assault — after three other counts against him were thrown out. Dior Johnson, 18, of Oakland, appeared for a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Mik Pappas on Thursday. He testified briefly to...
Volunteer firefighter from Collier died in Parkway East crash
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Thursday identified the man who died in a crash the day before on the Parkway East as 32-year-old Terry Tackett. Tackett, a volunteer firefighter who lived in Collier, was taken to UPMC Mercy in Uptown after the crash happened around 6:20 a.m. Wednesday...
2 school officers injured breaking up fight at Oliver Citywide Academy, police say
Two Pittsburgh Public School officers were injured after a fight broke out Thursday afternoon at Pittsburgh Oliver Citywide Academy on the city’s North Side, officials said. The two officers’ injuries were “not too severe,” Pittsburgh Public School spokeswoman Ebony Pugh told the Tribune-Review. The two individuals planned to go to...
Biden tours Fern Hollow Bridge work, touts infrastructure plans at Pittsburgh stop
President Joe Biden stopped in Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon to survey progress on the $25.3 million reconstruction of the Fern Hollow Bridge and tout his administration’s investments in infrastructure. The former Fern Hollow Bridge over Frick Park in the city’s East End collapsed on Jan. 28, injuring 10 people and...
Trailer released for Pittsburgh-area filmed Tom Hanks movie ‘A Man Called Otto’Video
A trailer for the filmed-in-Pittsburgh Tom Hanks movie “A Man Called Otto” was released Thursday. The movie, filmed at numerous locations across the Pittsburgh region, will be released in New York and Los Angeles on Christmas and will go into wide release, including Pittsburgh, on Jan. 13, said Joe Fucci...
2 residential developments proposed for Pittsburgh’s Strip District
Plans are in the works for two separate housing developments in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. Developers on Tuesday presented their proposals to the city’s Planning Commission, which is expected to vote on the plans when they meet again in two weeks. The first proposal calls for a seven-story, 85-foot-tall apartment building...
Biden to visit Pittsburgh to talk infrastructure funding
The campaign trail is bringing President Joe Biden to Pittsburgh on Thursday, part of his efforts to sway voters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania ahead of the November midterm elections. The president plans to visit the Fern Hollow Bridge and discuss the importance of infrastructure funding, according to the...
Pa. casino revenue jumps to $448 million in September
Pennsylvania casinos saw an increase in revenues last month, state regulators said, a jump from the gradual decrease felt across the industry since the record-breaking month of March. In all, casinos generated $448.4 million in September, according to a report from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. That’s one of the...
TV Talk: Tamburitzans show debuts on WQED; Pittsburgher competes on Netflix’s ‘Drink Masters’Video
A year after he spearheaded the WQED-TV special “Tamburitzans: Prism,” producer/editor Frank Caloiero delivers another special featuring the music and dance group with “Tamburitzans: Symbols” (7:30 p.m. Oct. 27, WQED-TV). Caloiero, a former “Tammie” dancer/singer and Tambura player (1988-92), said this new special taped at the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point...
Pittsburgh police investigate shooting in Larimer
A man was shot in the leg early Thursday in Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood. Zone 5 police officers said they responded around 1:30 a.m. to an incident in the 6400 block of Shetland Street, where they found the man with a gunshot wound to his leg. Paramedics took the man to...
Pittsburgh to install speed humps on Homewood South’s Kelly Street
Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure said it plans to begin installing traffic calming features in Homewood South on Thursday. The work on Kelly Street between La Schall and Collier streets will include placing eight speed humps to reduce vehicle speeds. The city said signs and pavement markings would be...
Critics of Move PGH pilot program say it’s not adequately serving disabled, low-income residents
Move PGH and Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure recently lauded a two-year pilot program that brought Spin e-scooters to the city, but some critics say the effort isn’t doing enough to serve disabled and low-income residents. “This is the most extreme example of marginalizing the disability community I’ve seen...
