Dump truck rollover closes a portion of Davidson Road in Plum
An overturned dump truck has closed a portion of Davidson Road in Plum. The vehicle rolled over near Saltsburg Road. Part of the truck is leaning against a utility pole but no outages have been reported. Motorists are recommended to use Universal Road as a detour. Large equipment will be...
Water main break limits Route 68 in Evans City
One lane of Route 68 in Evans City is closed after a water main break was discovered overnight. Motorists who travel the busy road should expect delays this morning while crews work to repair the line. PennDOT crews were on the scene to salt the road and thwart any potential...
Sen. Bob Casey invites Pittsburgh TSA officer to State of the Union
A Pittsburgh woman who worked without a paycheck during the recent government shutdown will attend President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday. Monica Hughes, an Army reservist and TSA officer at Pittsburgh International Airport, was invited to the event by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. In a press release, Casey’s...
Man in critical condition after shooting near Penn Hills bar
One person remained in critical condition Monday after being shot multiple times overnight near H’s Bar and Grill along Verona Road in Penn Hills. Allegheny County police said they received calls just before 1:15 a.m. for an unidentified 26-year-old man shot and lying in the roadway of the 4200 block...
Victim identified in Duquesne Heights shooting
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner has identified the victim of a fatal shooting yesterday in Duquesne Heights. Aaron Wade, 18, of Munhall was found unresponsive in a front yard in the 200 block of Plymouth Street. Officers responded at about 2:45 a.m. to the incident, which is a few blocks...
After $12,000 reward, leads are scant for missing elderly man in South Buffalo
There are few leads after a $12,000 reward was offered two weeks ago for information leading to the whereabouts of a missing elderly man last seen at a family member’s house in South Buffalo Township. Kenneth Himes, 70, of Pittsburgh, who is autistic and has early-onset dementia, was last seen...
Irwin revives proposed amusement tax
Irwin officials are reviving a controversial proposal to create an amusement tax that would increase the price of event tickets sold in the borough by 5 percent — a levy that would hit hardest the revitalized Lamp Theatre. Council is expected to discuss the ordinance during a workshop meeting at...
Role-playing group offers support for veterans
Veteran X isn’t a real person, but his problems are. He might have housing issues or a drug addiction. Maybe he isn’t sure how to get his discharge paperwork or health care. The solutions Veteran X finds to deal with situations like those are aimed at helping real veterans through...
Land use change proposed to add homes at Unity development
Unity supervisors are expected to vote in February on a land use change that would allow developer Don Paulone to construct 17 dwelling units along Route 30, on an undeveloped portion of the Villas at Grayhawk planned residential community. In 2004, the township approved a plan for commercial use of...
Police: Greensburg company stiffed $25K on work done at Somerset County home
A Somerset County man is accused of using four laborers supplied by a Greensburg company for work at his home and failing to pay them. Joseph William Battisto, 56, owes the workers $25,424, according to police. He was arrested Monday evening. Authorities said Battisto in July contacted People Ready in...
African penguin wows Mother of Sorrows students in Murrysville
National Aviary officials brought their “Penguins Are Cool” program to Mother of Sorrows School in Murrysville on Monday as part of Catholic Schools Week. Students learned about the world’s 18 species of penguin and had a chance to meet an African penguin as they learned about its special adaptations and...
PWSA rates would increase by nearly 14 percent under recommendation
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority would hike rates nearly 14 percent for average residential customers under a recommendation from an administrative law judge. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is expected to vote on the recommendation during its regularly monthly meeting Thursday, according to Robert Weimar, PWSA’s executive director. A...
Trump’s health care threats led to a boom in long-term birth control
Did the election of Donald Trump lead to a stampede of women getting IUDs? Well, maybe not a stampede. But there was a measurable uptick in women getting long-acting contraceptives, namely intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, according to a new analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Trump’s vow to...
Hempfield consultant announces GOP bid for Westmoreland County commissioner
A microbiologist who left a university teaching job last summer to open his own consulting business announced Monday he will be a Republican candidate for Westmoreland County commissioner. Doug Chew, 48, of Hempfield said if elected he will donate a portion of his salary to help fund the county’s drug...
South Buffalo looks for ways to bring public sewage to township
South Buffalo officials are looking for ways to bring public sewage service to the township, and believe doing so could help spur growth there. “When you drive up Route 28, we are the first township you enter (in Armstrong County). If Armstrong County has a chance to grow, it will...
Woman critical after struck by vehicle in Brighton Heights
A woman is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle in Pittsburgh. WPXI-TV reports the incident happened at about 8:30 p.m. on California Avenue near Davis Avenue in the city’s Brighton Heights neighborhood while the woman was crossing the street in a pedestrian crosswalk. Pittsburgh police are investigating....
Student art from 1940s gives glimpse of Manor Borough history
Nestled behind desks and under a water pipe in Hempfield Area High School’s basement sat five pieces of Manor history in the form of original art. The paintings give a glimpse into what the borough looked like in 1943-44 from the perspective of Manor School students. “You see the age...
Freeport Area High School senior makes volunteering big part of life
Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series that features Alle-Kiski Valley people and the notable things that they do. About 100 children being treated at area hospitals will soon feel more comfortable courtesy of Kaitlyn Ritter. The Freeport Area High School senior organized a blanket project with the...
5 die, 2 hospitalized when plane parts hit California house
YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Five people died and two others were injured after a small plane apparently came apart, raining debris across a Southern California neighborhood and igniting a house fire before landing in a backyard, authorities said Sunday. The male pilot, who was the only person in the twin-engine...
Detainee on hunger strike details force-feeding
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed there are now nine men — up from six earlier this week — being force-fed under court order in a detention center in El Paso. One of the hunger strikers, a 22-year-old man from India who called The Associated Press on Friday, described...
Boy, 4, finds gun and shoots pregnant mom in the face
SEATTLE — A 4-year-old boy in a Washington state apartment found a loaded gun under a mattress and used it to shoot his pregnant mother in the face, authorities said Sunday. The 27-year-old woman and her boyfriend were watching television in bed Saturday when their son found the gun between...
Power restored in Mt. Pleasant area after outage as Super Bowl starts
Hundreds of West Penn Power customers in the Mt. Pleasant area may have only caught a glimpse of the Super Bowl on Sunday. A circuit lockout in the area cut power to 500 to 1,500 customers around 7 p.m., just after the game’s kickoff, said Eyad Gheith, a spokesman for...
Trump says he’ll reject U.S. intelligence assessments he disagrees with
WASHINGTON — Despite growing foreign-policy misgivings about him even within the Republican Party, President Trump insisted in an interview aired Sunday that he feels free to ignore the assessments of his intelligence chiefs and instead act on his own beliefs. In the interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” the president...
People flock outside as Western Pa. experiences 61-degree swing
Runners and walkers packed the Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Pittsburgh and disc golfers at Deer Lakes Parks were ready to break out their shorts Sunday. Even morning temperatures of 36 degrees were warm enough for Tom Gillespie and Kristin Agona to enjoy their run through downtown
Greensburg. “This is...
Pope Francis in United Arab Emirates for historic trip
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Pope Francis landed Sunday in Abu Dhabi on the first-ever papal trip to the Arabian Peninsula, where he is seeking to turn a page in Christian-Muslim relations while ministering to an unusual, thriving Catholic community. Francis earlier Sunday called for the urgent observation of...
