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Pittsburgh mayor trying to avoid city layoffs as revenue dips
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said Wednesday that he is not yet considering employee layoffs as the city’s government revenue dwindles during the coronavirus pandemic. The city reported revenues since March decreased by 25% when compared to the same time period in 2019. Citing data provided by the Office of Management...
Western Pa. shooting ranges to reopen Friday
The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced it is reopening shooting ranges on state game lands Friday in counties being upgraded to yellow in the easing of pandemic restrictions. Regular hours of operation will resume on rifle, shotgun, pistol and archery ranges in Allegheny, Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Fulton, Greene,...
2 hurt when train strikes van in Cheswick
Two occupants of a van were taken to UPMC Presbyterian hospital Wednesday morning after a train clipped the vehicle at the Blockdale Street crossing off Pittsburgh Street in Cheswick. The incident happened just before 7:30 a.m. The Norfolk Southern crossing remained closed late Wednesday morning as authorities investigated. Allegheny Valley...
Pennsylvania receives $523.8M to support schools during pandemic
Pennsylvania will receive $523.8 million in federal funding to help schools respond to the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Wednesday. The money from the U.S. Department of Education is available through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. The Pennsylvania Department of Education applied for a grant last...
State police say they will continue to enforce closures through education
With multiple counties, including Beaver, vowing to rebel against Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order — some with the backing of local district attorneys — state police maintained Wednesday that “a county doesn’t have the authority to supersede a governor’s order.” However, state police Lt. Col. Scott Price, deputy commissioner, said...
No new coronavirus cases, deaths reported in Westmoreland County
Health officials on Wednesday reported no new coronavirus cases and no new virus-related deaths in Westmoreland County. The case count stands at 419, and state data has caught up with the county coroner’s count of virus-related deaths: 32. Of those deaths, 25 individuals previously tested positive for covid-19, according to...
Pennsylvania reports 137 more coronavirus deaths, 707 new cases
Another 137 Pennsylvanians have died from the coronavirus, state health officials said Wednesday, as the statewide death toll nears 4,000. Officials recorded 707 new cases of the virus between 12 a.m. Tuesday and 12 a.m. Wednesday, bringing the total to 58,698 cases since the first covid-19 cases in the state...
Pittsburgh Public Schools brace for up to $82 million in revenue losses
Pittsburgh Public Schools have spent more than $2.6 million because of the covid-19 pandemic and the district is projecting a loss of as much as $82 million in revenue this year. “As we do not know the effect covid-19 will have on state and federal budgets, it is too soon...
Charges filed in Greater Latrobe junior high hazing incidents
Two Greater Latrobe Junior High School wrestling coaches were charged Tuesday with child endangerment and failure to report January hazing incidents that were captured on surveillance video, according to court papers. Cary James Lydic, 29, of Greensburg was the head coach and David Francis Galando, 44, of Youngstown was his...
Allegheny adds 12 more coronavirus deaths, 19 cases
Allegheny County added 12 more deaths related to the coronavirus Wednesday, bringing the countywide death toll to 139. While that’s among the highest numbers of deaths reported in a single day, those deaths could have occurred any time since March 14, when the first case of the coronavirus was reported....
Western Pa. liquor stores will reopen for in-person sales with some restrictions
More than 100 state liquor stores across Allegheny, Westmoreland and the surrounding counties will open for in-person sales Friday as the region moves into the yellow phase of its tiered reopening. The 155 Fine Wine and Good Spirits stores will open across the dozens of counties that have seen or...
Pittsburgh-area nurse meets physical, emotional needs of coronavirus patientsVideo
Kristy Lewis is a registered nurse who works directly at the bedside of patients in the intensive care unit at Allegheny Health Network’s Jefferson Hospital, including those diagnosed with covid-19. The majority of her patients are in need of advanced medical support such as mechanical ventilators and dialysis. They also...
Emails: Trump nominee involved in shelving CDC coronavirus guide
WASHINGTON — A former chemical industry executive nominated to be the nation’s top consumer safety watchdog was involved in sidelining detailed guideline s to help communities reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, internal government emails show. Now the ranking Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is questioning the...
Pittsburgh-area music, event promoters bide time during covid-19 pandemic
As most southwestern Pennsylvania counties prepare to begin loosening covid-19 restrictions and reopening their economies, event producers suspect it will be a while before they can resume staging events for large groups. “I think that the numbers of infected have to go down and the curve stays flattened and people...
Pleasant Unity man charged with threatening Gov. Wolf over business closures
A Pleasant Unity man has been arrested and charged with threatening Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, officials in York County announced Tuesday. Rocco Anthony Naples, 28, faces a third-degree felony charge of threats and other improper influence in official and political matters and related misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats and harassment,...
GNC may be headed to bankruptcy
Battered by the coronavirus-shutdowns of its stores that pushed net losses to $200 million in the first three months of the year, Pittsburgh-based GNC Holdings Inc. may file for bankruptcy protection if it can not convince lenders to delay payments due May 16 on $50 million in debt, company officials...
CDC documents stress plans for more coronavirus flareupsVideo
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Advice from the nation’s top disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic included detailed instructive guidance and some more restrictive measures than the plan released by the White House last month. The guidance, which was shelved...
Airport authority awards Arnold Palmer taxiway project, eyes terminal, parking expansions
The Westmoreland County Airport Authority has selected Derry Construction Co. to modify three taxiways as part of the runway widening project at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. The work won’t proceed until the authority receives approval of needed funding from the Federal Aviation Administration. The firm submitted the sole bid of...
U.S. judge to hear outside advice on any dismissal of Michael Flynn’s guilty pleaVideo
A D.C. District Court judge asked by the Justice Department to dismiss its prosecution of ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn said he will receive written arguments on whether he should do so from people not involved in the case, several publications reported late Tuesday. Judge Emmet Sullivan said he’ll set...
19 students from Pittsburgh region earn National Merit Scholarships
Nineteen students in the Tribune-Review’s coverage area were announced among the winners of $2,500 National Merit Scholarships. Winners were selected from more than 15,000 candidates. In June and July, an additional 4,100 college-sponsored National Merit Scholarships will be announced. Here are the winners, their hometown mailing addresses and (high schools):...
UPMC Presbyterian only hospital in Western Pa. to get 1st shipment of remdesivir covid-19 med
UPMC Presbyterian hospital in Pittsburgh will be the only hospital in Western Pennsylvania to receive dosages of an antiviral medicine that is being used to treat the symptoms of patients with covid-19, the state Department of Health said Tuesday night. The health department stated it will distribute the first shipment...
Missing Pittsburgh girl found
Pittsburgh police say they’ve located a missing 17-year-old girl. Police said Brianna Bach left her Sugar Top home with a suitcase on Monday, May 11 between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. According to a release from Pittsburgh police on Thursday, she was found safe. No other information was provided....
Supreme Court appears divided over Trump’s tax and bank recordsVideo
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded open Tuesday to shielding President Donald Trump from broad demands by House Democrats to obtain many years of his tax returns and financial records, while stopping short of giving Trump the kind of absolute protection he is seeking. During more than three hours...
New Kensington’s pay-what-you-can Knead Cafe buoyed by donationsVideo
Becky White strapped on a paper mask shortly before noon Tuesday and walked from her New Kensington home to pick up her lunch from a neighborhood place she adores — the Knead Community Cafe. White, a regular customer, is among those hoping that the pay-what-you-can cafe won’t become a casualty...
Community foundations work to shore up nonprofit infrastructure to meet needs
Within days of the coronavirus shutdown in mid-March, community foundations kicked into high gear to shore up the nonprofit infrastructure of Southwestern Pennsylvania. From the 75-year-old Pittsburgh Foundation to a newer ring of smaller county and regional community foundations, there was little hesitation to reach out and tap donors to...
