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Judge expects decision on Tuesday in Ziccarelli-Brewster race
The federal judge considering the challenge to Pennsylvania’s 45th District Senate seat said a ruling on the matter will come Tuesday. U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan said over the weekend that his order on the challenge by Nicole Ziccarelli against the state and Allegheny County for counting undated mail-in...
Pittsburgh legal experts weigh in on Trump’s Twitter ban
With President Trump banned from Twitter and Facebook, he’s lost a favored platform. But the ban also brings into focus questions about how social media giants should be policed and regulated. In the statement that accompanied Twitter’s ban of Trump on Friday, the company said the bloody assault on the...
Acting Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf is resigningVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s acting head of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly resigned Monday, leaving the post ahead of schedule as the nation faces a heightened terrorism threat from extremists seeking to reverse the election. The announcement by acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf was perplexing. It came less...
After weeklong closure for ignoring covid restrictions, Tin Lizzy bar set to reopen
After a weeklong shutdown for defying Gov. Tom Wolf’s temporary restrictions on indoor dining during a surge in covid cases, the Tin Lizzy Tap Room and Restaurant in Youngstown will reopen 7 a.m. Tuesday. “A trooper from liquor control was in here (Monday) and gave us the OK to reopen,”...
Susan Wild, congresswoman in viral photo from Capitol floor, shares harrowing tale of escaping attackVideo
Susan Wild woke up around 7 on Wednesday morning in her Washington, D.C., apartment. The Democratic congresswoman representing Pennsylvania’s 7th District had a busy day ahead of her — Congress was set to certify the results of the 2020 election. The final step in the election process is usually a...
Ex-House Speaker John Boehner: Trump should consider resigning
WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker John Boehner said Monday that President Donald Trump should “consider resigning his post.” The Republican former Ohio congressman began his remarks during a webinar on health care policy by talking about Trump’s baseless claims of widespread election fraud and last week’s siege of the Capitol...
FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week
WASHINGTON — The FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, stoking fears of more bloodshed after last week’s deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol. An internal FBI bulletin warned that, as...
Pa. health secretary says ‘it’s a misconception’ that covid vaccines are sitting dormant
Pennsylvania’s top health official said the state could “soon” move to Phase 1B of the covid-19 vaccination plan but revealed little about when that will be and what it will look like. The state so far has administered 285,671 doses of the vaccine, said Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine,...
Pennsylvania reports nearly 13K more covid cases, 186 deaths in 2 days
The state added 12,844 more covid-19 cases over the past two days, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Monday. Health officials reported 7,506 of those cases Sunday and another 5,338 cases on Monday. Of the newest reported cases, 11,522 were confirmed through PCR tests, while 1,322 were listed as probable....
Westmoreland County adds 400 more covid cases in past 2 days
Another 404 cases of coronavirus were added to Westmoreland County’s total over the past two days, according to a Monday report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Officials said 231 cases were added Sunday and another 173 added Monday. Of the new cases, 315 cases were confirmed through 817 PCR...
House speeding to impeach Trump for Capitol ‘insurrection’Video
WASHINGTON — Poised to impeach, the House sped ahead Monday with plans to oust President Donald Trump from office, warning he is a threat to democracy and pushing the vice president and Cabinet to act even more quickly in an extraordinary effort to remove Trump in the final days of...
Allegheny County’s covid count up nearly 900 in 2 days
Allegheny County saw another 887 cases of covid-19 over the past two days, according to a report Monday from the county’s Department of Health. The county reported 519 were added Sunday and another 368 on Monday, pushing the total to 61,075 cases to date. Of those new cases, 765 were...
Port Authority driver pleads guilty to crash that killed Pitt student
A Port Authority bus driver who struck a Pitt student last year in Oakland pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter. Shavonne James, 34, will serve three years probation. She also pleaded guilty to one count of recklessly endangering another person. According to Deputy District Attorney Stephie Ramaley, James was driving...
Pitt delays students’ return to campus for spring semester
The University of Pittsburgh has asked students to delay traveling back to campus for the spring term. Citing a possible surge in covid-19 infections following the holidays, administrators asked students to remain at home for the time being in a message from the Covid-19 Medical Response Office on Friday evening....
Supreme Court won’t hear Pittsburgh abortion clinic free speech case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is declining to get involved in a case about free speech outside a Pittsburgh abortion clinic. The high court turned away the case Monday. The court’s decision not to hear the case leaves in place a 2019 appeals court decision that upheld a Pittsburgh ordinance...
Supreme Court denies fast-track hearings for remaining GOP challenges to Pa. election results
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court declined to fast-track remaining legal challenges to Pennsylvania’s election results on Monday, underscoring the justices’ reluctance to wade into widely discredited Republican arguments for reversing the outcome of the 2020 vote. The decision did not dismiss the election challenges outright and kept them alive...
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....
Winter storm coats Southern states with blanket of snow
A winter storm has brought snow to parts of the U.S. South, moving into Alabama and Tennessee on Monday after blowing across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi the day before. The blanket of white falling across the region forced some school and government office closures, and fostered some play time for...
1 injured when Mercedes flips in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood
One person was taken to the hospital after a Mercedes-Benz flipped onto its roof in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood early Monday morning, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported. The crash happened just after midnight. The car struck two other vehicles before flipping on South 24th Street, according to WPXI. Further details...
Emotional Ben Roethlisberger sat on bench long after Steelers’ loss; was it his last game?
Long after the Cleveland Browns joyously left the Heinz Field playing surface and almost all of his Pittsburgh Steelers teammates had sulked their way into the locker room, Ben Roethlisberger sat on a heated bench on the sideline. His longest-tenured teammate, Maurkice Pouncey, eventually joined him. NBC cameras caught what...
Turnover-prone Steelers bounced from playoffs by big-play Browns
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. Not after they won a franchise-record 11 consecutive games to start the season. Not against a team making its first playoff appearance in 18 years. Not to the Cleveland Browns, who hadn’t won any game at Heinz Field since 2003, and didn’t have...
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...
Pelosi: House ‘will proceed’ with impeachment of TrumpVideo
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump, calling him a threat to democracy after the deadly assault on the Capitol. Pelosi made the announcement in a letter to colleagues. She said the House will act with solemnity but...
Trump remains defiant amid calls to resignVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump enters the last days of his presidency isolated and shunned by former allies and members of his own party as he faces a second impeachment and growing calls for his resignation after his supporters launched an assault on the nation’s Capitol in an effort to...
Capitol police were overrun, ‘left naked’ against rioters
WASHINGTON — Despite ample warnings about pro-Trump demonstrations in Washington, U.S. Capitol Police did not bolster staffing on Wednesday and made no preparations for the possibility that the planned protests could escalate into massive violent riots, according to several people briefed on law enforcement’s response. The revelations shed new light...
