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Allegheny County tallies nearly 15,000 more votes, count continues Thursday
Allegheny County counted another 14,969 ballots Wednesday, bringing the total number of ballots cast in the county to nearly 718,000, officials said. The Return Board counted the last 7,000 ballots that remained to be processed from the batch of 29,000 that had to be set aside because of a printing...
Veterans Day bike tour in Pittsburgh rides on despite the rainVideo
Rainy weather wasn’t going to put the brakes on for these cyclists. The 20-mile ride Wednesday — Veterans Day — went on as planned with a few adjustments. The first Veterans Day Bike Tour was to include stops at the Southwestern Pennsylvania World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial,...
Brentwood School District remains open; 5 TB cases are latent
Brentwood Borough School District will remain open as officials there and at the Allegheny County Health Department continue to investigate the presence of tuberculosis in a student and five employees. Amy Burch, the school district’s superintendent, said an informational meeting with staff Nov. 9 went “extremely well.” The meeting came...
Pennsylvania coronavirus total reaches another high mark with 4,711 new cases
Pennsylvania recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases for the third time in the past five days. The 4,711 new cases reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Wednesday eclipsed the records set Tuesday (4,361) and Saturday (4,035). The state’s total now sits at 243,368, with 35,341 reported just...
Allegheny County reports record 366 new coronavirus cases
Allegheny County reported a record 366 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The new additions tallied by the Allegheny County Health Department bring the total to 18,339 cases since the pandemic began in March. It’s the third time the county has reported more than 300 cases, with 317 on Tuesday and...
Pittsburgh posts ‘No Hunting’ signs in Frick Park
There are now “No Hunting” signs in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park. The city’s Public Safety Department put up the signs at key points in the more than 600-acre wooded greenspace in the city’s Squirrel Hill, Point Breeze and Regent Square neighborhoods. “There are numerous children, bicyclists, pedestrians and pets within the...
Pitt adds 74 covid-19 cases in 3 days
The University of Pittsburgh reported 73 new infections of covid-19 among students, and one employee case, between Friday and Monday, the school’s Covid-19 Medical Response Office (CMRO) said. In an update, the office attributed the staggering increase in cases to “large-scale exposures at social engagements over Halloween weekend.” “This is...
States cite smooth election, despite Trump’s baseless claims
ATLANTA — The 2020 election unfolded smoothly across the country and without any widespread irregularities, according to state officials and election experts, a stark contrast to the baseless claims of fraud being leveled by President Donald Trump following his defeat. Election experts said the large increase in advance voting —...
Oakmont Councilwoman Carrie DelRosso claims victory in race to unseat Frank Dermody
Oakmont Councilwoman Carrie Lewis DelRosso claimed victory Tuesday night in her race to unseat state House Minority Leader Frank Dermody. DelRosso, a Republican, had collected 51.5% of the votes counted compared with Dermody’s 48.5%, a margin of 923 votes, according to unofficial results from the Pennsylvania Department of State. “I’m...
75 years later, memories of World War II, USS Pennsylvania vivid for Greensburg veteran
More than 75 years later, memories of the USS Pennsylvania are still vivid for Bill Kowinski. The 94-year-old Greensburg man was a sailor aboard the battleship when a Japanese bomber struck it with a torpedo on Aug. 12, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa in the waning days of World...
Erie postal worker admits fabricating Trump-pushed claims of voter fraud, House panel says
A postal worker in Pennsylvania has admitted to making up explosive accusations about mail-in voting irregularities in the 2020 election that were picked up by supporters of President Donald Trump as supposed evidence of fraud, according to congressional investigators. Richard Hopkins, a U.S. Postal Service employee in Erie, first alleged...
Trump loyalists get top Pentagon jobs after Esper firing
WASHINGTON — A day after President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, three staunch loyalists to the president were named to top defense jobs. Among them was a former Fox News commentator who failed to get through Senate confirmation because of offensive remarks he made, including about Islam. The...
United States has 1 million new coronavirus cases in NovemberVideo
WASHINGTON — The United States has surpassed 1 million new confirmed coronavirus cases in just the first 10 days of November, with more than 100,000 infections each day becoming the norm in a surge that shows no signs of slowing. The 1 million milestone came as governors across the nation...
Clinic opens in Clairton to address pediatric asthma crisis
A new health center designed to treat the region’s growing number of children with asthma opened Tuesday in the industrial hub of Clairton. The Cornerstone Care Community Health Center, a pilot project launched with the backing of the Allegheny County Medical Society, held a ribbon cutting ceremony and immediately welcomed...
Norwin covid-19 cases piling up
The covid-19 cases in the Norwin School District keep piling up. The school district on Tuesday said that a Norwin Online Academy student and a high school employee have notified the school officials that they recently tested positive for the coronavirus. The online academy students take courses through remote instruction,...
Allegheny County to count 2,349 undated ballots
The Allegheny County Board of Elections on Tuesday voted to count 2,349 ballots that appear to be eligible in every way save for the voter failing to put a date on the outer envelope. The ballots, which have not been opened, all arrived on or before Election Day, as they...
Harrison World War II veteran looks back at his time in the Navy, 99 years of lifeVideo
Howard Traenkner has trouble with his vision, but he still sees clearly into the past. The 99-year-old Navy veteran of World War II recalled his two years in the service, including 12 months on the USS Chiwawa AO 68, a 750-foot-long ship that traveled from Virginia to Texas to Japan,...
Pittsburgh allocates $3 million in federal funding for covid-19 relief programs
Five Pittsburgh-area programs will benefit from more than $3 million from previously-approved federal coronavirus relief legislation, Mayor Bill Peduto’s administration announced Tuesday. The bulk of the money, $2 million, will go to the Urban Redevelopment Authority for rental assistance under the URA’s Housing Stabilization Program. About 1,000 households have been...
State lawmakers call for creation of a panel to investigate, audit election
Citing a deluge of calls to their offices and legal challenges filed by the Trump campaign, state lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House called for an audit of the election Tuesday as well as an investigation, complete with subpoena power. The move, seeking to empanel a commission controlled by lawmakers, came...
Woman found shot to death in East Liberty
A woman was found shot to death Tuesday morning in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood, according to Pittsburgh police. Officers responded to 911 calls for a shooting just after 11 a.m., said Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz. Police found a woman shot in the head inside a home on Rippey Street....
Biden vows to ‘get right to work’ despite Trump resistanceVideo
WILMINGTON, Del. — Vowing “to get right to work,” President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday shrugged off President Donald Trump’s fierce refusal to accept the election outcome as “inconsequential,” even as Democrats elsewhere warned that the Republican president’s actions were dangerous. Raising unsupported claims of voter fraud, Trump has blocked the...
Seward police chief accused of offering women leniency in exchange for sex
State police this week filed criminal charges against Seward’s police chief, who has now resigned, accusing him of offering two women leniency in criminal matters in exchange for sex. Robert I. Baldwin Jr., 49, who served as police chief for just over a year, formerly was a part-time officer with...
CDC issues warnings, guidelines about ThanksgivingVideo
ATLANTA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its Thanksgiving coronavirus guidelines on Monday and Tuesday, warning against travel and recommending much smaller gatherings during the annual American tradition. Thanksgiving travel is typically the nation’s busiest transportation day of the year. “Staying home is the best way to...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brushes aside results showing Trump lostVideo
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is brushing aside results of last week’s presidential election showing that President Donald Trump lost his bid for a second term. Pompeo told reporters with a grin on Tuesday that the “transition” to a second Trump term would be “smooth,” but later said...
Warmer weather to taper off beginning Wednesday
The unseasonably warm weather the past few days in Western Pennsylvania didn’t break any records for November, but they are certainly giving residents a chance to enjoy the outdoors before winter begins to set in. Temperatures Monday reached 75 degrees and Tuesday’s high is forecast at 77 degrees. “This last...
