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‘I wake up grateful every day,’ Pittsburgh employee tells first responders who saved his life
In an emotional reunion in the City-County Building in Downtown Pittsburgh on Tuesday, city employee Matthew Meisenhelter got to meet the colleagues who saved his life – some of whom, up until then, he didn’t know played a role in his survival. “It’s something I’ve been hoping to do,” Meisenhelter...
Pittsburgh City Council approves appointments in Mayor Peduto’s waning days in office
Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday approved more than a dozen appointments and reappointments to city boards and commissions, despite concern from at least one council member that Mayor Bill Peduto has only a few months left in office. Council approved four new appointments and 14 reappointments to several boards, including...
Pittsburgh City Council approves plan to buy West End senior center
Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday approved a plan for the city to buy the building that houses the West End Healthy Active Living Center. The building at 80 Wabash St. in the city’s West End Village has been home to the senior center for 21 years. It will continue serving...
Pittsburgh city clerk leads push to create Pa. association of municipal clerks
Pittsburgh’s city clerk is helping to establish an association of municipal clerks in Pennsylvania to make training and networking opportunities more easily accessible. “Pennsylvania’s one of the few states in the country that does not have its own association,” City Clerk Brenda Pree said. When Pree moved to Pennsylvania and...
Allegheny County police union files suit over vaccine mandate
The union that represents the Allegheny County Police Department is suing the county over a mandate that all executive branch employees be vaccinated against covid-19, alleging that it is a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. The complaint, filed last week in Common Pleas Court, seeks an injunction to halt the...
Hacker who sold UPMC employee data on the dark web sentenced to prison
A Michigan man was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for hacking into UPMC databases and stealing data of more than 65,000 employees and selling it on the dark web in 2014. U.S. District Chief Judge Mark Hornak imposed the maximum sentences against Justin Sean Johnson, 30, for the...
Allegheny County jury begins deliberations in South Side sexual assault case
Adnan Pehlivan’s defense attorney conceded Monday that his client may have acted strangely at Kopy’s bar on Pittsburgh’s South Side the night of May 15, 2018. In closing arguments during Pehlivan’s trial on sex charges, defense attorney Lee Rothman said it was true that his client bought himself and three...
Construction of affordable housing in Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood to begin next yearVideo
A Shadyside developer is partnering with the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority, Pittsburgh Housing Development Corp. and Larimer Consensus Group to build 10 affordable homes in Larimer. Construction will begin on the first two in the first quarter of 2022. Officials hope to have families living in them by the end...
Former President George W. Bush speaks at Eradicate Hate Global Summit
Former President George W. Bush urged Americans to look toward unification as a way to beat back hatred during pre-recorded remarks Monday at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who was Bush’s Secretary of Homeland Security, introduced the 43rd president on the same recording....
Teen girl hurt in Knoxville shooting
A 16-year-old girl was hospitalized Sunday night after Pittsburgh Police said she was shot in the leg. The girl was found on Rochelle Street in Knoxville after a ShotSpotter alert just before 9:30 p.m., according to police. Officers used a tourniquet to stem the bleeding from a gunshot wound on...
Pittsburgh teen charged in double shooting outside Kennedy bowling alley
A Pittsburgh teen was charged Sunday with shooting two people, one fatally, on Saturday night outside a bowling alley in Kennedy Township. Allegheny County Police arrested Malik Smith, 19, of Pittsburgh during an investigation into the double shooting, which happened just before 10:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Lanes bowling alley...
Police: Man dies after being struck, dragged by car on North Shore
A pedestrian who police said was struck and then dragged by a car died from his injuries late Saturday night. Pittsburgh Police responded to the intersection of Allegheny Avenue and Casino Drive on the North Shore for reports of a man who had been hit around 10:40 p.m. Responding units...
Man in stable condition following Homewood South shooting
An early-morning shooting Saturday in Pittsburgh’s Homewood South neighborhood sent a man to the hospital after he was shot in the leg multiple times, according to police. Zone 5 officers were called to the 7000 block of Kelly Street just before 5 a.m. Saturday morning, for a ShotSpotter alert. They...
Man in stable condition after being rescued from hillside in South Side
A man is in stable condition after police say he was dragged over a hillside with his vehicle Friday evening. First responders received reports of the incident in the 3400 block of E. Carson Street shortly before 5 p.m., according to Pittsburgh Public spokeswoman Cara Cruz. Witnesses told members police...
Mount Oliver man’s body pulled from Monongahela River in Pittsburgh
First responders recovered a Mount Oliver man’s body from the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh on Friday evening, according to Pittsburgh police. Officers responded to the river near the Liberty Bridge around 6:15 p.m. after they received reports that a body was spotted in the water, according to Pittsburgh Public spokeswoman...
Former Istanbul Sofra restaurant owner testifies on his own behalf in sexual assault trial
Shortly after Adnan Pehlivan entered Kopy’s Bar on the South Side on May 15, 2018, he bought shots for himself and the women next to him. Then he bought another round. And another. Each time, video surveillance from inside the bar showed, the group would say “cheers.” While the women...
Investigation continues into man’s death after he was tasered by Pittsburgh police officer
Allegheny County Police continue to investigate an incident in which a Pittsburgh police officer tasered a man who died a day later. Pittsburgh police did not identify the officer who deployed a Taser at least once against Jim Rogers, who died shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday. About 24 hours earlier,...
Committee redrawing Pittsburgh City Council district map wants to preserve majority minority districts
A volunteer committee tasked with redrawing Pittsburgh City Council’s nine districts is determined to maintain two districts where the majority of residents are people of color, its chairman said. Committee members said they also aim to keep neighborhoods together to avoid splitting them up among separate council districts. While not...
Carnegie Museum of Art welcomes new contemporary art curator Liz Park
The Carnegie Museum of Art has named Liz Park as its new Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art. Park comes to the museum from the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, State University of New York, where she was curator of exhibitions. Park has a previous link to the institution in...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Oct. 15-17
We’ve arrived at the weekend. Here are a few things going on in Pittsburgh. Monster Pumpkins Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins Festival is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at a new location — in the Strip District, on Railroad Street between 28th Street and 29th Street. Known as...
Pair arrested in fatal shooting April 9 in Sheraden
Authorities have charged two men in the April 9 shooting death of an 18-year-old man in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood. Detectives with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and the U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force arrested Jamil Malik Lee, 21, of Upper St. Clair, and Jahli Woods, 20, of McKees...
Pittsburgh police: Man tased during arrest dies later in hospital
A man who was tased by Pittsburgh police during an arrest Wednesday morning died in a hospital about 24 hours later. Allegheny County Police are investigating the incident. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as 54-year-old Jim Rogers. Public Safety spokesperson Cara Cruz said officers were dispatched...
Pittsburgh awarded 3 low-income housing tax credits to bring more affordable housing to city
Pittsburgh was awarded three low-income housing tax credits to bring more than 100 affordable housing units to the city, Gov. Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency board announced Thursday. The tax credits will apply to 112 housing units in the city’s Allentown, Fairywood and Hill District neighborhoods. The...
Pittsburgh controller’s audit calls on Bureau of Animal Care and Control to improve operations
Pittsburgh City Controller Michael Lamb outlined nearly two dozen recommendations for improving the city’s Bureau of Animal Care and Control in a performance audit released Tuesday. The last audit of the bureau, which falls under the Department of Public Safety, was released in 2010. The bureau is tasked with providing...
Pittsburgh airport’s $1.4B construction project cleared for takeoff; completion delayed to 2025Video
Pittsburgh International Airport is still considered a gem by many airline industry experts nearly three decades after it opened as a hub for the former US Airways. “Pittsburgh, as it is today, is still one of the most innovative airports out there,” said Mike Boyd, president of the Colorado-based aviation...
