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Tim Benz, Mark Madden discuss what’s next for Penguins after Islanders sweep
Tim Benz and Mark Madden wrap up the Penguins’ season after the Islanders completed a first-round sweep with a 3-1 win Tuesday night. The guys discuss which players might be on the trading block, how much the coaching staff is to blame, how much certain players are to blame and...
Seth Meyers bringing politically tinged comedy to PittsburghVideo
With a dad hailing from Pittsburgh and a late-night talk show, Seth Meyers leaves little doubt as to what his Western Pennsylvania show will entail. Pittsburgh Steelers, Penguins and Pirates talk and political commentary will rule the night when Meyers, host of NBC’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” appears June...
Laurel Mountain homicide suspect ruled competent to stand trial
A Westmoreland County judge ruled Tuesday that a Laurel Mountain man accused of killing his live-in girlfriend nearly five years ago is competent to stand trial. Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio said Gregory R. Randall, 62, is mentally fit to assist with his defense after hearing expert testimony from a defense psychologist...
Pittsburgh flights cut as Southwest grapples with Boeing 737 issues
Nonstop Southwest flights from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles International Airport and Cancun will be suspended and service to Las Vegas will be reduced in June, Pittsburgh International Airport announced this week. It’s part of the fallout from the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, the airplane under investigation in...
East Pittsburgh resident sues U.S. Steel over Clairton Coke Works fire
An East Pittsburgh resident has filed a class action lawsuit against U.S. Steel in connection with the Dec. 24 fire at the Clairton Coke Works. Linda Hernandez claims she started feeling sick after spending hours outside on Christmas Eve decorating her East Pittsburgh home, according to the lawsuit. She said...
Pit bulls euthanized after attacking man in Mt. Washington
A pair of pit bulls that attacked a man Tuesday in Mt. Washington have been euthanized, according to Pittsburgh police. The victim, whose name was not released, was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment, police said. He was in stable condition. The attack occurred shortly before 1...
Coach charged after boy seriously injured in Pittsburgh van mishap
A youth sports coach put a 15-year-old girl behind the wheel of a van and had four young boys attempt to push it off a sheet of ice at a Pittsburgh recreation center earlier this year, a move that left one of the boys pinned under the van seriously injured,...
Police: Wilkinsburg man shot, killed man through closed door
A Wilkinsburg man barged in to a Larimer home and shot another man through a closed bedroom door, Pittsburgh police said. Robert E. Harper, 45, of Wilkinsburg, faces homicide and burglary charges in connection with the April 8 shooting of Mark Anthony Jackson, according to the criminal complaint filed against...
Police: Man accused of throwing iguana in restaurant
PAINESVILLE, Ohio — Police say an unruly customer at a restaurant in Ohio pulled an iguana from under his shirt, swung it around and threw it at the manager. Painesville police were called to the Perkins restaurant around noon Tuesday. Police say they apprehended the suspect a few blocks away...
$1 billion raised to rebuild Paris’ Notre Dame after fire
PARIS — Nearly $1 billion has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, after the French president set a controversial five-year deadline to get the work done. Construction teams brought in a huge crane and a...
Police: Motorcyclist tried to run down trooper near Fort Pitt Tunnel
Police say a motorcyclist tried to run down a state trooper who attempted to pull him over for using the shoulder along the Parkway West as a passing lane. The man who was arrested, however, told police that he swerved onto the shoulder to avoid hitting a vehicle that stopped...
Pine-Richland French Club students witness Notre Dame Cathedral fire
Thirty minutes after members of Pine-Richland High School’s French Club visited Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the iconic fixture was ablaze. The students watched and took photos as parts of the 850-year-old church burned before them. “The loss of such a cultural and religious staple is truly devastating,” senior Elaina...
Brew Gentlemen expanding with outdoor space for summer
Brew Gentlemen is looking to stretch out with an outdoor summer space in time for the local craft brewer’s weeklong fifth anniversary bash starting May 20. Additionally, the Braddock business plans to renovate its the 28,000-square-foot warehouse behind its Braddock Avenue taproom to create a full-scale production brewhouse and canning...
Trump administration to withhold bail from asylum seekers in latest border crackdown
Migrants who come to the United States seeking asylum may instead wind up jailed indefinitely while they wait for their claims to be processed, the Trump administration ruled Tuesday in its latest crackdown at the border. Attorney General William Barr’s written decision, a policy reversal, applies to migrants who have...
For Penguins, offseason roster changes all but guaranteed after first-round sweepVideo
A sullen group of Pittsburgh Penguins players sat in their stalls in a losing locker room Tuesday night knowing full well they just finished the last game this team would play together a group. Being swept in the first round of the playoffs inevitably leads to personnel changes. Even if...
Lawmakers hope to change Pennsylvania’s rules on police shootings
HARRISBURG — A group of Democrats in the General Assembly said Tuesday shootings by police show the need to change the rules for when Pennsylvania officers can use deadly force and to reform their oversight and training. Members of the Legislative Black Caucus outlined a legislative agenda that would also...
Columbine threat by woman with gun shuts Denver-area schoolsVideo
LITTLETON, Colo. — Denver-area public schools will be closed Wednesday as authorities search for a young Florida woman who flew to the city and bought a gun after becoming “infatuated” with the mass shooting at Columbine High School. The FBI said Sol Pais, 18, is “considered to be extremely dangerous”...
Derry mayor free on bond while charged with pointing gun at kids
Derry Mayor Kevin Gross is out on bond as he awaits a hearing on charges he pointed a gun at four children in a local park. Gross was released from the Westmoreland County Prison on Tuesday after Rosanne Neiman of Latrobe posted his $20,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear...
Playoffs by period: Penguins couldn’t solve Islanders’ strategy or avoid a sweep
THIRD PERIOD: Islanders 3, Penguins 1 The strategy for the New York Islanders is simple: Sit back and wait for the opponent to make mistakes. The Penguins were all too happy to comply. That made their Stanley Cup playoffs first-round series a bad matchup for the Penguins, despite the two...
Police: Man impersonated UPMC worker, tried to steal car
An Altoona man is accused of posing as a UPMC Mercy hospital worker, threatening a woman and climbing into her car as she tried to exit a parking garage, then assaulting another man who tried to intervene, police said. Byron Lamont Leverette, 28, was arrested on robbery, public drunkenness and...
What the public will not see in the Mueller reportVideo
WASHINGTON — The special counsel’s Trump-Russia report will be out on Thursday for all to see. But not all of it. The Democrats’ demands for a full, unredacted version of Robert Mueller’s report are likely to prompt a political and legal battle that could last for months, if not much...
Police: Former Canon-McMillan wrestler attacked mom with sword, gun
A champion Canon-McMillan wrestler attacked his mother with a sword and a handgun before police were called to his Canonsburg home and shot him as he pointed an AR-15 rifle at them, police said. Police charged Logan Macri, 19, with 21 crimes Tuesday including six felonies as the teen recovered...
New Kensington police nab 27 drivers in speeding crackdown
A crackdown on speeding by New Kensington police resulted in more than two dozen traffic stops Tuesday morning, including one involving a motorist who police said was traveling more than twice the speed limit on a city road. New Kensington police Chief Bob Deringer said the crackdown is in response...
Yough welcomes Carnegie Mellon’s free computer science curriculumVideo
Yough Senior High School in Herminie sits amid the rural countryside of Westmoreland County, a world away from the tech hubs that have cropped up in Austin, Silicon Valley and even Pittsburgh. But that hasn’t kept Yough students from accessing a cutting-edge computer science curriculum on Python, a computer coding...
Western Pa. gets a shout-out on ‘SNL’s’ Weekend Update
Don’t expect a bump in tourism from this late-night skit featuring Western Pennsylvania Saturday night. Saturday Night Live’s satirical news segment Weekend Update featured a Spring Break travel segment that took a comical wrong turn. Host Michael Che welcomed guest commentator Carrie Krum, played by Aidy Bryant, to present some...
