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Kevin Gorman: Pirates can’t afford for Mitch Keller to be a bustVideo
The Pittsburgh Pirates want you to believe there was a developmental delay that prevented them from promoting top prospect Mitch Keller to the major leagues until Memorial Day. The Pirates want you to believe that they were waiting for the 23-year-old right-hander to refine a cutter-slider at Triple-A Indianapolis to...
New Kensington Donut Connection sells $2M Powerball ticket
A winning Powerball ticket worth $2 million for the May 22 drawing was sold in New Kensington. The ticket with the Power Play option matched all of the five white balls drawn, 07-10-20-44-57, but not the red Powerball 03, to win $2 million. Without the $1 Power Play option, the...
Woman injured in hit-and-run crash in South Side
A woman was injured in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood on Sunday after she was hit by a car that fled the scene. According to Pittsburgh police, officers responded to a hit-and-run crash involving a pedestrian at the intersection of Carson and South 18th streets around 12:30 p.m. The woman suffered...
Weather can’t dampen respect for Brackenridge’s Honor Roll memorial
About 100 people turned out Sunday to join in the Memorial Day observance by the Brackenridge American Legion despite the weather moving the majority of activities inside. The events held at Brackenridge Memorial Park included the rededication of the 54-year-old Honor Roll memorial that had been cleaned and restored after...
Westmoreland County Airshow wows crowds on second dayVideo
Bob Hanko of Westmoreland City sat in a comfortable chair Sunday on the tarmac of the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe, watching fighter planes whiz by at ear-splitting speeds as they performed aerial maneuvers during the Shop ’n Save Westmoreland County Airshow. “I love to see the planes. I’ve come...
Man arrested after car, foot chase near Westmoreland County Airshow
A man who fled from a state police traffic stop on Route 30 near the entrance to Saint Vincent College was caught after jumping the fence at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport during the airshow. State and Westmoreland County Park said the man drove his car off the road and...
Man caught after fleeing traffic stop, jumping fence at airport during the airshow
A man who had fled from a state police traffic stop on Route 30 near the entrance to Saint Vincent College was caught after jumping the fence at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport during the Shop ‘N Save Westmoreland County Airshow. The man drove his car off the road and...
Boy, 13, falls from observation level on Gettysburg monument
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Authorities say a 13-year-old boy from Indiana was flown to a hospital after plummeting about 40 feet from a monument at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Acting park information officer Jason Martz says the Fort Wayne youth was visiting the park on a school field trip...
Ohio man attacked by bull near Pennsylvania gas well dies
ALBION, Pa. — Officials say an Ohio man attacked by a bull while he was checking or tending a northwestern Pennsylvania gas well earlier this month has died. The Erie Times-News reports that the Erie County coroner’s office said Sunday that 69-year-old Clovis Stephens died Saturday afternoon at UPMC Hamot....
Uniontown man sought in Fayette shooting
A Uniontown man is wanted for allegedly shooting another man several times outside a bar late Saturday night, state police at Uniontown said. The suspect, David Dwayne Brooks, 26, is accused of shooting a 25-year-old Uniontown man outside Bar None at 231 Pittsburgh Rd., North Union Township, at about 11:30...
137-year-old Winchester rifle found in Nevada has new home
BAKER, Nev. — A 137-year-old rifle found five years ago leaning against a juniper tree in Great Basin National Park in Nevada is now part of an exhibit dedicated to the “Forgotten Winchester” at the park visitor center near the Utah border. The weathered Winchester Model 1873 is in a...
Woodland Hills, Elizabeth Forward, big winners with ‘Mamma Mia’ at Gene Kelly Awards
The musical “Mamma Mia!” and schools performing the popular musical turned out to be the biggest winners of the night at the Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater Saturday. Three schools performing “Mamma Mia!” — Deer Lakes, Elizabeth Forward and Woodland Hills — won in the...
Kennywood offering holiday weekend tickets sale
Kennywood Park is offering ticket promotions for the Memorial Day weekend. The West Mifflin institution is offering a buy-one-get-one offer on Sunday. Tickets are $54.99 for adults, $36.99 for juniors (people under 46” tall); and $28.99 for seniors. To get the BOGO deal you must order tickets online. On Memorial...
McKeesport senior shot and killed days before graduation
A teen was shot and killed early Friday morning in the South Side just days before she was set to graduate from high school. According to Pittsburgh police, the shooting happened at South 27th and Jane streets shortly after 3 a.m. The teen, identified by the medical examiner as Morgan...
Arrest warrant issued in Stowe fatal shooting
Allegheny County homicide detectives police identified a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man in a Stowe Township bar early Sunday morning. Police issued an arrest warrant for Omarr Harris, 36, on charges of criminal homicide and a firearms violation. Harris, whose address was not revealed by police,...
After cloudy morning, storms expected Sunday afternoon
A partly cloudy morning is expected to give way to rain on Sunday afternoon across western Pennsylvania. Showers and thunderstorms are likely to hit the region around 3 p.m. Sunday, bringing between one-quarter-inch and one-half-inch of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Moon. Temperatures are expected to rise...
B-52 flyover set for Sunday airshow
A rare sight will be visible in the sky above the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe on Sunday afternoon — a flyover by a 159-feet-long B-52 Stratofortress. The flyover, as part of the aerial performances at the Shop ‘N Save Westmoreland County Airshow, is scheduled for 12:55 p.m., according...
Regional power outages affecting about 400 customers
The storm that swept through Southwestern Pennsylvania Saturday night has left about 300 FirstEnergy customers without power and about 120 Duquesne Light customers still without electrical service as of Sunday morning. FirstEnergy reported that it expects to restore power at various times from Sunday morning through the afternoon in communities...
Tribune-Review earns 22 Golden Quill nominations from Press Club of Western Pa.
Tribune-Review stories about the Tree of Life massacre, the killing of Antwon Rose and compensation programs set up after the clergy sex abuse scandal in Pennsylvania are among the top nominees in this year’s Golden Quill Awards. In all, the Trib garnered 22 nominations for the awards, which are presented...
UPMC workers looking to unionize plan to confront hospital board members
The Carnegie Mellon University graduate hasn’t been working at UPMC all that long, but Anna Nelson is among the most vocal critics ready to confront a group of UPMC hospital board members this week with a spate of reasons why the nonprofit behemoth needs to take better care of its...
Tora!Tora!Tora! attack hits home for Westmoreland airshow patron
As Russell Miller of Connellsville joined thousands of others Saturday in watching World War II training planes modified to look like Japanese planes simulate — but in the skies above the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe — the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, he wondered what it...
Death toll for Mt. Everest climbers reaches 10 for this season
Officials say a British man died Saturday morning in an attempt to climb Mount Everest, bringing this season’s death toll to 10. Al Jazeera reports that 44-year-old Robin Haynes Fisher died after he “suddenly collapsed” while returning from the summit. Two other climbers died Friday, Irishman Kevin Hynes, 56, and...
Pennsylvania has already seen yearly average of tornadoes
Weather officials say Pennsylvania has already recorded the average number of tornados for a year. Meteorologist Sarah Johnson of the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, New Jersey says 16 tornadoes that have had preliminary confirmation in the commonwealth so far this year. Severe weather is more common in...
WPXI’s Courtney Brennan moving on after 9 yearsVideo
Courtney Brennan is leaving WPXI-TV to pursue other opportunities, she told her fans on Facebook this week. “My friends! This is my last week as a reporter at Channel 11,” Brennan wrote on her page “Oh, how I have LOVED these last 9 years and all of YOU for coming...
Police: ‘Ongoing dispute’ suspected in Robinson shooting death
A feud between two men led to the shooting death of one of them Friday night in Robinson Township, police said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that 51-year-old Michael McDonald was the victim. He was shot at a home on the 2000 block of Forest Grove Road just...
