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Vandals spray paint graffiti on rocks at Ohiopyle
Vandals spray painted graffiti on hundreds of feet of sandstone rock along the Youghiogheny River in Ohiopyle State Park over the weekend, park officials said. The graffiti was discovered by a park ranger shortly after opening the park gates at 7 a.m. Sunday, said Ken Bisbee, park operation manager. “This...
Man skeptic of world being round dies in California rocket crash
BARSTOW, Calif. — A California man who said he wanted to fly to the edge of outer space to see if the world is round has died after his home-built rocket blasted off into the desert sky and plunged back to earth. “Mad” Mike Hughes was killed on Saturday afternoon...
Passage to India: Trump ready for warm embrace, adulation
WASHINGTON — It was the Trumpiest of offers. A rally at one of the world’s largest stadiums. A crowd of millions cheering him on. A love fest during an election year. President Donald Trump’s packed two-day visit to India promises the kind of welcome that has eluded him on many...
Trump says he was not told that Russia was helping Sanders
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has never been briefed about Russian efforts to help Bernie Sanders win the Democratic presidential nomination and he accused the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee of leaking election security information from a classified briefing. Sanders acknowledged on Friday that...
Pittsburgh foodie dishes on best city ‘crawls’
A Pittsburgh native and Mt. Washington resident, Shannon Daly enjoys exploring the city’s neighborhoods, especially its restaurants and watering holes. She often shares her finds on her popular Instagram account, pittsburghplates Her mouth-watering social media posts brought her to the attention of publisher Globe Pequot Press. In May, the company...
Once the cradle of basic industry, the Alle-Kiski Valley diversifies as it looks forward
Kalmar Chevrolet in Gilpin has weathered many changes since Rudy Kalmar, the son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, founded his family’s car dealership selling Hudsons in 1937. It’s been handed down through generations of the family, rolled with changes in the auto industry, and persisted through the changing fates and fortunes of...
M. Maskas & Sons, a 4th-generation business, to celebrate 100 years in TarentumVideo
A Tarentum candy shop turned distributor is celebrating 100 sweet years in the borough. M. Maskas & Sons was founded in 1920 by Matthew Maskas, a Greek immigrant from Chios who came to the United States in search of opportunity. He found one in chocolate. “Our great grandfather made his...
Regional health care systems set a national pace in elder care
Health systems like to tout new facilities and innovative treatment protocols, but some of their most significant advances in Southwestern Pennsylvania are happening quietly in medical schools, hospital rooms and homes where they are setting new standards in geriatric health care. In a nation struggling to contain health care costs...
Sanders wins Nevada caucuses, takes national Democratic lead
LAS VEGAS — Bernie Sanders scored a resounding victory in Nevada’s presidential caucuses on Saturday, cementing his status as the Democrats’ national front-runner amid escalating tensions over whether he’s too liberal to defeat President Donald Trump. While Sanders scored a strong victory, a cluster of candidates fought for a distant...
6 hurt when Port Authority bus, car crash on Highland Park Bridge
Six people were treated for minor injuries after a Port Authority bus crashed on the Highland Park Bridge on Saturday. Adam Brandolph, a Port Authority spokesman, said the injuries are non-life threatening. The crash involved an inbound Route 75 bus and a vehicle around 2:45 p.m. He did not have...
Charter bus rollover kills 3, injures 18 outside San Diego
PALA MESA, Calif. — A charter bus swerved on a rain-slicked Southern California highway and rolled down an embankment Saturday, killing three people and injuring 18 others, authorities said. Several passengers were thrown from the bus, and one of the dead was trapped under the vehicle after it landed on...
Liberty Tunnel reopens after 3-car, rollover crash inside
Several people involved in a crash inside the outbound Liberty Tunnel were injured Saturday, but no one was seriously hurt, Pittsburgh police said. Around 1:55 p.m., a vehicle tried to change lanes inside the tunnel and clipped another. That made the driver swerve, hitting a second vehicle and causing it...
Ligonier Township student leads effort to ship enough food to feed 10,000 peopleVideo
On Saturday, Braden Myers learned that one 18-year-old can feed 10,000 people — with a little help from his friends. The home-schooled Ligonier Township high school student organized a food drive as his senior project but decided to make it international in scope. “I just got so excited to have...
Teens in capsized raft in Northmoreland Park lake saved by firefighter who used a shovel as paddle
John Uskuraitis said he “thought the worst” when he arrived at Northmoreland Park Lake where two teenage boys struggled to get out of the frigid water Saturday afternoon. But as soon as he got closer, he saw them moving. He, along with his counterparts from Markle, Vandergrift and Allegheny Township...
’70s saw beginning of change for women in Pittsburgh police ranks
The 1970s saw women consolidate gains in the workplace that began with the second-wave feminism of a decade earlier. Therese Rocco began the Seventies wondering whether women in the Pittsburgh Police Department would ever get the pay, training and opportunities for advancement that men did. In the mid-1960s, women in...
Editorial: Legislation strangled by partisanship
The political landscape is as partisan as a war zone, but “bipartisan” seems to be every politician’s favorite word. If a legislator does something with even one member of the opposing party, you will hear crows of “bipartisan support.” Without that one member, there is a great wailing and mourning...
Big plans for redevelopment of Hunt Armory will come at big costVideo
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto can already hear hockey pucks bouncing off boards at the city’s Alfred E. Hunt Field Artillery Armory in Shadyside. The Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority is finalizing a $1 million purchase of the historic landmark on Emerson Street and is partnering with the city, Pittsburgh Parking Authority...
Virus spreads in South Korean city as thousands are screened
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Saturday reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections in four days to 433, most of them linked to a church and a hospital in and around the nation’s fourth-largest city, where health workers scrambled to screen thousands of worshippers. The country also reported...
Ohio woman killed in late night Hampton crash
A Canton, Ohio, woman was killed in a head-on crash in Hampton late Friday night, officials said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the woman as Kaitlyn Eckelberry, 23. She was pronounced dead shortly after midnight after being struck head-on by another vehicle in the 3800 block of William Flinn...
Casey, Toomey toe party lines as presidential election looms in Pennsylvania — a critical swing stateVideo
Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators Bob Casey, a Democrat from Scranton, and Pat Toomey, the Lehigh Valley Republican, were among the more muted voices throughout acrimonious impeachment proceedings against President Trump. But with no political races of their own this year, their voices are growing as they line up along party positions...
‘Impractical Joker’ Sal Vulcano pumps up packed theaters for movie’s openingVideo
Cinemark movie theaters in Monroeville, Robinson and the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer were packed with patrons hoping to meet an impractical star. Sal Vulcano, one quarter of TruTV’s “Impractical Jokers,” visited the Steel City on Friday to help promote his group’s new film. “Impractical Jokers: The Movie” launched in...
Cherrie Mahan’s mysterious disappearance haunts her mother 35 years laterVideo
Janice McKinney is still looking for answers, 35 years after the disappearance of her daughter, Cherrie Mahan. The 8-year-old third-grader was last seen Feb. 22, 1985, as she got off a school bus about 100 yards from her home in Winfield Township, Butler County. McKinney struggles daily with questions that...
South Fayette, Freeport Area, Taylor Allderdice students recognized for anti-opioid videosVideo
Students from three school districts in the region were recognized by the FBI for developing a strong message about confronting Western Pennsylvania’s opioid epidemic. South Fayette High School students took first place in the Pittsburgh FBI’s “Heroin Outreach Prevention and Education (HOPE)” public service announcement contest, followed by Freeport Area...
Man in critical condition after getting shot in leg in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood
Police are investigating a shooting Friday afternoon in the city’s Homewood neighborhood that sent a man to the hospital in critical condition, officials said. Authorities received a ShotSpotter alert shortly after 1 p.m. near the 7400 block of Race Street, a few blocks from the intersection of Frankstown and Brushton...
Kobe Bryant’s pilot had been disciplined by FAA over weather-related flight violation
LOS ANGELES — The pilot of the helicopter that crashed into a Calabasas hillside last month, killing NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others, violated federal flight rules in 2015 when he flew into busy airspace near Los Angeles International Airport despite being ordered not to by air traffic control,...
