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Allegheny County reports 200 new coronavirus cases, no new deaths
Allegheny County Health Department officials reported 200 new covid-19 cases Sunday. There were no new deaths reported. The death total stands at 198. The county reported eight new hospitalizations out of 1,990 test results. Allegheny County now has seen 4,962 cases of covid-19 since the first ones were reported March...
Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials as a precaution against spreading or becoming infected by the novel coronavirus. Trump...
4 more states added to Pennsylvania travel quarantine list
HARRISBURG, Pa. — State health officials in Pennsylvania have added four states — including neighboring Delaware — to the travel quarantine recommendation aimed at stemming the spread of covid-19 in the commonwealth. Officials said people who have traveled to Delaware, Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma are being asked to self-quarantine for...
Trump, Biden try to outdo each other on tough talk on China
WASHINGTON — China has fast become a top election issue as President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden engage in a verbal brawl over who’s better at playing the tough guy against Beijing. The Trump campaign put out ads showing Biden toasting China’s Xi Jinping, even though Trump did just...
It’s Trump’s call on what the GOP convention will look like
WASHINGTON — After months of insisting that the Republican National Convention go off as scheduled despite the pandemic, President Donald Trump is slowly coming to accept that the late August event will not be the four-night infomercial for his reelection that he had anticipated. After a venue change, spiking coronavirus...
‘Moving target’: Schools deal with new plans, Trump demands
TOLEDO, Ohio — With little more than a month before millions of U.S. schoolchildren go back to class, much is still up in the air - and not just because of the surging number of coronavirus cases nationwide. Last week, President Donald Trump and his administration demanded schools fully reopen...
‘We know them well’: Firefighter’s parents die in Rostraver fire
An elderly couple died in a fire that destroyed their home early Sunday morning in the Rostraver Township village of Collinsburg. The husband and wife, Marie A. Oblak, 81, and her husband, Lloyd D. Oblak, 83, were found inside their home at 808 Collinsburg Road, the Westmoreland County Coroner’s office...
Veterans left out of census count
On the morning of July 29, 1967, Preston Gardner, a Navy senior chief petty officer, had just finished an overnight shift aboard the USS Forrestal, an aircraft carrier operating in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. A stray electrical signal ignited a rocket on board. It shot across...
2 officers, suspect killed in Texas border town shootingVideo
MCALLEN, Texas — Two police officers were shot and killed Saturday by a suspect who later fatally shot himself in a South Texas border town after responding to a domestic disturbance call, authorities said. McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez identified the slain officers as Edelmiro Garza, 45, and Ismael Chavez,...
Natrona man survives near-drowning on Allegheny River in Plum
Cliff Jones isn’t second-guessing his decision to buy a kayak on Friday. What he does regret is nearly drowning Saturday on the Allegheny River and throwing a scare into the people who came to his rescue. Jones, a 55-year-old property manager from the Natrona neighborhood of Harrison, took his new...
Rain, covid-19 restrictions don’t dampen Idlewild Park’s opening weekend crowd
While rain soaked some visitors Saturday who ventured to Idlewild Park & SoakZone in Ligonier Township, it did not dampen the enthusiasm of those who waited a long time for the park’s opening weekend, which was delayed because of covid-19 restrictions. “They were looking forward to coming. They’ve been coming...
Western Pa. pool companies make a big splash during wave of demand
When the 90-degree-plus heat soars, artist Joan Marangoni stops painting by noon on her new outdoor mural at Murphy’s Music Center in Leechburg. She practically sprints to her new 30-foot round, above-ground pool at her Washington Township home. “Jumping in a pool to cool off and to be with your...
Toomey: Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence a ‘mistake’
Sen. Pat Toomey calls President Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence a “mistake.” In a statement released Saturday, Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, said while Trump had the “legal and constitutional authority” to take the action, it should be used “judiciously and very rarely by any president.” “While I understand the frustration...
Low water brings rare glimpse of old bridge and Pa. Canal at Conemaugh River Lake
Low water levels in the Conemaugh River Lake have exposed some archaeological artifacts: abutments to a railroad bridge and remnants of the Pennsylvania Canal system from the 1800s. The artifacts in the Conemaugh River Lake, straddling Indiana and Westmoreland counties just east of Saltsburg, were visible over the July Fourth...
Coronavirus deaths take a long-expected turn for the worse
NEW YORK — A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic. The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months, and even remained down as states like Florida...
Allegheny County Police arrest 2 in Stowe Township shooting
Allegheny County Police have arrested two suspects linked to a Friday afternoon shooting in Stowe Township that left two men hospitalized. The suspects are 24-year-old Jeremy Carson of Pittsburgh and 28-year-old Paloma Fields of McKeesport. They were arrested Saturday and charged with aggravated assault, robbery, and weapons charges. Detectives found...
23 new covid-19 cases reported in Westmoreland County but no new deaths
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Saturday reported 23 new covid-19 cases and no new deaths in Westmoreland County. The numbers bring the countywide case total to 975. The death total remains at 39. The department had reported 35 new cases Friday, 21 new cases Thursday, 33 on Wednesday, 35...
813 new covid-19 cases reported in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Saturday confirmed 813 additional positive cases of covid-19, bringing the statewide total to 94,689. There were 17 new deaths reported bringing the total number of covid-19 deaths in Pennsylvania to 6,897. All 67 counties in the state have cases of covid-19. “As the entire...
Allegheny County reports 215 new coronavirus cases, 1 new death
Allegheny County Health officials reported 215 new covid-19 cases Saturday and one new death. The death total now stands at 198. The latest numbers reflect 1,953 tests spanning from July 1 to July 10 — an 11% infection rate of those who were tested. Allegheny County now has seen 4,762...
Man found shot to death early Saturday on Pittsburgh’s North Side
A man was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound on Pittsburgh’s North Side early Saturday morning, Pittsburgh police said. The victim, who was not identified, was found around 6:40 a.m. lying under some bushes on the 1700 block of Manhattan Street. Medics arrived shortly after and pronounced the victim...
Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone’s prison sentence
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone on Friday, just days before he was set to report to prison. Democrats denounced the move as just another in a series of unprecedented interventions by the president in the nation’s justice system. Stone had...
Police: 3 people hospitalized due to head-on crash in Penn Hills
Three people were hospitalized Friday with nonlife-threatening injuries suffered in a head-on crash in Penn Hills. Officers responded to the two-car crash shortly after 6 p.m. Friday along the 4400 block of Verona Road near the American Legion. Police Chief Howard Burton said emergency responders were able to extract the...
UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff made nearly $9M last year, a $430K bump
UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff made $8.97 million in the health giant’s last fiscal year — a $430,000 year-over-year pay hike, records filed Friday show. Romoff’s total compensation from July 1, 2018, through the end of June 2019 amounted to a 5% increase from 2017-18, and a 47% increase from 2016-17...
Duquesne University will give police file to mother of student who fell to his death
Duquesne University will release the investigative file related to the 2018 death of student Marquis Jaylen Brown, whose mother has spent nearly a week on hunger strike in a push for an independent investigation. Brown fell 16 stories from Brottier Hall on Oct. 4, 2018, after other students called 911...
Thousands still without power from Friday’s thunderstorms across region
Thousands of residents in Southwestern Pennsylvania woke up Saturday morning with no electricity in their homes as a result of severe thunderstorms Friday night. West Penn Power Co. in Greensburg said that about 5,240 customers in Allegheny, Westmoreland, Fayette, Washington and Greene counties were without power as of 9 a.m....
