Allegheny category, Page 159

A busy last few months of road construction work on Route 28 continues this weekend. PennDOT District 11 has announced work requiring a weekend crossover on Route 28 North will begin at 8 p.m. Friday and continue through 5 a.m. Monday, weather permitting. Northbound traffic will be crossed over into...

North Allegheny School Board met in an empty auditorium Wednesday, Oct. 27 after some in the audience failed to comply with the district’s mask mandate, and the board asked everyone in the audience to leave. The board meeting, which was being held at the high school auditorium, was delayed by...

A 12-year-old student from Chartiers Valley School District died Wednesday after collapsing at basketball practice, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Jayson Kidd, of Bridgeville, collapsed during warm-ups at about 5 p.m. and was taken to a local hospital where he died. Kidd was a student at the...

Students at Carson Middle School in North Allegheny School District saw extra security when they arrived to class Thursday after someone posted an online threat that was vague but still concerning to district officials. Officials were notified Wednesday of an online threat against a “CMS student,” Superintendent Melissa Friez told...

Some residents of Kennedy Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Perry South section had to jump to safety after their homes caught fire early Thursday, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety officials. No one was injured in the fire that spread to at least three homes. The fire, which started in a two-story home...

More than 100 people in Allegheny County have died from covid-19 so far this month, a number that will likely increase, health director Dr. Debra Bogen said Wednesday. “These are mostly preventable deaths,” she said of the 105 deaths since Oct. 1. A breakdown of deaths by age and vaccination...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated a current federal prosecutor to become U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Cindy K. Chung, 46, has been with the office in Pittsburgh since 2014. She has served as deputy chief of the major crimes section and acting deputy chief of the...

Woodland Hills High School administrators said Wednesday that they received notice that a student threatened on a live social media post to bring a gun to school. Later in the day, school officials said that students would return to remote learning Thursday and Friday. Fights inside the school prompted the...

Penn Hills residents have received more details on the proposed separation agreement with police Chief Howard Burton. A special, nonvoting meeting was held Oct. 25 at the request of Deputy Mayor Catherine Sapp and Councilmen John Petrucci and Jim Getsy. The special meeting was held after all three missed the...

One person was injured in a fire early Wednesday in Wall Borough, according to Allegheny County dispatchers. Emergency responders were alerted just before 8 a.m. to the fire at 617 Dawson St. Heavy flames were showing at the two-story home when firefighters arrived. Dispatchers said they did not know the...

Carol Black remembers making the 27-mile drive from her Cranberry home to the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, and turning onto Wilkins Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill. As she headed for the parking lot, she saw her brother Richard walking into the building. It’s the last time...

Corey Mickens, then 15, killed a man who had been his friend by shooting him in the head execution style on Feb. 5, 2019. Two weeks later, Mickens stood up through the sun roof of a car as it drove through North Braddock and shot and wounded a stranger on...

A Saltsburg man was charged by New Kensington police Monday with kidnapping two girls, ages 6 and 9, early last month and sexually assaulting the older girl. Eddie Leroy Lambert Jr., 58, is being held in the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh after bond was denied at his arraignment Tuesday...

The former director of admissions and financial aid at Sewickley Academy who was fired this summer has settled a federal lawsuit he filed against the school. Federal court records show U.S. Magistrate Maureen P. Kelly signed the order dismissing Douglas Leek’s case against Sewickley Academy on Monday. Attorney Sam Cordes,...

Jack Bova will fill a vacant seat on the Gateway School Board. Bova, who previously was on the school board from 2018-2019, will serve a term through the first Monday of December 2023. He will be sworn in during a study session meeting Nov. 9. “I’m pretty excited, actually,” said...

Colleges across the region, ranging from the University of Pittsburgh to local community colleges, are mirroring troubling national trends in enrollment. In a development experts say could lead to gaps in the workforce and affect the nation’s economic health for years to come, college enrollment is down overall for the...

A public hearing that spanned 14 days and included more than 55 hours of testimony regarding a proposed Amazon distribution center in Churchill has concluded, meaning local officials will render a decision on the project’s future within 45 days. A vocal group of residents has strongly opposed the project, which...

North Hills School District students will learn online Wednesday so that district bus drivers can attend a funeral for longtime colleague Nancy Von Vreckin. A notice posted to the district’s website said Von Vreckin drove for the district more than 40 years. “Many of her closest friends were also her...

One person was killed when a dump truck collided with a train in Jefferson Hills, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV. The victim has not been identified. The incident happened at about 10:30 p.m. Monday. A Wheeling and Lake Erie train had been crossing Route 51 near Worthington Drive when...

Allegheny County police have charged a Pittsburgh teen with homicide and other crimes for the December 2020 killing of a Churchill teen. Jafar Brooks, 16, was pronounced dead Dec. 15 at the scene of the Leechburg Garden Apartments along the 1900 lock of Garden Drive in Penn Hills on Dec....

A former Pittsburgh animal control officer who had a felony charge of animal abuse against him dismissed last month on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against the police officer who charged him, as well as other witnesses in the case alleging that they conspired against him. James A. Genco III...

A man from Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter in the 2020 shooting death of another man. Daejon Brentley, 21, will be sentenced by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony M. Mariani on Jan. 19. He also pleaded guilty to a firearms count. A criminal complaint filed...

Woodland Hills students will return to classrooms Monday after a series of fights led to a two-day closure of the building. In a letter to parents Sunday night, Principal Shelly Manns said a student assembly to address the incidents will take place Monday. “Over the next couple of weeks, we...