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State grant will help Pittsburgh improve 3 senior centers
Pittsburgh has received more than $200,000 for repairs and upgrades at three city senior centers, courtesy of grants approved by Gov. Tom Wolf and the state Department of Aging, the Mayor’s Office reported. Healthy Active Living Centers in Brighton Heights, Greenfield and Homewood will benefit from the grants, according to...
Monroeville Mall shooting suspects identified, DA says
Police have identified suspects in last month’s shooting at the Monroeville Mall and arrests are imminent, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Wednesday. Zappala said investigators used surveillance cameras and license plate recognition software to identify the suspects in the April 12 shooting at a first-floor entrance...
Suspect in disappearance of Whitehall woman had her cellphone, DA says
A McKeesport man suspected in the disappearance of a Whitehall woman who is presumed to be dead had the woman’s cellphone and used it to send a text message, according to Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. Zappala said Elizabeth Wiesenfeld, 67, who has been missing since April...
Allegheny Land Trust eyeing former Churchill Valley Club site
A nonprofit wants to preserve the land on which the defunct Churchill Valley Country Club once sat. Representatives of Allegheny Land Trust said May 8 they are working to raise the money needed to buy the 148-acre property along Beulah Road in Penn Hills and Churchill in order to preserve...
Pittsburgh grand jury indicts 2 Israelis in alleged Darknet conspiracy
Two Israeli citizens are accused of facilitating online sales of illicit drugs and guns in exchange for nearly $15.5 million worth of Bitcoin kickbacks. U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady described the case Wednesday as “the single most significant law enforcement disruption of the Darknet to date.” “This case represents the...
Bike Pittsburgh giving away free lights in Oakland
Cyclists who are biking without lights will be treated to free light sets from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday on Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. The pop-up event is sponsored by Bike Pittsburgh and its Operations Illumination program. Those biking without lights will be flagged down so volunteers can...
Pittsburgh employees rescue 10 ducklings from West End storm drain
A group effort by Pittsburgh paramedics, police and Public Works employees helped save 10 ducklings from a West End storm drain Wednesday morning. Paramedics were driving on South Main Street at about 6:30 a.m. when a woman flagged them down and alerted them to the trapped ducklings, said Public Safety...
Man rammed police SUV, drove at cops in Kennedy shooting, officials say
A man shot and wounded by police during a drug sting in Kennedy rammed a police SUV twice then sped toward other officers, prompting them to fire at the man, authorities said Wednesday Chase Kenney, 27, remains in Allegheny General Hospital recovering from two gunshot wounds to his right forearm...
Gas leak leads to building evacuations in Duquesne
A gas leak Wednesday morning closed a street and caused buildings to be evacuated in Duquesne, the city’s police department said in a post on its Facebook page. The leak started about 10:30 a.m., when a contractor struck a gas line near 46 S. Linden Street in the Regional Industrial...
Lidia’s in the Strip District gets a health department consumer alert
Lidia’s Pittsburgh, an Italian restaurant in the Strip District, received a consumer alert Tuesday from the Allegheny County Health Department. The health department said the restaurant’s prep coolers were not working and not maintaining safe temperatures for cold food. The restaurant also kept “potentially hazardous food” past the use-by date,...
Ed Asner discusses Holocaust play in Pittsburgh, Tree of Life, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’Video
Actor and activist Ed Asner has been in Pittsburgh this week playing a Nazi concentration camp survivor in the stage play “The Soap Myth.” Asner’s character Milton Saltzman swears that he is a witness to the Nazis manufacturing of soap made from the corpses of murdered Jews. Not everyone believes...
Police: Missing Kentucky teen found in Glassport man’s apartment
A Glassport man is in jail after police found a missing Kentucky teenager naked inside his apartment, police said. The 16-year-old girl from Paducah, Ky., allegedly told police that she was going to marry the man and he’d protect her. Rory Shelton, 56, is charged with interfering with the custody...
Rabid raccoon found in Scott Township
A raccoon in Scott has tested positive for rabies, bringing the total number of reported animals with rabies in Allegheny County this year to 11. The animal was spotted along Spring Valley Road, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. It was picked up by local animal control services and...
Susan G.Komen Race for the Cure set for Sunday at Schenley Park
The 27th annual Susan G. Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure is set for Sunday at Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park. The 5k run will start at 8:35 a.m. with a 5K walk and 1-mile fun walk set to start at 8:45 a.m. The 2019 Race Chair is breast cancer...
Tattoo artist killed in early-morning shooting in Stowe
A local tattoo artist was shot after he finished giving another man a tattoo early Wednesday morning in Stowe Township, Allegheny County police said The shooting was reported just after 2:30 a.m. at 127 McKinnie Ave. Police and paramedics who went to the scene found the 31-year-old victim on the...
Story behind Caliente’s award-winning Mee-Maw pizzaVideo
When Eric Von Hansen, the regional chef of Caliente Pizza and Draft House, flew to Parma, Italy, to compete in the World Pizza Championship, he took a radically different approach than his competitors. While his American opponents brought their ingredients with them, Von Hansen decided to forage for his all...
Police shoot man in Kennedy shopping plaza during drug sting
Police shot a 27-year-old man twice in the arm Tuesday afternoon while trying to arrest him at a Kennedy Township shopping center as part of a multi-department drug sting, officials said. The shooting happened at 2:17 p.m. in the parking lot of the Kenmawr Plaza near a Beer 4 Less...
A Taste of Two Towns to serve up the best of Oakmont, Verona
Oakmont Carnegie Library’s largest annual fundraiser promises to offer a variety of food and drink from Verona and Oakmont establishments. The eighth annual A Taste of Two Towns is set for 5:30 p.m. May 19 at the library, 700 Allegheny River Blvd. “This event is great because it’s a community...
Pa. Senate unanimously confirms Elliot Howsie as Common Pleas judge
Allegheny County Chief Public Defender Elliot Howsie has been named a Common Pleas judge. On a 47-0 vote, the state Senate on Tuesday confirmed Howsie to fill the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas seat left vacant by Judge Donna Jo McDaniel. McDaniel resigned in January following Superior Court rulings...
Man gets 3 year federal sentence for gun at Monroeville Mall
A Pittsburgh man was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in federal prison for illegally having a handgun near one of the Monroeville Mall stores in 2017. U.S. District Judge Donetta W. Ambrose imposed the sentence on Christian Erik Ralph, 24. Prosecutors said that, on Dec. 26, 2017, Monroeville...
Pittsburgh council authorizes $32M in spending on I-579 ‘cap’
Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday authorized about $32 million in spending for the Interstate 579 “cap” designed to link the Lower Hill District and Downtown via a three-acre park. PennDOT will oversee the work expected to start by July and end in late 2021, according to the Sports and Exhibition...
Peduto searches for towing improvements after Shadyside ‘pandemonium’
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is looking for ways to avoid another tow truck incident like the “pandemonium” that erupted Saturday night in Shadyside when police and trucks arrived to remove vehicles on Walnut Street in preparation for the marathon. Peduto and the city’s public works department announced repeatedly on social...
Free measles vaccine offered for one day in Homewood
The Allegheny County Health Department will offer the measles vaccine for free to certain at-risk individuals today in Pittsburgh’s Homewood section, officials said. The clinic will run from noon to 4 p.m. at the Homewood-Brushton YMCA on Bennett Street, according to a release from department Director Dr. Karen Hacker. A...
Photo of final 2 Pittsburgh marathon finishers goes viralVideo
Two strangers found strength in each other about halfway through Sunday’s Pittsburgh Marathon when they realized they would be the last to finish. Coming in at 7 hours, 22 minutes and 56 seconds, Jessica Robertson of Braddock and Laura Mazur of Ohio, who grew up in the Alle-Kiski Valley and...
Allderdice students plant trees in memory of Tree of Life victims
Allderdice High School basketball coach Buddy Valinsky was particularly affected by the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Squirrel Hill. He knew many of the victims, including his cousins Bernice and Sylvan Simon. Valinsky decided it was important to carry out a time-honored Jewish tradition of planting a tree in...
