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1 last chance to visit Kennywood, Sandcastle, Idlewild
Labor Day has become the unofficial end of summer. This year, it also marks the final weekend of 2020 to visit Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Sandcastle Water Park in West Homestead and Idlewild & SoakZone in Ligonier Township. In past years, there were things to do celebrating Halloween and...
5 tips for keeping your fall mums happy, healthy and beautiful
Those fall mums look so good at the garden center or grocery store that you splurge on a few big pots for your front porch. But after a couple of weeks, they no longer look so good — the blooms are browning and the unopened buds are drying out. What...
3 men charged in connection with 1-year-old’s shooting death in Pittsburgh’s Spring Hill
Surveillance footage led Pittsburgh police to three men allegedly involved in a shootout last month in which an 1-year-old boy sleeping in his mother’s apartment was killed by a stray bullet, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case. Zykier Young was laying with his mother in the bedroom...
Shooting leaves Cleveland officer dead; suspects sought
CLEVELAND — A Cleveland police officer has died after being shot, a second person had died and authorities on Friday were seeking the person or people responsible, officials said. The shooting happened about 10 p.m. Thursday on the city’s west side. Police Chief Calvin Williams told reporters that the officer...
Report: Trump disparaged U.S. war dead as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’
DELRAY BEACH, FLa. — A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who have been captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France in 2018 as “losers” and “suckers.” The...
Trump fires up enthusiastic crowd at campaign stop at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe
President Trump glided into a Trump Country crowd in Westmoreland County on Thursday evening to rave reviews. The crowd of several thousand at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe erupted into screams of U-S-A!, U-S-A!, U-S-A! as Trump exited Air Force One into the twilight evening, vowing that “61 days...
McKeesport man gets county jail sentence for killing grandfather
Jhalil Brown had no criminal record, graduated at the top of his high school class, and then from college. But he also fired 17 shots at his grandfather in the man’s McKeesport home and killed him. Brown, 24, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder before Common Pleas Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski...
New Kensington record store reopening over Labor Day weekend at new location
A New Kensington record store will reopen this weekend in a new location designed with social distancing in mind. AJ Rassau, owner of Preserving Underground with his wife, Sarah, is spreading his store’s grand reopening over the Labor Day weekend to keep the crowd from becoming overwhelming. Preserving Underground is...
Leader of White House covid-19 response team visits Pittsburgh
White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx met privately Thursday with Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials about the region’s handling of the covid-19 pandemic. She also visited Harrisburg and met with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, according to the Penn Capital-Star. News: White House COVID task force coordinator Deborah Brix...
Heavy rains don’t dampen enthusiasm of Trump supporters ahead of Westmoreland rallyVideo
Frequent and sometimes heavy rains Thursday could not keep supporters of Donald Trump from flooding Arnold Palmer Regional Airport hours before the president’s scheduled campaign rally. Drenched crowds stood in line at the Unity airport waiting to board buses to take them to a fenced-in holding area in front of...
Dems blast Trump policies, ‘chaos’ ahead of president’s Westmoreland County rally
Westmoreland County Commissioner Gina Cerilli on Thursday issued a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump ahead of his visit to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity. “To put it simply, Donald Trump is simply not up for this job. Pennsylvanians have suffered at the hands of a weak and incompetent...
Tech rout sends stock market to its biggest loss since JuneVideo
NEW YORK — Wall Street’s euphoria took a break Thursday, as steep losses in technology stocks dragged the rest of the market down with them. It was the biggest decline for the U.S. stock market since early June, when investors were dealing with a surge of coronavirus infections in places...
Trump suggests polling place double-check for mail-in votersVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that people who vote early by mail should show up at their local polling places on Election Day and vote again if their ballots haven’t been counted, a suggestion that experts said would lead to chaos, long lines and more work for election...
Gov. Wolf renews call for legal recreational marijuana
Gov. Tom Wolf Thursday renewed his call for legal recreational marijuana, accusing legislators of dragging their feet on the issue. “In the past year, the Legislature has failed to find time to debate, let alone pass, adult-use cannabis, even though this is an issue that affects thousands of Pennsylvanians through...
Covid vaccine will not end pandemic, UPMC doctors say
A safe, effective vaccine for covid-19 will not be the end of the coronavirus pandemic, UPMC doctors said Thursday. The disease is “incredibly dynamic,” said Dr. Oscar Marroquin, UPMC chief health care data and analytics officer. The ways people respond to the virus and how doctors treat it keep changing....
Westmoreland County reports 14 new covid-19 cases
Westmoreland County on Thursday reported 14 new cases of coronavirus. That brings the county’s total cases to 1,851. There were no new deaths attributed to covid-19, leaving the total at 49 since Aug. 19, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Westmoreland County coronavirus by dayInfogram Of the...
Allegheny County reports 105 new coronavirus cases
Allegheny County on Thursday reported 105 new cases of covid-19, bringing the total to 10,549 cases. The total reported cases in the county is now 10,549 with 10,211 of those confirmed and 338 probable. The county reported one new death from Sept. 2 for a total of 344. That patient...
As covid-19 changes political campaigns, airport stops are nothing new
Covid-19 has changed the landscape of political campaigning as the presidential election draws near. President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to visit Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity on Thursday evening, has been forced to trade in his large-scale Make America Great Again rallies for simpler, smaller stops. Thursday’s airport...
The Laser Loop, a former Kennywood favorite, is for saleVideo
Are you loopy enough to buy a roller coaster? Now, you can. The Laser Loop, an attraction at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin from 1980 to 1990, is for sale. You’ll need to negotiate the $490,000 asking price, which does not include the cost of dismantling the ride, transporting it...
FBI investigating embattled Brighton Rehab nursing home in Beaver County
Investigators with the FBI served search warrants Thursday morning at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, the Beaver County nursing home that was the site of one of the nation’s deadliest covid-19 outbreaks. U.S. Attorney Scott Brady confirmed the FBI executed court-authorized warrants at Brighton Rehab as well as Mount Lebanon...
Pittsburgh cop acquitted in road-rage case could go back to work after city misses deadline
A missed filing deadline by the City of Pittsburgh law department means that it lost an appeal on whether a police officer arrested but acquitted in a road-rage incident can go back to work. In a 10-page Commonwealth Court opinion issued Tuesday, Judge Patricia McCullough did not address the issue...
McKees Rocks man charged with homicide in death of woman who was found in a refrigerator
Before she was found dead May 4 in a refrigerator in the hallway of a McKees Rocks apartment building, Kristy Jefferson told her mother that if anything ever happened to her, Daryl Jones would be the man to blame, according to court documents. Jones, 41, was charged Thursday with homicide...
Ex-West Penn employee accused of videotaping coworkers faces more charges
A former West Penn Hospital employee already accused of surreptitiously recording coworkers in the bathroom now faces 83 additional charges, some of which allege he recorded unsuspecting patients in an MRI room, according to court records. Guy Caley, 52, of Canonsburg, was originally charged in July, months after a co-worker...
Pittsburgh expert: 6 important things to know about covid testing and going to sporting events
As the covid-19 pandemic continues, questions regarding testing, vaccines and quarantine are constantly evolving. Dr. Amesh Adalja, a Pittsburgh-based infectious disease and critical care physician and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, answered a range of questions from the Trib today. Trib: There’s been a lot...
2 dead, 2 wounded in Philadelphia shooting
PHILADELPHIA — Police on Thursday were seeking suspects after two teenagers were killed and two were wounded in a shooting that left the city’s police commissioner “at a loss for words.” Three gunman approached the victims and opened fire on Moore Street on Wednesday night, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said. Jaheim...
