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Tractor-trailer catches fire in Springdale; businesses damaged
A tractor-trailer hauling a load of coffee up Pittsburgh Street in Springdale caught fire Saturday afternoon, causing its front tires to blow out and damage nearby businesses. No injuries were reported. The incident happened about 1:40 p.m., according to Springdale police. Traffic on the street was rerouted on three blocks...
Pennsylvania Republican fight brews in epicenter of Trump’s 2020 grudge
Bridgewater Associates alum David McCormick and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz are girding for a long legal fight in their too-close-to-call Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary, with Donald Trump already casting doubts on the outcome. The race is expected to end with an automatic recount that threatens to trigger an intraparty battle...
Covid-19, shootings: Is mass death now tolerated in America?
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — After mass shootings killed and wounded people grocery shopping, going to church and simply living their lives last weekend, the nation marked a milestone of 1 million deaths from covid-19. The number, once unthinkable, is now an irreversible reality in the United States — just like the...
Police report 2nd death from tornado in northern Michigan
GAYLORD, Mich. — A second person died in a tornado that hit northern Michigan, authorities reported Saturday, as crews searched a mobile home park that was virtually destroyed by the rare weather event. The person, who was in their 70s, lived in the Nottingham mobile home park in Gaylord, which...
Gisele Fetterman steps into campaign after husband’s stroke: ‘I didn’t have to think twice’
The whirlwind of the previous five days finally caught up with Gisele Fetterman on Wednesday at a rest stop along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Pennsylvania’s second lady, taking advantage of a rare moment of calm, fell asleep while sitting on a bench inside the rest stop. Her children couldn’t help but...
TSA Processing partners with ATI to bring new steel jobs to Hyde ParkVideo
New steel jobs have arrived in the Alle-Kiski Valley at a historic foundry in Hyde Park. TSA Processing, based in Houston, opened its sixth processing location in March, inside the hot metal section of the former Hyde Park Foundry. Currently, 13 full-time employees process large coils of steel and other...
Rare northern Michigan twister kills 1, injures more than 40
GAYLORD, Mich. — A rare northern Michigan tornado tore through a small community on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring more than 40 others as it flipped vehicles, tore roofs from buildings and downed trees and power lines. The twister hit Gaylord, a city of about 4,200 people...
Truck hauling meat overturns on Interstate 70 in Rostraver
A tractor-trailer hauling meat products crashed Friday evening in Rostraver, temporarily restricting westbound traffic on Interstate 70. The wreck happened shortly after 6:30 p.m. as the truck left the roadway near mile marker 43, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatch supervisor. Two people who has been riding in the overturned...
Butler County gun parts supply store files federal lawsuit against ATF over ghost gun rules, enforcement
A fight over the sale of ghost guns and parts to make them has come to Western Pennsylvania as a Butler County gun parts supplier on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The complaint, filed by Not an LLC, which operates as...
Associated Press calls Summer Lee winner over Steve Irwin in 12th Congressional District race
Election Night on Tuesday produced a neck-and-neck race between state Rep. Summer Lee and Pittsburgh lawyer Steve Irwin in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, but after outstanding votes were counted a few days later, Lee emerged victorious. After Tuesday, Lee led by less than half a percentage point. But there were...
Monessen police seek man accused of using cinderblock in assault, robbery
Monessen police are seeking a 55-year-old man accused of beating a man with a cinderblock during a robbery in the city early Friday. Dwayne M. “Peenie” Grogan is charged with attempted homicide, assault and robbery in connection with the 12:50 a.m. attack at a home in the 200 block of...
Ghost towns dot Western Pa., Pittsburgh landscape and history
When Ron Ross was 8, he used to climb up a hill overlooking his family’s Westmoreland County farm and watch houses being moved from the small village of Cokeville. “It was like watching a ballgame,” said Ross, 78, of Blairsville, who lived in a 13-room, three-story farmhouse. The procession was...
Family of man who died after falling through South Park skylight files lawsuit
The wife of a man who died while doing restoration work on Agricultural Hall in South Park last year filed a lawsuit against the county and contractor Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Kelly A. Scabilloni filed the complaint as the administrator of Frank Scabilloni’s estate. It includes claims...
As population continues to decline, the fate of some communities could be in jeopardy
Bob Davis spent only seven years of his childhood in Adamsburg before his family moved to Greensburg in 1966, but the borough made an impression. Davis lived in an old farm house along Main Street. He fondly recalls a bustling town filled with several businesses. There was a service station...
Allegheny County Jail returns to modified lockdown as covid cases rise
Rising covid-19 cases at Allegheny County Jail prompted officials to return to a modified lockdown Friday, with nearly half of the facility’s housing pods in isolation status. There were 91 positive cases among incarcerated people as of Wednesday, officials said. Twelve of 28 housing pods are in isolation, and 29...
Port Authority: Service cuts coming next month will lead to more reliable service
Port Authority of Allegheny County will reduce its weekly service hours by 4% next month to account for a driver shortage and ridership that has not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels, officials said this week. Seventy-five employees, including 43 bus operators, have been fired for violating the authority’s covid-19 vaccine...
Economics 101: What rising interest rates, inflation mean for you
The price of just about everything has gone up. Inflation, the rate at which prices rise in the economy, is the worst it’s been in 40 years. The Federal Reserve, the central bank for the U.S. — more commonly known as the Fed — announced earlier this month that it...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: May 20-22
We’ve made it to the weekend. It’s going to be hot. Here are some ways to spend it. Sandcastle opens Saturday’s weather forecast is a high temperature in the 90s. It’s the perfect temperature for opening day at Sandcastle water park in West Homestead. For the first time, the park...
5 injured in fiery crash between Port Authority bus, car in Downtown Pittsburgh
Five people were injured Thursday when a car and a Port Authority bus crashed in Downtown Pittsburgh on Thursday night, according to Pittsburgh police. The crash, which resulted in the car becoming engulfed in flames, happened around 11:30 p.m. at Fifth Avenue and Grant Street. Police said three officers who...
‘I told you not to drive them home’: 1 dead after McKeesport man allegedly opened fire on ex’s car
A McKeesport man, angry that an ex-girlfriend was driving co-workers home from work, followed them, rammed the car and ultimately shot and killed the man in her passenger seat, according to police. Tyrique Simmons, 21, is charged with homicide in connection with the death of 20-year-old Ibrahim Diallo. A criminal...
Experts: Just because you’re eligible for a 2nd covid booster doesn’t mean you need it right now
As covid cases continue to tick upward both locally and across the country, medical experts caution that just because you are eligible for a second booster vaccine does not necessarily mean that you should run out and get it if you’re otherwise healthy. “I do not believe that every person...
Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate primary gap narrows between Oz, McCormick with recount likely
Two days after polls closed in Pennsylvania’s closely watched primary election, the Associated Press deemed the Republican U.S. Senate race still too early to call Thursday, with celebrity surgeon Mehmet Oz and hedge fund CEO David McCormick seemingly headed toward a recount — and final results unlikely to be determined...
CDC urges Pfizer booster for children ages 5 to 11
Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel’s recommendation, opening a third covid-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids — just like what is already recommended for...
House passes bill to crack down on gasoline ‘price gouging’
WASHINGTON — A closely divided House approved legislation Thursday to crack down on alleged price gouging by oil companies and other energy producers as prices at the pump continue to soar. A bill backed by House Democrats would give President Joe Biden authority to declare an energy emergency that would...
Turtle Creek man found guilty in federal court of ID theft, other charges for using stolen credit cards
A Turtle Creek man accused of using stolen credit cards to buy items at various retail stablishments was found guilty of identity theft and other charges in federal court. Iklas Davis, 41, was tried before U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan in Pittsburgh. A jury deliberated for about an hour...
