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Pennsylvania counts 479 new covid-19 cases Sunday
The Pennsylvania Department of Health Sunday confirmed an additional 479 positive cases of covid-19, bringing the statewide total to 89,854. Officials said they recorded an increase of four new deaths due to the virus, bringing the total number of deaths statewide to 6,753. Meanwhile, 734,846 Pennsylvanians across the state now...
Fireworks trigger fights and fires across Pittsburgh
Complaints were popping almost as fast as a string of firecrackers as Pittsburghers celebrated the Fourth of July. According to the city’s Fireworks Taskforce, investigators from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and the Bureau of Fire, answered 131 fireworks complaints on Saturday and then were forced to triage another 125...
Allegheny County coronavirus cases decline for 3rd straight day
Allegheny County Health Department officials reported 127 new covid-19 cases on Sunday, with four more hospitalizations. The new numbers marked the the third straight day of declines in new cases after a record-setting 233 cases Thursday, followed by 177 cases Friday and 150 Saturday. The county reported no new deaths,...
Kiski Township police arrest man with 150 stamp bags of heroin
An Indiana County man was arrested on multiple drug charges early Sunday morning after Kiski Township Police found 150 stamp bags of heroin in his car during a traffic stop along State Route 56. Township Police said Charles King Sr., 49, of Clymer was charged with possession with intent to...
Trump Cabinet members look to reassure battleground voters
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tromped through a strawberry festival in central Florida, detailing the government’s new trade pact. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about foreign policy at a roundtable in south Florida. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler toured parts of Michigan and Wisconsin, where...
Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter
CHICAGO — A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracies theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests...
Turtle Creek man dead in Homewood shooting
A 32 year-old Turtle Creek man died Saturday evening in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, following a shooting in the city’s Homewood neighborhood. Pittsburgh Police who responded to a report of a shooting at about 9:45p.m., arrived at at the intersection of Mohler Street and Ferris Court and found a man...
Westmoreland among the counties that charge inmates a fee to be locked up
Two single beds with semi-private bathroom. Shared shower and gym facilities. A balcony room that overlooks a spacious common area with tables and television. No safe in the room, and sunlight is minimal. Free parking. Meals and outfit included in $10 nightly fee. Book and movie rentals available. Guests may...
Coronavirus taking its toll on hotel tax revenues across the region
As Western Pennsylvania struggles with the coronavirus, officials say the pandemic is expected to have a dramatic, continued impact on tax revenue collected from hotel stays, which in turn is used to promote the region’s more than $7 billion travel industry. Virus fears resulted in fewer people coming to the...
For nation’s birthday, Trump lashes out at ‘radical left’
WASHINGTON — On a day meant for unity and celebration, President Trump vowed to “safeguard our values” from enemies within — leftists, looters, agitators, he said — in a Fourth of July speech packed with all the grievances and combativeness of his political rallies. Trump watched paratroopers float to the...
U.S. nuclear envoy to visit South Korea, Japan
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, the Trump administration’s main representative for North Korea, will visit South Korea on Tuesday before heading to Japan, Yonhap reported Saturday, citing unidentified diplomatic sources. Biegun will visit Seoul on Tuesday, where he is likely to meet South Korean counterpart Lee Do-hoon along...
Tensions flare for Trump supporters, Black Lives Matter activists in Independence Day demonstrations
Tensions flared Saturday afternoon when pro- and anti-Trump groups on land and water shouted briefly along Pittsburgh’s North Shore riverfront. “Four more years!” a few dozen Trump supporters, dressed in red, white and blue clothing, shouted from the pier near PNC Park. They cheered on several dozen boats in a...
Scientists say WHO ignores risk that coronavirus floats in air as aerosol
SEATTLE — Six months into a pandemic that has killed more than half a million people, more than 200 scientists from around the world are challenging the official view of how the coronavirus spreads. The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintain you have...
2 killed, 16 wounded in overnight shootings as Fourth of July weekend gets underway in Chicago
CHICAGO — A 34-year-old woman was shot and killed and two others were injured Saturday morning on the 31st Street bridge over Lake Shore Drive, according to Chicago police. The killing was the second to occur on July 4, a notoriously violent holiday in Chicago. From 3 p.m. Friday to...
Toledo officer shot and killed, suspect found dead
TOLEDO, Ohio — An officer who was responding to a call in a store parking lot was shot and killed early Saturday morning by an intoxicated man holding a beer, police said. Toledo Officer Anthony Dia was shot in the chest just after midnight in the parking lot of a...
Coroner IDs Blairsville woman killed in Derry Township crash
A Blairsville woman died Saturday morning when she was ejected from her vehicle in a two-car crash in Derry Township. Brittany C. Lash, 23, was pronounced dead at 8:30 a.m., the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office said Sunday night. An autopsy found the cause of death to be blunt force injuries...
Traditional prayers for unity and blessing find a new home in a time of trauma
On a sunny July 4 morning when the parades and festivals that traditionally mark the holiday had been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, a small group of men and women gathered at the Evergreen Drive-in on the outskirts of Mt. Pleasant. Men such as Eric Harris, 62, of East...
Westmoreland sees 30 new covid-19 cases, 6th double-digit increase this week
Westmoreland County saw 30 new cases of covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Saturday, but no additional deaths. That makes the sixth time in the past week that Westmoreland County saw double-digit increases in new coronavirus cases. The new cases make a total of...
Pennsylvania moving closer to 90,000 coronavirus cases; adds 3 deaths
There were three new covid-19 deaths and 634 new cases reported in the state Saturday by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The statewide total is now 89,375 cases and 6,749 deaths, with 634 patients considered probable cases. Out of the new cases, 150 — or nearly 24% — are from...
Allegheny County reports 150 new coronavirus cases, no new deaths
Allegheny County Health officials reported 150 new covid-19 cases Saturday, with two more hospitalizations. It’s the second straight day the county has seen a decline after a record-setting 233 cases Thursday, followed by 177 cases Friday. The county reported no new deaths, leaving the total at 187. On Friday, the...
Employees at Harmar Target test positive for coronavirus
Several employees from the Target store in Harmar tested positive for covid-19 within the last week, a spokeswoman said Saturday. Spokeswoman Danielle Schumann did not disclose the exact number of employees who tested positive. “We’ve communicated directly with these team members, who went into quarantine and are following all health...
Governors stress ‘personal responsibility’ over virus orders
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Earlier this week, as Tennessee registered what then was its highest single-day coronavirus case increase, Gov. Bill Lee held a news conference and issued a stern response. It wasn’t a mandate to wear masks in public or clamp down on businesses or social gatherings. Instead, it was...
2 women hit by car on Seattle highway closed amid protests
SEATTLE — A 27-year-old man drove a white Jaguar onto a closed freeway in Seattle early Saturday and barreled through a panicked crowd of protesters, critically injuring two women, officials said. Dawit Kelete of Seattle drove the car around vehicles that were blocking Interstate 5 and sped into the crowd...
Hyde Park’s Mia Z releases new album on Independence DayVideo
A sound connection started at Honey Bear Mini Mart in Apollo. Owner Denise Frain introduced singer Mia “Mia Z” Zanotti and RJ Bertera, a member of the group Dead Man Switch, who owns Holiday House Studio nearby with band mate, Kyle Horrell. They’ve been in harmony ever since. “Denise told...
New Stanton flag maker helps keep America patrioticVideo
Sales of parade-size, 4-by-6-inch American flags slowed when Fourth of July parades and other patriotic celebrations were canceled because of covid-19. “We’re still producing flags, but demand is depressed — it’s there, but it’s not like in years past,” said John Gilkey, chief operating officer of Online Stores LLC in...
