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Retired Munhall Catholic priest arrested, charged with child sex abuse
Allegheny County police Friday arrested a retired Catholic priest for the alleged assault of a 10-year-old boy in 2001, authorities said. The Rev. Hugh J. Lang, 88, was a priest at St. Therese in Munhall at the time of the alleged assault, said police Inspector Andrew Schurman. Schurman said the...
Bethel Park High School to host inductions into the school’s Great Alumni Hall of Fame
Actress, comedienne and reality television personality April Brucker will be inducted into the Bethel Park High School Great Alumni Hall of Fame during halftime of Friday’s boys varsity basketball game. The hall of fame was created in 2013 to recognize and honor alumni who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments either personally...
National Aviary to offer discounts, activities to celebrate RAD 25th anniversary
Cheers to 25 years! In celebration of the Allegheny Regional Asset District’s 25th year and the significant support it has provided the National Aviary through the years, the aviary announced Friday that on the 25th day of each month it will offer special activities, prizes or discounts for visitors. To...
Parkland shooting survivor: ‘We need more mayors like Peduto’
A high school shooting survivor praised Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Friday for his gun reform efforts during a Washington, D.C., panel aimed at reducing gun violence. The panel, “City Initiatives to Reduce Gun Violence,” saw Peduto seated next to 18-year-old anti-gun violence activist David Hogg. Hogg rose to national...
North Allegheny student grows massive cabbage, earns $1,000 scholarship
If she were so inclined, Lily Ries could probably use the cabbage she grew in 2018 to make a life-sized version of pigs-in-a-blanket — with actual pigs. Ries, 9, now a fourth-grader at Peebles Elementary School in the North Allegheny School District, earned a $1,000 scholarship as the Pennsylvania winner...
Landslide risk forces evacuations of several Squirrel Hill homes
The threat of landslides forced the evacuation of two homes in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood Thursday night, officials said. Police and fire crews responded about 7 p.m. to Rosemont Lane, said Public Safety spokeswoman Alicia George. She said the land shifted behind two of the homes. City engineers were called...
Tamburitzans will leave building but not Pittsburgh, official says
The Tamburitzans, Pittsburgh’s consummate Eastern European folk music and dance group, is making plans to leave its building, but will stay in the city. There is a pending sale for the Tamburitzans building in the city’s 1800 block of the Boulevard of Allies, said Pam Pleash Weigand, a former performer...
Residents argue for and against Pittsburgh gun ban during public hearingVideo
Scores of people stood for hours Thursday night in a reconfigured first floor of Pittsburgh’s City-County Building to argue for three minutes each for or against the city’s proposed firearms ban. They included military veterans, attorneys, moms, dads, friends of people killed in Squirrel Hill’s Tree of Life synagogue on...
Reward offered for info on Braddock man who fled hospital with IV still attached
Area police are seeking the public’s help to find a man accused of robbery, assault and other charges and fleeing a hospital with an IV attached before police could arrive to arrest him. Jerome Solomon, 30, of Braddock, is named in Allegheny County Police warrants for a May 11 incident...
Pittsburgh Marathon CEO to step down in May
The CEO of Pittsburgh Three Rivers Marathon, Inc. (P3R), which manages the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon, is stepping down in May. “At the end of the day, I really think that my 11 years have been so phenomenal, and I’m just looking forward to what’s next in my life,”...
‘I’m sick of him:’ McKeesport woman gets up to 15 years in fatal 2017 stabbing of boyfriend
A McKeesport woman who declared, “I’m sick of him,” after she stabbed her boyfriend to death in a South Side apartment building will spend at least 7½ years in prison, a judge ruled Thursday. Cassandra Locke, 53, faces up to 15 years in prison for the Nov. 7, 2017, death...
KDKA’s Julie Grant leaving station for ‘dream job’ at revived Court TV
Julie Grant, a reporter, legal editor and anchor at KDKA-TV, will leave the station for the relaunch of Court TV in May. Grant, 37, wrote on her Facebook Wednesday that “only a dream job like this” could make her leave and that she would be moving to Atlanta in the...
Confused about REAL ID? This Q&A session could help
State Sen. Lindsey Williams and Rep. Sara Innamorato have scheduled a workshop for Friday in Millvale to help constituents navigate Pennsylvania’s REAL ID program. Starting in October 2020, state residents will need federally accepted identification such as a REAL ID drivers license for domestic air travel or to enter a...
Regent Square’s Istanbul Sofra temporarily closed
Istanbul Sofra has temporarily closed as the restaurant changes ownership, an employee at the Regent Square eatery told the Tribune-Review on Thursday. The lights are off, and there are no diners. The tables outside are covered in snow. The Mediterranean-style restaurant had remained open for about eight months as its...
McCandless Catholic deacon in child sex sting gets probation, community service
A Roman Catholic deacon from McCandless was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation and 100 hours of community service for convictions related to sending sexually explicit material to an undercover police officer posing online as a teenage boy. Deacon Rosendo “Ross” Dacal, 74, pleaded guilty in October to felony...
Cops: Man charged in Dravosburg woman’s death feared she’d rat him out to drug dealer
A West Mifflin man charged with killing a Dravosburg woman allegedly feared she’d tip off a drug dealer that he had stolen $700 and an ounce of crack, according to the criminal complaint filed against the man. The skeletal remains of 46-year-old Heather Short were found Wednesday in a wooded...
North Braddock man accidentally shot himself, police say
A man accidentally shot himself in the leg Thursday morning in North Braddock, police said. Police and paramedics responded about 10 a.m. to a home on Lobinger Avenue for a report of a shooting, said Allegheny County police Inspector Andrew Schurman. Paramedics transported a 28-year-old man to a hospital with...
Authority lifts boil water advisory for McKeesport, Port Vue
The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County on Thursday morning lifted its boil water advisory for customers in Port Vue and McKeesport. The authority said tests confirmed there is no longer a contamination risk to the more than 2,100 Allegheny County water customers impacted by a water main break earlier this...
Walnut Grill offers free meals to furloughed federal employees
As the government shutdown trudges toward its sixth week, furloughed and unpaid federal employees can enjoy a free meal thanks to local restaurant chain Walnut Grill. Employees – and their spouses and children – can choose from a menu of salads, sandwiches and flatbread pizzas. The meal also includes a...
Ammunition in Rose’s pocket, stolen guns in car irrelevant in Rosfeld case, DA says
Prosecutors in the case against Michael Rosfeld argued Thursday that it is irrelevant whether Antwon Rose II was in a car with a stolen gun or had ammunition in his pocket when he was shot and killed by then-Officer Michael Rosfeld last year. None of that should have any bearing...
24 neighborhood nonprofits share in $341K ‘Small and Mighty’ grants
The Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh Co-Op plans to spend a $15,000 infusion on expanding a neighborhood nutrition program and planning a co-op grocery store and farmers market in Homestead. Raising Achievement in Monroeville and Pitcairn, a volunteer-led organization known as RAMP, plans to offer $1,000 stipends to...
Pitt lacks details other Pennsylvania colleges included in hazing report
Reports documenting alleged incidents of hazing at the University of Pittsburgh main campus in Oakland lack the detail included in reports from other schools across the state. University officials said they provided information mandated by a new anti-hazing law that requires Pennsylvania colleges and universities to post public, online reports...
Flood advisory prompts Friday closure of Mon Wharf parking lot
Pittsburgh’s Public Parking Authority said it will close the Mon Wharf parking lot on Friday because of a flood advisory. The parking authority’s alert, issued Thursday, said all vehicles parked at the lot Thursday must be removed by 7 p.m. or face relocation. “Additional parking is available at the First...
Pittsburgh Police: Elderly man struck by hit-and-run driver in South Side Slopes
A pedestrian believed to be in his 70s was in critical condition after being struck by a hit-and-run driver, according to Pittsburgh police. The incident happened at about 9:40 in the 2300 block of Arlington Avenue, according to Public Safety spokeswoman Alicia George. She said that “This is an apparent...
Arrest made in missing Dravosburg woman’s death after her body was found
Allegheny County police arrested a man Wednesday night in connection with the death of Dravosburg woman who had been missing since early Novermber. Dale Cooper, 36, no address given, was apprehended in Homestead around 8:50 Wednesday by county officers and Homestead and Munhall police. He faces charges of criminal homicide,...
