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Allegheny County Health Department and international fraternity to host opioid discussion at Penn Hills Library
Allegheny County Health Department officials partnered with Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity to offer a community conversation on opioids, treatment and overdose prevention. The event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Penn Hills Library, 1037 Stotler Road. The program includes a slideshow presentation with an overview...
Road closures scheduled in Pittsburgh for Light Up Night
Most people in and around Pittsburgh look forward to the city’s annual Light Up Night. But there is one down side to the event: the road closures that come with it. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership announced the list of road closures slated for this Friday. From 7 a.m. to midnight,...
Andrew McCutchen, Mayor Peduto serve chili, talk reducing poverty on Pittsburgh’s North SideVideo
Former Pirates player Andrew McCutchen spent Monday night serving up bowls of chili alongside Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto while the pair discussed ways to reduce poverty across Western Pennsylvania. Between scoops, the hairnet-donning outfielder — whom fans affectionately refer to as “Cutch” or “No. 22” — fist-bumped, shook hands and...
Post-Gazette union votes ‘no confidence’ in management
In a move deemed “unprecedented,” the unionized employees who represent a majority of the Post-Gazette’s newsroom voted Monday that they have “no confidence” in their executive editor, publisher or parent company, Block Communications Inc. Starting Wednesday, as a form of protest, the newsroom’s journalists will withhold their names from all...
Detroit police officer testifies in Chelsa Wagner trial
DETROIT — Attorneys spent several hours Monday wrangling over a few seconds of video in the trial of Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner. In a hearing marked by multiple arguments, objections and Wayne Circuit Judge Dalton Roberson repeatedly chiding both defense attorneys and prosecutors, two Detroit police officers testified about...
Free air quality education kits available to Allegheny County middle schools
The Pittsburgh-based environmental advocacy group GASP, the Group Against Smog and Pollution, is offering free air quality education kits to Allegheny County middle schools. The kits — which include pig lungs, tools for measuring air pollution and other educational resources — can be used to teach students in grades four...
Pittsburgh receives grant for purchase of blue recycling bins
Pittsburgh has another $500,000 to purchase blue bins for its curbside recycling programs. The Recycling Partnership, based in Virginia, approved a $500,000 grant to purchase the bins for residents. Mayor Bill Peduto earlier this year announced plans to allocate $500,000 in 2020 for bins. The money will be used to...
Judge drops DUI charge against state Rep. Brandon Markosek
A magisterial district judge on Monday dropped a drunken driving charge against state Rep. Brandon Markosek. Markosek, 26, of Monroeville had been charged with speeding and drunken driving after a September arrest in Cumberland County. Both charges were dropped by Magisterial District Judge Michael Sanderson of Cumberland County. The speeding...
Police: Carrick man wanted in double shooting remains at large
A 23-year-old Carrick man remained at large Monday, wanted on charges in connection with a Thursday shooting of two teens during a robbery in Carrick, police said. Cody Smith, 23, is wanted on charges including attempted homicide, aggravated assault, robbery. Another man, Desmond Michael Jones, 20, no address listed, is...
CCAC announces $65 million plans for new training center, expanded coursesVideo
The Community College of Allegheny County on Monday announced plans for a $40 million Workforce Training Center on campus and a $25 million investment in expanded workforce programming and system wide upgrades to existing educational facilities. CCAC has so far raised $44 million for the Pioneering Pittsburgh’s Workforce Campaign. It...
Police: Maryland man confessed to killing Bethel Park woman during bondage-themed photo shoot in Nevada
The sheriff of a rural Nevada county plans to send investigators to Pennsylvania to talk with Bethel Park police to build a homicide case against a Maryland man who has confessed to killing Jaime Mae Feden. Authorities said the man left Feden’s body in the desert about 170 miles north...
6 questions with ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ star Matthew Rhys
Friday’s opening of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” starring Tom Hanks as Latrobe native Fred Rogers is fast approaching. In the highly anticipated movie filmed in Pittsburgh, actor Matthew Rhys plays Lloyd Vogel, the fictional version of journalist Tom Junod, who is not quite ready to buy into the...
Police release photo of suspect in deadly Wilkinsburg home invasion
Allegheny County police released photos of a man suspected in a deadly home invasion Thursday in Wilkinsburg. A 42-year-old man was shot and killed in the home invasion, police said. The victim has not been identified. Police obtained video from inside the house that showed one of the suspects and...
Fred Rogers’ clothing will be on display at Heinz History Center
More than 20 items of Fred Rogers’ clothing from his beloved children’s show will be added to the Strip District’s Senator John Heinz History Center’s “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” exhibit, beginning Friday. The timing is right because the much anticipated “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” a film about Rogers starring...
Pedestrian in critical condition after hit and run crash in Homewood
A man was taken to the hospital in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, according to police. The driver fled the scene, police said. The crash happened around 4:40 a.m. on the corner of Fifth and Frankstown avenues. Medics found the man unconscious in...
2 injured after police chase in Duquesne
A driver was fleeing from police when he crashed into an SUV on Duquesne Boulevard on Friday night, according to Allegheny County police. Daniel Disiero, 39, and an unidentified 45-year-old victim were taken to the hospital after the crash. Disiero is a registered sex offender in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, wanted...
Alcosan’s sewage bill assistance program slow to gain traction, raising questions
Allegheny County Sanitary Authority rates are rising, but a customer assistance program to help low-income residents pay their sewage bills has been slow to catch on, leaving some to question whether the program could be administered more effectively. Alcosan’s Clean Water Assistance Fund offers grants that cut the average $447...
Pittsburgh ‘Jeopardy!’ champ shares behind-the-scenes details from Tournament of Champions
One Final Jeopardy! clue stood between a chance at the $250,000 grand prize and getting knocked out of the game show’s Tournament of Champions. And Lindsey Shultz didn’t know the answer. “In a 1644 letter he wrote, ‘We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean air,’ which is what...
Steve Blass remembers Vera Clemente for her charity work, continued love for Pittsburgh
When Steve Blass was pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he had a vision of what teammate Roberto Clemente would do following his playing days. “I always thought Roberto would become the governor of Puerto Rico, and that Vera would make a great first lady,” Blass said. “He was that popular...
No injuries reported in 3-vehicle collision in McCandless
Emergency responders were called to the scene of a three-vehicle collision Sunday afternoon in McCandless. The crash was reported just before 2:30 p.m. on the 9100 block of Babcock Boulevard, near UPMC Passavant hospital. An Allegheny County 911 dispatcher said no injuries were reported. McCandless police couldn’t immediately be reached...
All Steel Valley schools will be open Monday following alarm system repairs
All schools within the Steel Valley School District in Munhall will be open on Monday. The district posted on its website Saturday that repairs to the high school and middle school emergency fire alarm system had been completed, the system had been fully tested, and the Munhall Fire Chief had...
Pittsburgh police investigating rollover SUV crash on Washington Boulevard
A woman was taken to a hospital after she fell asleep while driving on Washington Boulevard early Sunday and rolled her SUV, Pittsburgh police said. The crash occurred around 1:30 a.m. The woman told police she had been driving eastbound toward the Zone 5 police station when she fell asleep...
Police: Man arrested in fatal Wilkinsburg shooting, victim ID’d
A 32-year-old man was in the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh awaiting arraignment on homicide charges after shooting and killing a 46-year-old man during an argument in Wilkinsburg late Saturday, according to county police. County homicide detectives reported Dilon Bartifay, formerly of North Versailles, was arrested shortly after the 10:25...
23-year-old man found shot, lying in road in Penn Hills after being thrown from car
Allegheny County Police are seeking information on a shooting Saturday that critically injured a 23-year-old man. Police were dispatched just before 8 p.m. Saturday to the 7500 block of Manilla Street in Penn Hills for a report of a man found shot in the street. Penn Hills Police and paramedics...
Man struck and killed by car on Parkway West
The Fort Pitt Tunnel outbound reopened to traffic about 8:15 a.m. Sunday after the highway was closed for nearly three hours while authorities investigated a fatal pedestrian accident on I-376 West near the Banksville Road exit, according to state police. State Trooper Melinda Bondarenka said a 45-year-old man was struck...
