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Vote for the Week 4 HSSN Game of the Week
The TribLive High School Sports Network is giving fans the power to choose the Week 4 Game of the Week for Oct. 2. Trib HSSN produces live videostream coverage with television quality, multiple camera angles and instant replay during the Game of the Week. Voting is underway at TribHSSN.triblive.com. Fans...
New Kensington woman sentenced to 3-7 years for helping to hide Officer Brian Shaw’s killer
A New Kensington woman was sentenced Thursday to serve at least three years in prison for helping her cousin escape capture in the hours after a city police officer was gunned down nearly three years ago. Lisa Harrington was convicted of five felony offenses and one misdemeanor for helping Rahmael...
Joe Biden’s Pennsylvania hurdle: Voters who fear a California-style energy planVideo
When US Airways stopped using Pittsburgh’s airport as a global hub in 2004, a billion-dollar renovation project completed in 1992 that was supposed to breathe life into the regional economy became a suffocating financial burden, and local leaders stopped looking to the sky for salvation. Instead, they looked beneath their...
Allegheny County lifts covid restrictions in favor of state mitigation orders
Allegheny County health officials lifted the county-ordered covid-19 restrictions Thursday, allowing the state’s looser restrictions on outdoor gatherings to take effect immediately. County orders had limited indoor gatherings to 25 people and outdoor crowds to no more than 100 people. The state has limited indoor gatherings to 25 people and...
Allegheny County sends out 1st batch of mail-in, absentee ballots
Allegheny County officials on Thursday announced that they have begun sending mail-in and absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 election. The first batch of ballots — approximately 20,000 of them — were delivered to the post office on Wednesday, officials said. On Thursday, an additional 50,000 ballots were delivered to...
Federal probe focuses on discarded Trump ballots in Luzerne County
A federal investigation into irregularities with mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections has turned up discarded ballots that were cast for President Donald Trump, U.S. Attorney David J. Freed said Thursday. In a prepared statement, Freed said FBI agents and Pennsylvania State Police who began investigating “potential...
Cops: 10-mile car chase ends with crash in East Huntingdon
An Acme woman allegedly led a state trooper on a 10-mile car chase through Westmoreland County Wednesday night that ended when she crashed her car in East Huntingdon, according to state police. Heather Marie Waddell is charged with aggravated assault, fleeing an officer, possession of a controlled substance and numerous...
Pittsburgh Bishop Zubik issues letter as pundits call Catholic vote ‘crucial’ to presidential race
Pittsburgh Catholic Bishop David A. Zubik won’t endorse either presidential candidate. By federal law, he isn’t allowed to in his official capacity. Church law also bans clergy from making endorsements. But Zubik, the spiritual leader of more than 600,000 Catholics in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Lawrence and Washington counties, said...
Construction supervisor indicted in 2017 fatal Rostraver trench collapse
A federal grand jury this week indicted the supervisor of a construction crew on duty when a trench collapsed and killed an employee in 2017 for allegedly lying to investigators about what safety equipment was in place at the time of the collapse. Donald Bosley, 67, faces one count of...
More coronavirus cases found at Westmoreland Manor; county calls in National Guard to helpVideo
As coronavirus cases at Westmoreland Manor continue to rise, county commissioners on Thursday called in the Pennsylvania National Guard to take over testing of residents and staff at the county-owned nursing home. County officials said Thursday another 14 residents and four employees tested positive for the virus. That brings the...
New Kensington woman sues Pittsburgh police for wrongful arrest after mistaken identity
A New Kensington woman who said she was assaulted after being wrongfully arrested last year as a result of mistaken identity is suing the Pittsburgh police and the officer who filed the charges. Desiree Pinkston, 35, said in her federal complaint that Pittsburgh officer Morgan Logan, who was investigating a...
Pittsburgh school district will review, publicize school police arrest data
Pittsburgh Public Schools is taking new measures to analyze and address school police data. The district this week approved a proposal by Superintendent Anthony Hamlet to conduct an external investigation into data pertaining to school arrests, citations and out-of-school suspensions. The data will be sorted into characteristics like gender, race...
Pittsburgh hip-hop artist Mars Jackson talks new album, social justice, ways to ‘Look Up’
Pittsburgh hip-hop artist Mars Jackson has a knack for surprising people. He performed in art galleries, like Penn Avenue’s Most Wanted Fine Art, when clubs weren’t his style. Threads of soul, jazz and gospel are prominently displayed in his melodic brand of hip-hop music. He openly discusses the benefits of...
Rejecting Trump, both parties’ leaders see orderly electionVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election drew swift blowback Thursday from both parties in Congress, and lawmakers were already turning to unprecedented steps to ensure he can’t ignore the vote of the people. Congressional leaders, including Senate...
What are ‘naked ballots’ and why they could determine the presidential election outcome in Pa.
HARRISBURG — Democrats are launching a digital ad targeting Pennsylvanians voting by mail to explain how to correctly fill out and return the ballots, hoping to avert worried predictions that 100,000 votes or more could be invalidated because the ballots aren’t put in the proper envelope. The so-called naked ballots...
New poll shows Biden still leading, but little change in presidential race among Pennsylvania voters
Nearly a month into the official 2020 general election campaign, with their camps moving full steam ahead and frequent rallies in Pennsylvania, President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have done little to move the needle among Keystone State voters, a new poll shows. A Franklin & Marshall College...
Hundreds march through Downtown Pittsburgh in wake of Louisville police decisionVideo
Hundreds of demonstrators marched through Downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday night in honor of Breonna Taylor, to protest the lack of harsh charges against the Louisville officers involved in her killing and to amplify the voices of Black women. Organizers told the crowd, which formed at Freedom Corner in the Hill...
Pennsylvania colleges take a hit in undergraduate enrollment
A new national survey of fall college enrollment trends by the National Student Clearinghouse found the impact of covid-19 and a shrinking pool of new high school graduates has left its mark on Pennsylvania colleges. The survey based on preliminary numbers from about 22% of the nation’s colleges and universities,...
Leechburg Area students to return to face-to-face instruction Oct. 5
Leechburg Area School District students will return to face-to-face instruction Oct. 5. “I’m thrilled that the students are coming back,” Superintendent Tiffany Nix said. Students have been learning online exclusively since school started Sept 2. The original back-to-school plan approved in June offered students a choice of returning to school...
Louisville police say 2 officers shot, wounded amid protestVideo
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville police say two officers have been shot amid protests in Louisville over a lack of charges in the Breonna Taylor case. Police say a suspect is in custody. Police Chief Robert Schroeder said one officer is alert and stable and the other officer is in surgery...
Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power if he losesVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election. “We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said at a news conference, responding to a question about whether he’d commit to a peaceful...
Community gathers to express support for Hempfield man diagnosed with rare diseaseVideo
More than 100 people gathered Wednesday evening at Hempfield Area High School as part of a rally for Eddie Coletta, a 1995 Hempfield graduate battling a rare disease. The high school marching band played “Sweet Caroline,” a nod to Coletta’s love for the University of Pittsburgh; cheerleaders chanted “Stay tough,...
County police: Baldwin couple charged with murder of their 1-year-old boy
A Baldwin couple has been charged with homicide and other crimes in connection with the death of their 1-year-old son. Thomas Snelsire and Tracy Humphreys, both 45, were charged Wednesday by Allegheny County Police with homicide, two counts of endangering the welfare of children, four counts of possession of controlled...
Ordered to close, Brentwood’s Crack’d Egg restaurant cracks back with lawsuit
A Brentwood restaurant ordered to close for failing to follow the governor’s orders to stop the spread of covid-19 sued Allegheny County and the health department on Wednesday, alleging civil rights violations. The owners of the Crack’d Egg, which opened in 2015 on Brownsville Road, were the subject of an...
Westmoreland prosecutors will seek death penalty for New Kensington man in 2-year-old’s death
Westmoreland County prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a New Kensington man charged with the fatal beating of his paramour’s 2-year-old son earlier this year. In court documents filed Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Judy Petrush cited three aggravated circumstances that, if proved, warrant a sentence of death by lethal...
