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Police: Man pulled gun on 2 women in suspected road rage incident outside Rivers Casino
A North Side man apparently fueled by road rage is accused of chasing after and pulling an AK-style gun on two women early Wednesday outside the Rivers Casino parking garage. Jamal Dailey, 24, faces several charges tied to an incident that began while driving in his home neighborhood of Manchester...
Pittsburgh Police: 9-year-old Homewood boy found
Pittsburgh police said a 9-year-old boy who went missing in Pittsburgh’s Homewood South neighborhood Wednesday afternoon has been located. Terik Smith Jr. was safely located that evening, according to Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz....
City council urged to confront inequities, institutions hindering Pittsburgh’s black residents
Pittsburgh’s elected leaders should own up to historical barriers as well as persisting structural and institution-driven ones that contribute to the city’s drastic racial inequities and poverty-based segregation between whites and blacks, several residents told city council on Wednesday. “We demand reparations,” said Khalil Raheem, founder of the New Afrikan...
2 Penn Hills juveniles struck by vehicles in 2 days
Two Penn Hills children were struck by vehicles in as many days. Police Chief Howard Burton said a 6-year-old boy was hit by a car at a bus stop at Frankstown Road and Erhardt Drive early Wednesday morning. Burton said the bus was headed eastbound along Frankstown Road and boy...
Attorney: Lawsuit planned over VA hospital death in West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An attorney representing the family of a patient who died at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia says he plans to sue over what he believes is the man’s suspicious death from a wrongful insulin injection. Charleston attorney Tony O’Dell said a notice of a pending...
Bedbugs found at Penn Middle School in Penn Township
Bedbugs have been found at Penn Middle School in the Penn-Trafford School District. District officials alerted parents Wednesday that a student was found with bedbugs on their body. No additional bugs were found in the student’s belongings. When a professional exterminator and the district’s maintenance director began searching classrooms frequented...
Technology companies lead modest slide for U.S. stock indexes
A day of mostly listless trading on Wall Street ended Wednesday with modest losses as the stock market gave back some of its gains from the day before. Technology stocks accounted for most of the selling, which lost some of its momentum toward the end of the day. Energy companies...
Prosecutors: Man accused of killing New Kensington officer was armed drug dealer
Westmoreland County prosecutors said Wednesday they have evidence that the man accused of killing New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw was an armed drug dealer who sought to avoid arrest when he fired the fatal shots. According to court documents presented during a pretrial hearing in preparation for the capital...
Man killed in turnpike crash in Somerset
A Cincinnati area man was killed Wednesday when his can hit a parked tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near the Somerset-Bedford border, state police said. Justin Drew, 34, of West Chester, Ohio, was driving a 2019 Dodge Caravan eastbound when it went off the road and hit the tractor-trailer parked...
Judge: DA not required to pursue private criminal complaints over Pittsburgh gun banVideo
A judge ruled Wednesday that the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office is not required to pursue private criminal complaints against Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and council members for enacting a package of controversial gun ordinances. The ruling came a few hours after Anthony Golembiewski, 63, of Lawrenceville appeared in court...
Daily Download: Trump’s upcoming visit to Pittsburgh, airport auction and Hodges vs. RudolphVideo
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 President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Pittsburgh, items left behind by travelers that the Allegheny County Airport Authority is auctioning...
Fentanyl test strips should be legal in Pennsylvania, auditor general says
Citing the growing role of fentanyl in drug overdoses, Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale on Wednesday called on state lawmakers to legalize fentanyl test strips. The call was among the top recommendations DePasquale released in a new report, “A Deadly Dose: Fentanyl’s Impact on Pennsylvania.” The two-term auditor general, who...
What happens to cars abandoned at Pittsburgh airport? Sold at auctionVideo
A 2015 GMC Sierra Denali pickup was parked and left in a lot at Pittsburgh International Airport more than two years ago. Airport officials don’t know why the truck, which could be worth more than $30,000, was left behind. But it could be yours this weekend. It’s among the 15...
Pittsburgh to be featured in Jimmy Kimmel segment
Pittsburgh will get more play on late-night TV. The Steel City will be featured on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” when Guillermo Rodriguez, a Kimmel show regular, makes a stop at Primanti Brothers in the Strip District on Wednesday night. Join us at our Strip District restaurant tomorrow night at 8PM as...
Pittsburgh City Council postpones vote on Penn Plaza development
Pittsburgh City Council will host a public hearing before voting on a land swap necessary for construction to begin on a $50 million retail and office complex on the site of the former Penn Plaza Apartments in East Liberty. Council on Wednesday postponed a preliminary vote on the land swap...
Cops: Motorcyclist who fled police in West Newton also accused of cocaine possession
An Irwin motorcyclist accused of leading police on a high-speed chase for 5 miles Tuesday between West Newton and Rostraver was arrested on multiple criminal and traffic charges, including illegal possession of cocaine and stimulants. Anthony E. Faloona, 29, was arraigned before District Judge Charles Christner on seven counts of...
Former Pirate Bobby Del Greco remembered as ‘hero,’ ‘bigger than life’
One of Bobby Del Greco Jr.’s best memories of his father involves a fried bologna sandwich, the Three Stooges and an overturned newspaper delivery truck in the river near the Fort Pitt Bridge. Del Greco Sr., who grew up in the Hill District and played in the major leagues for...
President Trump to visit Pittsburgh next weekVideo
President Donald Trump will give keynote remarks next week at an annual gathering of the oil and gas industries in Pittsburgh. Trump is scheduled to attend the Shale Insight conference Oct. 23 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh’s Downtown, conference organizers announced Wednesday. He is expected to...
Anti-Defamation League launches online campaign to remember Tree of Life victims
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is launching a national online campaign asking Americans to join the league and #FightHateForGood to commemorate the victims who died in last year’s mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill. ADL, a international organization founded in 1913 to combat anti-Semitism and bigotry,...
Norwin student-run formal-wear sale continues todayVideo
High school students — and their parents — know how expensive it can be to attend a formal dance. Norwin High School has a way to cut down at least some of the cost, by holding a semiannual formal wear consignment sale. Begun in 2015, the sales are held in...
Parkway Theater in Stowe searching for a restaurateur
Aaron Stubna wants people to indulge in more than popcorn and candy when they visit the Parkway Theater in Stowe. After renovating the one-screen movie house two years ago, he invited Tom Glover and Dave Hallam of Abjuration Brewing Co. to make and sell their beer there, too. Now he’s...
British family held at Pa. detention center decries treatment by U.S. after border crossing
Seven members of an extended British family who made an unauthorized crossing into the United States from Canada are being held in federal custody at a Pennsylvania detention center nearly two weeks after their arrest, their lawyer said Tuesday, as U.S. border officials defended their handling of the case by...
Police: Man dead in Beaver County stabbing
One person died after a stabbing in Beaver County, according to Hopewell Township Police Chief Brain Uhrmacher. Officers responded to Guy Street in Hopewell Township around 11 p.m. Tuesday, where they found a man suffering from a stab wound. Uhrmacher said he was transported to UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland, where...
Bellevue tour offers peek at history of borough’s homes, buildingsVideo
Bridge Brigido and Mary Carroll attended the Bellevue “Live Worship Shop House Tour” two years ago. It was an inspiration to start sprucing up their own Sumner Avenue home. “We thought it was such a cool idea,” Brigido said. “It was also real motivation for us to get things done...
AP fact check: Claims from the Democratic debate – Oct. 16, 2019
WASHINGTON — Twelve Democrats seeking the presidency tussled Tuesday night in a wide-ranging debate featuring the largest number of qualifying candidates on the same stage. Here’s a look at how some of their claims from Westerville, Ohio, stack up with the facts: JOE BIDEN: “I would not have withdrawn the...
