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Northern lights to be visible through Sunday night
What scientists call “a geomagnetic storm watch” is in effect for Sunday night. In plain language, that means: Look for vibrant northern lights across the nation — visible anywhere in Pennsylvania. Authorities from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center said “a coronal mass ejection” will likely...
Morning Roundup: Glassport officer bit by dog; Pittsburgh Police investigate South Side Flats crash
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Sunday, June 1: Officer hurt, people charged A Glassport police officer is recovering after being bit by a dog Saturday afternoon. Police Chief Shawn Deverse told TribLive news partner WTAE that an officer was bit while investigating an incident...
Murrysville attorney wounded by self-inflicted gunshot during arrest, police sayVideo
A suspended attorney had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Murrysville office as police tried to take him into custody on theft charges, according to authorities. A search warrant was served around 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the office of Robert C. Klingensmith on Old William Penn Highway just outside...
Editorial: This year is no time for a state budget battle
Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward sounded adamant. “We’re certainly not going to raises taxes,” she said. The Hempfield Republican was speaking at the Westmoreland County Chamber of Commerce “State of the State” breakfast. It was a gathering of government and business leaders, so naturally the topic turned to...
Allegheny County Jail’s new warden draws praise, even from the lockup’s fiercest critics
Being in charge of the Allegheny County Jail means running from meeting to meeting. But on Fridays, Warden Trevor Wingard slows down to a walk. At the end of each week, Wingard strolls from floor to floor of the 16-level lockup, taking the pulse of the beleaguered facility he’s been...
Retirees live it up at retired school buildings
Catholic school taught Jim Scafuri as much about how to take a beating from a nun as math or reading, so when he started at the public Morningside Elementary School in the 1960s, it came as a welcome reprieve. “I started to learn for the first time in my life,”...
‘We’ll really miss it’: Riverview Relay for Life ends after 25 years, raising $2M for cancer research
The Relay for Life of Riverview has come to an end after a 25-year run in Oakmont, but the battle against cancer continues. Oakmont breast cancer survivor Nancy “Moochie” Donatucci, a longtime organizer for the relay benefitting the American Cancer Society, says she’ll keep up the fight by selling hanging...
Musk put a spotlight on federal spending, but cut less than he wanted
Elon Musk’s effort to dramatically cut government spending is expected to fall far short of his grand early pronouncements, and perhaps even his most modest goals. It didn’t have to be that way. According to experts across the ideological spectrum, a major problem was a failure to deploy people who...
FDA approves Moderna’s new lower-dose covid-19 vaccine
The U.S. approved a new covid-19 vaccine made by Moderna late Friday but with limits on who can use it — not a replacement for the company’s existing shot, but a second option. The new vaccine, mNexspike, is a step toward next-generation coronavirus vaccines. It’s made in a way that...
Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins
WASHINGTON — With predictions for a busy hurricane season beginning Sunday, experts in storms and disasters are worried about something potentially as chaotic as the swirling winds: Massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to hurricanes. Experts are alarmed over the large-scale staff reductions, travel and...
Morning Roundup: Man killed in Pittsburgh; gun found in airport passenger carry-on
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Saturday, May 31: Man killed in Pittsburgh’s Northview Heights A man was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in Pittsburgh’s Northview Heights neighborhood early Saturday morning. Public Safety spokesperson Eliza Durham said officers were dispatched shortly before 1 a.m....
American Legion Post 48 holding strong, represents ‘the legacy of Natrona’
For the better half of the last century, you could set a watch by the Sunday morning tradition on Garfield Street in Harrison’s Natrona neighborhood. “Everyone went to 9:30 Mass at St. Joe’s in their white shirt and tie, and then you’d see them all running down the street to...
Chancellor outlines vision as Penn State New Kensington, Fayette wind down operations
The regional chancellor for Penn State’s New Kensington, Fayette and Greater Allegheny campuses plans a smooth transition focused on students, faculty and staff as two of those campuses wind down operations in two years. “Through the 2026-27 academic year, we remain fully committed to supporting our students, faculty, staff and...
Laurel Caverns proposed as Pennsylvania’s 1st underground state park
David Cale, owner of Laurel Caverns, remembers living in a tent on the property in 1962 while he helped his grandfather develop the site for public tours. Just before the attraction in Farmington, Fayette County, opened in July 1964, Cale made a jagged wooden sign to mimic the signs he...
Pittsburgh police: School van driver faces DUI charges after leaving crash scene
A school van driver was arrested by Pittsburgh police on Friday afternoon after they say he fled the scene of a crash with a half-dozen children in the van. Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said an initial report came in describing a collision on the north side of the 16th Street...
Rocky Bleier names Trump ‘honorary Steeler’ during West Mifflin event
President Donald Trump called an audible early in his speech Friday night in West Mifflin, temporarily shifting focus away from a $14 billion agreement between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel to recognize a trio of Pittsburgh Steelers. Former Steelers legend Rocky Bleier, who was joined on stage by current Steelers...
CMU, Pitt students speak out as Chinese student visas are threatened
Mia Cody fears that the diverse student environment she has grown to love in her two years at Carnegie Mellon University is under threat. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the Trump administration will aggressively revoke the visas of some Chinese students studying at colleges and universities throughout...
DHS threatens federal funding for Pittsburgh, Allegheny County over immigrant stance
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has included Pittsburgh and Allegheny County on a lengthy list of “sanctuary jurisdictions defying federal immigration law.” The creation of the list was mandated by an April executive order in which President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from jurisdictions federal officials believe...
Agents seize 54 pounds of pot worth $240K at Pittsburgh airport
A Massachusetts woman remained in jail Friday after customs agents at Pittsburgh International Airport said they discovered she was trying to fly overseas with more than 54 pounds of marijuana. Jetta Monet Corbett, 30, of Brockton, Mass., was set to board a British Airways flight from Pittsburgh to London around...
At Pittsburgh rally, Trump promises to raise tariffs on imported steel, praises U.S. Steel deal
President Donald Trump’s rally Friday inside the U.S. Steel Irvin Works facility marked a victory lap for supporters of the company’s $14 billion partnership with Nippon Steel, and the president himself, who told hundreds of steel workers, “I was watching over you.” Live look at the crowd gathered at the...
FBI charges Elizabeth man with making antisemitic threats against public official
The FBI on Thursday charged an Elizabeth man with making online antisemitic threats against a “local” public official. Edward Arthur Owens Jr., 29, is charged with a single felony count of making an interstate threat. He is being held in federal custody pending a detention hearing on June 5. The...
Police arrest 2nd of 3 suspects in slaying of Woodland Hills graduate
Police last week arrested the second of three suspects in the September slaying of a Woodland Hills High School graduate and former football standout. Marcus Johnson, 23, of Pittsburgh was charged Saturday in the killing of Gavin Yarbough, 21. Police said Yarbough was shot multiple times during a late-night meeting...
Canadian wildfires again bringing smoke, haze to Western Pa.
Smoke and haze from wildfires in Canada are again hovering over Western Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection says it is monitoring smoking from large wildfires burning out of control in and around Manitoba. “While an air quality action day is not expected, some hazy skies and reduced visibility could...
Supreme Court lets Trump end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants for now, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million. The justices lifted a lower-court...
Frazer issues dozens more citations against Pittsburgh Mills owners for mall’s condition
It seems the only thing growing faster than the potholes at Pittsburgh Mills mall is the list of citations issued against the shopping center’s owners. Numerous potholes, knee-high grass and inoperable doors are among issues behind a new wave of citations issued by Frazer’s building inspector, Bill Payne. At the...
