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Morning Roundup: Tractor-trailer overturns on Route 28
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, April 3, 2023: Tractor-trailer overturns on Route 28 A tractor-trailer overturned early Monday on southbound Route 28, just before the Pittsburgh Mills exit. An Allegheny County 911 dispatcher said there were no injuries reported. A section of southbound...
Activist explores Native peoples’ history, recent issues during presentation at The Westmoreland
Miguel Sague Jr. finds value in reenactments involving Native Americans, such as those at Bushy Run Battlefield that have prompted widespread discussion over their appropriateness. But he conceded that, when non-Native Americans depict Native people, it can be tricky. “I think reenacting these battles is a good thing. It’s something...
Pitt on verge of naming new chancellor; vote expected at Monday trustees meeting
University of Pittsburgh trustees have called a special meeting for Monday and are expected to vote on a resolution to name a successor to Chancellor Patrick Gallagher. The 11 a.m. main campus meeting inside Alumni Hall’s Connolly ballroom is to be livestreamed and will include “Remarks of the Chancellor Elect,”...
Trump to deliver remarks Tuesday night after his arraignment
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump will deliver remarks Tuesday night in Florida after his scheduled arraignment in New York on charges related to hush money payments, his campaign announced Sunday. Trump will hold the event at his Mar-a-Lago club after returning from Manhattan, where he is expected to...
Sen. John Fetterman says severe depression made him ‘indifferent’ to livingVideo
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman of Braddock opened up on national television Sunday about the severe depression that put him in a hospital and left him unable to get out of bed after his November election victory. He said he was “indifferent” to living — not to the extent of harming...
Pittsburgh artists rally in support of Marc Fogel, others detained in Russia
Marc Fogel has made his mark in the art world, as an educator and with his friends and family. On Saturday, Fogel’s fellow artists decided to “Make a Marc” of their own by staging a group art show in support of their colleague. Fogel, a 61-year-old Butler native who taught...
Blinken: Russia must immediately free 2 detained Americans
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his Russian counterpart, in a rare phone call between the diplomats since the Ukraine war, to immediately release a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained last week as well as another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan, the State Department said Sunday. In...
Twitter pulls check mark from main New York Times account
Twitter has removed the verification check mark on the main account of The New York Times, one of CEO Elon Musk’s most despised news organizations. The removal comes as many of Twitter’s high-profile users are bracing for the loss of the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and...
Building the Valley: Gourmet and bar food meet at Lock 5 Tavern in Freeport
Lock 5 Tavern, formerly the Upper Deck Sports Bar along Fifth Avenue in Freeport, might look old, but it is far from tired. Owner Matt Vogan, 40, has bumped up the pub’s offerings with gourmet bar food in a commercial building from the late 1800s only a few blocks from...
Trump indictment ends decades of perceived invincibility
NEW YORK — When Donald Trump steps before a judge this coming week to be arraigned in a New York courtroom, it will not only mark the first time a former U.S. president has faced criminal charges. It will also be a reckoning for a man long nicknamed “Teflon Don,”...
32 dead as tornadoes torment from Arkansas to DelawareVideo
WYNNE, Ark. — Residents across a wide swath of the U.S. raced Sunday to assess the destruction from fierce storms that spawned possibly dozens of tornadoes from the South and the Midwest into the Northeast, killing at least 32 people. The storms tore a path through the Arkansas capital and...
Ex-Arkansas GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson is running for president
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Asa Hutchinson, who recently completed two terms as Arkansas governor, said Sunday he will seek the Republican presidential nomination, positioning himself as an alternative to Donald Trump just days after the former president was indicted by a grand jury in New York. Hutchinson said Trump should...
Man stabbed on Pittsburgh’s Observatory Hill
A man was stabbed in the neck and back Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh’s Observatory Hill neighborhood, city police said. The victim was hospitalized in critical condition after being stabbed multiple times in the back shortly after 5 p.m. at a residence in the 300 block of Delaware Street, police said....
As family exits Giant Eagle leadership, question of what’s next remains
It’s increasingly rare for a family-owned business to survive more than 90 years — rarer still when more than one family is involved. But Giant Eagle had done just that. Founded by five families in 1931, the O’Hara-based grocery chain grew into a regional powerhouse whose name has been enshrined...
Catch ’em while you can: State, local nurseries place more than 4 million trout in waters
Seven out of 10 people who buy an annual fishing license in Pennsylvania also spring for a trout permit. But most of those anglers probably wouldn’t be able to catch a trout if not for the state’s long-running, $10 million stocking program, which sees millions of trout put into creeks...
A town derailed: ‘Shell-shocked’ East Palestine residents seek normalcy after train wreck
For many people in and around East Palestine, Ohio, life changed when a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials derailed Feb. 3 near the Pennsylvania border. The controlled burn of toxic chemicals that followed sent a large plume of black smoke into the air that could be seen for miles....
High winds blow house down on Pittburgh’s South Side
South Side resident Desmon Dashawn said it sounded like a lightning strike but felt like an earthquake when the vacant house next door collapsed about 1 p.m. Saturday. The destroyed house fell partly onto South 16th Street, damaging multiple parked cars and pushing up against the structure next door. The...
Concrete base in place at Westmoreland courthouse parking, plaza project
Trucks continuously pulled in front of the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg early Saturday and through the morning to feed thousands of cubic yards concrete that formed the base for a new courtyard plaza. Some 50 laborers were directing the 4-inch hose that spewed the concrete pumped from two giant...
Fire destroys home, vacant business in Harrison
A fire destroyed a home and an empty business along River Avenue in the Natrona section of Harrison on Saturday. The blaze started at 21 River Ave. Homeowner Jeff Martinka said he was cooking home fries and went into his backyard to eat a meal. Then he turned around and...
High winds down trees, wires Saturday; Almost 17,000 still without power Sunday afternoon
The region’s two electric utility companies still have about 16,800 customers without power in Western Pennsylvania on Sunday afternoon as a result of storms that blew through Southwestern Pennsylvania on Saturday, with intense winds taking down trees that cut power lines and broke utility poles. West Penn Power in Greensburg...
Tornadoes kill at least 11 across U.S. Midwest and South
WYNNE, Ark. — Tornadoes that tore through parts of the South and Midwest killed at least 11 people, collapsed the roof of a packed theater during a heavy metal concert in Illinois, and left small towns and big cities throughout the region bewildered Saturday by the damage. Possibly dozens of...
Building collapses in Mt. Oliver
A building collapsed along Brownsville Road in Mt. Oliver Friday, the borough’s fire department reported. There were no reports of injuries as a result of the collapse of the building in the 300 block of Brownsville Road. A Mt. Oliver fire department official could not be reached for comment Saturday...
Stored ammo pops as house burns in East HuntingdonVideo
An East Huntingdon house was destroyed by a fire Saturday morning, a fire official said. No one was injured in the fire that destroyed the house in the 200 block of South Quarry Street, East Huntingdon Volunteer Fire Department Chief Brian Kite said. The fire was reported about 8 a.m....
Training seminar teaches police how to handle domestic violence situations
For Harrison police Officer Colton Stebler, responding to domestic violence is an almost daily occurrence. “Sometimes it’s multiple calls a day,” said Stebler, who has spent six years in law enforcement. The Alle-Kiski Area HOPE Center sponsored a free training seminar on domestic violence for area law enforcement officials Friday...
Meteorologist: High winds a more frequent headache for Southwestern Pa.
Ill winds have been blowing with increased frequency through Southwestern Pennsylvania this year, felling trees, causing power outages and leaving behind debris and damaged buildings. With a high wind warning in effect for the region from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, on the tail of damaging winds the previous...
