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Dozen residents displaced following Carrick apartment fire
About a dozen residents have been displaced by an apartment fire in Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood on Saturday morning, according to Trib news partner WPXI. The fire was reported on the 200 block of Sunnyland Avenue in Carrick, around 9:40 a.m. The American Red Cross is assisting displaced residents in finding...
Woman in critical condition following shooting in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood
A woman is in critical condition after she was shot in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood, according to police. Pittsburgh police responded to the 1400 block of Grotto Street shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday , after a ShotSpotter alert. Zone 5 officers arrived to find a woman with multiple gunshot wounds to...
Allegheny, Westmoreland report highest new covid case totals since January
Allegheny and Westmoreland counties on Saturday each saw their highest new number of covid cases since mid-January. Allegheny County added 653 cases, the highest since 670 were added on Jan. 13, while Westmoreland’s 214 additional cases were the most since 277 on that same day in January. Pennsylvania’s 5,343 new...
Pittsburgh man dies after being struck by industrial container at RIDC Park aromatics business
A 43-year-old Pittsburgh man died after being struck by an industrial container full of liquid Friday morning in the RIDC Park in O’Hara, according to county detectives. Allegheny County police said Jason D’Alicandro was working at Alpha Aromatics, on Alpha Drive in the RIDC Park, when he was struck by...
Frick Park Tavern in Regent Square set to reopen; owner seeks employees
Jimmy Brown knows what he wants for his birthday—customers. “That would be the best present,” said Brown, who owns the Frick Park Tavern on Braddock Avenue in Regent Square which has been closed since December. “I think people are ready to come back.” Brown plans on opening doors to the...
‘The great sacrifice’: Easter reminds that story of Jesus, his resurrection remain relevant, ministers say
As the Christian world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ this Easter, local ministers say they will remind their congregations that the events that took place almost 2,000 years ago remain important today. “There is nothing like the story of Easter and the reality of Christ’s resurrection that demonstrates God’s...
Trib’s Steve Adams was among a group of students who got first look at the Unabomber
Steve Adams was a graduate student studying journalism at the University of Montana when a call came in from the New York Times on April 3, 1996. The FBI was on the verge of arresting a reclusive mountain man believed to the infamous Unabomber. The paper wanted to hire a...
FBI profiler donates Unabomber files to Cal U forensic sciences program 25 years after arrest of Ted Kaczynski
When FBI agents arrested Ted Kaczynski at his remote Montana cabin 25 years ago today, they knew a lot about the famous recluse whose 17-year string of bombings killed three people and injured 24. Much of what they knew, right down to the bomber’s unusual linguistic stylings, came from the...
Unopened Super Mario Bros. game from 1986 sells for $660,000
DALLAS — An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. that was bought in 1986 and then forgotten about in a desk drawer has sold at auction for $660,000. Heritage Auctions in Dallas said the video game sold Friday. The auction house said the video game was bought as a...
1 person dies, another airlifted from scene following crash on Route 136 in Hempfield
One person died and another was airlifted by a medical helicopter following a crash on Route 136 Friday evening, a Westmoreland emergency dispatcher confirmed. The crash, which occurred around 7:10 p.m., closed the road between Lower Lane and Edna Road, near the Hempfield Area School district bus garage. State police...
Covid-19 surge at Pitt: University reports 54 new coronavirus cases in 2 days
A still-growing surge of covid-19 cases at the University of Pittsburgh has prompted leaders to urge students to take extra care and abide by shelter-in-place rules going into Easter weekend. Between Tuesday and Thursday, the university reported an additional 54 cases of the coronavirus disease. Those include 51 students and...
Skateboarder struck by vehicle in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood
A man riding an electric skateboard was struck by a vehicle Friday afternoon in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood, police said. Medics took the victim to a nearby hospital, where he was in stable condition, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman Maurice Matthews. Emergency dispatchers received a report of the crash at...
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb visits striking ATI steelworkers, calls for federal health insurance helpVideo
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb visited Friday morning with striking steelworkers from Allegheny Technologies at their union hall in Brackenridge and on the picket lines in Harrison, then later lobbied to get striking workers health care benefits. The Democrat from Mt. Lebanon said he came to the Alle-Kiski Valley to support...
Pennsylvania Game Commission says 2020-21 deer harvest surpassed previous year
Pennsylvania hunters killed an estimated 435,180 deer during the 2020-21 hunting seasons, the state game commission announced Friday. That topped the previous license year’s harvest of 389,431 by about 12%, the agency reported. In the past 21 years, since 1993, the state’s hunters have harvested more than 400,000 deer in...
Wolf: More than 112K Pa. teachers and staff vaccinated in 3 weeks
More than 112,500 teachers and school staffers across Pennsylvania received a covid-19 vaccine in less than a month, leading Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday to declare his aggressive vaccination plan for educators a victory. “This is a great success,” Wolf declared during a trip to Luzerne County. “We know that...
Man rams car into 2 Capitol police; 1 officer, driver killed
WASHINGTON — A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second line-of-duty death this year for a department still struggling to heal from the Jan. 6...
Pennsylvania’s covid cases remain elevated
Pennsylvania on Friday reported more than 4,000 new cases of coronavirus — the seventh time in two weeks the state has eclipsed that threshold. The state added 4,656 newly reported cases, raising the total case count to 1,033,406. The seven-day average, at 4,034, has been above 4,000 cases for the...
Greensburg police arrest man for trying to fake drug test
For the second time this week, a Westmoreland County parolee was arrested for trying to fake a court-ordered drug test. Greensburg police charged Robert B. Nix-Williams, 34, of Arnold with a misdemeanor count of furnishing drug-free urine after attempting to falsify a drug test at the state parole office. He...
Real ID enforcement to begin Oct. 1 for air travel
The Real ID deadline is creeping back up. If you are planning to fly on a commercial domestic flight or enter a federal building that requires acceptable identification after Oct. 1, you’ll need a Real ID-compliant driver’s license or photo ID card. Aside from the state-issued card, there are various...
Fully vaccinated can travel again, says new CDC guidance
NEW YORK — Add travel to the activities vaccinated Americans can enjoy again, according to new U.S. guidance issued Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S. without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine...
Kitschy kitchenware: Vintage Pyrex, CorningWare is fab again
You wouldn’t think a 30-year-old has much to be nostalgic about, but Nicole Chynoweth gets that feeling from vintage Pyrex dishes. The kitchen of her Kennedy Township apartment is decorated with favorite pieces from her ever-evolving collection. Vintage kitchenware — from Pyrex to CorningWare and beyond — is having a...
How much money will your school district get of the $5B in covid relief headed to Pennsylvania?
School districts across Western Pennsylvania are among those receiving federal funds to help with expenses incurred from the covid-19 pandemic. As part of the $1.9 trillion federal American Rescue Plan aid package, Pennsylvania schools will receive nearly $5 billion, Gov. Tom Wolf announced this week. The goal of the federal...
Buy a piece of movie, TV history during Latrobe gallery saleVideo
“Mindhunter” fans can own a piece of the Netflix thriller series. Furniture, lamps, a typewriter, curtains and even a vacuum cleaner used in the show’s Pittsburgh-area filming are on sale at Spring Street Gallery in Latrobe. Those pieces are part of owner Adam Dunhoff’s vast collection of vintage and antique...
Judge: Crack’d Egg can’t flout covid rules while waiting to appeal ruling
The embattled Crack’d Egg restaurant in Brentwood cannot allow maskless customers or operate at 100% capacity while its attorneys appeal those mandates, a Commonwealth Court judge has ruled. Attorneys for the restaurant on Brownsville Road, requested the stay, or pause, on a ruling issued in February by the Allegheny County...
March hiring accelerated to 916K, yet many jobs remain lost
America’s employers unleashed a burst of hiring in March, adding 916,000 jobs in a sign that a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession is taking hold as vaccinations accelerate, stimulus checks flow through the economy and businesses increasingly reopen. The March increase — the most since August — was nearly...
