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Reports: 4-time MVP Aaron Rodgers returning to Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers finally got the answer they waited months to hear. Aaron Rodgers is returning for another season with the team, ending speculation about the 42-year-old quarterback’s football future. For the past four months, Steelers owner Art Rooney II, general manager Omar Khan and coach Mike McCarthy described positive...
2 state police troopers hurt in multi-county chase with erratic driver who crashed into 3 police cars
Two state police troopers were hurt at the end of a multi-county chase that began after state police responded to a report of an erratic driver on Interstate 79 in North Strabane, Washington County early Saturday morning. State police filed numerous charges against the driver, identified as Frank Cope Jr.,...
Pittsburgh police lead search for stabbing suspect in Middle Hill
A man was taken to a hospital in critical condition after being stabbed in Pittsburgh’s Middle Hill neighborhood Saturday, according to Pittsburgh police. Zone 2 officers responded to the reported stabbing in the 2300 block of Reed Street around 4:30 p.m. According to police, another man had stabbed the man...
Millvale Music Festival brings hundreds of diverse performers, 20,000 people to borough’s streetsVideo
The streets of Millvale were brimming with people and alive with music Saturday. It was the second and final day of the ninth Millvale Music Festival, which was expected to draw around 20,000 people for more than 350 musical acts on nearly three dozen stages throughout the borough — on...
Butler Memorial Hospital, union techs reach contract 3 days before planned strike
Butler Memorial Hospital and its technical professionals union have reached a contract that calls for a minimum 3% wage increase over the next three years. The three-year contract was announced Friday night by both Independence Health and the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals. The union represents 235...
Greensburg Diocese says retired priest charged in sex crimes case has been inactive since 2018
Robert Byrnes, a retired Catholic priest and former state police chaplain charged with sexual assault, has not been in active ministry in any parish or entity of the Diocese of Greensburg for the past eight years, the Diocese announced Saturday. Pennsylvania State Police on Friday charged Byrnes, 84, with aggravated...
Pentagon defends Trump’s Golden Dome after $1 trillion estimate
The official leading President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome contested an estimate that the highly secretive missile defense shield would cost six times more than forecast, raising questions around the true price tag of the administration’s project. U.S. Space Force General Michael Guetlein, Golden Dome’s director, said a Congressional Budget Office...
Tambellini family returns to Pittsburgh dining with new Brookline sandwich shop
Less than 24 hours before Tambellini & Co.’s May 8 grand opening, the Brookline sandwich shop was a flurry of activity. Co-owner Michael Tambellini hauled a huge stock pot of marinara — at least five gallons, his fiancée and co-owner Trista Fulton estimated — and pulled pans of house-made mozzarella...
Biological parents grieve murdered son Landon Maloberti, say foster system failed Delmont child
Luke Ellenberger comforted his partner, Samantha Buchinsky, late Thursday afternoon as she wept on a courtroom bench. Just moments earlier, a jury had convicted their son’s adoptive mother of third-degree murder. The couple sat apart from other family members, mourning the final chapter of a tragedy that began when the...
Pittsburgh-area school districts say there’s more to education than National Scorecard results
Not all Allegheny County school districts are experiencing the decrease in test scores seen nationwide. Data from the National Education Scorecard — a collaboration between education researchers at Harvard and Stanford universities and faculty at Dartmouth College — shows that nationally, students remain nearly half a grade level behind pre-pandemic...
Breakfast for dinner is on the menu at these Western Pennsylvania eateries
Breakfast dishes can be a fun departure from traditional dinner foods when dining out. While plenty of diners serve breakfast all day, many of those spots close at 2 or 3 p.m. “It’s one of those things that everybody wants — we sell a lot of breakfast at night,” said...
Offbeat Pittsburgh: My late-blooming affair with vinyl records and thrill of the chase at Jerry’s RecordsVideo
There’s a moment on The Beatles’ “White Album” that almost feels like stepping through a doorway. “Back in the U.S.S.R.” barrels in, loud, brash and upbeat with jet engines, guitar and Beach Boys-style harmonies. Then, before you’ve caught your breath, it dissolves and flows into the softer, melodic “Dear Prudence,”...
Lead, a hidden hazard, still lurks throughout Pittsburgh
When Kristen Heibert became pregnant last year, she and partner Derek Martin knew they needed to rid their 106-year-old house in Beechview of the lead likely lurking in the paint. “I was worried about the baby,” Heibert, 34, said recently. Heibert recalled a relative had used the Allegheny Lead-Safe Homes...
Pitt graduate’s experiment on Artemis II may improve medicine on Earth
Technology developed for NASA’s Artemis II moon mission may one day help improve medical treatments for people on Earth. Researchers are studying tiny “organ chips” — devices that mimic how human organs function — to learn how the body responds to stress, disease and new medicines. The chips recently traveled...
Hemingway’s heartbreak and the long decline of Oakland’s bar scene
Hemingway’s Cafe sure got its swan song. The Oakland bar recently had some of its busiest nights ever as students and alumni swung by for their last hurrah before the college hangout closed forever. Owner John Elavsky announced in January that Hemingway’s would end its decades-long run May 3. In...
Continued antidepressant use during pregnancy can benefit moms, newborns, experts say
Maternity leave has been blissful for Jess Young. It’s a feeling the veterinarian radiologist from Bridgeville missed out on following her first two pregnancies. The difference: remaining on the regimen of anti-anxiety medications prescribed years ago during her residency at the University of Pennsylvania. “With my first pregnancies, I had...
Andrew Conte: Why I’m returning to the Trib to launch Newsworks Lab
Newsworks Lab involves all of us as an investigative newsroom focused on building a future for local reporting — and for the communities it serves. We’re launching it at Trib Total Media after I spent a decade experimenting with strategies for local journalism through the Center for Media Innovation at...
What to know going into Tuesday’s primary
Just more than 1 in 10 races across Southwestern Pennsylvania are being contested in Tuesday’s primary, with many races on either the Republican or Democratic side failing to field any candidates at all. Still, there are some key races to watch, including a Republican contest for lieutenant governor, two contested...
Pa. Environmental Hearing Board reviews dispute over 11,000-acre Westmoreland County mine expansion
The battle among an environmental organization, a coal mining company and the state over whether 11,000 acres in Donegal and Mt. Pleasant townships are unsuitable for surface mining remains undecided. The Mountain Watershed Association, a Melcroft-based environmental group, the state Department of Environmental Protection and Rustic Ridge Mine owner LCT...
Colorado’s Democratic governor commutes ex-election clerk Tina Peters’ sentence
DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters following pressure from President Donald Trump, the latest instance of the president using his powers to reward those who echoed his baseless claims of mass fraud as the cause of his 2020 loss....
Retired Greensburg-area priest charged with sex crimes, official oppression
A retired Catholic priest and former Pennsylvania State Police chaplain is facing charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a person at a home for priests in Unity Township and having an inappropriate relationship with another person. State police on Friday charged Robert Byrnes, 84, of Christ Our Shepherd Center, Unity, with...
Supreme Court rejects Virginia’s bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives. The court’s order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade...
Senate Democrats rally around Fetterman, say critics need to ‘show some respect’
Some of Sen. John Fetterman’s Democratic colleagues defended his standing in the party amid reports that Republicans are recruiting him, insisting that he is a “good human” and that detractors should “show some respect.” According to an article by NOTUS, the lawmakers said his critics should back off and the...
Swirl of public money backing $418M hotel proposal at David L. Lawrence Convention Center
A planned $418 million hotel at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh will be funded with ample public dollars, including money from the city, Allegheny County and state. Loews Hotels has signed a letter of intent to build a 500-room hotel attached to the convention center, Gov....
For residents of Virginia’s ‘data center alley,’ the industry underpins economy — but with costsVideo
This is the second installment of a TribLive occasional series on data center development in Western Pennsylvania. Today’s story looks at the boom in data center construction in Northern Virginia and what life is like living next to a data center. PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Greg Pirio says the...
