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Organ transplants using live donors soar at UPMC
A shortage of organs from deceased donors has prompted UPMC to shift its focus to transplants using live donors, a surgery some experts consider risky but others view as giving patients better survival odds. Deceased-donor transplants — once the bread and butter of UPMC’s internationally known transplant program — have...
Hundreds turn out for Pittsburgh fraternity’s 26th annual Christmas toy giveawayVideo
Hundreds of families gathered Saturday in a line outside of the fraternity center of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity’s annual Christmas party and toy giveaway. The event has been hosted by the Iota Phi (Pittsburgh) chapter of the international fraternity for 26 years. The party in Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood included...
Police: Rollover crash into creek in Lincoln under investigation
Two people were evaluated for possible injuries sustained after their vehicle rolled over into a creek in Lincoln. Allegheny County dispatchers said the incident took place around 9:15 p.m. Friday along the 1500 block of Lovedale Road. The people were treated at the scene and did not require hospitalization, dispatchers...
Strip District street to close for 30 months
A portion of Pittsburgh’s Waterfront Place, a street paralleling the Allegheny River between 11th and 21st streets, will close for more than two years beginning in January for a second phase of a $400 million residential development known as Riverfront Landing. The city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure and The...
Pittsburgh police receive water shut-off notice
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority for a second time in two years Friday threatened to shut off water at a city-occupied building for failure to pay a past due bill. PWSA posted a water shut-off notice at city police headquarters on the North Side’s Western Avenue, giving the city...
Allegheny County awards Familylinks $1 million contract to combat homelessness
Allegheny County has chosen an East Liberty human services provider to oversee a homeless prevention project. The county’s Department of Human Services is providing Familylinks with about $1 million to prevent homelessness among families in the county’s child welfare system. “This award represents recognition of the many hears that Familylinks...
Tubing starts Saturday at Boyce Park with Santa Ski Day
The Boyce Park snow tubing area in Plum will open for the season Saturday at 9:30 a.m. with a 30-inch snow base on what’s considered the “steepest snow tubing hill in Western Pennsylvania” by Allegheny County Parks. The snow tubing area will operate through mid-March, weather and conditions permitting. Santa...
Pittsburgh’s longest-serving crossing guard caught off guard by mayor’s honor
Pittsburgh crossing guard Supervisor Elaine Alter has been dodging traffic for 43 years to safely guide children across busy streets on their way to school. But Mayor Bill Peduto on Thursday caught Alter completely off-guard when he presented her with the Mayor Sophie Masloff Employee of the Month Award during...
Pittsburgh Menorah parade highlights Hanukkah Festival
“Sit by the candles and listen to the story that they tell.” This old Hanukkah saying best describes the message of the menorah, said Rabbi Elchonon Friedman of Bnai Emunoh Chabad in Greenfield. Those lights will illuminate the streets for the Jewish community in Pittsburgh as it celebrates the Festival...
Pittsburgh cousins charged in fentanyl ring tied to raid that sickened 18 SWAT officers
A pair of Pittsburgh cousins were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in connection to an investigation into a drug trafficking ring that led to the sickening of 18 SWAT officers during a series of raids two years ago, prosecutors said Thursday. Lynell Guyton, 30, of the city’s Elliott...
Woman claims North Braddock officer arrested her for filming traffic stopVideo
A North Braddock woman is suing North Braddock Borough and four police officers in federal court for allegedly violating her civil rights after her arrest for filming an Aug. 19 traffic stop. Keaira Booker, 23, said that she was wrongly arrested when a North Braddock police officer spotted her filming...
Police: North Versailles man hid drugs in mouth, buttocks
When police arrested a North Versailles man in Manor on Thursday after an apparent drug deal, they found the suspect had drugs hidden in his mouth and clenched between his buttocks, according to court papers. Damian Igles, 22, is charged with drug offenses, criminal use of a communication facility and...
Members of international malware ring who targeted Western Pa. prosecuted
Three members of an international malware cybercrime syndicate have been sentenced in what U.S. authorities are calling a “borderless response” that has involved police agencies in America and Europe. Krasimir Nikolov, 47, of Varna, Bulgaria, was sentenced Monday in Pittsburgh by U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer to time served...
Steelers safety Kameron Kelly charged after alleged South Side bar tussle with police
Pittsburgh Steelers safety Kameron Kelly fought with police after he was thrown out of a South Side bar early Friday morning when he became irate at the jukebox selection, according to charges filed against him. Kelly, 23, is charged with two counts of making terroristic threats and one count of...
Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner to stand trial again on Detroit charge
Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner will go to trial again in Detroit next year on a charge of obstruction during a March 2019 incident at a hotel with her husband, according to the Wayne County prosecutor’s office. A Detroit jury last month found Wagner not guilty of disturbing the peace...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Dec. 20-22
The first day of winter is Saturday. Welcome the season this weekend with a few more holiday events. Angelic Johnny Angel & The Halos take the stage on Saturday at the Rivers Casino Event Center on the North Shore. The Pittsburgh-based group performs music of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s....
Mon Wharf remains closed as cold prevents flood cleanup
Pittsburgh commuters who use the Mon Wharf will have to find another place to park Friday. The wharf will remain closed Friday, the Pittsburgh parking authority announced. The wharf flooded after heavy rain that fell over the Monongahela and Cheat river basins earlier this week. “Although the river has receded...
West Mifflin man guilty of storing 404 pounds of marijuana in Squirrel Hill ‘stash house’
A West Mifflin man accused of using an apartment in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood to store hundreds of pounds of illegal marijuana pleaded guilty to federal drug charges, prosecutors said Thursday. Wayne Barker, 61, had operated what officials called a large-scale “stash house” as part of a drug trafficking ring...
Police: Braddock home raid turns up 450 stamp bags of heroin, fentanyl
Allegheny County Police said they arrested a Braddock man Thursday after raiding his home and finding a gun and drugs. James Wise, 28, was charged with illegal gun possession, possession with intent to deliver heroin and fentanyl, receiving stolen property and three counts of possession of controlled substances. Police said...
White secretary at Pittsburgh Public Schools sues district, alleging racial discrimination
A secretary employed by Pittsburgh Public Schools is suing the district in federal court contending she’s been discriminated against for the last 12 years because she’s white. Kristen Frankovich says she’s been discriminated against because of her race in every position she’s held since 2007, when she started with the...
SUV crashes into Primanti’s in North Versailles
One person was injured when an SUV crashed into a Primanti Bros. restaurant Thursday in North Versailles. The incident happened just before 12:30 p.m. at the restaurant on East Pittsburgh-McKeesport Boulevard, according to an Allegheny County emergency dispatcher. No one inside the business was injured, officials said, but the driver...
Sheetz opens latest store on Route 8 in ShalerVideo
If there’s such a thing as a Sheetz desert, the stretch of Route 8 in Shaler fit the bill — until Dec. 19. The Altoona-based convenience store operator held a grand opening for its latest store, giving the chain a total of 600 in operation. Owner Travis Sheetz, on hand...
2 plead guilty in Pittsburgh court to being associated with cross-country drug conspiracy
Two people allegedly associated with a cross-country drug conspiracy pleaded guilty to charges this week in federal court in Pittsburgh. Eugene Reddick, 36, of Clairton, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. Kaylin Lightfoot-Homa, 26, of Penn Hills, pleaded guilty to maintaining...
Man paralyzed in fight at Downtown McDonald’s sues restaurant
A man left paralyzed after a Nov. 4 assault outside the McDonald’s restaurant on Wood Street in Downtown Pittsburgh is suing the company and the franchise operator of the location for negligence. The suit was filed Wednesday in Allegheny County court by a Pittsburgh law firm on behalf of Mark...
Western Pennsylvania lawmaker wants hunting licenses revoked for animal cruelty
A state lawmaker from Western Pennsylvania wants to give the Pennsylvania Game Commission the power to revoke or deny a hunting license to someone convicted of cruelty to animals. The proposed legislation was prompted by the investigation of two teenagers from Jefferson County’s Brookville area who appeared to torture an...
