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Hampton woman’s debut dark-fantasy novel takes readers on journey to magical world
Mayté Losada has always had a dark side yearning to break free from the confines of life in the modern world. Enthralled as a child by the vivid “other” worlds depicted in Greek mythology, the Harry Potter novels and later, Hunger Games and Game of Thrones, the Hampton Township woman...
Food Podcast: The Black and Gold Book of Gratitude to fight hunger
The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and Citrone 33 Foundation have announced a fundraising collaborative supporting the food bank’s mission to eliminate hunger. A family foundation, Citrone 33 is a strategic collective that focuses on philanthropy through thoughtful investing and social movements. Through the Embrace Pittsburgh initiative, supported by the...
Ziccarelli asks Pa. Supreme Court to reconsider decision to count undated Allegheny County ballots
The Republican challenger in the 45th Senatorial District that includes parts of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties has asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider its Monday order allowing undated mail-in ballots to be counted. Nicole Ziccarelli, of Lower Burrell, filed an emergency application for reargument Tuesday morning. She is running...
Allegheny County reports 1st child death from covid-19, new record 7-day case total
Allegheny County set records Tuesday for seven-day total of new covid-19 cases and seven-day average of new cases. From Nov. 18 to Tuesday, 3,810 cases of coronavirus were reported, beating the previous record (3,671) by 139 cases. Over that same span, the average daily cases reported was 544. Allegheny County...
Pittsburgh region stood up to ‘Big Snow’ during 1950 Thanksgiving weekendVideo
Carl Huszar’s father and uncle had to walk several miles to get milk from a North Huntingdon farm because the roads were impassable. Faye Dames Matty, who now lives in Fort Myers, Fla., learned her father made it all the way from the Virginia military base where he was stationed...
Fire at East Pittsburgh apartment complex sends man to hospital
A Monday evening fire at an East Pittsburgh apartment complex displaced residents of three dwellings and injured one of them. The man suffered from smoke inhalation and was taken to a local hospital for treatment, according to C.J. Kaminsky, chief of the Rivers Edge Fire Department. The cause of the...
School districts must sign off on covid-19 safety procedures or go virtual by month’s end
School districts in Westmoreland, Armstrong and Allegheny counties have until 5 p.m. Nov. 30 to switch to full remote instruction or affirm that they are complying with the state’s covid-19 safety measures. Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Rachel Levine announced the new directive Monday for all public schools...
Munhall neighbors’ dispute ends in gunfire
A dispute between neighbors in Munhall over a water leak ended Sunday with one man shot and another in jail facing attempted homicide charges, police said. The shooting happened about 10:30 a.m. at a house on Shady Avenue near Superior Street, police said. According to the criminal complaint, the argument...
Pa. Supreme Court says undated mail-in ballots in Nicole Ziccarelli case can be counted
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Monday afternoon ruled that 2,349 undated mail-in ballots in Allegheny County can be counted in the state’s election results — dashing a challenge by 45th senatorial district candidate Nicole Ziccarelli. The court’s 35-page opinion also clears the way for 8,329 mail-in ballots in Philadelphia County that...
10 Allegheny County Jail employees test positive for covid, 50 in quarantine
Ten Allegheny County Jail employees tested positive for coronavirus since Saturday and another 50 are quarantining after they were identified as close contacts, officials said Monday. Officials said the cases are the result of community transmission — not exposures in the workplace. “While these steps will impact staffing levels at...
Allegheny County adds 962 new covid cases in 2 days, no new deaths
Allegheny County on Monday reported a two-day total of 962 new coronavirus cases with no new deaths. The county has seen an average of 508 new cases over the past seven days, adding 3,557 new cases in that time. The county added 576 cases Sunday and 386 on Monday, bringing...
Hampton switching to remote learning for 10 days to avoid covid spread
The Hampton Township School District will shift to remote learning for 10 days to address concerns raised by health officials that people traveling during the Thanksgiving break could cause covid cases to spike. Students will return to online instruction from Dec. 1 to 10, school officials announced in a letter...
Allegheny County Board of Elections certifies election results
The Allegheny County Board of Elections certified the results of the Nov. 3 election in 2-1 vote Monday morning, but excluded some ballots that are part of pending litigation. County Councilman Sam DeMarco cast the lone “no” vote. Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, the board chair, and county Councilwoman Bethany...
1 person dead, another in critical condition after Wilkinsburg shooting, police said
One person was killed and another is in critical condition after a shooting Sunday evening in Wilkinsburg, police said. Officers with the Allegheny County Police Department responded to the 1000 block of Rebecca Avenue around 7:50 p.m. in response to a shooting. On scene, police found a 35-year-old man dead...
Allegheny County reports record-high 15 new coronavirus deaths; 594 cases
Allegheny County on Saturday recorded a record-high 15 new covid-19 related deaths. That amount brings the county’s coronavirus death toll to 482. Officials noted that they have transferred a death from a previous day to another county. There were 11 total deaths reported last week. There have been 52 deaths...
Allegheny County courts postpone most in-person hearings as covid cases rise
Most in-person hearings in Allegheny County courts will be postponed until after Friday, Dec. 4 due to the rising number of coronavirus cases, according an order issued Friday from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Western District. “Due to the rising number of positive covid tests in Allegheny County, further efforts...
Court decisions loom in tied state Senate race between Brewster-Ziccarelli
Lawyers for the campaigns of Democratic incumbent state Sen. Jim Brewster and Republican challenger Nicole Ziccarelli continued to argue in two different courts Friday over the legality more than 400 ballots cast in two counties that will swing the outcome of the tied race for the 45th District, which straddles...
3 charged with homicide in Wilkinsburg shooting that killed 1, injured 2
Three people have been charged with homicide in connection to a Wilkinsburg shooting last year that killed a 22-year-old man and injured two women, police said Friday. Herbert Lee Walker III, 24, and Kenya Harper, 25, are charged with homicide and conspiracy, court records show. Both were arrested and booked...
Region’s international student enrollment declined with global pandemic
A flood of international students who fueled growth at the region’s colleges and universities for the last decade is waning in the face of the global pandemic. Fall enrollment numbers show international enrollment at nine local universities and Penn State declined by about 2,500, or approximately 12%, this fall as...
Fox Chapel’s Adam Rosenberg pleads not guilty to killing Christian Moore-Rouse in preliminary hearing
A Fox Chapel man accused of killing a Verona man will stand trial after pleading not guilty in a preliminary hearing Friday at Pittsburgh Municipal Court. Adam Rosenberg, 22, was charged in May with criminal homicide, robbery, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in connection to the killing...
Allegheny County breaks 7-day covid case record
Allegheny County added 484 more cases of coronavirus Friday, according to the county Health Department. The latest batch of cases brings the county’s seven-day total to a record 3,398 cases, with a record average in that span of 485 cases per day. Since the pandemic began in March, the county...
North Hills closing all school buildings until at least Nov. 30 to counter covid-19 spread
The North Hills School District is closing all of its buildings for the remainder of the month in response to the stay-at-home advisory issued this week by Allegheny County health officials. All district buildings will be shut down today at 4 p.m. and will remain closed until at least Nov....
New UPMC campus to open near Century III Mall
A new UPMC campus in West Mifflin will open Dec. 1, specializing in outpatient surgery and specialty care, officials said Friday. The 46,000-square-foot clinic will offer more than 20 outpatient services. Specialists from UPMC Magee, the Hillman Cancer Center and the Heart and Vascular Institute, as well as orthopedic and...
Plum’s Pivik Elementary closed through November after positive covid-19 cases
Plum Borough School District officials have closed Pivik Elementary School and have directed students there to participate in online learning through Nov. 30. In a letter sent to parents Thursday, the district said the decision was made after one teacher and one student at the school tested positive for covid-19....
Pine-Richland School District shifts to full-remote instruction until January
Students in the Pine-Richland School District will return to online learning until after the New Year’s Day holiday to help slow the spread of coronavirus cases, which are increasing countywide, district officials announced. “We have prepared for this transition,” school officials said in a notice posted Thursday on the district...
