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Police: Seward man tried to steal money from mom’s flower shop
A 33-year-old man broke into his mother’s flower shop in Bolivar to steal money from a safe, Pennsylvania State Police said. The son of the owner of K&K Flowers was arrested late Sunday by state troopers, according to court documents. Chad E. Botteicher, 33, of Seward was arraigned Monday on...
Nemacolin Woodland Resorts plans ‘extravaganza’
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort is extending the Fourth of July celebration, with an “Americana Extravaganza” set for July 6 at the Farmington, Fayette County, site. Planned are carnival games, crafts and face-painting for kids of all ages. According to event planners, the 6 p.m.-midnight event will include more than 10 acts...
Watch as final Steel Curtain track piece is installed at Kennywood
Finally! If you are an avid coaster enthusiast, it surely seems like a lifetime ago when plans for Kennywood’s newest ride — The Steel Curtain — was announced. And now, the structure is complete. On Friday, the park marked a major step in the process by placing the final piece...
Allegheny National Forest ranks as No. 2 camping destination in U.S.
The Allegheny National Forest in Northwestern Pennsylvania was among the top camping destinations in the country during the past year, according to Hipcamp.com. The state’s only national forest ranked second on a top 10 list of camping destinations, being beat out for the top spot by Cape Cod, Mass. The...
Podcast part 2: Eric Kasperowicz remembers ex-North Hills coach Jack McCurry
Eric Kasperowicz recalled the influence his high school coach had on him as a player and even today as a coach at Pine-Richland. “Coach Jack McCurry, one of the best in the whole country, if not the best,” Kasperowicz said during the second part of this week’s episode of the...
Franklin Regional school board awards $48.62 million in contracts for Sloan project
After three years of planning, multiple town hall meetings and mounting opposition from residents, Franklin Regional school board members this week agreed to spend $48.62 million for the Sloan school project. The board voted 8-1 to award bids for renovating Sloan Elementary School and converting it into a lower elementary...
Turn Key Clean Outs and Estate Sales owners are modern-day treasure huntersVideo
Jeff Harshman was digging through the garbage one day at a Mt. Washington home when he came across a pair of ticket stubs and a program for a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. Harshman was liquidating someone’s estate in the Pittsburgh neighborhood and checked the...
Police: East Pittsburgh woman found dead after jailed man tips off therapistVideo
A woman has been found dead in an East Pittsburgh apartment, after an incarcerated Cambria County man told a counselor Monday he killed someone, according to state police. Troopers said the man gave the Cambria County Jail counselor an address for a home on Maple Street and the counselor passed...
U.S. sending more troops to Middle East as Iran tensions mount
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday ordered another 1,000 American troops to the Middle East, moving to bolster security in a region reeling from hostile attacks on commercial ships that the U.S. has blamed on Iran. Officials said the deployment includes security forces and troops for additional surveillance and intelligence...
Thief pepper sprays Unity man as he to stop car break-in, police say
A Unity Township man was pepper-sprayed in the face and eyes late Sunday night as he attempted to stop a man from breaking into his vehicle. State police charged Christopher W. Reynolds, 37, of Blairsville, with five counts each of theft from a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property and loitering/prowling...
Former ITT Tech students eligible for loan forgiveness in new settlement
Nearly 600 former ITT Tech students in Pennsylvania are eligible for $5.3 million in debt relief as part of a new settlement announced Monday by state Attorney General Josh Shapiro. A coalition of 44 state attorneys general reached a settlement with loan company Student CU Connect CUSO that includes more...
Police: 4 shot, 2 arrested at Raptors rally in TorontoVideo
TORONTO — Four people were shot and wounded at a rally Monday for the NBA champion Raptors, and two people were arrested “with firearms,” police said. Droves of Raptors fans ran from the shooting in a stampede from the City Hall square, which was packed with tens of thousands of...
Some charges dropped against former Canon-Mac wrestler shot by police
Some charges against a former Canon-McMillan wrestler have been dropped, but the most serious accusations that he pointed a gun at police who shot him four times remain. Logan Macri, who won the state championship in 2018, is recovering as his case winds its way through the Washington County courts,...
‘It was what we needed to do’: Hampton man donates kidney to friend
Hampton resident Bill Daugherty barely knew Dale Lynn, but he gave him an extraordinary gift. Daugherty, 50, donated a kidney for a transplant Lynn underwent May 21 at UPMC Montefiore. Lynn, 55, of Hampton was born with only one kidney. After that went bad, he was put on the transplant...
Trio charged by state police in Western Pa. cocaine, marijuana sting
State police raided a clandestine drug preparation facility and confiscated more than two pounds of cocaine and 20 pounds of marijuana during a 15-month investigation into an alleged southwestern Pennsylvania distribution network, according to court records. Investigators used confidential informants and surveillance that resulted in the arrests of a Fayette...
Hutchinson teen identified as victim of fatal Sewickley Township crash
Counselors will be available at Yough Senior High School after a student died in a crash over the weekend in Sewickley Township. Graydon Hoffman, 14, died Saturday at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh from injuries he sustained in the crash, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner confirmed Monday. State police said...
Masked gunman killed after shootout at Dallas courthouseVideo
DALLAS — An Army veteran wearing a mask and carrying more than 150 rounds of ammunition for his high-powered rifle was shot dead Monday after he opened fire outside a busy federal courthouse in downtown Dallas, authorities said. Federal officers killed 22-year-old Brian Isaack Clyde after he approached an entrance...
Truck crashes into Southwest plane at Pittsburgh International Airport
A Southwest Airlines plane parked at a gate was struck by a provisioning truck Monday morning at Pittsburgh International Airport. The ramp agent who was driving the vehicle was taken to a hospital, a Southwest spokesman said. No further information was available on the driver’s condition. There were no reports...
Driver reportedly injured in Mt. Pleasant Township crash
The driver of a minivan was reportedly injured Monday when she failed to negotiate a sharp curve along Route 981 in the Mt. Pleasant Township village of Trauger and went over an embankment, emergency officials reported. The accident occurred at 10:09 a.m. at the intersection of Route 981 and Dutch...
Coroner: Shooter in triple murder-suicide was fired from job
WYALUSING — A man who killed his mother, stepfather and another man before taking his own life in northern Pennsylvania had recently been fired from his job and stopped taking medications, a coroner said. Authorities in Bradford County have said Jesse Lee Northrup, 31, shot Edwin Bidlack, 54, who installed...
Greensburg man claims he was ‘just joking’ when he pulled gun on store clerk
A Greensburg man who claimed to be joking when he pulled a gun on a store clerk Friday is behind bars on a robbery charge. Police identified a male suspect who tried to rob the Dollar General store on South Main Street as Brandon Joseph Giron, 19, by watching surveillance...
Clairton Coke Works pollution control systems back on line after Monday morning fire
Pollution control systems at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works were back on line Monday night after being shut down because of an electrical fire at the facility Monday morning. In an emailed statement, U.S. Steel said it made repairs and environmental controls, including desulfurization, were operating by 8:15 p.m. The...
Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress, jeans queen, dies at 95
NEW YORK — Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the “poor little rich girl” of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and ’80s as a designer jeans pioneer, died Monday at the age of...
Shark bites child in third North Carolina attack this season
BALD HEAD ISLAND, N.C. — North Carolina officials say a shark bit an 8-year-old boy in what is now the third attack this season along the North Carolina coast. News outlets report the boy was swimming in open water Sunday afternoon when a shark grabbed him by the leg, causing...
$6.5 million restoration of Wilkinsburg train station to be completed by OctoberVideo
Warren Bechhoefer might just have to make the 2,000-plus-mile drive from his home in Phoenix to the historic Wilkinsburg train station. It will be a chance for the 93-year-old to show off the car he restored and check out the restoration of a Western Pennsylvania landmark he helped finance. “I...
