Regional News category, Page 238
Despite pandemic, region sets record for organ, tissue transplants in 2020
Correction: Susan Stuart is CEO of the Center for Organ Recovery and Education. Her name was incorrect in original version of this story. Despite the covid-19 pandemic and all of the hospital restrictions that came along with it, the Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE) experienced a second record-breaking...
$2.2 billion to be allocated to school districts, charter schools across Pennsylvania
Additional federal money is being allocated to school districts across the state to help with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday said he is dedicating $2.2 billion in federal stimulus funds to K-12 school districts and charter schools. The money can be used to support...
Retired Indiana Area School District teacher accused of assaulting teen
A former Indiana Area School District teacher was arrested Thursday on charges he sexually assaulted a teenager on multiple occasions beginning in 2009. Indiana Borough Police Chief Justin Schawl said officers, working with the district attorney’s office, filed charges of corruption of minors, indecent assault on a person under 16...
Reward offered for information in fatal hit-and-run on Pennsylvania Turnpike
A reward is being offered by Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Somerset County this month. A female pedestrian was killed Jan. 4 after being hit by a vehicle just before the Somerset exit, troopers...
1 found dead in Beaver County house fire
One person was found dead after crews battled a house fire in Hopewell Township, Beaver County, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI. The fire on McIntosh Drive was reported shortly before 3 a.m. Friday. The victim has not been identified. When first responders arrived, they found the house engulfed in...
8 Kings restaurant locations in Western Pa. are on the market
Eight Kings Family Restaurant locations in Western Pennsylvania are on the market. Offered as a master lease portfolio in an April 2020 commercial listing on Loopnet.com, the locations are in Allegheny Township, Kittanning, Monroeville, Monaca, Canonsburg, Somerset, Franklin and Meadville. Six of the businesses are within a 45-mile radius of...
Buffalo Creek and Loyalhanna looking for votes for Pa. River of the Year
Heading in the final stretch of voting for River of the Year, with a $10,000 grant and more at stake, the region’s two finalists Buffalo Creek and Loyalhanna Creek are in third and fourth place, respectively. Sponsored by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the River of the...
VA Pittsburgh to offer walk-up covid vaccinations to eligible veterans
Up to 2,000 eligible veterans across the region could be inoculated starting this weekend as the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section prepares for its first walk-in clinic to distribute the covid-19 vaccine. Two events are scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 16, and Monday, Jan. 18 from 8 a.m....
Corporate boycotts could ding coffers of Reschenthaler, Kelly campaigns
U.S. Reps. Guy Reschenthaler and Mike Kelly may have lost the financial support of several top corporate donors this week as a growing number of influential firms have announced they would withhold future cash from lawmakers who attempted to overturn the results of the presidential election. Super PACs associated with...
State police cite 8 restaurants for covid violations in Allegheny, Westmoreland counties
Pennsylvania State Police cited eight restaurants in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties for allegedly violating covid-19 restrictions last month, and the Allegheny County Health Department has shut down several establishments in the first two weeks of the year. The number of violations issued by state police was down across the two...
5 things to know about your covid stimulus check
The $600 stimulus checks approved by Congress and President Trump last month were meant to provide much-needed economic relief to Americans battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Most already have received their money, but technical glitches and administrative challenges left millions wondering when theirs would arrive. Here’s what you need to...
Western Pa. lawmakers hold party lines in vote to impeach TrumpVideo
Western Pennsylvania’s congressional representatives stuck to party lines in Wednesday’s vote by the U.S. House to impeach President Trump. Reps. Conor Lamb, D-Mt. Lebanon, and Mike Doyle, D-Forest Hills, voted yes on impeaching the embattled president for his role inciting last week’s violent storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump...
State grants $1.8 million for Western Pa. rail projects
The state earmarked about $1.8 million to improve U.S. Steel Corp.’s Union Railroad infrastructure in the Braddock area and for a rail yard project along the Monongahela River in Westmoreland County. PennDOT granted U.S. Steel Corp. $1.7 million for two projects on its Union Railroad, which serves three of the...
Somerset Fire & Ice Festival to feature self-guided activities this weekend
“Roaring ’20s Rise Again” is the theme of the 26th Annual Fire & Ice Festival, beginning Friday in Somerset — although organizers say the word “Festival” is being swapped for “Showcase” to better describe this year’s activities. “This year will be simple, classic, charming and all outdoors,” said Regina Coughenour,...
Truck driver arrested 11 miles away from fatal I-70 crash in Washington County
A Virginia man is being held without bond after being accused of driving a tractor-trailer that fatally struck an Ohio man working on a disabled vehicle on Interstate 70 this week, according to state police. Hosea Holcomb IV, 27, was arrested after the 7:30 a.m. Monday crash in Fallowfield Township,...
2nd suspect arrested in Nashville killing of Butler County native
Nashville police arrested a second suspect in the killing of Caitlyn Kaufman, a Butler County native who was shot on her way to work as a nurse at a Tennessee hospital. James Cowan, 28, was arrested at a Nashville area apartment complex, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. BREAKING:...
Western Pa. teachers grapple with current events lessons after Capitol riot
Going over current events is one of Barak Naveh’s favorite parts of teaching. It’s an honor and a privilege, he said, to be able to help his history students at Pittsburgh Obama Academy understand the world in the context of the past, to show them how history is relevant in...
Officials: UPMC ‘absolutely prepared’ to give more covid vaccinations
UPMC officials said Tuesday they are “absolutely prepared” to distribute more covid-19 shots now that the federal government has encouraged states not to hold back vaccines reserved for second doses and to prioritize anyone age 65 and up. “We are absolutely prepared to administer those vaccines,” Chief Quality Officer Tami...
Casey wants consequences for Congress members as pressure mounts to oust Trump
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey called Monday for the impeachment of Donald Trump and consequences for members of Congress “who led the effort to overthrow a democratic election.” “If they refuse to resign their office, then Congress should begin to explore censure or expulsion,” Casey, D-Scranton, said in a statement provided...
Donations sought to leverage grant for 9/11 National Memorial Trail
A $100,000 foundation grant could help planners move forward with development of the 9/11 National Memorial Trail. First, they’ll have to collect half that amount in other matching donations. The September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance wants to raise $50,000 by June 30, to leverage the challenge grant offered by...
Man fatally struck by tractor-trailer on I-70 while working on disabled vehicle is ID’d
An Ohio man working on a disabled vehicle was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on I-70 eastbound in Fallowfield Township on Monday morning, according to Washington County 911 and the coroner. The crash happened just after 7:20 a.m. near mile marker 37, before the exit to the Mon–Fayette Expressway....
Rare sunny days wash over Pittsburgh — one of the cloudiest cities in the U.S.
Even with a rare weekend with winter sunshine in the Pittsburgh region, with more ahead this week, it still can sometimes feel like the region’s gray days are endless. And that is close to the truth. Pittsburgh has an average of just 59 clear days a year, with 306 cloudy...
Pennsylvania Republicans weigh the party’s future post-Trump
Republicans and party leaders are wondering what direction the GOP in Pennsylvania will take in the era of the post-Trump presidency and in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol by an angry mob of President Trump’s supporters. Will the party return to its more moderate roots as...
Western Pa. residents among virtual presenters set for 2nd Pa. Veteran Farming Conference
The inaugural Pennsylvania Veteran Farming Conference drew a standing-room-only gathering of about 75 to the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg last February. This year’s conference, open to the public as well as military members, veterans and their families, was to have occurred at a larger venue. But, because the covid-19...
Unemployed Pennsylvanians receive compensation boost through March 13
Out of work Pennsylvanians will begin receiving an extra $300 a week in unemployment payments starting this week. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry made the announcement Friday. The extension of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program is part of the federal stimulus that Congress passed last month....
