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Car crashes into Shaler restaurant, but disaster averted
Police are investigating what caused a motorist to cross two lanes of traffic, strike a pole and crash into a building Sunday afternoon in Shaler. Shaler police Lt. Sean Frank said the crash happened around 3 p.m. when the driver crashed into the Barrel Junction restaurant, 3108 William Flynn Highway....
Utility-pole fire closes Coxcomb Hill Road in Plum
Coxcomb Hill Road in Plum was closed Sunday at about 1:30 p.m. between Ramparts Boulevard and River Road due to a utility pole on fire, according to Allegheny County officials. The mishap also closed the intersection of Coxcomb Hill Road (Route 909) and Repp Road. Utility poles along the road,...
Multi-car crash on Parkway East sends 1 to hospital
One person was transported by ambulance from the scene of a five-car crash on the Parkway East near the Bates Street exit on Sunday afternoon. The crash, in the eastbound lanes near mile marker 72, was reported around 11:30 a.m., according to Allegheny County 911 officials. Eastbound traffic on the...
Penguins viewing party Downtown will depend on the weather
This afternoon’s weather will determine if Penguins fans can enjoy Sunday’s Game 3 outdoors. The KeyBank Big Screen will be in operation for all home playoff games at the corner of Centre Avenue and Logan Street, with activation beginning two hours before game time. But with rough weather in the...
No injuries in Garfield house fire
No one was injured as firefighters put out a blaze on the 5000 block of Brown Way in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood on Sunday morning. The fire was reported around 10 a.m. A small section of Brown Way closed in the area of the fire is back open, according to Allegheny...
Teen found shot to death in Garfield home
A 19-year-old man was found dead inside a home in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood Saturday night, according to Pittsburgh police. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Ameer Coleman of Pittsburgh as the victim of a shooting that occurred shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday. Coleman’s body was found at a...
Heavy rain, wind expected to hit Pittsburgh Sunday
Here come April’s showers. The National Weather Service in Moon has issued a hazardous weather outlook — including severe thunderstorms, wind gusts, heavy rainfall and possible tornadoes — for several Eastern U.S. states starting Sunday and lasting through late next week. Potential for widespread severe thunderstorms Sunday across much of...
Monroeville Mall shoppers react to Friday night gunfire
Monroeville Mall shoppers had mixed feelings the day after about gunfire that led to an evacuation there Friday night. “This world is getting crazy,” said April Hawkins, 49, of Wilkinsburg. She was standing outside the mall Saturday afternoon after shopping for clothes with her grandson. Police are searching for suspects...
No major injuries as multi-car crash snarls Parkway East traffic
Traffic approaching the Squirrel Hill Tunnels is moving slowly in both directions Saturday afternoon, the result of residual delays following a multi-vehicle crash. Officials for PennDOT announced via Twitter that the crash occurred in the eastbound lanes of the Parkway East shortly after 2 p.m., near the Beechwood Boulevard exit...
Luke Skywalker acquitted on all charges by Pittsburgh-area ‘jury’
The force was with him. Luke Skywalker was acquitted on all charges Saturday by a jury of 15 youths in the region during a mock trial at the Dormont Public Library put on by the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division. Skywalker was portrayed by Pittsburgh attorney Matthew Feinman...
Chelsa Wagner declares partial victory in Detroit case, releases more video
Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner is declaring victory in the case involving a March 6 encounter she and her husband had with Detroit police, according to a statement emailed to the Tribune-Review on Saturday by a public relations firm that’s representing the couple. The firm also released more video footage...
Monroeville Mall shooting prompts evacuation; no arrests, no known injuries
Monroeville police say a shooting that prompted an evacuation of Monroeville Mall on Friday evening was a “targeted event” that involved an altercation between two groups of men. Police Chief Doug Cole said police received no reports of any injuries in the shooting at the first-floor entrance to the Macy’s...
CMU staffer accused of shooting video up students’ skirts
A Carnegie Mellon University staffer is accused of using a cell phone to shoot video up the skirts of two women waiting at a Pittsburgh bus stop. Campus police have charged Edward H. Jones Jr., 72, of Pittsburgh, with two misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy stemming from his alleged...
2 Pittsburgh women sentenced for their role in Medicaid fraud conspiracy
Two Pittsburgh women were sentenced in federal court for conspiracy to defraud the state Medicaid program. U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon sentenced Autumn Brown, 31, and Brenda Lowry Horton, 48, to five years of probation, including six months of home detention, for their roles in a years-long conspiracy. Brown and...
Brookline man who says he’s ‘addicted’ to child porn gets 10 years in prison
A man who lived with a toddler in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after police found him in possession of nearly 1,000 images and videos depicting child pornography, federal prosecutors said Friday. Jeffrey Goehring, 46, was arrested after Yahoo alerted authorities on July 3,...
UPMC says state attorney general has no legal grounds to delay Highmark divorce
UPMC on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to deny Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s push to delay its contractual breakup with rival Highmark this summer, when thousands of Highmark-insured patients are set to lose access to most UPMC hospitals and doctors. UPMC further derided Shapiro’s last-ditch effort to halt...
Chelsa Wagner case raises questions about hotel guest rights
The circumstances leading up to the arrest of Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner have raised questions about a person’s rights when staying at a hotel. Wagner’s attorney, Charles Longstreet, argued this week during Wagner’s preliminary examination in Detroit that there’s nothing illegal about drinking in a hotel room, and police...
‘You could give life,’ Pittsburgh mayor says of organ donation month
Retired Pittsburgh Police Officer Brenda Tate said she couldn’t bear watching her brother deteriorate from kidney disease two years ago, so she became a chain organ donor allowing him to receive a new kidney. At 68, Tate of the Hill District donated her kidney to a man in Erie. The...
Bank of America raising its minimum wage to $20 per hour
A national bank that’s been making a push into the Pittsburgh market announced this week it will be raising its minimum wage to $20 per hour within two years. “We believe that to best serve our customers and clients, we need the best teams,” said Sheri Bronstein, chief human resources...
Highmark’s IT company axes 132 positions in Pittsburgh
Highmark’s IT company “continues to be on a growth path” in spite of eliminating 239 positions across Pennsylvania and Delaware, including 132 jobs in Pittsburgh, Highmark officials said Friday. People who received layoff notices this week worked for HM Health Solutions in the areas of platform and technology, portfolio management...
See how much Pittsburgh has spent and on what with these online toolsVideo
Want to know how much money Pittsburgh has spent so far this year and where that money is going? Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb on Friday announced the creation of three new applications on his Fiscal Focus Pittsburgh website that offer a look at the city’s financial operations. They include: •...
Light pole falls, striking Pitt student outside Chevron Science Center
A light pole outside the Chevron Science Center at the University of Pittsburgh fell to the ground Friday, striking a male student, a spokesman said. The student was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, said Pitt spokesman Kevin Zwick. The incident occurred at the corner of University Drive and...
Peduto: Sending immigrant detainees to Pittsburgh not a punishment
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said Friday he would welcome detainees and speculated that the city could have found homes for several hundred if the Trump administration had decided to send some to Pittsburgh. Peduto, who has been clear that his administration will welcome immigrants to the city, made the comments...
Human remains found on Mt. Washington hillside identified
Officials have identified human skeletal remains discovered last April by hikers on a wooded hillside in Pittsburgh’s Mt. Washington neighborhood. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said the remains belong to Bernard M. Mohan, 62. The office didn’t specify where Mohan was from. No further information about Mohan was released....
Police: Denison students on scavenger hunt chased Pitt coed
They were challenged to “scare someone” in Pittsburgh. Now, four Denison University students are banned from University of Pittsburgh property after campus police tracked them down and found out one of the suspicious incidents reported in Oakland this week was prompted by a scavenger hunt the out-of-town students told police...
