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Butler Memorial Hospital techs issue strike notice 9 months into talks on first contract, Monday negotiations canceled
Union technicians at Butler Memorial Hospital issued a 10-day strike notice to hospital owner Independence Health on Friday, the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals said. According to the association, the 235 surgical techs, respiratory therapists, licensed practical nurses, radiology techs and other healthcare workers in the union...
Homestead man accused in string of violent incidents before, after fatally stabbing woman in Penn Hills
A Homestead man is accused of a string of violent incidents before and after police say he fatally stabbed a woman in Penn Hills on Thursday. Allegheny County and Wilkinsburg police filed charges Friday against George Kevin Mitchell, 43. In a criminal complaint, county police said Jinx Hairston, 45, arrived...
Lawrenceville Distillery shifts operations to historic bank in Verona
Spirits are high in Verona. Lawrenceville Distilling Co.’s Riverbank Distillery opened last month inside a more than 100-year-old former bank. The opening marks the official relocation of Lawrenceville Distilling Co. from Lawrenceville to Verona. Co-owners and brothers Jeremy and Joe DeGroot didn’t renew the lease last year on their small-batch...
New treatments on the horizon for those suffering from seasonal allergies in Western Pennsylvania
Trying pollen seasons are becoming the norm in Western Pennsylvania. In March, TribLive reported that allergy season is getting longer in Western Pennsylvania and around the world. Climate change is shortening the number of freeze-free days, leading to earlier blooming and increased vegetation. Thankfully, there are new and in-development treatment...
Counting calories at PNC Park: How ballpark foods add up
Grabbing a bite at the ballpark used to mean peanuts and Cracker Jacks — immortalized in song since 1908. But modern ballparks have raised the culinary stakes, expanding menus to include extravagant, oversized and hyper-local food each season. This year, the Pirates home opener at PNC Park debuted chipped ham...
Pittsburgh-area pharmacies cling to razor-thin margins as reforms trickle in
Running two drugstores is a break-even endeavor for Primary Care Pharmacy Services owner Anthony Bertola, as long as he barely pays himself. There’s little he can do to improve his margins — he’s at the mercy of a small number of companies that oversee prescription drug benefits. Pharmacies buy their...
Pittsburgh Controller Rachael Heisler serves as vocal watchdog amid financial woes
Rachael Heisler warned time and again that Pittsburgh was heading for trouble. The mayor’s office kept insisting the city’s 2026 budget was fine — no need for a tax hike, no need to cut services. But Heisler, the city controller, wasn’t convinced. So she did what any responsible elected official...
Offbeat Pittsburgh: Meet Johnny Pittsburgh, a local influencer on the riseVideo
A day after Bill Mazeroski died in February, I made my way to the famed Forbes Field wall. It’s there that I met Johnny Pittsburgh. If you’ve spent any time on social media lately, chances are you’ve seen him — an ever-present Pittsburgh influencer on the rise. One day, Johnny...
Drones increasingly a necessary tool in policing, experts sayVideo
David King predicts that over the next decade, every police cruiser may come equipped with its own drone. His guess is arguably better than many. King is owner of Carnegie-based Steel City Drones, which he says is the largest drone supplier in the region. The firm partners with more than...
‘We were given nothing’: Relatives of North Side shootout victims feel robbed of justice
Bridgette Mehalic settled wearily into the wooden chair of a Downtown Pittsburgh courtroom in January expecting justice. Instead, she got heartache. Mehalic was sure jurors would convict the man charged with killing her daughter Jacquelyn, 33, at a North Side bus stop during a wild shootout more than three years...
A pair of Pittsburgh residents charged with drugs, firearms violations following Carrick investigation
Pittsburgh police say they recovered multiple guns and drugs and charged two city residents in connection with an investigation outside of a Carrick business. Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz reported officers were conducting an investigation early Friday morning along the 1600 block of Brownsville Road. It resulted in the arrests...
Wilkinsburg man accused of threatening Trump, senator remains detained after hearing
A Wilkinsburg man who characterizes himself as a non-violent Quaker but, officials say, left voicemails for a U.S. senator calling for the death of billionaires, ICE agents and Donald Trump will be held in custody pending trial. Raymond Eugene Chandler III, 40, is charged in federal court in Pittsburgh with...
Southwest Greensburg mom wins $1M lottery prize
When Beth Dudley of Southwest Greensburg stopped at the Crabtree Gas & Go along Route 119 while on her way to visit her parents April 21, she did what she typically does and bought a Pennsylvania Lottery ticket. She spent $10 for Win Win Win, a new scratch-off lottery game...
Witnesses suggest frying pan was used in fatal assault of 5-year-old Delmont boy
The aunt of a 10-year-old boy told a Westmoreland County jury Friday that her nephew saw Lauren Maloberti strike her adopted son, Landon Maloberti, in the head with a frying pan. “He said he saw what happened. They were in the kitchen and that she picked up a pan and...
Greensburg officials deny Ligonier Country Market’s proposed move to Lynch Field
Greensburg’s Lynch Field will not become the new home for the Ligonier Country Market. Mayor Robb Bell said Friday that city officials turned down the request after Ligonier Country Market had sought to relocate to Greensburg. “It was just too much in such a short period of time,” he said....
Highlands assistant principal alleges toxic culture among district leadership, requests formal investigation
Highlands High School Assistant Principal Kaitlyn Selfridge has resigned, firing off accusations of a hostile work environment, inequitable hiring practices and other ethical concerns. Selfridge submitted a letter of resignation April 13, saying she would not return to the building before her departure is effective at the end of the...
Indiana Township church leaders vow to rebuild after blaze destroys sanctuary
Parishioners of Trinity United Church of Christ in Indiana Township will gather for the next month at a community center, a funeral home and a neighboring parish to celebrate Sunday services. Rotating venues will continue for the foreseeable future after the 150-year-old church along Saxonburg Boulevard was partially destroyed by...
Fans can purchase former Acrisure Stadium seats removed in renovations
Pittsburgh Steelers fans can sit in Acrisure Stadium seats from the comfort of their own home. The Steelers are selling seats removed during renovations at the North Shore stadium through MeiGray, a company that deals in game-worn and game-used sports memorabilia. The team announced the agreement Friday. The price for...
Pittsburgh activists to rally for moms detained by ICE ahead of Mother’s Day
Sister Janice Vanderneck of St. Joseph of Baden and a founder of Casa San Jose, a Latino immigrant rights advocacy group, visited the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, an immigrant detention center, on Monday. During her visit as a volunteer with the chaplain’s office, Vanderneck asked a group of about 20...
Proposed Sheetz in Banksville faces scrutiny over gas station rulesVideo
Is Sheetz more of a gas station or convenience store? The answer could decide whether the Altoona-based chain expands into Pittsburgh city limits. Sheetz is proposing to demolish a vacant Rite Aid in Pittsburgh’s Banksville neighborhood and replace it with a roughly 5,000-square-foot convenience store and five multi-pump fuel dispensers....
New policy restricting minors from Market Square met with mixed reactions
Sasha Machel has watched huge crowds of teenagers in Pittsburgh’s Market Square grow unruly. In the past few weeks, she’s heard a teenager scream that he had a gun, watched young kids wander the square with no supervision and felt uneasy as dozens of young people have sought to “cause...
2 people freed from stalled Monongahela Incline
Two people were freed overnight after being trapped in the Monongahela Incline, Pittsburgh public safety officials said. The city’s EMS Rescue Division was called to the incline overnight Thursday into Friday to help two riders who were stuck when the cars stalled about 80 feet from the stations. One person...
Pine-Richland proposed budget plan hikes taxes 5.29%, includes cuts to programs
Pine-Richland School District’s proposed budget for next year includes a 5.29% property tax increase and cuts to some programs. The $115.55 million proposal calls for a millage rate increase from 19.5867 mills to 20.6228 mills. For a home at Pine’s $332,200 median assessed value, the annual school tax bill would...
Appeals court sides with Pittsburgh police sergeant who challenged transfer
A Pennsylvania appeals court on Thursday ruled in favor of a Pittsburgh police sergeant who claimed he was wrongly transferred out of his specialty unit as a form of discipline. Sgt. Brian Elledge, who served as the night shift supervisor, was transferred out of the department’s motorcycle division July 11,...
Bright lights and hot orbs: UFO files shed light on sightings but leave interpretation to the public
WASHINGTON — Buzz Aldrin observing a “fairly bright light source” while aboard the Apollo 11. A mysterious object making “multiple 90-degree turns” at a speedy clip. A blaringly bright object doing corkscrew twists over the skies in Kazakhstan. Those are some of the details in a new batch of files...
