Morning roundup: Man shot outside Pittsburgh bus station

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Thursday, Feb. 15:

Man shot in foot outside Pittsburgh bus station

A man was shot in the foot Wednesday night outside the Greyhound bus station in Pittsburgh, police said.

The shooting at 11th Street and Penn Avenue was reported to city police just after 11 p.m.

Officers found a man who had gotten off a bus from New York. He was trying to get into a waiting vehicle when there was an altercation with the occupants, who the man did not know, police said.

The man was in stable condition when taken to a hospital, where police said detectives spoke with him.

The vehicle fled the area and was found unoccupied in Butler. It was taken for processing by police.

An investigation is ongoing, police said.

Traffic restrictions announced for Mt. Royal Boulevard, McKnight Road

Traffic restrictions are coming to two North Hills area roads.

Restrictions for gas line work were scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. Thursday on Mt. Royal Boulevard in Shaler, PennDOT announced.

There will be single, alternating lane traffic between Carlisle Drive and West Pennview Street from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through mid-March while Peoples Natural Gas installs a gas line.

Restrictions on McKnight Road in Pittsburgh, Ross and McCandless are scheduled to start Monday, PennDOT said.

Single lane restrictions will happen on McKnight between the Babcock Boulevard-Evergreen Road interchange and Perrymont Road from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily through early summer while crews start pipe and drainage cleaning operations.

Left turning lanes will remain accessible unless otherwise noted, PennDOT said.

The work is part of the $25.5 million McKnight Road improvement project, scheduled to be finished in spring 2025.

Rainy, breezy afternoon expected

After a cold start, rain and breezy winds are expected Thursday afternoon, Ashley Dougherty, a meteorologist with TribLive news partner WTAE reports.

Temperatures around the Pittsburgh area ranged from the mid-teens to mid-20s early Thursday morning but are expected to rise into the low 50s this afternoon, she says.

Some rain is expected to arrive between 2 and 3 p.m. but will not stick around long. It will be breezy, with wind gusts of 35 to 40 mph.

Snow is in the forecast for part of the weekend, according to Dougherty.

Showers and strong wind gusts are expected this afternoon and evening as a cold front approaches and crosses the region. Here is a computer model simulation of future radar images this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/PI4hgnwJYm

— NWS Pittsburgh (@NWSPittsburgh) February 15, 2024