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Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership cancels ‘Light Up Night’
Lights out for Light Up Night. The annual kickoff to the holiday season, usually held the Friday before Thanksgiving, is the latest big event to be canceled. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership announced Friday that what would have been the 60th year of Light Up Night won’t happen because of the...
New sculptures are part of improvements to Squirrel Hill’s Wightman Park
A bee, a butterfly and a lightning bug gather at a park next to a waterfall. This isn’t the opening of a joke — it’s a public art project that’s part of $4.2 million in improvements to Wightman Park in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The park is set to reopen...
Pittsburgh native featured in ‘Crutch’ documentary doesn’t lean on disabilityVideo
Everyone uses crutches. Some are just invisible. As Bill Shannon crosses a city street on film, his movements are unstable with crutches under each arm. He collapses on a patch of grass after reaching the other side. What you see is man with a disability who has fallen. What you...
Football, 8th-grade homeroom suspended at Upper St. Clair Catholic school after covid-19 strikes
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh officials have suspended the football program and eighth grade homeroom at St. Louise de Marillac Catholic School after two people tested positive for covid-19. Diocesan spokesman Bob DeWitt said Thursday that he could not confirm if the positive cases involved students or staff due to HIPAA...
Dog rescued by park ranger, divers from Highland Park’s Carnegie Lake
The owner of a Yorkshire terrier got a scare Thursday afternoon when the dog became trapped in Carnegie Lake at Pittsburgh’s Highland Park. Emergency dispatchers received a report of the dog needing help at about 1:15 p.m., Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety spokesman Maurice Matthews said. According to initial reports,...
Gov. Wolf wants to waive liquor license fees for bars, restaurants as pandemic reliefVideo
Gov. Tom Wolf has asked the state Liquor Control Board to waive all licensing fees for bars, restaurants, clubs and hotels next year in an effort to bring some financial relief to an industry slammed by the covid-19 pandemic. “This disease thrives when people get together, and it hits at...
Pittsburgh Public Schools move forward with in-person learning in NovemberVideo
Pittsburgh Public Schools are poised to begin a hybrid form of in-person learning on Nov. 9. The district is making the move despite a fall rise in covid-19 cases in Pennsylvania that was expected. The surge in cases, at least in Allegheny County, doesn’t mean the district should not move...
Bishop Zubik comments on Pope Francis’ endorsement of same-sex civil unions
Bishop David Zubik of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh said Pope Francis’ tacit endorsement of civil unions between same-sex couples is a reflection of his call for all people to be treated with dignity and love. In a statement released Wednesday, Zubik said Pope Francis’ recent comments “reflect his pastoral...
From Pittsburgh’s Manchester to the moon: Astrobotic pioneers new lunar missionsVideo
Ground control for the first commercial trip to the moon will be at a nondescript building on Pittsburgh’s North Side near the Manchester neighborhood. A group of federal, state and local officials on Monday celebrated a private ribbon-cutting for Astrobotic’s headquarters at the 47,000-square-foot complex at 1016 North Lincoln Ave....
Pittsburgh police will move to 12-hour shifts during election week
Pittsburgh Police will move to 12-hour shifts beginning the day before the Nov. 3 election and remain on that schedule for nearly a week, officials said Wednesday. In an email, Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said the department “acknowledges that there is a heightened level of interest” in how police...
Pittsburgh police officer positive for covid-19, in-person training canceled
A Pittsburgh Police officer has tested positive for covid-19, causing “a number of other officers and supervisors” to isolate and quarantine, officials said Wednesday. In addition, Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich suspended all in-person training programs and inter-unit rotations for police, fire and EMS until sometime next month. “Protecting Public...
Black residents in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County gain protection from hair style discrimination; Juneteenth officially a holiday
Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials this week approved measures protecting Black residents from being discriminated against because of their hairstyles. County Council also joined Pittsburgh in recognizing the African American observance Juneteenth as a paid holiday for county employees and approved a motion urging Congress to designate Juneteenth National Freedom...
Police: 3 people in stable condition following shooting in Brighton Heights
Three people were taken to the hospital in stable condition after a shooting in Brighton Heights Tuesday night, Pittsburgh Police said. Officers responded to the area of Fleming Avenue and Kalorama Way around 10:50 p.m. after receiving multiple Shotspotter alerts, according to police spokesman Maurice Matthews. While investigating the scene,...
Pittsburgh writers reflect on Tree of Life massacre in new book
In January 2019, members of New Light Congregation at the Tree of Life synagogue traveled to Charleston, S.C., to pray with members of Emanuel AME Church, where nine Black worshippers were shot to death by a young white supremacist in 2015. It was a less than three months after a...
Film Pittsburgh Fall Festival goes online, as executive director nears 2 decades at helm
Kathryn Spitz Cohan began her tenure at what is now Film Pittsburgh just after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The executive director enters her 20th season amid another life-changing time – the covid-19 pandemic. Film Pittsburgh screens independent films from around the world, for themed festivals, and holds...
After 100 years on AM dial, KDKA Radio adds FM signal
A change is in the air for News Radio 1020 KDKA. Starting Nov. 2, as part of the commemoration of the station’s centennial anniversary, KDKA-AM will simulcast on FM for the first time ever and be heard on 100.1 FM. The spot had previously been occupied by WAMO, a station...
Crews clear scene of fire at abandoned house in Oakland
Crews battled a working house fire in Oakland early Tuesday morning, according to an Allegheny 911 dispatcher. Firefighters responded to the abandoned row house along Bates Street around 4:40 a.m., said Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Battalion Chief Ron Dunlap. The house is located at the Boulevard of the Allies intersection....
Driver killed in wrong-way crash on Interstate 279 North in Pittsburgh
One person was killed following a wrong-way crash along Interstate 279 North early Tuesday morning, according to state police. The crash, which happened around midnight near Chestnut Street, occurred when a vehicle traveling south in the northbound lane collided head on with a tractor trailer that was driving in the...
Pittsburgh set to settle lawsuit filed by former cop for $250K
Pittsburgh officials are poised to settle a 2018 lawsuit filed by a former Pittsburgh police officer who alleges police officials harassed him and retaliated against him for investigating a company that provided the department with costly software upgrades that either weren’t used or did not work. The $250,000 settlement, recommended...
Task force issues recommendations for reforming Pittsburgh police
A task force charged with coming up with avenues for meaningful change in the way Pittsburgh polices its residents released a slew of recommendations Monday, choosing eight main topics and offering dozens of pages worth of ideas and data to back them up. “There were a lot of different ideas...
Pittsburgh police investigating Hill District shooting
A man is in stable condition after he was shot in the back Sunday in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, authorities said. Police responded about 2:30 p.m. to a ShotSpotter alert near the intersection of Enoch and Granville streets in the city’s Crawford-Roberts neighborhood, police said. As police responded to the alert,...
Portions of Pittsburgh’s Garfield, Stanton Heights neighborhoods under flush and boil advisory
Around 300 homes in Pittsburgh’s Stanton Heights and Garfield neighborhoods are under a flush and boil water advisory Saturday. A tank near Garfield experienced a pump failure while T-Mobile was completing utility work around 11 a.m., according to the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority. The result was low or no...
Carlow University president set to retire at school year’s end
Carlow University President Suzanna Mellon will retire at the end of the academic year, according to an announcement made at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Mellon, 69, came to the university in 2013. The former executive vice president of St. Anselm College in New Hampshire was Carlow’s 10th president. In...
Police investigating shooting of 3 people in Mt. Oliver
Allegheny County Police are seeking assistance in the investigation of a shooting that wounded three people early Saturday in Mt. Oliver. Police said they were notified of a shooting about 3:24 a.m. in the 1700 block of Arlington Avenue. When authorities arrived, they found three victims, two women and a...
Police: Pair in bullet-damaged car stable after Mt. Washington shooting
Two male victims are in stable condition after being shot on Mt. Washington on Friday night, according to Pittsburgh police. Responding just after 8 p.m. to a report of possible gunshot victims, officers found the pair inside a vehicle in the 300 block of Birmingham Avenue in Carrick. Police said...
