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Larimer domestic dispute leads to SWAT response, man’s arrest
Pittsburgh police arrested a man Friday night after a domestic dispute and SWAT response in the city’s Larimer neighborhood. Officers responded at about 9 p.m. to the dispute, reported at a home in the 600 block of Lenora Street. A SWAT team was called when the man refused to come...
Allegheny CleanWays Plastic Magnet 1 barge scoops up riverfront litter and tires
A new barge to collect trash on Pittsburgh rivers, Plastic Magnet 1, removed 82 tires and more than 4,800 pounds of plastic and other trash from the the Monongahela River during a recent river cleanup. Allegheny CleanWays is midway through a two-week sweep of the Allegheny County portion of the...
Bloomfield art exhibit inspired by unique subject: frozen compost
Artistic inspiration is often found in unlikely places. For New York City artist Erin Treacy, it was in quite a unique place: the bag full of compost sitting in her freezer. “The city has a composting program, but I also have to worry rodents and bugs,” said Treacy, 38. “So...
Fox News to feature Trib editor on ‘America’s News HQ’ on Saturday
The Fox News program “America’s News HQ,” with anchors Arthel Neville and Eric Shawn, will include a Tribune-Review editor as a guest on Saturday’s broadcast. John Allison, the Trib’s director of content, will appear on air in the 5 p.m. segment. The likely topics will be the swing-state role of...
GNC sold to Chinese pharmaceutical group
GNC Holdings Inc., the Pittsburgh-based international health and wellness chain, has been for sold for $770 million to a Chinese pharmaceutical firm in a deal approved Thursday in bankruptcy court in Delaware. Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Holding Co., an affiliate of GNC’s largest shareholder that owns 40% of the company, also...
Carnegie Mellon publishes report on sustainability progress
Carnegie Mellon University marked a milestone this week in its efforts toward sustainability, equity and social justice. The university released a new report Wednesday that assesses actions taken to advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 objectives adopted by the United Nations. The SDGs, or “global goals,” aim...
Schenley Park’s Columbus statue ‘erases history,’ Pitt professor says
The Pittsburgh Art Commission held a special hearing Thursday to gather public comment on the future of the 62-year-old Christopher Columbus statue in Schenley Park. The statue has been the subject of debate as the city determines whether to remove or replace it. An online petition has garnered more than...
Barstool’s Dave Portnoy hits 3 Pittsburgh-area pizzerias, tries Turner’s tea
Famed Boston-based pizza reviewer Dave Portnoy descended upon Pittsburgh recently to review three pizza places, Beto’s Pizza and Fiori’s Pizzaria in Pittsburgh and Juliano’s in Robinson. He came away impressed by all three. Portnoy is well known as the celebrity founder of the sports and pop culture website Barstool Sports...
Pittsburgh Playhouse plans virtual theater, dance, speaker events
Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse is getting ready to launch “Here. Now. Next!,” a fall season of virtual offerings, including theater and dance productions, the new Dance Speaker Series and a re-imagined Media Innovators Speaker Series. The season will include several new works. “Some of our work this fall will...
Trump heads to Pittsburgh on Tuesday for airport rally
Like he did at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe earlier this month, President Donald Trump is holding another airport hangar rally. This one is Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township, the campaign announced Thursday. The president’s rally at Atlantic Aviation, 300 Horizon Drive,...
Post-Gazette accuses its unions of ‘bad-faith’ bargaining as possible strike looms
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s leadership is accusing the news organization’s unions of violating bargaining rules as the newsroom prepares for a possible strike. The P-G’s Tennessee-based legal team filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board against five unions representing about 200 employees, including reporters, photographers, copy editors, pressmen and...
CMU, Pitt developing covid antibody test that gives results within seconds
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC are collaborating to develop a new antibody test — which they say is one of the fastest antibody tests in existence. The test uses a small drop of blood from a fingertip to search for the presence of two...
Elderly pedestrian dies after struck by shuttle bus in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood
An elderly pedestrian died shortly after she was struck by a shuttle bus Thursday afternoon in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood, officials said. The incident happened near the 3400 block of Terrace Street at about 3:30 p.m., Pittsburgh Public Safety officials report. Mary Flaherty, 76, of Monroeville was identified by the Allegheny...
2 people sue West Penn Hospital after former employee is charged with secretly recording them
Two people who say they were video recorded by a West Penn Hospital employee filed a lawsuit against the hospital system Wednesday, alleging negligence and invasion of privacy. The complaint, filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, seeks class-action status to represent everyone who was allegedly victimized by Guy Caley,...
Pair accused of trafficking 400 ‘bricks’ of fentanyl
A Philadelphia woman and Dominican Republican man arrested by the state police in a traffic stop along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Mt. Pleasant Township have been charged by the federal government with possessing about 400 “bricks” of fentanyl, a powerful painkiller that is mixed with heroin to make a deadly...
Pa. has record-breaking sportsbook wagers in August
August was Pennsylvania’s best month yet in sportsbook revenues, making the state a contender for the second largest legal sports betting market in the country. The state generated almost $365 million in sports betting wagers, up from $109 million recorded during the same period last year, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control...
Carnegie Museum hiding famous ‘Lion Attacking a Dromedary’ diorama from view
It’s a visceral scene that has made an indelible impression on countless schoolchildren and many other visitors to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for generations. A fight for survival is at the heart of the famous “Lion Attacking a Dromedary” diorama depicting a violent encounter between two lions and...
Pittsburgh firefighter injured while battling fire in Wilkinsburg
A Pittsburgh firefighter was injured while battling a one-alarm fire in Wilkinsburg Wednesday afternoon. According to Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman Maurice Matthews, firefighters with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire responded to an abandoned structure at the 500 block of Singer Place around 2 p.m. On scene, one firefighter suffered a...
Police: Motorcyclist in critical condition after Carrick crash
A motorcyclist was transported to an area hospital in critical condition following a crash in Carrick Wednesday evening. Pittsburgh police and medics responded to the crash involving a motorcycle and a vehicle in the 400 block of Becks Run Road around 7 p.m. The male motorcyclist was the only person...
Beaver County woman arrested for allegedly luring Illinois boy, 15, from his home to hers
A Rochester woman accused of taking a teenage boy from his home to Beaver County last month was arrested Wednesday night in McKeesport by the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Department, police said. The suspect, Lilandra Redman, 20, was found at a home in the 2900 block of Versailles Street, McKeesport, at...
Attorney: Duquesne’s ‘knee-jerk’ move to oust professor for using racial slur threatens academic freedom
Duquesne University risks setting a dangerous precedent and violating its own rules regarding academic freedom by trying to oust a professor for using a racial slur during a lecture about race, the suspended professor’s attorney said Wednesday. “It’s a knee-jerk reaction,” Warner Mariani, attorney for the embattled professor, Gary Shank,...
Beltzhoover residents laud URA’s investment in former elementary schoolVideo
Margie Thompson attended elementary school at Beltzhoover Elementary School 75 years ago. It was a “nice community school,” said Thompson, who is 86. On Wednesday, she was among the people who filled the area on Cedarhurst Street in front of the school to celebrate a $72,000 investment by the Urban...
Diners can help feed Square Café in move by investing in a crowd-funded business loan
Square Café owner Sherree Goldstein launched a campaign with Honeycomb Credit to raise money for the move from Regent Square to East Liberty. The new space, previously occupied by restaurants Spoon and BRGR, will provide more indoor and outdoor seating, be open longer hours and offer beer and alcohol. “It...
Head of Pittsburgh area gambling ring, son, plead guilty to running numbers
The 90-year-old patriarch of a Pittsburgh family connected to gambling operations in Western Pennsylvania for more than a half century agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve charges the family operated a sports betting and numbers running business dating back to 1994. Robert “Bobby I” Iannelli, of Pittsburgh, along with his...
USW lights up iconic Pittsburgh landmarks with Biden-Harris message without permission
Corey Barsky was more than a little miffed Tuesday night when he saw a giant Biden-Harris logo projected on the façade of the towering Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh’s Oakland campus. Barsky, who is vice chair of the Pitt College Republicans, said the projection that included the...
