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Penn Hills real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 16
Penn Hills Dennis Quinlisk sold property at 11679 Althea Drive to Shaun Thomas and Kara Jamaun Overby for $175,000. Phyllis Tomashewski sold property at 217 Bryant Drive to Kathleen Muller for $82,400. Brandon Marsico sold property at 1054 Jefferson Road to Angel Boyd for $128,500. NDBS Investments LLC sold property...
The Herald-area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 16
Aspinwall Andrew Minnotte sold property at 300 Brilliant Ave. to Jacob Guertin and Sara Thompson for $425,000. Blawnox Anthony Spewock sold property at 718 Laurel St. to Jennifer Amorose for $85,000. O’Hara James Williams sold property at 102 Bristol Square to Lawrence Crossett and Nancy Hickcox for $499,900. Edward Joyce...
Sewickley-area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 16
Glenfield William Eaton sold property at Glen Mitchell Road to Watchword Partners LLC for $48,720. Real Estate Transactions are provided by RealSTATs. Contact RealSTATs at 412-381-3880 or visit www.RealSTATs.net....
South Hills Record-area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 16
Baldwin Borough Robert Martini sold property at 5158 Leona Drive to Joel Whiteman and Clemence Cretaux for $225,000. Robert Lytle trustee sold property at 746 Newport Drive to Ryan Mario Bopp and Kelly Lauren Wiesner for $164,500. Pleasant Hills Carter Cecotti sold property at 405 Audrey Drive to Andrew Pricener...
Signal Item-area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 16
Bridgeville Mark Cimarolli sold property at 1085 Chartiers St. to Robert and Deborah Martini for $165,000. Veterans Administration sold property at 1625 Critchfield Drive to Steven Vesci for $165,000. Estate of Charles Tornabene sold property at 38 New York Circle to Christine Mondine for $224,900. Certified Investment Properties LLC sold...
Pine Creek Journal-area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 16
Pine Showcase Properties LLC sold property at 177 Alder Drive to Angelia Renee Misenheimer for $495,000. NVR Inc. sold property at 504 Cambridge Court to John and Jenelle Witt for $751,625. Sean Paul Sweeney sold property at 1010 Pleasant Ridge Drive to Thomas and Maura Wilson for $560,000. Pine Development...
Shaler real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 16
Shaler Andrew Bencsics sold property at 1507 Evergreen Ave. to Aaron Starr for $159,900. Robert Hawkins sold property at 474 Evergreen Ave. to Fifth Ave Capital Group LLC for $56,939. Mark Linsenmeyer sold property at 123 Hartle Road to Gilbert William and Sarah Jane Marchant for $186,010. Estate of Roy...
North Journal-area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 16
Franklin Park Stephen Oldenburg sold property at 2360 Little Sewickley Creek Road to Joseph and Anne Morgano for $455,000. Marshall John Thomas sold property at 904 Bell Drive to James Birkenheier and Susan Oconnor for $327,000. Charles Vaneman sold property at 128 Watson Drive to Douglas and Melissa Stadler for...
NASCAR driver Austin Dillon tests positive for covid-19Video
NASCAR driver Austin Dillon has tested positive for covid-19, Dillon’s Richard Childress Racing team announced Saturday. The No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro driver is quarantining and will miss Sunday’s Cup Series race at the Daytona International Speedway road course. Richard Childress Racing did not disclose whether Dillon, 30, was symptomatic but...
In a reversal, 9/11 Memorial and Museum to go ahead with annual tribute
NEW YORK — Pressured by politicians and public safety unions, 9/11 Memorial leaders reversed course Saturday and said they’ll go ahead with this year’s Tribute in Lights commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks. The change came two days after the 9/11 Memorial and Museum called off the display over coronavirus...
Baby born in Dallas believed to be first to contract covid-19 in womb
FORT WORTH, Texas — Doctors at Parkland Hospital in Dallas reported the first baby in the U.S. known to have contracted the coronavirus while in the womb. Baby Alexa Figueroa tested positive for covid-19 less than 24 hours after being delivered six weeks early by mother Wendy Figueroa on May...
Trump to campaign in Old Forge this week
President Trump will make a campaign appearance in Old Forge on Thursday, his reelection campaign announced Saturday. Trump will visit Mariotti Building Products at 3 p.m. Thursday, according to a campaign announcement. The president will speak about the record of his challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, the announcement said....
Dr. David Macpherson: Why you should get vaccinated for covid-19
It seems likely a vaccine will be developed and proven effective against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the next several months. After the vaccine is released, hundreds of millions of people will be vaccinated. In the U.S., in the following year, about 500 people will be diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid carcinoma,...
Christopher Baxter: With Spotlight PA, a team of investigative reporters hold the powerful to account in Harrisburg
There’s nothing short of a crisis in our state capital. Every year, more of Pennsylvania’s sprawling and costly bureaucracy operates without scrutiny from investigative reporters, the watchdogs tracking how our hard-earned tax dollars are spent, ensuring the vulnerable are protected, and demanding answers from lawmakers about waste, fraud and abuse....
Despite pandemic, smaller fairs in Export, Irwin, New Kensington decide shows must go onVideo
In a summer of canceled festivals because of the coronavirus pandemic, officials of some smaller events in Export, Irwin and New Kensington decided the shows must go on Saturday. The Westmoreland Fair slated to begin Thursday, the Arts and Heritage Festival in Hempfield that usually runs in July and Fort...
‘We need to have a blowout’: Inside the half-billion-dollar super PAC plan to beat Trump
WASHINGTON — Dozens of groups. A well-coordinated plan of attack. And spending that could approach a half-billion dollars by November. Welcome to the super PAC-led effort to defeat President Trump. A collection of outside groups — ranging from shoestring outfits with a handful of employees to deep-pocketed operations run by...
Trump nixes controversial nominee to Bureau of Land Management
President Trump plans to withdraw the nomination of William Perry Pendley to lead the Bureau of Land Management, a senior administration official said Saturday. Pendley has functionally led the bureau since mid-2019 as deputy director for policy and programs. Conservation groups had lambasted his positions on a number of issues,...
Climate change packs twice as many storms into hurricane season
Atlantic hurricane records go back to 1851, and in all that time the ocean has never piled up so many storms in such a short span as this year. So far, 11 storms have formed since May. This is the earliest date on record for a storm with a “K”...
Severe heat wave causes rolling blackouts, dangerous conditions across California
LOS ANGELES — What forecasters say is shaping up to be the worst heat wave in years caused rolling blackouts Friday because of power shortages and is setting up dangerous conditions across California. The power crisis was caused in part by the coronavirus restrictions, which have closed movie theaters, malls...
Doctors see rise in limb-threatening blood clots during covid-19 crisis
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Health experts are encountering a rare and terrifying covid-19 complication: plug-like blood clots in the limbs of coronavirus victims that strangle circulation. And that means you could lose a limb to covid-19, even if you don’t lose your life. After querying 10 major hospital networks in...
Sounding off: Mask is a small price to pay to save lives
I immediately started wearing a mask when the virus hit Pennsylvania. Many times, I pulled it down and asked people what color my beard was. The answer would be gray, white or a blank look. My reply would be: “74 years of wisdom.” I would then share with them that...
Letter to the editor: Mixed GOP messages on mail-in voting
If President Trump insists the mail-in ballot is a bad thing, then why did I receive a flyer from the Republican National Committee urging me to request my general election mail-in ballot? The irony is obvious. Seems the GOP is in a state of confusion, an indication of the leadership...
Letter to the editor: How can New Ken-Arnold afford Pallone as consultant?
I understand that the New Kensington-Arnold School District has the highest poverty rate in all of Westmoreland County. If that is so, how can it afford to keep John Pallone on as a high-priced consultant (“Former New Ken-Arnold superintendent kept on as ‘consultant,’ gets a year’s pay in severance agreement,”...
Letter to the editor: Be a ‘honey’ to the bees
Aug. 15 is National Honey Bee Day. In honor of these fascinating animals, each of us can be a “honey” to bees by leaving honey off of our shopping lists. In her new book “Animalkind,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals President Ingrid Newkirk recounts how bees meander up...
Letter to the editor: Coronavirus not under control
On Aug. 5, the president said that if he had not acted as fast as he did against the virus, we could have had 1 million deaths. How can he make this statement? He waited almost one month to take action, saying it would go away when it warms up...
