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Pittsburgh City Council approves $10M purchase of police body cams
Pittsburgh police will be getting new body cameras and Tasers under a $10 million purchase request approved Monday by City Council. Under the proposal, the city will buy 950 cameras and 950 Tasers from Arizona-based Axon Enterprise Inc. The equipment includes a “signal sidearm” sensor that will not only immediately...
Police: Man shot multiple times in Wilkinsburg
A 36-year-old man was shot multiple times shortly after 1:30 p.m. Monday in the 1300 block of Marlboro Avenue in Wilkinsburg, according to Allegheny County police Inspector Andrew Schurman. The man, who wasn’t identified, was taken to a hospital where he was in critical condition, according to Schurman. Allegheny County...
Leslie Odom Jr. performs at The Pittsburgh Promise GalaVideo
Joshua Devine, Abigail Lutton, Vanessa Thompson and Michael Warren might never have gone to college if it weren’t for The Pittsburgh Promise. Warren, a Pittsburgh CAPA graduate, received a bachelor of science in music education and a master of education administration K-12 from Duquesne University. He is currently pursuing a...
Police: Masked men robbed Mia Pizza in Bloomfield
Pittsburgh police are investigating an armed robbery that was reported at about 12:40 a.m. Monday at Mia Pizza on Baum Boulevard in Bloomfield. Two men wearing masks and hoods entered the store, pointed guns at two employees and forced them to open a cash register, according to police spokeswoman Cara...
Saw Mill Run closed as PennDOT replaces Shaler Street Bridge using new techniqueVideo
The new Shaler Street Bridge was inched into place Monday afternoon over the course of several hours and the overall work to finish the bridge is expected to take about two weeks thanks to a new construction technique PennDOT is debuting. This is the first time PennDOT has used a...
Police investigate reported Downtown Pittsburgh robbery
Police are investigating a reported robbery that happened Sunday afternoon in Downtown Pittsburgh. A woman told police she was inside a business on the 400 block of Boulevard of the Allies around 1:45 p.m. when she was approached by a man who allegedly pistol whipped her and demanded her money,...
Duquesne Police warn residents of fake bills
The City of Duquesne Police Department is asking residents to keep an eye out for fake cash that is being passed around in the Pittsburgh area, according to a Facebook post by the department Saturday. The post describes fake bills that have the word “replica” printed below the serial number...
Woman beaten during Penn Hills home invasion dies
Police are looking for two men in connection to an October home invasion in Penn Hills where a woman was beaten so severely that she died. The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. Oct. 30 in a home in the 900 block of Cimarron Drive. Penn Hills police were called to...
Pittsburgh Promise scholarship fund grows by $4.8 million
The Pittsburgh Promise scholarship fund grew by $4.8 million in new contributions this year, Executive Director Saleem Ghubril announced Friday. About $1.2 million of that total was raised through a fundraising gala, “A Night of Promise,” held Saturday evening. The event featured a performance by Grammy and Tony winner Leslie...
Braddock police chief suspended with pay after arrest
The police chief in Braddock has been suspended with pay while an investigation into accusations of domestic violence are investigated, the borough’s mayor said Sunday. Guy Collins, 59, was arrested Saturday and is charged with simple assault. “We are investigating this to the fullest potential because we take domestic violence...
Allegheny County DA Zappala faces challenge from independent Middleman, a longtime public defender
Allegheny County Public Defender Lisa Middleman is the second candidate to try to topple District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr.’s 20-year tenure. Turahn Jenkins challenged Zappala, 62, in the Democratic primary in May. Jenkins, who left his post as the chief deputy director of the county public defender’s office to...
In state Superior Court race, four candidates vie for two open seats
Four candidates are running for two open seats on Pennsylvania’s Superior Court, one of the state’s two intermediate appellate courts. The Superior Court hears all appeals from the Court of Common Pleas and is made up of 15 judges. Appeals are generally heard by a three-judge panel. Only one candidate,...
Leslie Odom Jr. encourages young artists to take risks, love their craft at Pittsburgh CAPA
Think of love as a verb, Grammy and Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. told the room of aspiring young artists Saturday in Pittsburgh. “If you love something hard enough, eventually, it will love you back,” Odom said, encouraging the high schoolers to find their passion and nurture it intensely. Success...
Police: $33K worth of heroin, fentanyl seized from McKeesport home
More than $33,000 worth of heroin and fentanyl was seized from a McKeesport home Friday and two people were arrested, according to the Allegheny County Police. Camille Ann Pruitt, 27, of McKeesport, and Tyjior Leslie Brown, 18, of Pittsburgh, are facing drug and conspiracy charges. Authorities served a search warrant...
Former Officer Michael Rosfeld likely won’t pay any part of Antwon Rose settlement, experts tell Trib
Former East Pittsburgh police Officer Michael Rosfeld likely won’t pay a penny of a $2 million settlement reached in a federal civil lawsuit filed by Antwon Rose II’s family against Rosfeld and East Pittsburgh, experts familiar with civil cases said. Instead, East Pittsburgh’s insurance company will probably cover the cost...
Pittsburgh voters will be asked for tax increase to fund city parks
Pittsburgh voters Tuesday will be asked to approve a half-mill property tax increase that would exclusively fund improvements to city parks. Proponents say the measure is necessary to fill a $400 million funding gap in deferred park maintenance and improvements and an annual $13 million shortfall in maintenance funds. Critics...
Driver fired after taking Shaler Area bus over flooded roadVideo
A driver has been fired after driving a Shaler Area school bus over a flooded road Thursday in Shaler Township. School district transportation provider ABC Transit told WPXI-TV the driver was terminated after video footage captured the incident Thursday afternoon on Seavey Road, in the aftermath of heavy rainstorms. Three...
Bridge work will detour PA Turnpike traffic between Monroeville, Harmar
The westbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike will be closed early Sunday between the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Valley exits to allow crews to work on the Saltsburg Road bridge. Weather permitting, the closure will begin at 11:59 p.m. Saturday and is expected to last until 5 a.m. Sunday, turnpike officials...
Search for cash turns into sale of Pittsburgh’s iconic Kaufmann’s Building
The owner of Pittsburgh’s iconic Downtown Kaufmann’s building needed money to finish prolonged renovations and received an offer it couldn’t refuse from a Florida developer with close ties to the region, the company founder said Friday. Philadelphia-based Core Realty, which purchased the building at Fifth and Smithfield for $15 million...
Daily Download: Hotel parking lot fire, Robert Bowers case, WPIAL football playoffsVideo
In today’s Daily Download, staffer Matt Rosenberg discusses a fire that damaged multiple cars in a hotel parking lot, the capital case against Tree of Life gunman Robert Bowers and the start of WPIAL high school football playoffs. Each day, TribLIVE reporters and editors will break down the biggest news...
Texas man caught with loaded handgun at Pittsburgh International Airport
A Texan man told officials he didn’t know he had a .40 caliber handgun loaded with 14 bullets, including one in the chamber, when he was stopped Thursday at a checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport, according to the Transportation Security Administration. It was the 31st gun found at the checkpoint...
Police investigating crash into Pine Creek in Shaler Township
Shaler police have identified the man rescued after the car he was driving went off the road and ended up in Pine Creek. Paul Skerl, 76, was driving on Elfinwild Road in Shaler on Thursday afternoon when his vehicle left the roadway, fell down a steep hill and landed upside...
Write-in Republican challenging Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner
Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner’s campaign has 65 times more money on hand than her Republican write-in challenger, Brooke Nadonley. Nadonley, 43, a home health care worker who lives in Pittsburgh’s Mt. Washington neighborhood, had less than $600 in cash to the Wagner’s nearly $42,000 as of mid-October, records show....
Woman identified who died in head-on crash on Saw Mill Run Boulevard in Carrick
A Pittsburgh woman was killed and another woman was seriously hurt in a head-on car crash Friday morning in Carrick, police said. Wendy Eberle, 60, died at UPMC Mercy hospital shortly after 9:30 a.m., about a half-hour after the two-vehicle crash on Saw Mill Run Boulevard near Moredale Street, the...
Man who left car at FBI gate turns himself in, receiving help
A man who left a car painted with “gibberish” at the gate of the FBI’s Pittsburgh offices on the South Side turned himself in Friday, a spokeswoman said. The man won’t be identified, FBI spokeswoman Catherine Policicchio said. He appears to suffer from mental illness, she said, and he is...
