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Daily Download: Plans for Tree of Life, gifts to Children’s Hospital and high school footballVideo
Each day, TribLIVE reporters and editors will break down the biggest news of the day, with video highlights of the people and places making headlines. Today, reporter Paul Guggenheimer discusses plans for the Tree of Life synagogue, an elementary school that presented gifts to Children’s Hospital and Week 8 in...
2 suspects in deadly Penn Hills home invasion caught in California
Two suspects in the Oct. 9 killing of a Penn Hills man were arrested Friday in California, police said. Laron Howard, 19, and Laquon Perkins, 18, who are brothers, were arrested at 2:30 p.m. by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in Lancaster, Calif., according to Allegheny County police. Both men...
Cornel West returning to Western Pa. for Penn State speaker series
Princeton University professor emeritus and celebrated liberal author Dr. Cornel West will return to Western Pennsylvania on Oct. 25, a week after giving the Threshold Lecture at Saint Vincent College. West, a noted philosopher, political activist and social critic, will speak at the Penn State Greater Allegheny campus in McKeesport...
Swinburne Street in South Oakland to close for 5 months
Swinburne Street in Pittsburgh’s South Oakland neighborhood will be closed for about five months as the city conducts repairs related to landslides, the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure announced Friday. The $630,000 project will begin Oct. 21. Traffic will be closed in both directions between Greenfield Avenue and Edgehill Street/Childs...
Police release photos of men wanted in fatal McKeesport Family Dollar shooting
Authorities need help identifying the two men suspected in a fatal shooting Thursday at a Family Dollar in McKeesport. Allegheny County Police released images from the store’s surveillance cameras that show the men, who entered the store shortly after 11 a.m., fought with and robbed Dwayne Fuller, 24, of Homestead....
Greenway Boy Killas member sentenced to 18 months in federal prison
A Greenway Boy Killas (GBK) gang member was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh to serve 18 months in federal prison for heroin distribution conspiracy. Senior U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab imposed the sentence on Rashem Littleberry, 29, of Pittsburgh. According to prosecutors, in 2017, the FBI and...
Nadine Road in Penn Hills reopening pushed to December
Nadine Road in Penn Hills will continue to be closed until the end of December, the Allegheny County Department of Public Works announced Friday. The section of the road between Allegheny River Boulevard and Lincoln Road has been closed since July 12 following storms that overturned the wall and caused...
Tree of Life leaders unveil vision for Squirrel Hill synagogue’s future
Congregation leaders from Tree of Life-Or L’Smicha have vowed to return to their home on Wilkins Avenue after a gunman opened fire on Shabbat services last year, killing 11 people. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who was leading services for Tree of Life when the Oct. 27 attack began, said the building...
Beaver Falls native, Point Park alum to join KDKA as meteorologist
A Beaver Falls native, who was previously an intern at KDKA-TV, is poised to join the station as a meteorologist. Mary Ours shared the news on social media this week. She has been a weekday meteorologist at WJAC in Johnstown since 2016. Some BIG NEWS! ? pic.twitter.com/JBkv9SapcA— Mary Ours (@MaryOursWX)...
Monster Pumpkins Festival in Pittsburgh features largest jack-o’-lanternVideo
Check out the giant jack-o’-lanterns at the second annual Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins Festival this Saturday and Sunday on the North Shore. Organizers say the largest pumpkin grown in the world so far this year will be sitting on the river walk down from Jerome Bettis’ Grille 36. Grown by Karl...
REDjuvenate Light Therapy Center in Pittsburgh helps relieve pain for some
Seeing red gives Beth Cober the ability to get up and go. A few times each month, the Morgantown resident drives to Pittsburgh to visit REDjuvenate, a light therapy center in East Liberty. Cober, who suffers from fibromyalgia, a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, lies in a whole-body light...
Phipps’ annual fall flower takes ‘Japanese Inspirations’Video
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens’ fall flower show is like the season itself — a brief but welcome respite before the return of a long and cold winter in Pittsburgh. “Japanese Inspirations” is the theme of this year’s fall show, which celebrates not only the nearly 2,900 chrysanthemums that dominate...
Former subcontractor employee pleads guilty to stealing $250,000 from Bettis Lab
A former subcontractor employee at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in West Mifflin pleaded guilty to embezzling about $250,000 in government money, according to U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady. Robert Lazur, 30, of West Mifflin, was employed as a logistics coordinator when he allegedly used company credit cards and opened purchase...
Police investigating possible threat at Westinghouse High School
Police investigated a possible threat at Westinghouse High School in Pittsburgh’s Homewood section on Thursday, officials said. Pittsburgh police said they were contacted by school police shortly before 2 p.m. for assistance regarding the threat at the school along North Murtland Street. “Police take all threats to the community seriously,...
Bob Seger rocks Pittsburgh one last time
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band put on quite a show Thursday night at Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena. “Roll Me Away” is a farewell tour celebrating Seger’s five decades in rock ‘n’ roll. The 74-year-old Detroit rocker, known for hits like “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man,” “Night Moves” and “Roll Me...
UPMC’s CFO to retire after 16 years at helm of multibillion-dollar nonprofit
UPMC’s longtime financial chief announced Thursday that he plans to step down at the end of the year. Robert DeMichiei has served as chief financial officer of the multibillion-dollar, nonprofit health system headquartered in Downtown Pittsburgh’s U.S. Steel Tower for nearly 16 years. The 54-year-old Hampton resident said his retirement...
Civil War correspondence discovered in Churchill attic
Carleton Young was going through boxes in his parents’ Churchill attic in 2006 when he made quite a discovery. “Inside the wooden box was an enormous collection of about 250 letters written home by two Vermont brothers as they fought in the Civil War,” Young said. “They were members of...
Daily Download: Police heart defibrillators, Katharine Hepburn and Brandon TanevVideo
Each day, TribLIVE reporters and editors will break down the biggest news of the day, with video highlights of the people and places making headlines. Today, reporter Paul Guggenheimer discusses portable heart defibrillators in Pittsburgh police cruisers, Katharine Hepburn at The Frick Pittsburgh and Penguins forward Brandon Tanev’s improbable goal...
Point Park honors slain Pittsburgh Officer Calvin Hall
The Point Park University Police Department’s training center has been renamed after slain Pittsburgh police Officer Calvin Hall, who formerly worked as a Point Park police officer, the university said Thursday. Point Park renamed the center in a private ceremony Wednesday attended by Hall’s family. Hall spent two years as...
The 1955 murder story behind ‘Pittsburgh’ the poem, published in The New Yorker
Walter Henry was an unemployed steelworker when he was shot and killed at a Pittsburgh hotel in 1955. He attempted to intervene in a neighbor’s dispute but died in the arms of another tenant while his assailant — a jilted lover who kidnapped an ex-girlfriend, a resident of Henry’s building...
Fairview Park kicks off capital campaign, marks 75th anniversary in 2020
In 1945, a group of black church leaders from Allegheny and Westmoreland counties set out to create a place where they could come together and enjoy themselves. With segregation restricting the places African-Americans could go, the Monongahela Valley Sunday School Association created Fairview Park in Salem Township. At one time,...
Officials: Homestead man killed in shooting at McKeesport Family DollarVideo
A man shot and killed Thursday morning inside the Family Dollar on Versailles Avenue in McKeesport has been identified. Dwayne Fuller, 24, of Homestead was pronounced dead shortly after noon, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Allegheny County Police Sgt. Venerando Costa said police are trying to identify...
Allegheny County DA defers to state AG in Marsy’s Law suit
The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office will not move forward with efforts to intervene in a lawsuit to challenge the proposed Marsy’s Law amendment to the state constitution, according to a statement Thursday. The office was satisfied with the response filed by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, which will be...
Prantl’s Bakery and Platform Beer collaborate for a 2nd tasty brew
For a second time, 500 pounds of burnt almonds made their way from Pittsburgh to Cleveland — all in the name of beer. Platform Beer Co. and Prantl’s Bakery in Shadyside have collaborated on a second brew: a Chocolate Almond Torte Stout. It’s a twist on the first beer —...
Raccoon in Bethel Park is 25th rabid animal in Allegheny County this year
A raccoon captured in Bethel Park recently tested positive for rabies, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. It was captured near the 1000 block of Clifton Road. The raccoon is the 25th animal that has tested positive for rabies this year. The others to test positive include 18 raccoons,...
