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Pittsburgh planners to consider plans for 20-story tower above Downtown’s YWCA building
Plans for a proposed 20-story tower with 300 apartments above the former YWCA of Pittsburgh building in Downtown now include a rooftop pool, two-story restaurant and health club, according to a project architect. City Club Apartments LLC bought the former YWCA of Pittsburgh building at 305 Wood St. for $4...
Officials say more areas of U.S. may see mask recommendations
WASHINGTON — Covid-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of covid-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country...
Pennsylvania covid update: 27K cases reported for week
On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health released its weekly update on covid-19, showing an additional 27,391 infections in the past seven days. The state is recording new cases of the virus at levels not seen since mid-February. The latest report shows new cases increased 23% over the previous week’s...
Oz, McCormick still neck and neck in Pa. GOP Senate primary
HARRISBURG — Heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick went into Wednesday essentially tied in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Republican nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat, expected to be among the nation’s most competitive races in the fall. The contest was within a couple...
Motorcycle driver dies in crash with truck in Penn Hills
A man died Wednesday morning in a crash involving a box truck and a motorcycle in Penn Hills, Allegheny County Police said. Police said the crash in the 1100 block of Milltown Road was reported to 911 shortly after 7:30 a.m. The man operating the motorcycle was pronounced dead at...
Bethel Park police release video of 2 officers being hit by vehiclesVideo
Bethel Park police released a video Tuesday showing two police officers being hit by vehicles in separate incidents this month. The incidents happened May 3 on South Park Road near Pennsylvania Avenue and May 13 at Broughton Road and Route 88. The police department combined the two incidents into one...
Castle Shannon man accused of harassing, intimidating poll workers
Castle Shannon police said a man caused a disruption Tuesday at a polling location in the borough’s library. Police said David Huff, 57, of Castle Shannon refused to leave and resisted arrest, injuring an officer and damaging a police vehicle. According to a criminal complaint against Huff, police responded around...
Tarentum woman faces felony charges after police say 3-year-old found wandering outside
A Tarentum woman was charged with three felony counts of child endangerment after police say bystanders found her 3-year-old daughter wandering outside after the woman left the girl at home alone. Leah Marie Frantz, 30, of the 300 block of West 10th Avenue, faces a preliminary hearing on the charges...
1 man dead, other injured in 2-vehicle North Versailles crash
One man died and another was hurt in a two-vehicle crash in North Versailles Wednesday morning, Allegheny County Police said. According to police, the crash in the 400 block of East Pittsburgh McKeesport Boulevard was reported shortly after 6 a.m. First responders found one man dead at the scene. The...
Aerion Abney leads by wide margin in 19th State House District race
Newly elected state Rep. Aerion Abney led by a wide margin Tuesday over the Rev. Glenn Grayson in a Democratic primary race in the 19th State House District. Abney, 33, of Pittsburgh’s Manchester neighborhood, defeated Grayson, 62, of the Hill District, in an April special election race to complete former...
McKeesport’s Austin Davis wins Democratic primary for lieutenant governor; DelRosso out to early lead in GOP race
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Democrats gave their nominee for governor his choice for second-in-command on Tuesday, selecting state Rep. Austin Davis to be their lieutenant governor candidate in the fall election. Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democrats’ choice for governor, had endorsed Davis over state Rep. Brian Sims, who ran an...
Doug Mastriano wins GOP nomination for Pennsylvania governor
HARRISBURG — Doug Mastriano won the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania governor on Tuesday, beating eight other candidates and a party establishment that had tried to head off his nomination over fears that he is too extreme to win the general election in the presidential battleground. Mastriano, a retired U.S. Army...
5-way race in 12th Congressional District remains too close to call
A five-way race for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District remained too close to call as of midnight Tuesday, with state Rep. Summer Lee leading Pittsburgh attorney Steve Irwin by just more than 500 votes. Irwin had jumped out to sizable early lead, collecting about half of the...
Chris Deluzio, Jeremy Shaffer stake early leads in Pa.’s 17th Congressional District
Former Ross Township Commissioner Jeremy Shaffer and Iraq War veteran and voting-rights attorney Chris Deluzio staked early leads in their primary races Tuesday in the 17th Congressional District. Shaffer was vying for the Republican nomination against national security expert Jason Killmeyer and Kathy Coder, a former Bellevue councilwoman who owns...
Cooper unseats incumbent Silvis; Dunbar wins in landslide
Former Westmoreland County Republican Committee Chairwoman Jill Cooper unseated first-term incumbent Rep. Jason Silvis in the GOP primary for the redrawn 55th state House district. Two years ago, Silvis, 47, defeated Democratic incumbent Joe Petrarca in 2020 to win the legislative seat that was previously based in Derry. A redistricting...
Lori Mizgorski defeats Jake Roberts in GOP primary in state Senate 38th District race
Unofficial election results from Tuesday’s primary election show Lori Mizgorski has won the Republican nomination in the state 38th Senatorial District race. With 97.2% of the votes counted at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Mizgorski, 55, of Shaler had 15,673 votes and Jake Roberts, 31, of Ross had 7,375 votes. Mizgorski will...
Mandy Steele defeats Tristan McClelland for Democratic nod in 33rd District House race
Mandy Steele of Fox Chapel has won the Democratic nomination for the 33rd District state House seat. She defeated Tristan McClelland of O’Hara to represent the district, which stretches from Sharpsburg to Fawn. Unofficial results from the Allegheny County Elections Department showed Steele won with 5,313 votes to McClelland’s 2,954...
Fetterman headed toward Democratic nomination in U.S. Senate race
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman jumped out to a commanding lead for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race, but he didn’t get to enjoy the moment alongside supporters. As of 7 a.m. Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Department of State was reporting that Braddock’s Fetterman had collected 58.96% of the...
Josh Shapiro wins Democratic primary for Pennsylvania governor
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Democrats have made their choice for governor official, handing the nomination to second-term state Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Shapiro was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. The incumbent, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, is term-limited. Shapiro, 48, from the Philadelphia suburb of Abington, spent the primary campaign season raising...
2022 Pennsylvania primary election results
Polls in Pennsylvania closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday night, but the counting continues. • State Rep. Emily Kinkead, D-Brighton Heights, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s 20th State House District, according to unofficial results. • State Rep. Jessica Benham, D-South Side, trounced her opponent in Tuesday’s Democratic primary race in...
House Jan. 6 panel rejects Justice Department’s transcript request
WASHINGTON — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is rejecting a request from the Justice Department for access to the committee’s interviews, for now. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee’s chairman, said Tuesday that the Justice Department had made the request as part of...
In Buffalo, Biden mourns victims, says ‘evil will not win’Video
BUFFALO — President Joe Biden mourned with Buffalo’s grieving families on Tuesday, then exhorted the nation to reject what he angrily labeled the poison of white supremacy. He said the nation must “reject the lie” of the racist “replacement theory” espoused by the shooter who killed 10 Black people in...
Printing error affects mailed ballots in Pennsylvania county
An error by a company that prints ballots for several Pennsylvania counties made thousands of mail-in ballots unreadable Tuesday as voters were deciding hotly contested primaries for governor and U.S. Senate in one of the nation’s most important battleground states. Officials in Lancaster County, the state’s sixth most populous, said...
Liberty Bridge in Pittsburgh reopens after garbage truck fire
The Liberty Bridge reopened by 6:30 p.m. after a garbage truck fueled by natural gas caught fire on the span, according to an Allegheny County 911 dispatcher. No injuries were reported in the blaze, the dispatcher said. The bridge closed around 2:30 p.m. and remained closed while it was inspected....
Fetterman pacemaker surgery successful; Corman serving as temporary Lt. Gov.
Lt. Governor and U.S. Senate primary candidate John Fetterman underwent successful surgery Tuesday to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator, his spokesman said. The procedure came four days after Fetterman’s campaign announced the former Braddock mayor had suffered a stroke. “John Fetterman just completed a successful procedure to implant a...
