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Covid-19 patient hospitalizations in Allegheny County decreased by 27 on Wednesday, bringing the total to 249, the lowest since Nov. 11. According to the state’s covid-19 dashboard, there are currently 249 coronavirus patients hospitalized in the county. For perspective, there were 542 patients hospitalized a month ago (Jan. 10) and...

A Pittsburgh woman was sentenced Tuesday to eight months in a federal prison for her role in smuggling synthetic marijuana, or K2, into correctional facilities, according to court records. Sandra Wilson, 29, was ordered to spend an additional three years on supervised release. Federal prosecutors said Wilson worked with a...

Rear Admiral Susan Orsega was in her Maryland home in late January when she received quite possibly the most important phone call of her life. President Joe Biden selected the Baldwin High School graduate to serve as acting U.S. surgeon general as Dr. Vivek Murthy goes through the nomination/confirmation process...

In a year when the Black Lives Matter movement has inspired racial awareness initiatives in much of corporate America, Highmark Health has announced a commitment to increase diversity leadership in Pittsburgh. Highmark said it is investing $1.5 million in The Advanced Leadership Institute (TALI), a new nonprofit organization focused on...

The implosion of the Dooker’s Hollow Bridge between North Braddock and East Pittsburgh has been delayed from Thursday to Friday, according to the Allegheny County Department of Public Works. The 80-year-old bridge carries Bell Avenue in North Braddock and Center Street in East Pittsburgh over O’Connell Boulevard. Crews are removing...

The Pennsylvania Superior Court said Tuesday that an Allegheny County Common Pleas judge erred when he did not sentence the man convicted of killing a family of three in a fiery Thanksgiving Day crash in 2016 to a mandatory term of life in prison. Demetrius Coleman, 26, who is being...

The video showed Rachel Powell leaning through the window of the Capitol building, shouting at those who had just breached it. “Hey, guys, I’ve been in the other room,” she yelled through a bullhorn. “People should probably coordinate if we’re going to take this building.” FBI Special Agent Carlos Fontanez...

With covid rates and hospitalizations dropping, Allegheny Health Network is changing visitation policies at its hospitals. The hospital system announced Tuesday that effective immediately its hospitals are allowing multiple people to visit a patient one at a time. Patients can have only one visitor in a facility at a time...

Cameron Lehman, bar manager for Muddy Waters Oyster Bar in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood, knows how far whiskey-lovers will travel for a sip of a rare spirit. He often sees visitors from out of state, who come to sample one of about 75 whiskeys Muddy Waters has on offer. “When...

Ross commissioners were livid last year when the township’s waste hauler asked that residents no longer put glass to the curb for recycling. So they decided to take matters into their own hands. The township has partnered with the Pennsylvania Resource Council to set up a dumpster at the public...

Allegheny County on Tuesday reported 405 additional covid-19 cases, the most cases reported in a day in about two weeks. Tuesday’s reported cases were the most since Jan. 23, when 464 covid cases were added. Dates of positive tests range from Nov. 19 to Feb. 8. The county Health Department...

The owner of Brentwood’s Crack’d Egg restaurant has filed a motion for a stay pending an appeal to Commonwealth Court. The motion filed Friday said that a decision by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John McVay last week is contrary to a federal court ruling in September that found Gov....

Classes in Keystone Oaks School District will resume Wednesday following a teachers’ strike, the district announced. The date when students and teachers must return was revised after the state Department of Education reviewed the district’s calendar. The department determined that the Keystone Oaks Education Association strike can last up to...

Pittsburgh singer Jimmy Sapienza – front-man of Jimmy Sapienza and Five Guys Named Moe – died Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. He was 71. “It is with the deepest regret to share with all of you that my husband Jimmy Sapienza unexpectedly passed away this afternoon with immediate family,” his wife,...

More than 2,000 high-risk Allegheny Health Network patients 75 and older on Saturday got the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Health system spokeswoman Candace Herrington said AHN is planning to hold additional clinics as vaccine supply increases. That will include events similar to one...

Allegheny County on Saturday recorded 271 new coronavirus cases, as recent daily numbers continue to decline. Reports haven’t reached 500 cases in nearly three weeks and the county hasn’t reported any 1,000-case days in the past five weeks, according to data from the Allegheny County Health Department. Thirty deaths were...

A West Mifflin woman was killed Friday in a one-vehicle crash in Fayette County, according to state police and the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Hope Marie Derry, 29, was a passenger in a vehicle that crashed on Route 51 in Perry Township at about 9:45 a.m., troopers said. Police...

A man was hospitalized Saturday after Pittsburgh police said he was hit by a vehicle in Homewood. Police were called to the intersection of Frankstown Avenue and McCombs Street around 12:30 a.m. The man was taken by ambulance to a local hospital in critical condition, police said. The suspect vehicle...

A Penn Hills man burned to death inside his home along Southern Avenue, police Chief Howard Burton reported. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday identified the victim as Herman Hill, 74. Burton said Hill’s girlfriend had come by the house around 5:10 p.m. Thursday to pick him up...

Pennsylvania voters will be able to decide in the May 18 primary election the fate of the Republican-backed proposed constitutional amendment to rein in the governor’s power to extend future emergency disaster declarations beyond 21 days without approval by state legislators. The General Assembly on Friday gave its final approval...

A Beaver County man with a loaded handgun was stopped Thursday at the main security checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport, but Allegheny County police determined he’d inadvertently left the weapon in an inner coat pocket. County police said they don’t expect to charge the Aliquippa man, who had a concealed...

Chartiers Valley School District’s head janitor showed up about 10 minutes before the district’s first wave of covid-19 vaccines were administered on Friday. Richard Parenti, 67, of Bridgeville has been with the district for around 40 years. He’s swept the hallways, cleaned the classrooms and knows just about everything there...

The Port Authority of Allegheny County on Friday filed a motion seeking to stay a federal court injunction while it appeals the decision that found prohibiting employees from wearing Black Lives Matter masks was unconstitutional. In the filing, the agency wrote that the court “disregarded Port Authority’s interest in protecting...