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Former Westmoreland prison guard will serve time for role in inmate assault
A former Westmoreland County Prison guard was ordered to serve time in the facility where he once worked. Brian Joseph Prinkey, 27, of Connellsville was sentenced Friday to serve 10 days to 23 months behind bars at the county lockup for his role in the assault of an inmate there...
‘Meaningful, beautiful and significant’: Community honors victims of Jeannette fire at memorial service
Dozens of people shuffled past bright floral arrangements and poster boards adorned with family photos at Word of Life Church in Hempfield Friday. Couples squeezed each other’s hands, and parents held their children tightly next to them as they waited to share condolences and hugs with members of the Miranda...
New fire captain, just 22, committed to continuing legacy of service in Oakmont
When Joey Flanick was a teenager, people in Oakmont nicknamed him “The Mayor.” “I just talk to everyone,” said Flanick, now 22 and an Oakmont Volunteer Fire Department captain. “The mayor title is like a joke, but it stuck. I’m a very social person, and I can build relationships with...
Lee, Patel spar on TV over Biden support, Mideast war
Democratic U.S. Rep. Summer Lee and primary challenger Bhavini Patel sparred Thursday in their only scheduled televised debate, attacking each other over their positions on war in the Mideast and support of President Joe Biden. WPXI moderated the 28-minute debate, which was not open to other media. No primary race...
Fuel leak, slick road suspected in 3-car crash on Route 910 in Harmar
Harmar police are investigating a diesel fuel spill that appears to have resulted in slick road conditions that led to a chain-reaction crash during the Friday morning commute along Route 910. No injuries were reported from the crash, which occurred at about 7 a.m., according to Harmar police Sgt. John...
Pittsburgh floodwaters crest at highest levels since 2005, 10th Street Bypass reopens
As rain drenched Southwestern Pennsylvania this week, Pittsburgh’s rivers reached their highest levels in nearly two decades. The Pittsburgh area saw 72 hours of heavy precipitation, which dropped more rain over three days than the region had seen in all of March, Lee Hendricks, a meteorologist with the National Weather...
Meteorologists project some cloud cover, possible rain during Monday’s eclipse
Viewing Monday’s solar eclipse may be a nebulous proposition in western Pennsylvania if a weather forecast that includes cloud cover is correct. “We are expecting partly to mostly cloudy skies on Monday during the eclipse,” said Brian Hutton Jr., meteorologist at TribLive news partner WTAE. “There are still some questions...
Pittsburgh Pirates home opener: Feels like Steelers weatherVideo
The Pirates were hot. The weather was not. Chilly temperatures and snow flurries on the North Shore made Friday feel more like a wintry Steelers tailgate than a celebration for the boys of summer. Still, fans were ready to welcome the 2024 home opener in Pittsburgh against the Baltimore Orioles....
Suspects in Easter killing of Wilkinsburg teen in jail
A woman sought in the fatal Easter Sunday shooting of a 16-year-old boy in Wilkinsburg is now in jail. Alicia Johnson turned herself in Wednesday night at Pittsburgh’s Zone 5 police station in Highland Park, police confirmed Friday. Johnson and Kira Jackson, both 23 and from Pittsburgh, are each charged...
Earthquake centered near New York City rattles the Northeast
NEW YORK — An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with residents across the Northeast reporting rumbling in a region where people are unaccustomed to feeling the ground move. The agency reported a quake at 10:23 a.m. with a...
Take the TribLive weekly news quiz: April 5
Here’s a new feature from TribLive: A weekly news quiz: 1. This week, the Pittsburgh region got a heavy dose of rain. A lot of rain. According to the National Weather Service, the area got approximately 4.07 inches this week. That accumulation marks the second highest three-day precipitation total in...
Powerball jackpot reaches $1.23B as long odds mean lots of losing, just as designed
Powerball will match a record for lottery drawings Saturday night with a stretch of more than three months without a jackpot winner. It’s that string of futility that has enabled Powerball’s top prize to reach $1.23 billion, the 8th largest in U.S. lottery history. And it’s a sign that the...
Morning Roundup: Wigle Whiskey opens site at PNC Park; landslide limits road access in Ross
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, April 5: Wigle Whiskey opens site at PNC Park Wigle Whiskey food and spirits will be available at PNC Park this season, the Pittsburgh-based craft distillery announced on its website. The distillery’s North Shore menu will be available...
Andrea Bocelli delivers a concert for the ages at PPG Paints Arena
On the first stop of his latest North American tour, and celebrating the 30th year of his recording career in 2024, internationally acclaimed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli took the stage at PPG Paints Arena on Thursday night. It was clear from the start that the audience was listening to a...
High waters cast doubt on trout season opener
It’s called “fishing” not “catching.” And that’s what anglers heading out for the state’s trout season opening day Saturday might be facing. Eager anglers likely will encounter muddy, fast-moving streams swollen from the massive rainfall that began late Monday and lingered into Thursday. The National Weather Service office in Moon...
Former East Huntingdon plant workers left with $40K in medical bills despite judge’s order
Former workers of a shuttered East Huntingdon metalworking company are waiting for the firm’s owner to pay about $40,000 in overdue medical bills incurred after they found out they were without insurance. U.S. Judge Robert Colville ordered Robert H. Kendi, president of the Ken-Co Fabricating Co. Inc., to “immediately pay”...
Following heavy rain, Conemaugh River Lake crest gates opened for 1st time since 2010
The recent rainfall that has caused flooding across the Pittsburgh region filled the Conemaugh River Lake to 74% of its capacity. To bring the lake’s level down, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started opening the dam’s crest gates Thursday, said Megan Gottlieb, water management lead engineer. It’s the first...
Jim Leyland on home opener 1st pitch, Hall of Fame election and Pirates’ hot start
For any MLB manager, Opening Days are always memorable. For Jim Leyland, the first of his MLB career with the Pittsburgh Pirates was impossible to forget. As was the opponent, the fabled 1986 Mets. “You realized real quick these were the big boys,” Leyland told me Thursday on 105.9 FM....
Too familiar: Residents near creeks, streams begin flood cleanup
Pamela Courie reached her breaking point Thursday when it began raining again. She and her husband spent hours tearing apart and throwing away flood-damaged pieces of their Lowber home after Sewickley Creek overflowed its banks Wednesday and came rushing in. “I want to move. I’m too sick to do this....
April nor’easter with heavy, wet snow bears down on Northeast, 630,000 still without powerVideo
A major spring storm brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast into Thursday, downing trees and power lines and leaving nearly 700,000 homes and businesses without power at some point. A woman was reported killed by a falling tree in a New York City suburb and a...
Court weighs if 15-year-old charged with homicide should be tried as adult
By the time he was 13, Nigel Thompson had been hospitalized twice at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Medical records showed he had suicidal thoughts and threatened to kill his family. He stole a gun, they said, and took it to school in his backpack. A juvenile court found that he...
No Labels abandons third-party campaign after trying to recruit a centrist presidential candidate
NEW YORK — The No Labels group said Thursday it will not field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organization failed to attract a high-profile centrist willing to seize on the widespread dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. “No Labels has always said we...
Judge denies Trump bid to dismiss classified documents prosecution
WASHINGTON — A federal judge refused Thursday to throw out the classified documents prosecution against Donald Trump, turning aside defense arguments that a decades-old law permitted the former president to retain the sensitive records after he left office. Lawyers for Trump had cited a 1978 statute known as the Presidential...
Pitt trustees vote to buy historic property, endorse 5-year plan
University of Pittsburgh trustees voted Thursday to create a new headquarters building for one of its schools, buy a historic site in Oakland and endorse a five-year strategic plan. Meeting at the university’s Oakland campus, trustees approved plans to make a building currently under construction at Fifth Avenue and Halket...
Here’s how to get around Pittsburgh’s ‘bathtub’ section of the Parkway East
Record levels of rain have flooded several roads in Pittsburgh, including the infamous “bathtub” section of Interstate 376, or the Parkway East, causing a headache for drivers across the region. On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation closed the bathtub — the westbound section of the Parkway between Grant Street...
