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Lawsuit alleges Allegheny County Jail failed to help man who died by suicide last year
The estate of a man with a history of suicidal thoughts and various mental health diagnoses who died by suicide last year in Allegheny County Jail is suing the county. Martin Bucek, of Shaler, died on July 3, 2021. He was 55. Dolores Bucek, the administrator of Bucek’s estate, filed...
Officials say Western Pa. can lead way in clean energy industry
The Pittsburgh region has a long history of energy production, from its former proliferation of coal mines to a more recent boom in natural gas, and it may be looking to add to that energy profile by transitioning to renewable and clean energy technology. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Energy...
51 migrants die after trailer abandoned in San Antonio heatVideo
SAN ANTONIO — Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones as authorities began the grim task Tuesday of identifying 51 people who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning in the sweltering Texas heat. It was the worst...
iPhone turns 15: How Apple forever changed the way we communicateVideo
It was January 2007 when Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs walked onto a stage at the MacWorld convention and introduced the world to a new kind of phone. It was called an iPhone, and it became available to the public June 29, 2007. Little did anyone know it would...
Fight over 2020 election records lands in Pennsylvania court
HARRISBURG — A county judge in Williamsport has to decide whether to force officials to provide voter-by-voter electronic election records after the state Office of Open Records ruled Pennsylvania law makes them confidential. Heather Honey, who heads the Lebanon, Pa.-based firm Haystack Investigations, sought in October a digital copy of...
FDA advisers debate updating covid booster shots for fall
Government advisers debated Tuesday if Americans should get a modified covid-19 booster shot this fall — and exactly how best to update it to fight a virus that surely will change even more by then. “That’s the problem — we’re being asked to more or less have a crystal ball...
Game warden, U.S. Steel employees rescue bald eagle; bird’s sibling helped rescuers find itVideo
Employees of U.S. Steel Irvin Works and the Pennsylvania Game Commission rescued a juvenile bald eagle in the vicinity of its nest on the steel plant’s grounds in West Mifflin. One of two young bald eagles raised at the aerie below the U.S. Steel plant along the Monongahela River took...
Councilman introduces legislation to protect abortion access in Pittsburgh
Legislation introduced to Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday aims to protect abortion in the city, even if it would at some point become restricted statewide. City Councilman Bobby Wilson sponsored three related bills hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, deciding that Americans do not have a...
Pittsburgh nurses say overturning Roe will endanger patients, increase burnout
About half a dozen nurses gathered Tuesday outside of West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield to decry the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, essentially making abortion illegal in several states. Pennsylvania still allows abortions up to 24 weeks into pregnancies and will continue at least through...
Pittsburgh man who won right to new trial pleads guilty to 3rd-degree murder
A man from Pittsburgh’s Overbrook neighborhood who won the right to a new trial 13 years after he was convicted of accidentally killing his great aunt in Perry North pleaded guilty Tuesday to third-degree murder. Jayquon Massey, 32, was ordered to serve 14 to 28 years in prison as part...
Airbnb permanently bans parties at its rental locations
SAN FRANCISCO — Airbnb is making permanent its ban on parties at homes listed on the site for short-term rentals. The San Francisco company believes the ban has worked, saying Tuesday that reports of parties at listed properties have dropped 44% from a year ago. More than 6,600 guests were...
Pittsburgh zoning amendment clears way for proposed Oakland Crossings
A zoning amendment approved Tuesday by Pittsburgh City Council clears the way for the proposed Oakland Crossings development to proceed. Walnut Capital, the Shadyside developer that revitalized the East End’s Bakery Square, needed City Council to approve the zoning change in a portion of Oakland so it can move ahead...
Target set to open in historic Kaufmann’s building
Target is scheduled to open in the old Kaufmann’s building in Downtown Pittsburgh next month. The grand opening for the Fifth Avenue store is slated for July 17, said Maddie Wojtalewicz, a Target spokesperson. “At approximately 22,000 square feet, the store will bring an easy, safe and convenient shopping experience...
2 charged in rash of vehicle break-ins in Westmoreland County
Two people are facing charges in connection with more than two dozen vehicle break-ins across Westmoreland County, according to court papers. Troopers said the suspects — Shelby Lynn Stamm, 26, of Youngstown and John Mitchell Hughes, 30, of Orlando, Fla. — stole cash, guns, designer sunglasses, wallets and other items....
Aide: Trump dismissed Jan. 6 threats, wanted to join crowd
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump dismissed the presence of armed protesters headed to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and even endorsed their calls to “hang Mike Pence,” a key former White House aide told House investigators Tuesday, describing chaotic scenes inside and outside the executive mansion as Trump...
Sheetz offers gas for as low as $3.49 a gallon through Fourth of July holiday
With many people traveling for the Fourth of July holiday, Sheetz is offering some of its gas options at lower prices. Effective immediately, Sheetz will drop prices on Unleaded 88 to $3.99 a gallon and E85 to $3.49 per gallon. The discount will be available “through the July 4th holiday...
State police: Traffic stop for tinted windows leads to man’s arrest for drugs, illegal gun
A man was arrested in North Buffalo Township after a state trooper accused him of having cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy and a loaded pistol in his vehicle during a traffic stop for tinted windows and an expired inspection sticker. Warren Paul Greenleaf Jr., 37, of the 300 block of College Avenue...
Public, private sectors cooperate to try to boost apprenticeship numbers in Pennsylvania
In the years leading up to his graduation from Hampton Township High School in 2019, Nic Michielli discussed his future with district staff. “When I told my high school guidance counselor that I probably wasn’t planning to go to college, the conversation pretty much ended there,” Michielli said. With a...
46 migrants found dead in abandoned trailer in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO — Forty-six people were found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in San Antonio in the latest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S. Sixteen people were hospitalized, including four children. A city...
Police: Missing girl found in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Police said an 11-year-old girl who had been missing has been safely located. Public Safety officials had asked the public to help find Kamarah Sanders, who was last seen at 3 a.m. June 27 leaving a residence on Carver Street in Larimer. She is Black with dark hair, 5...
Pennsylvania House targets colleges’ fetal research in bill
HARRISBURG — A proposal to require Pennsylvania’s four state-related universities to promise they are not conducting research or experiments with fetal tissue from elective abortions was added to a state budget bill by House Republicans on Monday. The chamber voted 108-92, with three Republicans crossing party lines, for the amendment...
Pittsburgh man gets 31 years in federal prison for heroin trafficking
A Pittsburgh man who served as the “right-hand man” for a large-scale heroin trafficker convicted of killing a potential witness against him will serve 31 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Mark R. Hornak sentenced James Perrin, 44, on Monday. Perrin has already been incarcerated for seven years on the...
Allegheny Technologies moves executive headquarters from Pittsburgh to Dallas, officially adopts ATI as company name
A new executive headquarters for one of the region’s largest employers will not diminish its presence in Western Pennsylvania. Allegheny Technologies announced its home base will leave Pittsburgh and relocate to Dallas. At the same time, it adopted ATI as the official company name to match “what most already call...
Pittsburgh-based dinosaur expert helps discover fossil of bizarre creature
Just imagine a 20-foot-long, meat-eating dinosaur with a smashed-in, bulldog-like face with small teeth, walking around on its hind legs and its short arms flailing away. This month, an Egyptian-American team of researchers, including a Pittsburgh-based dinosaur expert, announced the discovery of this new kind of dinosaur from a fossil...
3 killed, dozens hurt in Amtrak train crash in MissouriVideo
MENDON, Mo. — An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said. Two of those killed were...
