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After fiery first day, Donald Trump returns to court as his fraud trial gets down to business
NEW YORK — After a fiery first day of opening statements, lawyers in Donald Trump’s business fraud trial in New York will move on Tuesday to the more plodding task of going through years of his financial documents in what’s expected to be a weekslong fight over whether they constitute...
Your cellphone, TV and radio will sound alarms today — here’s why
On Wednesday afternoon, your cellphone, TV and radio will all sound alarms. While it may give a jolt of surprise, there is no reason to worry. It is just a test. Two tests, actually. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission will conduct a nationwide test at...
Woman dies in Allegheny County’s first West Nile virus case of 2023
Officials have identified the first human case of West Nile virus in 2023 in Allegheny County. The woman, who was in her 80s and lived in Pittsburgh’s Elliott neighborhood, experienced fever and weakness, leading to hospitalization, the Allegheny County Health Department said Monday. She died in late September. The state...
Morning roundup: Fire impacts 3 Murrysville businesses; arrest made in robbery of 2 Pitt students
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Tuesday, Oct. 3: Fire in Murrysville impacts 3 businesses A fire broke out in a business building early Tuesday in Murrysville. The fire was reported at about 2:30 a.m.on the 4000 block of William Penn Highway. The structure houses...
Greensburg hopes to raze shuttered parking garage by Westmoreland Hospital
Greensburg officials have a plan in place for demolishing the city’s shuttered J. Edward Hutchinson Parking Garage, but the state’s blessing is needed. The garage has been closed for about two years, since the city determined it wasn’t worth the projected cost of more than $2 million to extend the...
Edgewood’s Bhavini Patel announces Democratic challenge to U.S. Rep. Summer Lee
After a roughly contested primary in 2022, Western Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District could be in for another competitive spring race. Bhavini Patel, 29, a Democrat from Edgewood, said Monday that she plans to challenge freshman U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, in next year’s primary. Less than two years ago, Lee...
Rep. Matt Gaetz’s motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy throws House into new turmoilVideo
WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing an extraordinary referendum on his leadership of the House after a conservative member of his own Republican majority, a longtime critic, moved to launch a vote to oust him from the helm. Late Monday, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., rose in the chamber as...
4 weekend fires in New Kensington, Arnold — 3 on same street — being treated as suspicious
Investigators are trying to determine whether four fires that erupted over the weekend — including one that sent a firefighter to the hospital with serious injuries — were deliberately set and connected to one another. Three of the four fires were on Leishman Avenue and one was on Fourth Avenue....
Fired Pittsburgh Regional Transit employee sues union over handling of covid-19 vaccine mandate
A former bus driver with Pittsburgh Regional Transit is suing the union that used to represent him, alleging that union officers colluded with the agency and failed to protect the drivers who opposed the covid-19 vaccine mandate. Jon Lutz was terminated as a result of the vaccine mandate imposed by...
Ward rips Shapiro over handling of sexual harassment complaint against top aide
Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward lashed out at Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration Monday over its handling of a sexual harassment allegation made by a female worker against a top aide of the governor. Ward, R-Hempfield, said it was “unacceptable” that Mike Vereb, Shapiro’s secretary of legislative affairs, remained...
Viatris to sell several business segments for almost $7 billion
Pharmaceuticals giant Viatris Inc. said Monday it has agreed to sell several business segments in a planned divestiture. The Cecil-based company will sell substantially all of its Over-the-Counter (OTC) business, Women’s Healthcare business, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients business in India. The company is also selling commercialization rights that were acquired when...
Pa. court says state-owned universities violated pact by cutting faculty without discussion beforehand
Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has issued a split opinion in a case with implications for faculty cuts imposed at 10 state-owned universities since 2021 and any future professor layoffs. In an opinion that partly affirmed an arbitrator’s earlier decision, the court said Friday that the State System of Higher Education failed...
Another gun detected at Pittsburgh International; airport on pace for record number of confiscations, TSA says
The Transportation Security Administration confiscated a loaded handgun from a Georgia man at Pittsburgh International Airport on Friday, the third gun intercepted at the airport in a week, officials said. “We are on the cusp of setting a new all-time high in the number of guns our team has detected...
Shooting in Arnold sends 1 to hospital; suspect remains at large
All schools in the New Kensington-Arnold School District were on lockdown Monday afternoon as police from multiple agencies canvassed the Arnold-New Kensington area for a suspected shooter. One gunshot victim showed up to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Melanie Jones, spokeswoman for the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s...
Police: 3 Hempfield high school students caught passing handguns, prompting lockdown
Three 15-year-old male students passed two loaded handguns — a .38-caliber and a .22-caliber — on a Hempfield Area High School bus and at the school Monday, state police said. Students who witnessed the exchanges contacted school administrators, who alerted state police about 11:40 a.m. The school was put in...
Police say McKees Rocks mother stabbed her child’s father in the chest
Munhall police say a child-custody exchange turned violent Sunday afternoon when a woman stabbed her daughter’s father in the chest outside his Munhall apartment. Police said they responded to the 3800 block of Shady Avenue around 3:15 p.m. and found a man identified as Victor Harvey suffering from a stab...
Mark Madden: Steelers QB Kenny Pickett isn’t giving the Steelers a chance to succeed
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ problems are many, and they are great. Most of you blame offensive coordinator Matt Canada. Mike Tomlin’s reputation has one ally remaining, namely widespread willful ignorance. Tomlin is a fraud. How many more flat starts do you need to witness? How many more years without a playoff...
Steelers vs. Texans: What they’re saying in Houston after win
For a team predicted to finish last in the AFC South, the Houston Texans appear to be riding high after thrashing the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday afternoon. The 30-6 win in Texas had Chron.com sports writer Josh Criswell wondering if the Texans could be playoff contenders. “Such a statement would...
Crash sends motorcycle passenger over Pittsburgh’s 31st Street Bridge onto train tracks below
A motorcyclist struck a concrete barrier on the 31st Street Bridge early Monday, sending a female passenger over the bridge onto train tracks below, Pittsburgh police said. The crash closed the bridge to traffic for about two hours. Authorities responded to the incident around 4:30 a.m. Police spokeswoman Cara Cruz...
Trump seethes through the start of trial in New York lawsuit accusing him of lying about his wealth
NEW YORK — Aggrieved and defiant, former President Donald Trump spent a day in court Monday for the sometimes testy start of a trial in a fraud lawsuit that could cost him control of Trump Tower and other prized properties. “Disgraceful trial,” he declared during a lunch break, after listening...
Few Americans say conservatives can speak freely on college campuses, poll shows
WASHINGTON — Americans view college campuses as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech, with adults across the political spectrum seeing less tolerance for those on the right, according to a new poll. Overall, 47% of adults say liberals have “a lot” of freedom...
Morning Roundup: Man hospitalized after Bloomfield shooting; fire destroys Cook Township home
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, Oct. 2: Man hospitalized after Bloomfield shooting A man was hospitalized early Monday after a shooting outside a Bloomfield business. Pittsburgh police from Zone 5 responded to the 4900 block of Yew Street at about 2 a.m. for...
Motorcyclist killed in Regent Square crash
A motorcyclist was killed late Sunday after colliding with a vehicle near Regent Square. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office early Monday identified the man as Roy Calvin Holiday IV, 37, of Pittsburgh’s North Side. Pittsburgh police, firefighters and EMS responded to the 500 block of South Braddock Avenue, near...
Madden Monday: Kenny Pickett is ‘awful … if Mitch (Trubisky) plays next week, that’s an upgrade’
On the heels of an embarrassing 30-6 loss in Houston on Sunday, Mark Madden of TribLIVE and 105.9 The X has a big picture point to raise about the Pittsburgh Steelers. “Maybe this is the real Steelers. Maybe they got kind of lucky to win the last two games. They...
California governor to name Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to Feinstein Senate seat
LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will name Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a spokesman in his office said Sunday. In choosing Butler, Newsom fulfilled his pledge to...
