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Port Authority proposes high-tech fare system
The Port Authority of Allegheny County is poised to offer a mobile ticketing application that would allow riders to pay fares through smart phones. Under the system, customers could purchase a ticket or pass using a credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through their phone and then immediately use...
Pittsburgh set to disburse $10M for affordable housing
Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a plan for distributing $10 million in 2019 from an affordable housing fund. The Urban Redevelopment Authority, which administers the fund, has recommended that the money be divided into six programs this year, including rental assistance, subsidies to help with a...
Self-driving education grant runs into opposition at Pittsburgh City Council
Pittsburgh City Council will likely authorize acceptance of a $410,000 grant aimed at educating residents on the use of autonomous vehicles in the city, but members plan to provide amendments for how that should be done. Council in a preliminary vote Wednesday agreed to accept the money disbursed over three...
East End Brewing to launch beers named after Pittsburgh neighborhoods
Pittsburghers are deeply loyal to the neighborhood they grew up in … Greenfield, Bloomfield, Highland Park, Oakland and beyond. Pittsburgh’s East End Brewing certainly knows that. On Saturday, the company will launch the “YOU ARE HERE” program designed to introduce a beer named after each of Pittsburgh’s 90 neighborhoods. The...
Pittsburgh art to be showcased in London
Pittsburgh artists are being showcased across the pond. “Pittsburgh Art on the Bank” opens Sunday and runs through June 9 in London’s South Bank neighborhood. The exhibition will include tapestry pieces, digital installations, visual poems on acrylic, canvas oil paintings and archived photography from a dozen Pittsburgh artists. The exhibit...
Pittsburgh’s Becca Droz continues ‘Amazing Race’ in Switzerland
After flying on the world’s longest zip line in Dubai and winning first place in one of two episodes of CBS’s “Amazing Race” last week, Pittsburgh native Becca Droz again will be featured on the prime time adventure reality show tonight at 8 p.m. The excitement continues with Droz and...
Rabid raccoon reported in Swisshelm Park, 13th in Allegheny County this year
Another raccoon in Allegheny County has tested positive for rabies, county health officials said Wednesday. The raccoon was spotted along Windermere Drive in Pittsburgh’s Swisshelm Park neighborhood, according to the release from health department director Dr. Karen Hacker. It is the 13th rabid animal reported in the county so far...
Cash 5 ticket sold in Downtown Pittsburgh worth $200K
A Downtown Pittsburgh convenience store sold a Cash 5 lottery ticket worth $200,000 for Tuesday night’s drawing, according to lottery officials. The ticket, which matched all five numbers, was sold at Faber Coe & Gregg on Grant Street, according to the press release. The numbers were 1, 11, 22, 33,...
Conor Lamb to hold town hall meeting in Penn Hills
Congressman Conor Lamb plans to hold a town hall meeting in Penn Hills. The town hall will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. June 6 at the William McKinley Citizen Center, 1110 Center Ave. Lamb, a Mt. Lebanon Democrat, will answer attendees’ questions and share updates on issues he’s working...
Pittsburgh Police investigate fatal Homewood shooting
A 29-year-old man was killed Tuesday in a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, according to the city Department of Public Safety. Donovan James Goodwine died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Police received a ShotSpotter report and a 911 call about...
Man dead in Pittsburgh West End shooting
Pittsburgh police are investigating a fatal shooting in the city’s West End. Officers responded just before midnight Tuesday to 911 calls and a SpotShotter report to find a man dead with multiple gunshot wounds on the 3100 block of Chartiers Avenue. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim...
The Who not resting on legacy during Moving On! tourVideo
Last year, The Who singer Roger Daltrey joined up with a number of pops and local orchestras to put a new musical spin on the Who’s legendary rock opera “Tommy.” This year, The Who itself is seemingly taking a page from that playbook with a tour in which the current...
Supreme Court sends legal fight over UPMC-Highmark split back to lower court
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sent Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s legal push against UPMC back to a lower court to determine whether the looming split of health care rivals UPMC and Highmark can be delayed in the name of public interest. In a split ruling, the state’s highest...
Workers, patients confront UPMC execs at board meeting
Demanding attention from UPMC executives and blasting CEO Jeffrey Romoff’s recent $2.4 million pay raise, several hundred union supporters and workers rallied outside UPMC Montefiore hospital in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. Joined by Democratic elected officials, patients and faith-based leaders, protesters chanted in the name of worker rights and...
IUP team to present research on biodiversity in Honduras
Four students from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, including two from Allegheny County, are headed to Central America in June as presenters at an international symposium on biodiversity in Honduras. The seminar, organized by their IUP faculty advisor, Dr. Josiah Townsend, will focus on the group’s research on biodiversity in Honduras....
Braddock man sentenced to 18 months for cocaine trafficking
A Braddock man was ordered to serve 18 months in federal prison for trafficking crack cocaine in the Greenway Projects in Pittsburgh’s West End. Bryan Smith, 24, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab. Prosecutors said, in 2017, the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration conducted wire taps...
Police rescue 4 baby turkeys from Squirrel Hill storm drain
First ducklings, now poults. Pittsburgh police in Squirrel Hill pulled four baby turkeys – called poults, as officers apparently discovered – from a storm drain near Parkview Boulevard at Summerset Drive. Officer Alex Herstine climbed into the storm drain and handed the tiny turkeys up to Officer Jason Washington, who...
Pittsburgh Hilltop Urban Farm announces summer camp registration
Pittsburgh’s Hilltop Urban Farm is hosting free summer camps in 2019 where kids can learn about nutrition, cooking, growing food, local food systems and Western Pennsylvania ecology. Children from the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of St. Clair, Arlington, Arlington Heights, Carrick, Allentown, South Side Slopes, Knoxville, Beltzhoover, Mt. Washington, and Bon Air...
Hulton Road reopened after truck crashes, dumps load on street
A dump truck lost its brakes and crashed Tuesday on Oakmont’s Hulton Road, closing the busy street to traffic into the evening. The wreck, reported about 1 p.m., closed Hulton between Fifth Street and Allegheny River Boulevard. Oakmont police Chief Mike Ford said no one was injured in the crash....
Clairton woman who Googled how to revive a baby pleads guilty to killing toddler
A Clairton woman who spent an hour Googling how to revive the toddler she strangled last year pleaded guilty to third-degree murder Tuesday in exchange for a maximum of 40 years in prison, according to the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. Deasha Ringgold, 21, was charged in August for the...
Artwork on Downtown parking garage is a who’s who of famous Pittsburghers
Pittsburgh has collaborated with the owners of a Stanwix Street building to transform nine stories of the facade into a virtual who’s who of famous Pittsburghers. The public art piece dubbed “We Are Pittsburgh” consists of 20 banners with the pixelated images of well known personalities such as Andrew Carnegie,...
Castle Shannon bank robbery suspect arrested in Ohio
A Wilkins man is awaiting extradition from Ohio, accused in the robbery last month of a Castle Shannon bank, police said Tuesday. Deontre Lamar Simpson, 23, is charged with theft, receiving stolen property and two counts of robbery, court records show. The robbery happened about 1:30 p.m. April 29 at...
Police searching for Crescent girl missing since weekend
Update: Grace was found safe in Pittsburgh Tuesday evening Police in Crescent are searching for a teenage girl missing since the holiday weekend. Crescent police said in a social media post that a 14-year-old girl named Grace has been missing since Sunday. She was last seen wearing a black shirt...
Petition launched to bring back Heinz ketchup to Kennywood
Sometimes, you just have to take a stand. In an effort to get Heinz ketchup back at Kennywood Park, Will Koz — at least that’s the username — is doing just that. Koz launched a Change.org petition to restore the park’s condiment situation. “In the past few months Kennywood Park...
Pittsburgh Taco Festival offers ‘something a little different’Video
Creative chefs all over Pittsburgh are reimagining the recipe for tacos. The Mexican dish traditionally consists of a fried tortilla folded and filled with seasoned meat, cheese and lettuce — but visitors to the 3rd annual Pittsburgh Taco Festival on June 1 at Highmark Stadium will be able to experience...
