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Owners of a 57-acre property in East Huntingdon call it their little “Piece of Heaven,” but now they’re ready to pass their idyllic retreat to someone else. Featuring a brick farmhouse and wooden barn dating to 1856, the property just south of Scottdale is listed for $639,900. “It’s close to...

Bald eagles nesting near U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works welcomed a new addition to the nest, a U.S. Steel spokesman announced Thursday. The egg hatched late Wednesday after weeks of care. The egg was laid in late February. The eaglet was named USS6, since it was the sixth one hatched by...

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — You may have already seen them in restaurants: waist-high machines that can greet guests, lead them to their tables, deliver food and drinks and ferry dirty dishes to the kitchen. Some have cat-like faces and even purr when you scratch their heads. But are robot waiters...

At the three-day International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas, Caliente Pizza & Draft House took home its fourth World Championship award plus several other award titles across various competition categories. Matt Hickey, general manager of Caliente’s commissary location, earned the team’s gold medal World Championship title in the Expo’s triathlon...

The owners of Ferrante’s Lakeview don’t want clients to panic when they hear that the longstanding wedding and banquet facility in Hempfield is for sale. “We do want to retire, but it might take a year or two to sell,” said Susan Domasky of Greensburg, president of the family-owned business....

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2012. If there’s no bunny in the basket, there’s no Easter. That’s Norm Candelore’s theory this time of year. People buy more chocolate bunnies at Sarris Candies than any other candy during the Easter season, and the Canonsburg candymaker builds its baskets...

Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, has died after a brief illness, according to a family statement. He was 70. The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan when introduced in 1995 and based...

SAN FRANCISCO — Two trailblazing ride-hailing services are heading toward uncharted territory as they seek regulatory approval to transport passengers around the clock throughout one of the most densely populated U.S. cities in vehicles that will have no one sitting in the driver’s seat. If Cruise, a subsidiary of General...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: I’m not a usual WPXI-TV viewer, but I did catch a commercial promoting Chopper 11. I remember they got rid of Chopper 11. Did they...

A pair of Pittsburgh television news anchors welcomed new family members in the past few days. KDKA-TV morning anchor Lindsay Ward had a baby girl on Monday. Ward, who joined KDKA as a reporter in 2019, announced on Facebook the birth of Aurora Marie, who weighed in at 8 pounds,...

The long lines to get into PNC Park should move more quickly at Friday’s home opener. The Pirates have installed a new technology called Evolv at all gates, which speeds up entry to one person per second. As people walk through, it will detect anything shaped like a weapon or...

Pittsburgh continues to show its colors as a steppingstone TV news market: KDKA-TV weekend morning anchor Briana Smith is the latest to announce her departure. She posted to Twitter that she’s leaving KDKA after two years to become a reporter at the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia. Her last day at...

Lower Burrell police accused a McDonald’s restaurant employee of assaulting a new co-worker by hitting her in the head with a $900 drive-thru window headset that broke the device. Nicole Monique Brundage, 36, of the 200 block of Freeport Road in New Kensington was charged with misdemeanor counts of simple...

In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including another WPXI-TV departure with meteorologist Jessica Faith exiting for a forecaster job in Washington, D.C. The pair also discuss how local stations prioritize weather...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Leave it to Snoop Dogg to emerge as the Most Valuable Performer of WrestleMania 39. During a weekend that saw World Wrestling Entertainment set a two-night attendance record for their signature event, the company on the verge of being sold and Roman Reigns remaining the undisputed champion,...

NASHVILLE — Country singer Kelsea Ballerini opened the CMT Music Awards with a tribute to victims of a school shooting while sharing in that community’s grief, then danced alongside drag artists as states across the country consider legally limiting drag show performances, Ballerini, a co-host of the annual awards show...

Marc Fogel has made his mark in the art world, as an educator and with his friends and family. On Saturday, Fogel’s fellow artists decided to “Make a Marc” of their own by staging a group art show in support of their colleague. Fogel, a 61-year-old Butler native who taught...

Greensburg Salem High School’s Mini-THON committee raised the bar for its fundraising goal during the 2022-23 school year. The student group hoped to generate $60,000 for the battle against pediatric cancer, an increase of more than $10,000 from the previous year’s campaign. Ultimately, the charitable effort sailed far over that...

TAMPA, Fla.— The owners of a Florida-based sanctuary made famous by the Netflix docuseries, ” Tiger King, ” say they plan to move most of their big cats to an Arkansas facility and eventually sell their 67-acre property. Howard Baskin wrote in a post on Big Cat Rescue’s website that...

His identity isn’t known. But his art is recognizable throughout the world. And now it will be seen in Pittsburgh. Banksy is a street artist, political activist and film director who grew up in Bristol in South West England. His works have sold for millions of dollars. Despite the widespread...