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Authorities investigating if delayed report of sexual relationship in McKeesport schools is criminal
The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing whether McKeesport School District employees failed to alert state authorities to an alleged sexual relationship between a district employee and a teenage student or delayed reporting their suspicions and, if so, whether their actions were criminal. Allegheny County Police in January charged...
Fetterman uses curses, insults to mock JD Vance in press release
Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has a reputation for being crass, and he channeled that energy Wednesday while taking shots at Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance. A profanity-laced official news release from Fetterman’s campaign mocked Vance, Fetterman’s Senate colleague from Ohio. The release, titled “For Unfortunate Planning Purposes,” claimed...
North Braddock church partners with U.S. Justice Department to host church security forum
Church security has been at the top of Pastor Glenn Germany’s mind ever since a man stood up in Germany’s North Braddock church in May, pointed a gun at him and pulled the trigger. The gun did not fire and the man, North Braddock resident Bernard J. Polite, was arrested....
Deluzio, Fetterman roll out ‘Make Stuff Here’ agenda to help Dems reclaim working-class voters
As the presidential campaigns battle for the votes of Pennsylvania’s working class, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman and U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio are trying to help Democrats maintain their historic appeal to this crucial bloc and win back disaffected voters. The two Western Pennsylvania Democrats from Braddock and Aspinwall, respectively, held...
Harris, Biden to campaign in Pittsburgh on Labor Day
Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are coming to Pittsburgh on Labor Day as part of a barnstorming blitz by Democrats across battleground states. Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, is joining Biden for the first time on the campaign trail since he dropped out of the race...
Federal charges added for Pittsburgh man accused of fleeing Monroeville traffic stop
A Pittsburgh man faces local and federal charges after police say he fled a Monroeville traffic stop in late May, leaving behind a trail of weapons and drugs. Alvin J. McGhie, 36, of Pittsburgh, was charged this week with drug possession with intent to distribute, illegal possession of a firearm...
Moon songwriter handles all aspects of her 3rd album, out Aug. 30
When Maleena Dominick released her debut record, 2020’s “Bruises to Prove It,” she was about to graduate from Moon Area High School and was fresh off the heels of winning a national songwriting competition. Over the past four years, Dominick, 22, began to take some more creative control over the...
Harrison man charged with bringing daggers into Allegheny County Courthouse
A Harrison man was arrested when, police say, he tried to take two daggers concealed in a cane into the Allegheny County Courthouse. Allegheny County Sheriffs charged Stephan Michael Ratulowski, 40, with two counts of prohibited offensive weapons and one count of possession of a weapon in a court facility....
Penn Hills woman killed in crash on Route 28 in East Deer
State police say a woman died Tuesday morning after her vehicle crossed over the grass median on Route 28 in East Deer and went airborne before colliding with two oncoming vehicles. Sheena Marie Fitzgerald, 36, of Penn Hills had been driving south at a high speed between the highway’s Tarentum...
Good Samaritan’s gesture ends in hail of bullets, long road to recovery
On Aug. 7, Paul Werder, described by his wife as an inveterate good Samaritan, approached a homeless man who appeared hurt along a road on Pittsburgh’s North Side. They stood about 2 feet apart. “Are you okay?” Werder, 73, asked. “Can I help you?” The answer came through the crack...
Charges refiled against ex-Allegheny County detective accused of injecting son with testosterone
A former detective for the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office is once more charged with felony violations, accused of providing his minor son with testosterone and an amphetamine in Murrysville. Police allege Raymond Bonacci, 58, provided the drugs at the family home to enhance the boy’s athletic performance with the...
‘Up close and personal,’ officials paddle for the future of the Allegheny River
Advocates of the Allegheny River hope getting state and federal officials into the water will emphasize the need for more attention and funding for recreation and commercial use on the waterway. Local, state and federal officials paddled kayaks Friday morning from the Springdale to Harmar marinas, through Lock 3 on...
Pa. AG probes missing funds, financial irregularities at Allegheny County police union lodge
A local Fraternal Order of Police lodge that represents most Allegheny County police departments is implementing new safeguards to ensure money is handled properly as the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office investigates missing funds. FOP Lodge 91 President Mike Slawianowski, a Leetsdale police sergeant, said he asked the state attorney general’s...
Leet planning commission recommends approval of Quaker Valley high school plan
Quaker Valley School District’s plans for a new high school have cleared another hurdle as Leet planning commission voted 4-0 on Aug. 22 to recommend approval of the preliminary and final site plan. The proposed 167,000-square-foot school is on 150 acres of land off Camp Meeting Road. The district property...
‘I’m blessed’: Indiana man who lost eye in Parkway West shooting tells his tale
Bob Long thought he’d been in a car crash. While merging onto Interstate 376 from Route 51 in Pittsburgh last month, Long suddenly felt blood pouring down his face into his mouth — so much that he had to spit it out just to breathe. The 61-year-old grandfather of five...
Second trial opens for man charged in Wilkinsburg ‘execution’
As the rest of his family watched a Thursday night Steelers game in November 2019, Raymond Jackson was upstairs, caring for his 11-month-old granddaughter. Suddenly, around 10:20 p.m., two gunmen burst into the Wilkinsburg home. One of them kicked down the bedroom door upstairs and found Jackson inside, holding the...
Go-between pleads guilty to conspiring with Mexican drug ring in Western Pa.
Ten years after being charged, a former Crafton resident admitted on Wednesday to flooding Western Pennsylvania with cocaine and heroin transported overland from Mexico in hidden car compartments. Andrew Beatty, 40, pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He...
PennDOT will continue Route 22 signal upgrades through Monroeville
After upgrading and coordinating traffic signals along several miles of Route 22 in Murrysville a little less than a decade ago, state transportation officials will continue the project west through Monroeville. Monroeville will receive more than $800,000 for traffic signal upgrades through the state’s “Green Light-Go” initiative. It is among...
Chick-Fil-A to be built on former Circuit City site in Wilkins
The former Circuit City property in Wilkins will be home to a new Chick-Fil-A in the near future. Benderson Development of Buffalo, N.Y., received approval from township commissioners to redevelop the former tech store, located on 12.75 acres on the Wilkins-Monroeville border. Developer James Boglioli said Benderson plans to build...
Medical examiner identifies Penn Hills man found fatally stabbed in his home
A man was fatally stabbed Thursday inside his Penn Hills home, Allegheny County Police said. The county’s 911 center was notified at 4:20 a.m. of a stabbing in the 100 block of Pennoak Drive. First responders said they found the victim, who had been stabbed multiple times. The man was...
West Penn Hospital Nurses vote to authorize strike
On Wednesday, nurses at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood voted to authorize a strike. The union nurses, represented by SEIU Healthcare PA, voted 99.3% in favor of authorizing their negotiating committee to send a strike notice if necessary. The union in a news release said it rejected contract...
Superior Court: Trial judge cannot block DA’s pursuit of death penalty in Bellevue homicide
The state Superior Court on Wednesday said that a now-retired Allegheny County Common Pleas judge did not have the authority to prohibit prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. The appellate court returned the criminal case against Deangelo Zieglar back to the trial court to proceed as a capital case, finding...
Woman sues Uber, claims driver took her on terrifying ride
A Washington County woman is claiming in a lawsuit that she had to jump from a moving Uber because she feared for her life after the driver crashed on a highway and then fled in a smoking, speeding car. A police report stemming from the Dec. 2 crash, however, does...
Smiles From Sean: Bethel Park mother, son keep paying it forward
Maria Rovers remembers being in UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, watching her son Sean fighting for his life. “I was hesitating if I’d buy food for myself because my husband lost his job at that time,” Maria, a mother of four sons, said. “And then Sean’s social worker came in...
Windber woman killed in Monroeville crash
A woman was killed in a crash Tuesday afternoon in Monroeville. Jamie Piper, 44, of Windber was killed in a wreck near the intersection of Interstate 376 and Route 22 just after 4 p.m., according to the Allegheny County medical examiner. Piper’s vehicle struck a tree, according to the medical...
