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Tarentum mom delivers baby — and votes from hospital
Megan Walker gave birth to a son on Monday. On Tuesday, Walker told her medical team at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Oakland that she needed to be released in time to vote. She didn’t have to worry about making it to her polling place in Tarentum. The ballot was delivered...
50 trees to be planted on Pittsburgh’s Eliza Furnace Trail
Mayor Bill Peduto will join employees of Pittsburgh’s City Forestry department and a local nonprofit Friday to plant 50 trees on the Eliza Furnace Trail. The planting will celebrate a partnership between Tree Pittsburgh, an environmental nonprofit that restores and protects urban forest, and Dynegy, a Texas-based energy company and...
Downtown businesses prepare for potential unrest pending election results
Some businesses in Downtown Pittsburgh, including banks and convenience stores, began boarding up their windows and doors Tuesday night as the country awaited the results of the 2020 election. Apparently taking precautionary measures in the event of civil unrest, people were hanging plywood sheets over the glass at several businesses...
Political signs can be recycled in Pittsburgh
Don’t toss out those campaign signs. They can be recycled in Pittsburgh. The Department of Public Works and the Clean Pittsburgh Commission are launching a recycling imitative to keep campaign yard signs out of landfills after the general election. Both the plastic film and the metal stands are recyclable. People...
Environmentalist’s barefoot walk across U.S. inspires Pittsburgh filmmakerVideo
One day, a friend of Pittsburgh filmmaker Julie Sokolow turned her on to a unique man she’d met while attending Brown University. He was a poet and author named Mark Baumer. Sokolow became an instant fan. “I’d see her posting about his barefoot journey across the country and immediately his...
Pittsburgh man gets 6½ to 13 years in prison for manslaughter
A Garfield man will serve at least six and a half years in prison for killing his landlord last year. Michael Wolf, 50, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and possessing instruments of crime before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski in August. Wolf was ordered to serve six...
SWAT called to scene of shooting in Pittsburgh’s East Hills
The SWAT team was called to a home in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood after a man was shot in the stomach early Tuesday morning, according to the city Department of Public Safety. The city’s Shotspotter audio detection system alerted officers of a gunshot fired on the 2500 block of Park...
2 of the 3 people killed in Saturday’s shooting in Pittsburgh’s Allentown have been identified
Allegheny County officials identified two of the three people killed in a Saturday night shooting in Pittsburgh. City police continue to investigate the incident, which took place shortly after 9 p.m. along Beltzhoover Avenue near Edgemont Street. Laffayette Gordon, 21, and Joseph Hendricks, 17, both of Pittsburgh, were fatally shot...
Allegheny County Councilwoman Bethany Hallam ripped over controversial retweet
The Allegheny County Police Association wants an Allegheny County Council member to resign over a comment on Twitter referring to violence against police that it says “was irresponsible at best, and criminal at worst.” The council member is Bethany Hallam, a Democrat from Ross Township who holds an at-large seat....
Duquesne and National Museum of Broadcasting commemorate 1st KDKA broadcast
A two-day celebration commemorating the 100th anniversary of KDKA’s first radio broadcast is being held tonight and Tuesday nights. It was on Nov. 2, 1920, that KDKA made the world’s first commercial radio broadcast when it reported the returns of the Harding/Cox presidential election. Duquesne University and the National Museum...
Joe Biden has strong, emotional ties to Rooney family
Jim Rooney, the youngest son of the late Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, shared a story about Joe Biden that tells all anyone need know about the relationship between the Biden and Rooney families. “My sister (Joan) passed away from cancer a year ago and, obviously, Joe’s son (Beau) did,”...
Voters to decide if Pittsburgh’s police review board’s powers should be expandedVideo
Voters in the City of Pittsburgh will be tasked Tuesday with deciding if the city’s police review board’s powers should be expanded so police officers are required to participate in investigations. The group, formally known as the Independent Citizen Police Review Board, also would be allowed to do performance audits...
Pittsburgh Public Schools closes Obama Academy after second staff covid-19 case
Pittsburgh Public Schools announced Sunday that it will close the Pittsburgh Obama Academy school in the city’s East Liberty neighborhood on Monday after a second staffer tested positive for covid-19. A staff member tested positive at the school last week, prompting the district to deep clean the facility on Friday....
Dancer takes steps to open The Movement Factory on Pittsburgh’s North Side
Dancer Maria Caruso is taking steps to reach beyond the performance stage. The founder of Bodiography Contemporary Ballet in Squirrel Hill, a performance space for ballet dancers, Caruso is turning a renovated warehouse on the Ohio River on Pittsburgh’s North Side into Maria Caruso’s The Movement Factory. “I had been...
Service held to remember Jonny Gammage’s 1995 deathVideo
Prayers for mercy, justice, healing and peace were offered up Sunday to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Jonny Gammage. Gammage was 31 when he died Oct. 12, 1995, in Pittsburgh near Brentwood, after a traffic stop. Brentwood police stopped him after noticing him braking frequently as he...
Pittsburgh police looking for Penn Hills man accused in South Side Flats shooting
Pittsburgh police used surveillance video to identify a man they say shot two men during an altercation in the city’s South Side Flats last month, according to a criminal complaint. Jeffrey Ali Knox Jr., 28, of Penn Hills is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and firearms violations,...
Joe Biden, Lady Gaga expected to visit Pittsburgh on election eve
Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to visit the Pittsburgh metro area on Monday while other members of his campaign fan out across other parts of the state. Biden is expected to canvass in Beaver County and participate in drive-in events in Pittsburgh. The Biden campaign did not provide...
3 dead, 1 injured in shooting in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood
Three people are dead following a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood Saturday night, Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said. Officers responded to Beltzhoover Avenue near Edgemont Street shortly after 9 p.m. for reports of multiple shooting victims. Officials pronounced two men dead at the scene. A third man died Sunday morning,...
Police: Carjacker in critical condition after head-on crash near the West End Circle
Details are pending on the condition of a man who police said carjacked a car that hit a dumpster truck head-on on West Carson Street near the West End Circle about 9:30 a.m. Saturday, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. Authorities said the sedan was carjacked in Ingram and the carjacker,...
Carnegie Mellon University’s Exploded Ensemble hosts virtual, interactive concert
Audience participation from afar is highly suggested for this performance. Carnegie Mellon University’s Exploded Ensemble will play a live concert at 7 p.m. Sunday on Twitch.tv, a livestreaming platform for gamers that has become a virtual vehicle for other interactive events. According to its website, Exploded Ensemble is the university’s...
The EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler moves to virtual format
Runners can lace up for a virtual race with this year’s EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler. The annual race typically draws nearly 4,000 runners at its start in Station Square, officials said. But with covid-19 restrictions prohibiting large crowds, the race is moving to a virtual platform this year. Participants can...
Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese OKs Christmas Eve Masses starting early due to pandemic
The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh has granted permission for Christmas Vigil Masses to begin as early as 2 p.m. on Dec. 24. Christmas Eve Masses are usually required to be celebrated in the evening. But due to the global pandemic, Bishop David Zubik has decided an earlier Mass is permissable...
Pittsburgh officials launch health, safety and violence prevention initiativeVideo
Pittsburgh’s new Health, Safety, and Violence Prevention Initiative emphasizes policing and social services reforms to ensure that people facing a crisis will have access to the right resources and responders. “This is our way of taking a public health approach to address the underlying issues,” Councilman Ricky Burgess said, at...
KDKA’s century of radio is filled with broadcasting firsts and iconic personalitiesVideo
Frank Conrad was never one to think small. An assistant chief engineer at Westinghouse Electric’s East Pittsburgh Works, Conrad had taken the unprecedented step of putting a microphone next to a phonograph so listeners of his home-built station, 8KX, could hear music. Then he brought an even bigger idea to...
Judge asks sides to work out dispute on Columbus statue in Schenley Park
In a powerfully worded order filed Friday, an Allegheny County judge asked the two sides fighting over the removal of the Columbus statue at Schenley Park to try to reach consensus. “Open mindedness as a community requires that we listen to each other and weigh the concerns expressed collectively with...
