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Police: 4 shot in Duquesne
A drive-by shooting Saturday in Duquesne sent four people to the hospital, according to Allegheny County police. The gunfire started just after 5 p.m. on Priscilla Street, Lt. Kenneth Ruckel said. Three men in a blue Ford Fusion alleged drove down the street and opened fire on three people sitting...
Pittsburgh’s rich food heritage on display at Heinz History Center eventVideo
Pittsburgh area locals with a passion for food talked cooking, growing, creating and heritage Saturday at the Heinz History Center’s Hometown-Homegrown program. The program, in its eighth year, aims to celebrate locally crafted food and food history in the region. This year, the program was incorporated into Heinztoberfest, a month-long...
Kevin Gorman: New voice of Pirates’ next manager should be bilingualVideo
The Pittsburgh Pirates are searching for not just a new manager but a new voice that will resonate inside a clubhouse that had tuned out Clint Hurdle’s message. Perhaps that voice should speak in Spanish. The Pirates love to pride themselves as a progressive club, touting MLB’s first Latin superstar...
Elected officials across U.S. watching Cleveland opioid case
Gene Vittone has seen the toll opioid addiction has exacted on his community up close and personal. The Washington County district attorney, who is also a paramedic, has seen law enforcement, family services and first responders struggle under a tsunami of illicit drug use that once triggered 16 overdoses on...
Extras sought for ‘I’m Your Woman’ scene being filmed on the South Side
Movie directors are seeking extras for a scene that will be filmed for an Amazon movie next month in Pittsburgh’s South Side. People 18- to 49-years-old are being requested for a “high energy” 70’s nightclub action scene for the upcoming feature-length film “I’m Your Woman,” starring Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous...
Service canceled for Texas woman shot at home by officer
DALLAS — A service for a woman shot in her home by a Fort Worth police officer that had been scheduled for Saturday was canceled amid a family dispute over funeral arrangements. Atatiana Jefferson’s funeral had been set to be held at Potter’s House Church in Dallas. Church representative Mara...
Flagger struck in South Huntingdon work zone, taken to hospital
A flagger was struck by a car Saturday morning in a construction zone on Route 31 in South Huntingdon, state police confirmed. Emergency crews responded about 8:30 a.m. to the site near the on-ramp to eastbound Interstate 70, a Westmoreland County 911 dispatcher said. The injured woman was able to...
3-vehicle crash in Indiana County kills 1, injures 3
A Creekside man was killed and three others were injured in a three-vehicle crash Friday afternoon in Indiana County. Robert Daniel Riddle, 61, died of blunt force trauma to the chest, Indiana County Coroner Jerry Overman said. Riddle was taken by ambulance to Indiana Regional Medical Center, where he was...
Man stable after shooting at Bloomfield home
A man in his 30s was in stable condition after being shot in the leg early Saturday in Bloomfield, Pittsburgh police said. The man told police he and his girlfriend were at a residence in the 4500 block of Friendship Avenue when another man came to the door. Once the...
Neshannock’s Jeremy Nativio, who has Down syndrome, scores touchdown on senior nightVideo
Neshannock’s Jeremy Nativio had a senior night to remember on Friday. In the final minute of the fourth quarter of his team’s 36-0 victory over Western Beaver, Nativio, a senior who has Down syndrome, entered the game, took a handoff and scored on a 34-yard run. The entire Neshannock sideline...
Man stable after Downtown Pittsburgh shooting
A man was taken to a local hospital in stable condition after a shooting Friday night on a Downtown Pittsburgh street. Pittsburgh Police were called just before 10:30 p.m. to the scene outside the McDonald’s restaurant on Wood Street, between Liberty and Sixth avenues. The victim, who is in his...
WPIAL football Week 8 results
TribLIVE’s sports reporters have you covered from Friday’s Week 8 high school football action. GAMES OF THE WEEK • McKEESPORT 31, FRANKLIN REGIONAL 14 McKeesport played a near-perfect first half, scoring in its first three possessions. • HIGHLANDS 28, NEW CASTLE 22 (OT) Brock White was stopped short of the...
Sports legend Dick Groat honored with ‘day,’ recalls ’60 World Series winVideo
Pittsburgh Pirates legend Dick Groat turned the memories of some gray-haired golfers and University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg supporters to a time 59 years ago, when they were young and the scrappy Bucs beat the Goliath of the baseball world, the New York Yankees, to win the 1960 World Series....
University of Pittsburgh police investigating robbery at Jimmy John’s just off campus
University of Pittsburgh police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man believed to have robbed the Jimmy John’s just off campus. City and university officers responded to the sandwich shop at 3444 Forbes Ave. around 6:20 p.m. Friday for a report of a robbery. The university posted...
Pittsburgh authority gives preliminary OK for development of former Civic Arena site
The Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority gave preliminary approval Friday for the Penguins to begin a first phase of construction estimated at $210 million at the former Civic Arena property in the city’s Hill District. The approval marks the first step in what all sides say will be a long process...
Pittsburgh International Airport plans to generate its own electric powerVideo
Pittsburgh International Airport officials say they won’t be dependent on the traditional electric power grid come 2021. That’s when a microgrid is expected to go online. Instead of depending on power from the national electric grid that supplies most everyone else, the airport will get its power from generators fueled...
Daily Download: Plans for Tree of Life, gifts to Children’s Hospital and high school footballVideo
Each day, TribLIVE reporters and editors will break down the biggest news of the day, with video highlights of the people and places making headlines. Today, reporter Paul Guggenheimer discusses plans for the Tree of Life synagogue, an elementary school that presented gifts to Children’s Hospital and Week 8 in...
2 suspects in deadly Penn Hills home invasion caught in California
Two suspects in the Oct. 9 killing of a Penn Hills man were arrested Friday in California, police said. Laron Howard, 19, and Laquon Perkins, 18, who are brothers, were arrested at 2:30 p.m. by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in Lancaster, Calif., according to Allegheny County police. Both men...
Trump taps Perry deputy to replace him at Energy Department
WASHINGTON — President Trump says he is nominating a deputy to Energy Secretary Rick Perry to replace him in the top job at the Energy Department. Trump tweeted Friday that Dan Brouillette’s experience in the area is “unparalleled” and calls him a “total professional.” Trump is also praising Perry, who...
Upper Burrell’s Oak Lake Golf Course to close
After a failed sealed-bid auction to sell Oak Lake Golf Course in Upper Burrell last year, the owners will close the 18-hole course Thursday, Oct. 24 and hold a public auction two days later. All of Oak Lake’s assets will be for sale at the Saturday auction, including the land,...
Police release photos of men wanted in fatal McKeesport Family Dollar shooting
Authorities need help identifying the two men suspected in a fatal shooting Thursday at a Family Dollar in McKeesport. Allegheny County Police released images from the store’s surveillance cameras that show the men, who entered the store shortly after 11 a.m., fought with and robbed Dwayne Fuller, 24, of Homestead....
Greensburg doctor found guilty of illegally dispensing opioids
A federal jury deliberated for eight hours Thursday before convicting a Westmoreland County family practice doctor of illegally dispensing opioids. Dr. Milad Shaker, 50, was found guilty of 14 counts of illegal dispensing of opioids, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady said. The original 54-count indictment in October 2018 said Shaker...
Tree of Life leaders unveil vision for Squirrel Hill synagogue’s future
Congregation leaders from Tree of Life-Or L’Smicha have vowed to return to their home on Wilkins Avenue after a gunman opened fire on Shabbat services last year, killing 11 people. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who was leading services for Tree of Life when the Oct. 27 attack began, said the building...
Syria Kurds accuse Turkey of violating cease-fire
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey — The Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria accused Turkey on Friday of violating a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight, as fighters from both sides clashed in and around a border town that has been one of the fiercest fronts in the Turkish invasion. The town of...
Officials: Blast at Afghan mosque kills 62 during prayers
KABUL, Afghanistan — An explosion rocked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan as dozens of people gathered to offer Friday players, causing the roof to collapse and killing 62 worshippers, provincial officials said. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, said the militant attack wounded 36 others. He said it...
