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Community grapples with tragic death of Connellsville boy in turnpike crash
Minutes after leaving a Pennsylvania Turnpike maintenance shed Thursday with his young son as part of a take-your-child-to-work day, a Fayette County man drove his truck into the back of a tractor trailer along the toll road in Mt. Pleasant Township. Hayden M. Field, 11, of Connellsville Township died at...
Record 250 herpes cases reported per day near Coachella Festival
Music fans apparently caught more than some great tunes at a California music festival this month. The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival draws about 250,000 people to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, across two weekends in April. In addition to the impacts that any large event...
IRS says Beaver County owes it $378,000
A hefty tax lien has been filed against a Pennsylvania county after a former payroll supervisor apparently ignored IRS warning letters notifying it of unpaid debt. The IRS filed the lien against Beaver County claiming the government owes it more than $378,000. County officials found several IRS notifications of an...
Judge turns jail into house arrest for 2 in Penn State frat death
BELLEFONTE — A judge is letting two former Penn State fraternity brothers serve sentences on house arrest for convictions related to the death of a pledge. WTAJ-TV said this week that Joshua Kurczewski and Michael Bonatucci had faced minimums of three months and one month in jail, but instead they’re...
Agents: Springdale woman used dentist’s ID to call in fake drug prescriptions
A Springdale woman is accused of using her dentist’s identity to obtain prescription painkillers from a New Kensington pharmacy. Investigators say Nicole Yvonne Resnick, 39, told a narcotics agent with the state Attorney General’s Office she called in most of the prescriptions under other people’s names. She told the agent...
Men’s beards are dirtier than dogs’ fur, study says
Talk about a romantic mood killer. Before you go in close for a kiss with that hirsute dude, you might want to look at a new study out of Zurich, Switzerland, that found men’s beards contain more bacteria than a dog’s fur. The Hirslanden Clinic looked at the “bacterial load...
Kennywood opens to season pass holders this weekendVideo
Let’s ride! Kennywood in West Mifflin begins its 121st year Saturday for season pass holders. The park opens to the public on May 4. Daily operations begin May 23. Guests will have to wait until later this summer for the opening of the park’s newest roller coaster, the Steel Curtain....
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: April 26-28
Here are some suggestions for how to spend the last weekend in April. Art All Night The annual Art all Night is Saturday into Sunday at the 31st Street Studios in Lawrenceville. This event debuted in 1998 with 101 pieces of art and more than 200 all night art lovers....
Uber looks to raise up to $9B in initial public offering
NEW YORK — Uber is planning to sell 180 million shares for between $44 and $50 each, valuing the ride-hailing giant lower than previous estimates in a sign of that some of the excitement around ride-hailing has cooled. That would raise up to $9 billion for the San Francisco-based company,...
Coroner identifies teen killed in Washington County crash
The Washington County Coroner has identified the 15-year-old boy killed in a crash on I-70 Thursday night. Robert Gracey, of Wheeling, W. Va., was a passenger in a vehicle travelling west in North Franklin Township around 11:30 p.m. The vehicle hit a tractor-trailer, lost control and flipped over, according to...
Kevin Gorman: In Devin Bush, Steelers draft for present, not future
The Pittsburgh Steelers went for broke by trading up 10 spots to draft Devin Bush, a pick that has boom-or-bust potential and one they are hoping leads them to another Lombardi Trophy. The Steelers decided that the reward outweighed the risk, as they know there’s no chance for a championship...
10 people at Indiana Twp. group home checked out after fumes fill building
Ten people at an Indiana Township group home for youths were taken for evaluation and released Thursday night after apparently being affected by fumes. Allegheny County spokeswoman Amie Downs said someone called 911 from the Western Pennsylvania Adult and Teen Challenge campus off of Lefever Hill Road reporting that people...
Steelers trade up, draft linebacker Devin Bush at No. 10
Moving up 10 spots in the first round, the Pittsburgh Steelers pulled off the first trade of the NFL Draft on Thursday and picked Michigan linebacker Devin Bush with the No. 10 overall selection. The Steelers, who held the No. 20 pick, swapped first-round slots with the Denver Broncos and...
Judge gives U.S. 6 months to identify children split at border
SAN DIEGO — The federal government has six months to identify potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border early in President Trump’s term, a judge said Thursday. Trump administration officials said they had a goal of six months but opposed any deadline, saying...
Trump administration hits pause on offshore oil plans as a result of court ruling
A recent federal court decision appears to have struck a blow to President Trump’s plans to expand offshore oil and natural gas drilling across the U.S. continental shelf, with the aim of turning the United States into an energy-exporting behemoth. In his first interview since being confirmed to Trump’s Cabinet,...
Live at Steelers headquarters: Steelers trade up to No. 10, select Devin Bush
12:11 a.m. Thanks for following along all evening on what was something of a historic draft for the Steelers — trading into the top 10. Joe Rutter’s story on the pick: The last time the #Steelers traded up in the first round was 2006 when they moved up from No....
Derry Township woman convicted of hatchet attack on neighbor after clothesline dispute
A Derry Township woman was convicted Thursday for assaulting her next-door neighbor with a hatchet. Denise Nichols, 51, claimed she acted in self-defense after being tackled by her neighbor in the yard behind her home on Nov. 2, 2016. But police said Nichols was the instigator. She twice slashed her...
400-year-old Bible stolen from Carnegie Library recovered in Netherlands
A centuries-old Bible stolen decades ago from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh was returned to the city Thursday, recovered from the Netherlands as part of a local and federal investigation into 25 years worth of library thefts. “One can only imagine the journey that this particular Carnegie Library Bible has...
Massachusetts judge charged with helping man evade ICEVideo
BOSTON — A Massachusetts judge was indicted Thursday on charges that she helped a man who was living in the United States illegally evade an immigration agent by sneaking out the back door of a courthouse. District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and onetime court officer Wesley MacGregor were...
Joe Biden makes play for blue collar votes with Pittsburgh rally
Democrat Joe Biden’s decision to kick off his 2020 presidential run at a Pittsburgh union hall is a clear sign that the former vice president plans to court the blue collar, working class vote as he vies for the White House, labor officials and political analysts told the Tribune-Review. Biden...
Pittsburgh man pleads guilty to shooting, killing man over wrong beer
A man who police say shot another man multiple times because he picked up the wrong beer pleaded guilty to one count of third degree murder Thursday. The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office agreed to withdraw a firearms charge against Musa Ramadhan Muya in exchange for his guilty plea in...
Iconic Pittsburgh musician Joe Negri retires from PittVideo
Room 124 at University of Pittsburgh’s music building won’t have that familiar sound resonating from inside. Pittsburgh jazz guitarist and legend Joe Negri retired after 49 years teaching students how to play not only songs, but how to live their lives. Pitt held a going-away party for him Thursday. Negri,...
Fayette County boy, 11, killed in turnpike crash near New Stanton
An 11-year-old Fayette County boy was killed Thursday afternoon when the pickup that his father was driving collided with a tractor-trailer between the New Stanton and Donegal exits of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, officials said. Westmoreland County Coroner Kenneth A. Bacha identified the victim as Hayden M. Field of Connellsville Township....
3 sought in $450K colonoscopy instruments theft at Pennsylvania hospital
Police say two men and a woman broke into a Philadelphia-area hospital and stole nearly a half-million dollars’ worth of colonoscopy instruments. Authorities say the trio had access to a secured area of Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, which is about 8 miles west of Philadelphia. The people walked out...
Police quell rumor of chinchillas on loose at Monessen park
Reports of a chinchilla infestation at Monessen City Park turned out to be false, despite social media claims that a local breeder set 60 of the exotic rodents loose in the Monongahela River town, according to police Chief Jim Smith. “To the best of our knowledge, that didn’t happen,” Smith...
