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5 things to know about Chelsa Wagner’s trial in MichiganVideo
Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner’s jury trial on charges stemming from a March 6 confrontation with Detroit police and staff at a hotel there starts Tuesday morning with jury selection. Here are five things to know about the case: 1. Wagner, 42, of North Point Breeze, and her husband, Khari...
Embattled McCandless police chief retires; replacement namedVideo
McCandless police Lt. Ryan Hawk was appointed on Monday as the new acting police Chief, according to the town’s Facebook page. He takes the place of beleaguered former Chief David DiSanti, who submitted his resignation during the Nov. 11 council meeting. The move comes less than a year after DiSanti...
IRS forms show Highmark officials reaped $1 million-plus raises last year
Highmark Health CEO David Holmberg’s total pay climbed to $7.49 million last year — up about 35% from the year before, for a nearly $2 million boost in compensation, federal tax forms filed Monday show. The nonprofit health system’s leader joined senior executives across Highmark Health and Allegheny Health Network...
Connellsville native Lindsey Shultz to play in ‘Jeopardy!’ semifinals Wednesday
Pittsburgh physician and health care analyst Lindsey Shultz, a Connellsville native, will be featured on Wednesday’s “Jeopardy!” Tournament of Champions telecast. Shultz finished second to record-setting champion James Holzhauer in the quarterfinals broadcast Nov. 6. But she scored high enough among the week’s non-winning players to earn a wild card...
Minkah Fitzpatrick trade now ‘makes sense’ to many Steelers fansVideo
Steelers fans have had more ups and downs than the Steel Curtain roller coaster that debuted this year at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin. A day after the season seemed lost — quarterback Ben Roethlisberger out for the year — the team traded a 2020 first-round draft pick to the...
Woman hurt in Monroeville crash dies 4 days later
Authorities were surprised to learn that a woman involved in a crash along Broadway Boulevard on Nov. 4 died four days later in the hospital. Nicole Hilla, 41, died Nov. 8 at Forbes Hospital while being treated for injuries she got in a crash along the 2800 block of Broadway...
Friends, neighbors raising money to help rebuild Wilson’s Bar-B-Q on North SideVideo
Friends and neighbors of Wilson’s Bar-B-Q don’t want a Nov. 5 fire to be the end of the beloved restaurant on Pittsburgh’s North Side. “He’s just a great guy, and I love him in the neighborhood,” said Michele Petruccelli, who lives a few doors from the North Taylor Avenue spot,...
The Coop Chicken & Waffles food truck owners to open Pittsburgh restaurant
Being in a relationship is tough, especially when you’re working together 60 hours a week in an 8-by-10-foot kitchen on wheels. After running The Coop Chicken & Waffles food truck for three years, Nicki Cardilli and Justin Fitzgerald are flying the mobile cage and opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the...
‘Bar-style’ ice curling rink to open in Millvale
It may not be curling the way it’s played in the Olympics, but what’s being billed as the Pittsburgh area’s first “competitive, bar-style ice curling rink” is opening in Millvale. Sliders Curling, a seasonal offshoot of popular axe-throwing business Lumberjaxes, is opening its rink on Nov. 27 and will operate...
Pittsburgh police officer injured in wrong-way crash
A Pittsburgh police officer was sent to the hospital after a wrong-way driver, who was later charged with DUI, crashed into his vehicle Sunday. The incident happened at about 6:40 p.m. along Jacksonia Street, a one-way street on the city’s North Side. The officer was driving the correct way along...
Pittsburgh boy missing since Nov. 8 from Knoxville found Monday
A boy missing since Nov. 8 from Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood was found Monday, public safety spokesman Chris Togneri said. Authorities took to social media to ask for help to locate the boy, Haji Abdi, 12. He was safely located and returned home, Togneri said....
Pittsburgh prepares master plan to boost bicycling on city streetsVideo
A master plan for bicycling in Pittsburgh is about to be released by city officials, who say its contents will quell bikers’ frustrations. The most prevalent qualm for those in the saddle? “There are really great bike lanes around and then they end … it’s sorta piecemeal at the moment,”...
Man struck and killed by train on Pittsburgh’s South Side
A male pedestrian was struck and killed by an eastbound CSX train on Pittsburgh’s South Side on Saturday, authorities said. The victim’s name had not been released as of Sunday afternoon. Pittsburgh Public Safety Spokesman Chris Togneri said first responders were called around 4:45 p.m. for a report of a...
DraftKings exec says future of betting is smartphones, live-wagering, instant gratification
Much has changed in U.S. sports betting since Jamie Shea’s days as a 22-year-old Las Vegas oddsmaker in the 1990s. Shea, a Florida native who grew up around horse racing, quickly discovered she had both a passion and a knack for working in legal sports gambling. She went on to...
Mt. Pleasant Township veteran part of dwindling ‘Greatest Generation’Video
When Army veteran Frank Emanuel injured his back, a physician feared the worst. “He thought I had cancer,” Emanuel, 95, recalled of his hospital visit more than 45 years ago. The Mt. Pleasant Township man set the doctor’s mind at ease. What showed up as white spots on the X-ray...
Hundreds celebrate 100th anniversary of Pittsburgh Veterans Day Parade
The streets were lined with onlookers Saturday for the 100th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Veterans Day Parade on Liberty Avenue. Dr. David Blinky, a member of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association, puffed a cigar as he sat behind the wheel of a WWII-era Jeep prior to the start of the...
PNC Park hosts Fallen Firefighter Memorial Stair ClimbVideo
PNC Park opened its doors Saturday morning to firefighters and members of the public participating in the Fallen Firefighter Memorial Stair Climb put on by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Participants climbed 2,200 steps — simulating the 110 stories of the World Trade Center in New York City where 343...
Former Pittsburgh diocese priest, Catholic schools leader found guilty of sexually abusing altar boy, 10
An Allegheny County judge on Friday found a former priest and school superintendent of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh guilty of several counts of child sex abuse related to an incident involving an altar boy 18 years ago. Hugh Lang, 89 — who retired from serving as an active...
Police search for man who robbed PNC Bank near PNC Park in Pittsburgh’s North Side
Police are searching for a man who robbed a PNC Bank in Pittsburgh’s North Shore district on Friday afternoon, officials said. Shortly before 5 p.m., the suspect walked into the bank’s branch on Federal Street near Isabella Street across from PNC Park, Pittsburgh public safety spokesman Chris Togneri said. The...
Clergy visit highlights Pittsburgh-Ireland ties
Pittsburgh’s connections with Ireland may not seem apparent at first, but they are deep and ongoing — well beyond the late Pittsburgh Steelers President Dan Rooney’s stint as U.S. ambassador. An Ireland Institute of Pittsburgh event at the Duquesne Club in Downtown Pittsburgh on Nov. 6 provided an introduction to...
Reputed Penn Hills gang member gets federal prison for gun charge
A reputed Penn Hills gang member was ordered to spend more than five years in federal prison for having a gun when he was selling illicit drugs, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Pittsburgh. Jaamiyl Dean, age 43, of the 100 block of Quail Drive, was sentenced Friday morning...
Parkway East overnight lane restrictions continue next week in Pittsburgh
Interstate 376 will be reduced to a single-lane in each direction in various locations between the Fort Pitt Bridge and the Squirrel Hill Tunnel next Monday through Thursday nights. The restrictions will be in place from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on those nights. Crews will conduct barrier repairs, delineator...
Volunteers to spurn Black Friday, pack meals Downtown
Volunteers will spend Black Friday working to pack 1 million meals for the Pittsburgh area’s homeless and food-insecure at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The event, called Amen to Action, is in its third year. The aim is for volunteers to shrug off the usual consumerism of Black Friday...
New recycling website unveiled by Allegheny County Controller’s OfficeVideo
Rhea Homa is a recycling advocate. But as she’s lived in three places in Allegheny County — Monroeville, Verona and the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill — she’s encountered three different rules about recycling. “It’s not easy to determine what those rules are,” Homa, now of Verona, said Friday at...
Gov. Wolf signs law to assist nonprofits with security
Legislation passed in response to attacks against the Jewish community, including the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was signed into law this week by Gov. Tom Wolf. The new law establishes a $5 million fund designed to assist nonprofit groups, institutions and individuals considered possible targets...
