Brian C. Rittmeyer stories, Page 105
Week-in-review: Covid-19 impacts, woman survives beating, talent showcased, bears sightedVideo
Impacts of the covid-19 pandemic continued to be felt in various ways in the Pittsburgh area in the past week, with a major grocer facing lawsuits over requiring customers to wear face masks and a steel company saying it needs to lay off workers as it adjusts to meet slowing...
Police: Driver fled after hitting woman with vehicle on Bedford Avenue
A woman was in critical condition after being hit by a vehicle in Pittsburgh’s Bedford Dwellings neighborhood early Friday, police said. Pittsburgh police said the driver fled from the scene, leaving the vehicle behind. Police responded to the collision at Bedford Avenue and Chauncey Drive around 3:15 a.m. The woman...
3 victims of Wilkinsburg shooting ID’d, fundraiser started for funeral expenses
An effort is underway to raise money for one of the three people who were shot and killed early Friday in Wilkinsburg. A Wilkinsburg police officer on patrol heard gunfire just before 1:30 a.m. in the area of Coal Street, Allegheny County Police said. Allegheny County 911 then received calls...
412 Food Rescue, URA hosting food box giveaway in Hill District
Boxes of fresh dairy and produce items will be given to people in need Saturday at the former Shop ‘n Save on Centre Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. 412 Food Rescue will have up to 1,000 boxes to give away from 10 a.m. to noon. Each household will get a...
State police investigating 2 shootings in Aliquippa
A 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl were shot in separate, unrelated incidents in Aliquippa, according to state police. The man was shot multiple times in an incident reported around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the area of 300 Superior Avenue. Aliquippa police arrested the suspect, Vershaw Cortaze Bell Jr., 21,...
ATF agent shot in Pittsburgh; suspect in custody
A federal agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was shot Thursday morning during an operation in Pittsburgh, the agency confirmed in a statement. A suspect was in custody. The incident happened on Marion Street between Forbes Avenue and Watson Street in the city’s Uptown neighborhood. The...
Police: Woman found shot dead outside McKeesport bar
A 29-year-old woman died after being shot in McKeesport overnight, according to Allegheny County Police. The shooting in the 500 block of Fifth Avenue was reported around 1:40 a.m. First responders and police found the woman dead in a vehicle, which was in a parking lot across from a bar....
Cinemark set to reopen Pittsburgh-area theaters
Cinemark plans to reopen four theaters in the Pittsburgh area in early July. Cinemark’s website said the North Hills and Robinson locations will be among the first Cinemark theaters to open in Pennsylvania, on July 3. The move is part of the company’s phased reopening from the covid-19 shutdown. Theaters...
2 hurt in SUV, motorcycle crash in North Huntingdon
Two people were hurt in a crash involving a SUV and a motorcycle in North Huntingdon Monday night, according to township police. The crash happened around 11:30 p.m. on Route 30 at Norwin Avenue. Police said a man on the motorcycle and the driver of the SUV, a woman, were...
Highlands administrators refine budget that does not increase property taxes
Highlands School District’s budget for the upcoming school year remains a work in progress a week ahead of its scheduled approval, but no property tax increase is expected. Business Manager Lori Byron told the school board Monday that administrators have continued to refine the budget, resulting in a roughly $283,000...
Woman taken to hospital after crashing car down Shaler hillside
A woman in her 80s suffered a minor arm injury after losing control of her car, which then went down a hillside, Shaler police Chief Sean Frank said. The accident happened around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday in the 100 block of Seavey Road. Frank said the woman, whose name he did...
PennDOT: Sewickley Bridge to be closed around-the-clock for 24 days
The Sewickley Bridge will be closed for 24 days for repairs starting next month, PennDOT announced Tuesday. The around-the-clock closure of the bridge spanning the Ohio River between Route 51 in Moon and Route 65 in Sewickley is scheduled to run from July 17 through Aug. 10. About 20,000 vehicles...
Children’s Place to close 300 stores by end of 2021
The Children’s Place will close nearly a third of its stores by the end 2021, the specialty apparel retailer announced recently in revealing its first quarter 2020 results. The company said it plans to close 200 stores in 2020, and another 100 in 2021. The Children’s Place had 920 stores...
Police: 3 assailants target, kill West Mifflin man in McKeesport
A West Mifflin man was shot and killed by three assailants in McKeesport late Monday, according to Allegheny County Police. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as George Brosey, 54. The shooting at the 47 building of Crawford Village was reported to 911 just before 11:30 p.m....
Police: Man cut on neck during East Liberty robbery
A man was cut on his neck during a robbery in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood early Monday, according to Pittsburgh police. Police responded to the robbery in the 500 block of North Highland Avenue around 5:50 a.m. A man told officers he had been assaulted and robbed by an unknown...
Gas prices expected to continue to rise ahead of Fourth of July holiday, analyst says
Gasoline prices in the Pittsburgh area and across the nation continue to rise as demand has risen to its highest level in three months, according to the price-tracking service GasBuddy. The national average has now risen for seven straight weeks, said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy....
Markleton man pronounced dead at Somerset County crash scene
A 26-year-old man died in a one-car crash in Somerset County on Sunday, according to state police. State police identified the man as Bryan Lee Phillippi of Markleton. The crash happened around 4 a.m. on Glades Pike in Jefferson Township. State police said Phillippi was heading east on Glades Pike...
Tarentum to close First Avenue for sewer work
Part of First Avenue in Tarentum will be closed the first half of next week. The road will be closed between Corbet Street in Tarentum and Cherry Street in Brackenridge from Monday to Wednesday, Borough Manager Michael Nestico said. Traffic, including trucks, will be detoured onto Corbet Street to East...
Police seek man suspected in assault, damage to police SUV in Pittsburgh protest
Authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of an assault during a protest May 30 at Washington Place near Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh. The man is also suspected of vandalizing a police car in the same location. Police released a series of photos of the...
Man dies after vehicle hits pole in Pittsburgh’s Beltzhoover neighborhood
A 37-year-old man died in a one-vehicle crash in Pittsburgh’s Beltzhoover neighborhood early Saturday morning, according to police. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the victim at James Theodore Green Jr. The crash in the 190 block of West Warrington Avenue was reported around 1:50 a.m. Police said first responders...
Vice President Pence visits Oberg Industries in Buffalo Twp., addresses pandemic shutdown, ‘law and order’
Vice President Mike Pence held an Alle-Kiski Valley manufacturing company up as an example to be followed as the nation reopens from the covid-19 pandemic. Pence spoke for about a half-hour before a crowd of 100 to 110 employees and apprentices at Oberg Industries in Buffalo Township, which the conservative...
New Kensington protest to recognize slain city officer before demanding end to police brutality
A Black Lives Matter protest being held Saturday in New Kensington will start with demonstrators placing a wreath at a memorial honoring a city police officer who was killed three years ago, an organizer said. “This is not an anti-police event. This is a pro-black lives event,” said Jon McCabe,...
Clayton Falkner, ‘Mr. Birdville,’ championed efforts to restore Harrison war memorial
Clayton Falkner championed the effort to restore Harrison’s crumbling World War II Honor Roll memorial but didn’t get the chance to see it finished. Mr. Falkner, 84, died Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at the house in the township’s Birdville section where he lived his entire life. Mr. Falkner began lobbying...
Police: Arnold felon built homemade shotgun, was making a second
Arnold police responding to a domestic dispute Sunday discovered that a man, a convicted felon prohibited from owning guns, had allegedly made his own shotgun and was fashioning a second. Arnold police on Monday charged Mervin Hamilton, 49, with two counts of illegal possession of firearms and one count each...
Tarentum launching summer concert series this week
The concerts will go on in Tarentum. With covid-19 restrictions easing, the borough’s recreation board and council made the “very hard decision” to go forward with Tarentum’s popular summer concert series, starting this Thursday, Councilwoman Carrie Fox said. “We want to keep as much normalcy as we possibly can,” she...
