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Pennsylvania reports 504 new covid-19 cases, 20 new deaths
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Saturday reported 504 new coronavirus cases and 20 new covid-19 deaths. The new numbers brings the total case count to 81,266 and 6,419 deaths. The state considers 631 patients as probable cases but not confirmed. More than half of coronavirus cases in the state...
Police seek woman in shooting death outside McKeesport bar
Police are seeking a suspect in the shooting death early Thursday of a Pittsburgh woman outside of a McKeesport bar. Allegheny County Police identified the suspect as Gabrielle Parker, 33. They did not provide an address but said she is known to frequent the McKeesport area. According to police, first...
Judge: Bolton can publish book despite efforts to block it
WASHINGTON — Former national security adviser John Bolton can move forward in publishing his tell-all book, a federal judge ruled Saturday, despite efforts by the Trump administration to block the release because of concerns that classified information could be exposed. The decision from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is a...
Allegheny County coronavirus cases rise by 20; 1 new death reported
There was one new death in Allegheny County from the coronavirus since Friday, and there were 20 additional cases, the Allegheny County Health Department reported Saturday morning. The death toll of people who have died from the virus has climbed to 178, the county health department said. The new count...
Pa. lawmakers review legislation to allow counting of mail-in ballots before Election Day
Lawmakers in the General Assembly are reviewing potential legislation that would allow election officials to begin counting mail-in ballots before 7 a.m. on Election Day, a provision that advocates say will be crucial in getting timely election results in November. While voting-by-mail election reforms have faced political pushback from Republicans...
Saturday marks the summer solstice, the longest day of the year
Fifteen hours, 3 minutes and 49 seconds. That’s how much daylight the Pittsburgh region will see today during the summer solstice — the official start of summer and longest day of the year, when the sun takes the northernmost path through the sky. The result is short nights, early dawns...
Phoenix mandates wearing masks amid surge of virus cases
PHOENIX — The city of Phoenix on Friday approved a measure requiring people to use face masks in public to ward off the spread of the coronavirus as Arizona hit an all-time high for new daily cases. In an emergency meeting called by Mayor Kate Gallego, the City Council voted...
Standoff in Vandergrift ends peacefully with man’s arrest
A Vandergrift man was taken into custody following a standoff at a borough house Friday night. Officers were dispatched to 331 Chestnut St. shortly before 8 p.m. for a domestic dispute. “Prior to arrival, Westmoreland County 911 advised us the male was possibly armed with a handgun and a shotgun,”...
Boy, 2, dies a week after being injured in crash that killed 2 adults
A 2-year-old boy has died from injuries he sustained in a June 13 accident that killed two adults in Pittsburgh’s Chateau neighborhood. The victim, Kingsley Hall of Pittsburgh, died of blunt force trauma of the head on Wednesday in a Pittsburgh hospital, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office announced Friday...
Trump crowd grows, clashes with protesters ahead of rally
TULSA, Okla. —Supporters and detractors of President Donald Trump continued to gather Friday in Tulsa, where Trump is scheduled to take the stage for the first of his signature rallies during the coronavirus pandemic. Verbal clashes sparked at times as hundreds of people converged amid a nationwide push for racial...
Parkway East ramp to Business Route 22 to close for 3 weeks starting Monday
The ramp from eastbound I-376 (Parkway East) to Business Route 22 in Churchill will close for about three weeks starting Monday. The ramp will close at 7 a.m. Monday and remain closed through Friday, July 10, PennDOT announced. All ramp traffic will be detoured. Crews from Allison Park Contractors will...
Brighton nursing home put majority of residents in ‘immediate jeopardy’ amid covid-19 outbreak, state survey says
Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center put a majority of its hundreds of residents in “immediate jeopardy” and potentially exposed healthy residents to covid-19 as recently as early May, records show. State health inspectors cited the already-embattled Beaver County nursing home for more than four dozen violations related to improper infection...
Contact tracing IDs more than 4,000 exposed to covid-19 in Pennsylvania
More than 4,000 people who were exposed to covid-19 have been identified through contact tracing efforts throughout the state, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Friday. “We are now equipped with hundreds of contact tracers that can help us mitigate the spread of this virus,” Secretary of Health Rachel Levine...
Peduto says cities should be permitted to release police camera footage
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is calling for a change in state law to permit the immediate release of police camera footage to the public following critical incidents. Peduto on Friday said cities must exhibit more transparency and accountability for police actions as they face increasing pressure to enact far-ranging reforms...
Greensburg YMCA closes after report of covid-19 exposure
After a soft reopening last week, the Greensburg YMCA closed again Friday afternoon and will remain shut down until at least Monday to allow time to sanitize after a person who used the facility tested positive for covid-19, YMCA officials said. The YMCA closed when the state Department of Health...
Men who stole rare books from Carnegie Library sentenced to home confinement
An Allegheny County judge on Friday ordered home confinement and significant periods of probation for two men accused of stealing more than $8.1 million worth of rare books and artifacts from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Common Pleas Judge Alexander P. Bicket said he would have sentenced former librarian Gregory...
Steelers, Pitt sports radio broadcaster Bill Hillgrove charged with DUI in Murrysville
Murrysville police this week charged Steelers Radio Network personality and University of Pittsburgh sports radio announcer Bill Hillgrove with drunken driving, according to a criminal complaint. Hillgrove, 80, received a DUI charge at his Murrysville home after he crashed into Ferri’s ShurSave supermarket located along Old William Penn Highway, breaking...
NAACP sues Pennsylvania over primary election access issues
Citing long lines at polls on primary day in Eastern Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Conference of the NAACP is suing the state, seeking to ensure additional protections for voter access are in place in time for the November presidential election. The suit, filed Thursday in Commonwealth Court, charges the state’s decision...
Son gives dad ‘new life’ with liver donation at UPMC
Michael Huey showed his 2-year-old son, Luke, the bond between father and son by giving his own dad a precious gift. Huey donated a portion of his liver to his father, Louis, a decision the son said was made out of love. “I prayed about it,” said Michael Huey, who...
Pittsburgh-area protests commemorate Juneteenth, demand racial justice and equalityVideo
People across the Pittsburgh area took to the streets Friday to commemorate Juneteenth, a day marking the end of slavery 155 years ago. “This is our Independence Day,” Fawn Montgomery, co-founder of Take Action Mon Valley, told a crowd gathered along the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway in Wilkinsburg....
AP-NORC poll: Majority of Americans support police protestsVideo
NEW YORK — Ahead of the Juneteenth holiday weekend’s demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality, a majority of Americans say they approve of recent protests around the country. Many think they’ll bring positive change. And despite headline-making standoffs between law enforcement and protesters in cities nationwide, the poll from...
34 million criminal cases now removed from public view under Pa.’s Clean Slate law
More than 34 million criminal cases have been removed from public records under the Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate law, state court officials say. The law, the first of its kind in the United States, was implemented last June and provides for the automatic expungement of public records pertaining to low-level crimes...
Momentum builds for making Juneteenth a federal holiday
There is a growing movement afoot to declare June 19, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday. The date marks the day in 1865 when Union Gen. Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas, informing former slaves of their freedom provided by the order President Abraham Lincoln issued on Jan....
Pennsylvania reports 526 new covid-19 cases, 38 new deaths
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Friday reported 526 new coronavirus cases and 38 new covid-19 deaths, bringing the total case count to 80,762 and 6,399 deaths. The state considers 630 patients as probable cases but not confirmed. More than half of coronavirus cases in the state are in patients...
Community gathers in East Pittsburgh to remember Antwon Rose II 2 years after his deathVideo
Michelle Kenney said being a mom is all she knows how to be. “I’m not a perfect mom. Lord knows sometimes I wasn’t even a good mom,” she told a crowd gathered in East Pittsburgh on Friday, two years to the day after a borough police officer shot and killed...
