Gov. Wolf sets goals for Pennsylvania to cut greenhouse gases
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf is stepping up the fight against climate change and setting targets to slash Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. Wolf, a Democrat, said Tuesday that he’s issuing an executive order that commits his administration to meeting certain targets. The Center for Climate and...
3 passengers, driver injured when Port Authority bus crashes in Lawrenceville
Four people were hurt after a crash involving a Port Authority of Allegheny County bus Tuesday morning in Lawrenceville, according to authority spokesman Adam Brandolph. Port Authority police are investigating the crash, which happened about 7:45 a.m. Tuesday at the 62nd Street Bridge and Butler Street. The bus was outbound...
Air travelers start to feel effects of government shutdown
DALLAS — The partial government shutdown is starting to affect air travel. Over the weekend, some airports had long lines at checkpoints, apparently caused by a rising number of security officers calling in sick while they are not getting paid. Safety inspectors aren’t even on the job. A Federal Aviation...
Dregs of Rivertowne’s brewpub chain for sale again in bankruptcy saga
Two closed taverns that once belonged to bankrupt Rivertowne Brewery Co. are for sale again after a deal to sell the Verona property fell through and the North Huntingdon site never attracted a buyer at auction. Fybo Management Inc., one of the interlocking bankrupt companies that operated Rivertowne’s Murrysville brewery...
Moose wanders into Alaska hospital building
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A moose wandered into a hospital building in Alaska’s largest city Monday — and Stephanie Hupton was ready to capture the visit with her phone camera. Hupton works in billing at a physical therapy office inside a building attached to Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage. When a...
2 children killed in Fayette County fire identified
A brother and sister were killed early Tuesday in a house fire in South Union Township, Fayette County, according to Coroner Phillip Reilly. His office identified the children as RyLeigh Weasenforth, 7, and Gunner Weasenforth, 5. They were pronounced dead at the house on South Mt. Vernon Avenue at 7:48...
Police identify 3 killed in apparent murder-suicide
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — Authorities have identified three people who died in an apparent double murder-suicide in a Pennsylvania apartment as a couple and their young son. Police say the bodies of 49-year-old Marvin Caddell, his 44-year-old estranged wife, Nightflower Staats, and their 7-year-old son were found Saturday in Middletown. All...
Woman pinned between cars, child injured in East Pittsburgh crash
A woman and child were injured in a crash on Ardmore Boulevard in East Pittsburgh on Monday night, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported. The woman’s car was pulled over on the side of the road. She was standing outside the car around 7 p.m. and had been trying to fill...
Thief smashes in motorcycle store window in Moon Township
Police are looking for whoever smashed in the front window of a motorcycle shop and made off with several dirt bikes, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported. The burglar or burglars broke into All-Pro Motorsports on University Boulevard in Moon Township around 1 a.m. Tuesday and got away with four dirt...
Health Happenings – Jan. 8, 2019
Blood drives • American Red Cross blood drives: — 12:30-5 p.m. today, Westmoreland Manor, 2480 S. Grand Blvd., Greensburg — 1:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, St. Bruno’s Church, 1707 S. Poplar St., Greensburg — 12:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, Levin Furniture Store, Route 30, Hempfield — 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, St. Vincent Parish Grove,...
Painting looted by Nazis returned to Jewish heirs in Germany
BERLIN — Officials have returned a painting looted by the Nazis to the heirs of a Jewish French politician and resistance figure who was executed during World War II. “Portrait of a Seated Young Woman” by Thomas Couture, which belonged to Georges Mandel, was discovered in late collector Cornelius Gurlitt’s...
Inmate denies 3 syringes found in his rectum are his
MIAMI — A Florida man picked up on a drug charge arrest warrant Friday brought some extra junk in his trunk to Pinellas County jail, authorities say. As 40-year-old Wesley Scott’s arrest affidavit says, “while being strip searched (Scott) removed three syringes from his rectum and provided them to Deputy...
Florida man charged with threatening dead cancer activist’s mother
DELTONA, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida man has been charged with making death threats against the mother of a Purdue University superfan and cancer activist who died last week. A Volusia County Sheriff’s Office news release says 39-year-old John Matthew Pinkham was arrested Monday at a Deltona, Fla., home...
Pittsburgh man’s death in Collier ruled suicide
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office said a man found dead in Collier on Sunday took his own life. The death of Stuart Hayman Hunt, 36, of Pittsburgh was ruled a suicide. His body was found Sunday morning next to Chartiers Creek below an Interstate 79 overpass in Collier Township,...
Suspect sought in Munhall shooting; victim, 20, treated by Homestead police chief
A 20-year-old man was shot in the hip in Munhall Monday night during a domestic incident between his mother and her boyfriend, according to Allegheny County police. The wounded victim showed up at Homestead Police Chief Jeff DeSimone’s door just before 9:30 p.m. “We tended to him as best we...
New York City firefighter plunges to his death from bridge
NEW YORK — A New York City firefighter fell to his death late Sunday when he slipped through a narrow gap between lanes of a newly built bridge while trying to reach the victims of a car crash. Steven Pollard, a 30-year-old firefighter who had followed his father and brother...
Fitzgerald announces re-election bid at political event in Pittsburgh’s South Side
Buoyed by more than $2 million in his campaign coffers, Rich Fitzgerald announced his decision Monday night to seek a third and final term as Allegheny County’s chief executive. “Pittsburgh’s trajectory and Allegheny County’s trajectory is in a positive direction,” Fitzgerald said on a stage flanked by several dozen local,...
Trump claimed ex-presidents told him they wanted border wall, but four say it’s not true
President Trump during a lengthy appearance in the White House’s Rose Garden on Friday that predecessors told him they wanted a wall on the United States’ border with Mexico. He said so in the midst of an extended soliloquy about the border wall for which he has yet to find...
Iowa communities mourn death of firefighter
CLINTON, Iowa — A firefighter who died while battling a blaze at a grain storage facility over the weekend is being remembered in the eastern Iowa communities he served. Mourners lined the streets of Clinton on Sunday as the procession transporting the body of 33-year-old fire Lt. Eric Hosette rolled...
Commission hears dispute over school’s ‘Redskins’ nickname
LANGHORNE — A long-running dispute over a Pennsylvania school district’s “Redskins” nickname for its sports teams has been taken up by a state commission. Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission attorney Lisa Knight argues the Bucks County district wouldn’t use a nickname based on any other racial group, so they should not...
Navy veteran had a knack for fixing things
Gerald Dempsey Sr. knew how to keep things running — at work, at home and aboard a Navy destroyer. Mr. Dempsey worked for more than 42 years at the Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, keeping controls for the steel plant’s powerhouse in working order before retiring in the late 1980s....
Plans for renovating North Huntingdon park ‘n ride lot postponed
The Westmoreland County Transit Authority’s plans to renovate and expand its Park and Ride lot along Route 30 in North Huntingdon have been put on hold until February. Domenic Sacchetti, a transit authority engineer with HDR Inc. of Pittsburgh, was granted his request to postpone his presentation to the North...
Two charged in Indiana hostage situation
Two Allegheny County men are accused of holding a woman hostage in her Indiana apartment on Monday, assaulting her and threatening her and her family, Indiana police said. Jeremy R. Bryant, 37, of McKeesport, and Stevland K. Parks Sr., 33, of Wilkinsburg, are accused of holding the woman inside her...
Trump will address nation, visit border to press for a wall
WASHINGTON — President Trump will address the nation on Tuesday night and travel on Thursday to the U.S.-Mexico border to press his case for a wall there, amid a partisan funding impasse over the issue that has kept the government partially shut down into a third week. The president tweeted...
Storm prompts vehicle, speed restrictions on northern interstates
Predictions of ice-coated roadways late Monday and early Tuesday have prompted officials to reduce the speed limit and temporarily ban motorcycles and some trucks on interstates in Pennsylvania’s northern tier. Between 11 p.m. Monday and 6 a.m. Tuesday, traffic restrictions will be in place on:Interstate 80, east of the junction...
