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Cedar Point to launch Top Thrill 2 coaster in 2024Video

Cedar Point has announced the replacement for its record-setting Top Thrill Dragster coaster: Top Thrill 2. And it’s set to debut in 2024. The ride will maintain the Sandusky, Ohio, park’s iconic 420-foot-tall arching tower and add a second 420-foot-tall tower on the opposite end. The coaster will have three...
Gas prices soar amid heat-related refinery outages, analyst says

The Pittsburgh area’s brief stint of hot weather may be over, but drivers are still feeling the heat at the gas pump. Gas prices in the region and across the nation have soared over the past week because of heat-related outages impacting some of the country’s largest refineries, said Patrick...
Indiana County fan preserves Steelers history, 1 news clipping at a time

Ed Griffith’s wife, Joyce, rarely has to wonder where he is. The Indiana County man’s daily routine includes hanging out in his basement man cave, adding to the more than four decades of news clippings he has saved to document the Steelers and other favorite regional sports teams and figures....
Power up: Solar-power installations jump to more than 40,000 across the state

Patricia Finley Perfetti and her husband, Tom, put solar panels outside their Rostraver home four years ago. They have been reaping the benefits of homegrown electric power and lower utility bills ever since. “It’s sure nice to get a zero charge on the electric bill,” Patricia Perfetti said. The Perfettis...
Allegheny Tunnel work to cause restrictions on turnpike

Motorists traveling the Pennsylvania Turnpike between the Somerset and Bedford exits beginning Monday night and nearly every other weeknight for the next four weeks will experience delays through the Allegheny Tunnel, the turnpike commission said. The traffic will be impacted Monday nights through Thursday nights with single-lane traffic patterns from...
Fayette man accused of trying to lure children into his truck at Whitsett Park

A Fayette County man was charged with two counts of luring a child after police said he asked two children at Whitsett Park to get into his truck. State police from Belle Vernon were contacted about 7:30 p.m. July 27 for a report of a shirtless man who called two...
Peters home will be built upon purchase for $674,900

There is a house on the market projected to be a four bedroom, and two and one half bathrooms with a two-car garage — but it won’t be built until there’s a buyer. “The buyer has the opportunity to make changes to the floor plan if they desire,” said Renee...
Southwestern Pa. under heat advisory with high temps set to scorch region

Southwestern Pennsylvania is in for a scorching hot Friday, with a heat index forecast of 104 degrees in the afternoon. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory in the region from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Temperatures will be hottest — around 95 degrees — between 1 and...
Morning Roundup: Goat Fest PGH returning to South Side

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, July 28: Goat Fest PGH returning to South Side What’s more “greatest of all time” than taking care of the environment? At Goat Fest PGH on Saturday, working goats from Allegheny GoatScape will lend a helping hoof by...
Penn State eliminates funding for well-respected, student-run newspaper The Daily Collegian

Terry Mutchler, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and former Daily Collegian writer, likened Penn State University’s elimination of funding for its storied student newspaper to “ditching the Creamery,” another mainstay on the University Park campus. “Am I aware of it? I had to double my blood pressure medication,” quipped Mutchler, a...
Morning Roundup: No injuries reported in Oakmont fire

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Thursday, July 27: No injuries reported in Oakmont fire No one was reported to be injured after a fire early Thursday at a building in Oakmont, according to Tribune-Review news partner WTAE. Firefighters were called to the scene around...
Missing Indiana County woman found

A Marion Center, Indiana County woman who was reported missing yesterday has been located and is safe. Sheila M. Rowley, 60, was located early Thursday morning, according to Pennsylvania State Police. The Greensburg Volunteer Fire Department bloodhound team and a state police aviation patrol unit joined in the search Wednesday...
W.Va. residents are at a loss after newspaper that bound community together shuts down

WELCH, W.Va. — Months after Missy Nester ended The Welch News’ 100-year run, she can barely stand to walk through the office doors of the newspaper her mother taught her to read with growing up in West Virginia’s southern coalfields. It’s too painful. The Welch News owner and publisher’s desk...
Blistering heat set to hit Western Pa. region

Western Pennsylvania is in for a sweltering week amid a national heat wave, with temperatures expected to climb into the 90s, according to the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh. Meteorologist Jason Frazier of the weather service said temperatures are expected to increase from Wednesday through Friday into the upper 80s...
State police crack down on unsafe driving in work zones through Orange Squeeze initiative

State troopers plan to crack down on unsafe behaviors in work zones on the Turnpike through their “Operation Orange Squeeze” program this summer. The program, which began nearly a decade ago in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, sees troopers from Troop T monitoring work zones using construction vehicles in...
3-vehicle crash leads to chemical spill on I-79

A pickup involved in a three-vehicle crash Tuesday morning spilled pest-control chemicals along Interstate 79 in North Strabane. Washington County 911 dispatchers said two people were injured in the wreck and taken to a local hospital. The highway was shut down until responders cleared the scene around 7 a.m. Dispatchers...

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