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New-look Oakmont Country Club presents different challenge from previous U.S. Opens
Golfers playing and fans watching the 125th U.S. Open beginning June 12 at Oakmont Country Club will see a different course since the last time the championship was held there in 2016. The changes are aplenty. The new look will give the world’s best golfers something to contemplate. The course...
Epstein attorney slams Musk’s claim that Trump is ‘in the Epstein files’
A defense attorney who worked with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein claims his former client provided no information that would implicate President Donald Trump in any illegal activity. Epstein, who hanged himself at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, was known to party...
Trump looks to sell Tesla after feud with Musk
It was a costly spat. As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk feuded on social media Thursday afternoon, shares of Musk’s Tesla Inc. plummeted more than 14% — erasing $150 billion of the electric vehicle maker’s value. Investors weren’t the only ones looking to dump Tesla. Trump is looking to...
Dick Skrinjar, affable, longtime spokesman for Pittsburgh’s mayors, PennDOT, dies at 74
Dick Skrinjar, who served as a spokesman for former Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, died Thursday. He was 74. “The thing about my dad is that he was ultimately just a very loving person,” Zach Skrinjar, one of his sons, told TribLive Friday. “He loved...
Clairton man found guilty of attempted murder in 2023 police chase, shooting
Throughout his trial, Bruce Alvarado has watched a large television screen in the courtroom as prosecutors played police body camera footage showing the chaos of a chase that ended in Allegheny Township with a police officer being shot twice. On Friday, the Clairton man stood and watched as jurors convicted...
Pittsburgh Mills: From 1-stop shop to disarray
With recent legal developments, including hundreds of township-issued citations, criminal charges and a lawsuit filed by real estate trusts for Walmart and Sam’s Club, Namdar Realty Group, the owners of Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer, continues to remain under the microscope for the property’s alleged mismanagement and slow decay. How...
Army Corps says Parks Township nuclear waste remediation should be safe
Parks Township residents are concerned, even skeptical, that government contractors can remove 33,000 cubic yards of nuclear waste, package it and ship it to Utah without harming their community. Army Corps of Engineers officials on Thursday sought to allay those fears with more details on how they plan to safely...
Championship-round tickets sold out for U.S. Open at Oakmont; limited practice-round spots remain
Tens of thousands of golf fans have secured their tickets for the 125th U.S. Open being held next week at Oakmont Country Club. The USGA announced Friday that the championship rounds, scheduled for Thursday through June 15, are sold out. Around 30,000 spectators are expected at the course each day...
Judge grants Job Corps’ 99 sites brief reprieve from closure amid lawsuit
U.S. Job Corps centers around the country, including a site in Pittsburgh, will remain open — at least for now. A federal judge in New York City on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order that bars the U.S. Department of Labor from eliminating the Job Corps without congressional authorization. The...
Elon Musk pulls back on threat to withdraw Dragon spacecraft
As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world’s richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station. A few hours later, Musk said he wouldn’t follow through on the threat. After Trump threatened...
Feds move to drop Sheetz discrimination case as Trump targets key civil rights tool
Federal authorities are moving to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to halt the use of a key tool for enforcing the country’s civil rights laws. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces workplace anti-discrimination...
PFA request details strife preceding fatal Pittsburgh police shooting in Brighton Heights
A Pittsburgh police officer fatally shot a man after he stabbed a different city officer Friday morning in the Brighton Heights neighborhood, according to Allegheny County Police. The incident unfolded shortly before 6 a.m. as city officers arrived to serve an emergency protection-from-abuse order at a home in the 200...
Roundup: TSA agent accused of theft at Pittsburgh airport; police say mail carrier injured in attempted robbery
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, June 6: TSA agent accused of theft at Pittsburgh airport A Transportation Security Administration agent is accused of stealing money from a passenger during a screening process Wednesday afternoon at Pittsburgh International Airport. Allegheny County Police said the...
Longtime fans recount stories, experiences at past U.S. Opens at Oakmont
Curt Coulter has a deep connection to Oakmont Country Club and the U.S. Opens played there. The golfing bug bit him early, at just 7. By the time he was 13, he was a junior member at Oakmont living a chip shot away. Coulter, 59, went on to win seven...
Lori Falce: The bromance is over
In December, as the Biden administration was winding down and the air was thick with plans for the second Donald Trump term in the White House, I asked a question. I looked at the events surrounding the continuing resolution bill making its way through both chambers of Congress with bipartisan...
Blight fight bill would create statewide database of scofflaw property owners
Absentee and out-of-state property owners who acquire real estate as an investment might have little interest in their tenants or the quality of their homes. State Rep. Brandon Markosek, D-Monroeville, said such a site can impact an entire neighborhood if it isn’t addressed quickly. His House Bill 1062, which passed...
Harvard files legal challenge over Trump’s ban on U.S. entry for incoming foreign students
Harvard University is challenging President Donald Trump’s move to block foreign students from coming to the United States to attend the Ivy League school, calling it illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands. In an amended complaint filed Thursday, Harvard called the president’s action an end-run around a...
Testimony about loaded gun prompts judge to detain man charged with antisemitic threat against official
An Elizabeth man charged with sending an elected official an antisemitic threat online had texted a friend minutes earlier, asking “Are you ready to hunt down Jews for extermination?” a federal prosecutor said Thursday. Edward Arthur Owens Jr., 29, sent multiple messages expressing hate for Jews and Israel before threatening...
Governments denounce Trump’s travel ban and vow to push back against U.S.
WASHINGTON — Officials in some of the 12 countries whose citizens will be soon banned from visiting the United States denounced President Donald Trump’s move to resurrect a hallmark policy of his first term and vowed Thursday to push back against the U.S. The ban, which was announced Wednesday, takes...
Car collides with e-biker at Pittsburgh Mills
A car collided with a man on an e-bike Thursday near Dick’s Sporting Goods at the Pittsburgh Mills complex. The crash occurred just before 4 p.m., according to Frazer police Chief Aaron Scott. He said the cyclist was conscious but had some shoulder injuries. The driver stayed on the scene,...
A rumor no more, Aaron Rodgers commits to Steelers on 1-year deal
The wait is over: For the second year in a row, the Pittsburgh Steelers will have a Super Bowl-winning quarterback on their roster. It took longer than many people expected, but Aaron Rodgers ended several months of contemplation and agreed to join the Steelers. He plans to fly to Pittsburgh...
Trump and Musk’s relationship flames out just as intensely and publicly as it startedVideo
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance took off like one of SpaceX’s rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up. The spectacular flameout Thursday hit a crescendo when Trump threatened to cut Musk’s government contracts and Musk said without providing evidence that Trump’s administration...
Weekend lanes closures on Parkway East could snarl Pittsburgh traffic
Expect a busy weekend on Pittsburgh roads — especially along the Parkway East, where traffic will be squeezed into a single lane as part of a construction project. The parkway will have lane restrictions this weekend affecting the city of Pittsburgh and the boroughs of Edgewood, Swissvale, Wilkinsburg and Churchill...
Trump’s Job Corps shutdown spurs Innamorato to form ‘federal disruption’ task force
Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato on Thursday signed an executive order creating a “federal disruption response team” to provide support for people impacted by President Donald Trump’s job and funding cuts or other rapid changes. “We’ve seen so many times this year, the Trump administration seems committed to chaos and...
Murrysville lawyer accused of bilking elderly client dies from self-inflicted gunshot
A suspended Murrysville attorney who was accused of stealing $312,000 from a client died Wednesday, four days after authorities said he sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound as they tried to arrest him on theft charges. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that Robert C. Klingensmith, 61, of Murrysville died...
