Allegheny County News category, Page 348
Owners of DiAnoia’s to open Pane è Pronto, a bakery and takeout spot, in Strip District
Pane è Pronto translates to “bread is ready.” Or in this case, almost ready. A new Italian takeout, bread and catering kitchen is planning to open by the end of September or beginning of October in Pittsburgh’s Strip District by the owners of DiAnoia’s Eatery and Pizzeria Davide. Located at...
Pittsburgh rocker Joe Grushecky to perform for Democratic conventionVideo
Pittsburgh rock icon Joe Grushecky will be a featured performer today at the Democratic National Convention. Grushecky will play “That’s What Makes Us Great” with his band, the Houserockers, along with a solo acoustic version of “Never Be Enough Time,” during a 14-state meeting this afternoon. Grushecky wrote “That’s What...
Police: Girl stable after hit by car while riding bike in Sheraden
A girl was in stable condition after being hit by a car while riding a bicycle in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood Wednesday, police said. Police and medics went to Ashlyn Street and Zephyr Avenue around 7:35 p.m. after someone reported a vehicle hitting the girl to 911. The girl, whose age...
Lengthy protest at Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto’s house morphs into ‘unlawful assembly,’ pepper spray, 1 arrestVideo
An hours-long protest Wednesday night outside the Point Breeze home of Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto ended in chemical spray, chaos and one arrest after a confrontation between protesters and police in riot gear near Mellon Park. A group of about 100 protesters had originally marched from the park to Peduto’s...
Police: Man who walked into Pittsburgh hospital after being shot has died
A man who walked into a Pittsburgh area hospital with a gunshot wound has died. City police spokesman Maurice Matthews said officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert for a shooting around 7 p.m. Wednesday along the 500 block of Norton Street in Mt. Washington. Responding officers discovered a vehicle that...
Police: Penn Hills woman ran through airport security checkpoint, tossed water on TSA agent
A Penn Hills woman was arrested by county police Aug. 19 after tossing water on a TSA agent and running unchecked past the Pittsburgh International Airport’s security checkpoint. Allegheny County police said Brandi L. Bailey, 32, of Penn Hills, threw water on a TSA agent when asked for her identification...
Allegheny County dealing with backlog of covid-19 hospitalization data
The Allegheny County Health Department is catching up on covid-19 hospitalization data that accumulated in the month of July. At a Wednesday news conference, Health Director Dr. Debra Bogen explained why this week, the county dashboard stopped providing daily counts of the number of past and present hospitalizations. During the...
Commonwealth Court must hear gun owners’ challenge over Pittsburgh ban
The state Superior Court on Wednesday moved an appeal by a number of gun owners who sought to file private criminal complaints against Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and members of city council over their passage of new firearms legislation last year to the Commonwealth Court. In a five-page opinion, the...
‘Let me be clear’: Pitt dean admonishes students for partying during pandemic
University of Pittsburgh students who party could tip the school into shutdown mode, a top official at the school warned. Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner cautioned students that large parties carry the potential of becoming covid-19 super-spreader events and threaten the ability to continue classes on the Oakland campus. On...
Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh offers program for children during remote learning
Heather and Paul Cunningham have 6-year-old twins, Jackson and Julie, going into first grade. The couple work full time and their children’s school, Minadeo in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, will be online for at least the first nine weeks of the school year. They spent the final months of kindergarten...
Duquesne University freshmen move into dorms with adjusted schedule
Duquesne University hosted its freshman move-in over three days early this week. Normally a one-day affair, the university instead assigned time slots to the approximately 1,200 freshmen and transfer students to prevent crowding in the hallways. “Given the current situation, we just didn’t feel that was safe,” said Adam Wasilko,...
Gateway votes against hiring Mobile Health Services for daily temperature checks of students, staff
The Gateway school board decided Tuesday against doing business with a company its solicitor partially owns that would have provided temperature checks to students and staff every day before entering buildings. The 7-1 vote, with one abstention, came after discussions about whether temperature checks are necessary. Board member Paul Caliari...
They were caught up in the Tim Murphy scandal. Now, they have a co-parenting podcast.
For Shannon Edwards and Jesse Sally, the road from separation to divorce was a very public one. There were newspaper headlines and mentions on national news and comedy shows. There were allegations of infidelity and threats. And now, three years later, there is friendship and a new podcast on co-parenting....
Community groups can now mail naloxone under new Pa. standing order
Naloxone can now be mailed by community groups to anyone who wants the opioid overdose antidote under an updated standing order. State Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine signed the updated order Tuesday that makes the change to allow for easier access while restrictions are in place related to the...
Pennsylvania troopers take on roles helping communities, police with racially charged crimes
Two Pennsylvania state troopers with a penchant for connecting communities with police officers are taking on full-time roles that will entrench them in the local area. Greensburg native Cpl. Aaron Allen and Trooper Ismail El-Guemra of the Carlisle area will work with community groups, police agencies and local residents in...
Police disperse overnight protesters at Peduto’s house, mayor decries neighborhood harassmentVideo
The handful of protesters who camped out overnight in front of Mayor Bill Peduto’s Point Breeze home were dispersed Wednesday morning after Pittsburgh police declared the small contingent an unlawful gathering. A protest group that grew from about 150 to more than 300 Tuesday night marched from East Liberty to...
Allegheny County reports just 27 new coronavirus cases
Allegheny County on Wednesday reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in almost two months. Just 27 positive cases were added in the latest data released by the Allegheny County Health Department, the lowest since 19 were reported on June 23. The new cases bring the county’s total to...
Post-Gazette files lawsuit claiming Pittsburgh’s discrimination inquiry is ‘unconstitutional’
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this week claimed a discrimination inquiry by the city’s Commission on Human Relations — opened in June after a Black reporter accused the newspaper of violating her civil rights — is unconstitutional. In a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday, the Post-Gazette asked the court to declare...
Educators hope to attract more adult students to free machining coursesVideo
When Ken Pedder was in high school, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do as a career. “I really had no direction or plans,” Pedder said. Eventually, he applied to Central Westmoreland Career & Technology Center. He was looking to follow somewhat in the footsteps of his father, a...
Hampton Shaler Water customers asked to conserve after main break at plant
Customers of the Hampton Shaler Water Authority could be asked to conserve water for a couple of days, the authority’s executive director said Wednesday. A break in a 16-inch pumping main leaving the water plant was discovered around 4 a.m. Wednesday, Sam Scarfone said. It’s been isolated, but the plant...
Pittsburgh police: missing 11-year-old boy found unharmed
Pittsburgh police announced that an 11-year-old boy reported missing Tuesday from the Perry North neighborhood has been found. Authorities said he was located Wednesday around 1:30 p.m. and safely returned home....
Protesters gather outside Mayor Peduto’s home for second day
A largely peaceful group of protesters took to the streets of East Liberty on Tuesday night in opposition of the recent arrest of a local activist by Pittsburgh police. Around 150 protesters started the march from the Target store in East Liberty, down Centre Avenue into Shadyside where they converged...
Wavering voters targeted by Democratic National Convention; some say too much Trump-bashing, not enough substance
U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle recalled what high spirits he and like-minded politicos had during the Democratic National Convention four years ago, and how confident most of them were that Hillary Clinton would clinch victory in Pennsylvania. The Forest Hills Democrat’s wife often would drive through Westmoreland County suburbs. She told...
WISH 99.7 morning host Cris Winter announces she’s left the station
On-air personality Cris Winter announced Tuesday on her “Cris Winter In The Morning” Facebook page that after working close to 40 years in Pittsburgh radio, her days on the air are over — for now. Winter said she was dismissed Friday after her show on WISH 99.7. “When you look...
Findlay sues Moon, airport authority over water and sewer service
The Findlay Township Municipal Authority is suing Allegheny County, the Allegheny County Airport Authority and Moon Township’s Municipal Authority over which entity gets to provide water to Pittsburgh International Airport. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Common Pleas Court, contends that the airport authority is improperly purchasing all of its water...
