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WPIAL high school football Week 1 scores for Sept. 11, 2020
TribLIVE’s sports reporters have you covered from Friday’s Week 1 high school football action. GAMES OF THE WEEK • CLAIRTON 34, JEANNETTE 28 Senior running back Dontae Sanders ran for 209 yards and three touchdowns for the Bears, who held Jeannette at bay in the second half. • BURRELL 22,...
West Mifflin recalling student computers for ‘urgent security updates’
The West Mifflin Area School District is recalling student devices for “urgent security updates,” according to a post on the district’s website. The recall will begin Monday and will run through the week. Members of the technology department will work to resolve issues reported by students during the first week...
State grants awarded for 13 historic preservation projects in Pittsburgh region
Renovations of landmark Pittsburgh buildings are among 13 projects in Southwestern Pennsylvania that have been awarded funds though the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant program. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission this week announced 52 of the preservation grants, totaling $2.6 million, for projects in 24 counties. Nine approved projects in...
Duquesne professor placed on leave for using racial slur during lesson
Duquesne University placed an education professor on paid leave Friday after backlash erupted in response to his use of a racial slur during a virtual class on Thursday. The class was captured in videos and posted to social media. Effective Friday afternoon, “that faculty member in the video is on...
Pittsburgh pizzeria sues Winghart’s owners over Market Square fire
The owner of a Market Square restaurant is accusing the previous owners of its neighbor, Winghart’s, of failing to call for help for 45 minutes when a fire broke out there last fall. Rudolph Sergio Muto, who owns La Gondola Pizzeria & Restaurant, filed a lawsuit in Allegheny County Common...
Political color abounds outside Flight 93 memorial for 9/11 service
About 100 cars and pickups, many sporting Trump flags and bumper stickers, lined Route 30 Friday morning at the entrance to the Flight 93 National Memorial. Most of those parked along the highway had hoped to attend the 19th 9/11 Memorial Observance but were left to wait outside the gates....
19th anniversary of 9/11 marked at Flight 93 memorial with visits by Trump, BidenVideo
It was quiet. A line of geese honked overhead as United Flight 93 Capt. Jason Dahl’s name was read. A police horse neighed in the distance as passenger Colleen Fraser was remembered. The silence was noticeable throughout the 19th annual remembrance ceremony for the 40 passengers and crewmembers on the...
Owner of Medicine Shoppe in Jeannette denies ‘price gouging’
As owner of the Medicine Shoppe in Jeannette for 27 years, pharmacist James Beatty believes he’s served the needs of the community to the best of his ability. That’s why word this week that state Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Beatty entered into an agreement in response to a recent...
Westmoreland leads region in fatal overdose prosecutions
Carmen Capozzi knows all too well the horrors associated with drug addiction. For three days in 2015, he sat quietly in a Westmoreland County courtroom and watched the trial of a Wilkinsburg man charged with selling his 20-year-old son a fatal dose of heroin three years earlier. Capozzi’s silence ended...
Suspects in burning of unmarked Pittsburgh police car during protest appear in court
Four people charged after the burning of a Pittsburgh police vehicle during protests May 30 near PPG Paints Arena waived their charges to Allegheny County Common Pleas Court on Friday. Cameron Guetta, Dajon Lengyel, Robert Redman, Shaheed Hatch and Khalena Connolly-Wack were all charged after the unmarked car was destroyed...
‘Orange sky made me want to go back’: Ligonier man home after battling Calif. wildfires
Many people viewing the startling images of wildfires ravaging millions of acres in California might shy away from an opportunity to get in the middle of a dry-season inferno. Not Joshua Derk, a state-certified wildland firefighter and second lieutenant with Ligonier’s Valley Hose Co. Derk, 30, returned Tuesday from Point...
Small breweries take advantage of liquor laws to create ‘Pennsylvania Loophole’ beer
Small breweries, like so many other businesses, have been hit hard by the health and safety restrictions of the covid-19 pandemic. Those who don’t have the means of selling their beer beyond pints and growlers are in an especially difficult position. “We’re just a small, family-owned brewery with a two-barrel...
No move to remote learning, as Penn State adds 272 covid cases since last update
A week after Penn State President Eric Barron said he would consider moving the university to remote learning, he announced Friday that such a move was not yet necessary. The announcement came on the heels of Friday’s updated COVID-19 dashboard, which showed 272 new cases of the coronavirus at University...
Westmoreland County reports 20 additional coronavirus cases
Westmoreland County on Friday reported 20 new cases of covid-19, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The county’s total case count now stands at 1,945. Of the new cases, 19 are reported as confirmed and one is probable. Westmoreland County coronavirus by dayInfogram With no new deaths reported Friday,...
Pennsylvania reports 1,008 new coronavirus cases, 17 new deaths
Pennsylvania on Friday added 1,008 new cases of covid-19 to bring the state’s total to 142,885 cases. The new cases were part of a record-high number of daily test results reported: 30,855, according to the Department of Health. Pa. coronavirus by dayInfogram Daily case reports have exceeded 900 on five...
Allegheny County reports triple-digit new covid-19 cases for 2nd time this month
Allegheny County on Friday reported 100 new cases of coronavirus out of 1,134 tests. The highest number of cases reported this month was 105 on Sept. 3, which was the only other day so far this month with 100 or more cases. The lowest reported number of new cases was...
Scrap those face shields: Study says layered masks work better against covid-19
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — They’re more comfortable, but they don’t work too well. Plastic face shields, neck gaiters and masks with valves — three of the creative approaches to face coverings since covid-19 hit the United States — are not very effective in curbing the spread of coronavirus particles, according...
U.S. marks 9/11 anniversary at tributes shadowed by virus
NEW YORK — Americans commemorated 9/11 Friday as another national crisis reconfigured memorial ceremonies, dividing some victims’ families over coronavirus safety precautions, and a presidential campaign carved a path through the observances. In New York, victims’ relatives gathered Friday morning for split-screen remembrances at the World Trade Center’s Sept. 11...
Remembering Flight 93: ‘Their momentous deeds will outlive us all’Video
Calling the 40 people who died on Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, “intrepid heroes,” President Donald Trump marked the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the national memorial to that flight in Somerset County. “On that September morning when America was under attack, the battle turned to the...
Cops responding to Shotspotter alert find gas line ruptured by gunfire; homes evacuated
Pittsburgh police officers responding to a Shotspotter alert overnight in the city’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood didn’t catch any suspects. But they may have prevented a tragedy. Officers from the Zone 1 station who responded to the automated gunfire detection alert in the 3000 block of Shadeland Avenue shortly after midnight found...
Trump revels in packed Michigan crowd amid Woodward book falloutVideo
FREELAND, Mich. — Reeling from another crisis of his own making, President Donald Trump tried to refocus attention on his Democratic rival Thursday at a rally in battleground Michigan as he pushed to move past revelations that he purposefully played down the danger of the coronavirus last winter. But the...
Report: Trump administration has secretly withheld millions from FDNY 9/11 health program
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has secretly siphoned nearly $4 million away from a program that tracks and treats FDNY firefighters and medics suffering from 9/11-related illnesses, the New York Daily News has learned. The Treasury Department started withholding parts of payments — nearly four years ago — meant to...
Police: 2 Allegheny County plumbing inspectors fudged their reports
Two Allegheny County plumbing inspectors have been arrested and charged with multiple felony counts of tampering with public records. Michael O’Toole, 57, of Pittsburgh and Timothy Chelosky, 53, of McKeesport were taken into custody and taken to the Allegheny County Jail on Thursday, Allegheny County Police reported. The arrests are...
Judges: Trump can’t exclude people from district drawings
NEW YORK — Saying the president had exceeded his authority, a panel of three federal judges on Thursday blocked an order from President Donald Trump that tried to exclude people in the country illegally from being counted when congressional districts are redrawn. The federal judges in New York, in granting...
Lori Falce: The people we were on 9/11
Why aren’t we the people we were 19 years ago? On Sept. 11, 2001, we were broken and bleeding, grieving and groaning in pain. The terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Center and shredded the Pentagon and cratered a field in Shanksville stole thousands of lives and left...
