Top Stories category, Page 1230
Clairton man killed in Dravosburg crash
A Clairton man was killed in a vehicle crash late Friday in Dravosburg, authorities said. The victim was identified as Alex Keith Anthony Brown Jr., 41, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. The crash happened along Washington Avenue just before midnight. Brown was transported to a hospital where...
Bethel Park teen located safely
Bethel Park police said a teen they were searching for has been found safe. Police issued an alert on its Facebook page Saturday that sought help looking for Maria Musciano, 16. According to an alert on the police Facebook page, Musciano was located early Sunday....
Trump acquitted, denounced in historic impeachment trial
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday of inciting the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that spared him the first-ever conviction of a current or former U.S. president but exposed the fragility of America’s democratic traditions and left a divided nation to come to...
With more snow on way, Pa. Turnpike, PennDOT put truck restrictions in place
UPDATE: These restrictions were lifted as of 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning, per PennDOT and the Turnpike Commission. Stay updated on the latest traffic advisories at 511PA.com. With more winter snow making its way toward Pittsburgh en route to the East Coast, PennDOT and and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission have implemented...
Westmoreland County adds 98 covid-19 cases
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Saturday reported 98 new cases of the coronavirus in Westmoreland County, as hospitalizations and case counts decline in the area. The county’s total cases are at 25,766, which is an increase of about 560 cases from the preceding week’s 25,202. The week before had...
Leechburg food distribution organizers say need is clear as 600 boxes go in about 30 minutesVideo
Volunteers at a food distribution event Saturday in Leechburg swiftly doled out more than 600 boxes of fresh meat, yogurt and produce to people struggling with basic needs nearly a year into the lingering covid-19 pandemic. “The lines are crazy,” said volunteer Reilly Sullivan, 15. “We take for granted how...
Pennsylvania logs 4,000 more covid cases, 113 deaths
Pennsylvania health officials on Saturday reported 4,088 new coronavirus cases, a slight increase, as hospitalizations continue to decrease in the Keystone State. The new data bring the total cases to 892,344. That’s a jump of almost 27,000 additional cases from this time last week. Two weeks ago, the increase was...
Waynesburg man found dead after house fire
A Waynesburg man was found dead in his home after a Feb. 12 fire, authorities said. Daniel Ray Lemley, 54, was pronounced dead at about 7:30 a.m. after a fire in his home along South West Street, according to Greene County Coroner Gene Rush. The cause of death is pending,...
Allegheny County adds 306 new coronavirus cases, 3 deaths
Allegheny County on Saturday recorded 306 new coronavirus cases, a relative bump up as cases had been on the decline in recent weeks. Reports haven’t reached 500 cases in nearly four weeks and the county hasn’t reported any 1,000-case days in the past six weeks, according to data from the...
Appointments for covid vaccine at new Allegheny County site filled within minutes
Those who were looking to book an appointment to receive part of the state’s limited supply of the covid-19 vaccination at Allegheny County’s second dispensary will have to wait. Online registration for the new site began at 9 a.m. Saturday, and appointments were filled within 10 minutes, according to county...
AP: GOP leader Mitch McConnell will vote to acquit Trump
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will vote to acquit Donald Trump in the former president’s impeachment trial. That’s according to a source familiar with McConnell’s thinking who was not authorized to publicly discuss the decision and spoke on condition of anonymity. Word of McConnell’s decision came Saturday before...
61-year-old woman, dog found dead following Brighton Heights fire
After putting out an early-morning fire in Pittsburgh’s Brighton Heights neighborhood on Saturday, firefighters found both a woman and dog who had died inside. Diane M. Willard, 61, was pronounced dead by the coroner after Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire crews responded a home on the 4000 block of Cambronne Street...
Wife shows true love for husband through kidney donationVideo
At 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, Dan Sturm texted his wife, Tanya. “You awake?” he asked. “Yes,” she answered. “I am coming over,” he replied. Dan, 61, made his way to his wife’s room across the hall on the 11 North hospital floor inside UPMC Montefiore in Oakland. Connected to...
House fire claims woman’s life in Washington, Pa.
A 75-year-old Washington County woman died Friday night in a fire at her home in the City of Washington, according to the Washington County Coroner’s Office. Karen E. Campbell, 75, died in her Central Avenue home, where the fire was reported at about 9:30 p.m., a county 911 dispatch supervisor...
Trump lawyers argue impeachment based on ‘hatred,’ not facts
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers accused Democrats of waging a campaign of “hatred” against the former president as they sped through their defense of his actions and fiery words before the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, hurtling the Senate toward a final vote in his historic trial....
Police safely locate Pittsburgh man missing since Feb. 6
Pittsburgh police have located a missing man last seen in Homewood on Feb. 6. George Booker, 51, of Pittsburgh, is considered at-risk, according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesperson. Police annnounced that Booker had been safely located shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning....
Pittsburgh bald eagles lay 1st egg of 2021; marks 9th year nesting on Hays hillsideVideo
The Pittsburgh Hays female bald eagle laid her first egg of the season Friday evening. A live nest cam captured the egg for the first time shortly before 6 p.m. The female eagle returned to the nest just before 5 p.m., then ate “a food gift brought by the Hays...
Trump lawyer mistakenly refers to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger
Fumble! It has not been a great week for former Montgomery County district attorney Bruce Castor. The lead lawyer of former President Donald Trump’s defense team during an unprecedented second impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate committed a gaffe Friday afternoon that brought some humor to the serious charges against...
Man held for trial in connection with shooting of McKeesport officerVideo
The McKeesport police officer shot in December by a man he was transporting recounted the incident during a hearing Friday. Geriasimo Athans testified that one bullet that struck him the afternoon of Dec. 20 went straight through his neck, and another, still lodged in his body because it’s too dangerous...
Westmoreland County man charged with carrying unlicensed firearm at airport
Security agents caught the third gun in nine days – and the second this week – at Pittsburgh International Airport on Friday, Transportation Security Administration officials said. Security officers stopped a Westmoreland County man at the security checkpoint after they spotted a .38-caliber handgun in the man’s carry-on bag. Allegheny...
Biden will try to close Guantanamo Bay prison after ‘robust’ review
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will seek to close the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay following a review process, resuming a project begun under the Obama administration, the White House said Friday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said it was the “intention” of the Biden administration...
Philadelphia-area lawyer defending Trump accustomed to political disaster
HARRISBURG — Bruce L. Castor Jr. answered his cellphone, but he had no time to talk. “I’m 12 minutes from prime time,” he said, before heading to the well of the U.S. Senate to defend his client, Donald Trump, as one of the defense lawyers in the ex-president’s second impeachment...
Health department orders aim to speed up, streamline Pa. vaccination process
New orders from state health officials will try to speed up and streamline Pennsylvania’s vaccination process, requiring vaccine providers to administer the bulk of their allotted first doses within one week of receiving them. Effective Feb. 22, vaccine providers will have to administer 80% of the first-dose vaccines that they...
Beaver County man charged in connection with Capitol riot
A Beaver County man who traveled to Washington with his wife and mother to rally for Donald Trump was arrested Friday on accusations that he participated in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S Capitol. Russell James Peterson, 34, of Rochester, is charged with knowingly entering any restricted building or...
Grove City College receives largest unrestricted gift in its 145-year history
From his birth in a Brackenridge garage, to growing up in Harrison, to becoming a business owner in Southern California, Richard Staley says the success he’s found in life has been part luck, part hard work. “At so many points along the way, things could have turned ugly very quickly,”...
