Pittsburgh category, Page 162

Pittsburgh police have located a missing 13-year-old girl after she was missing for nearly 16 hours. The girl, Alison Vivas, was safely located at 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday after police said she was last seen at 6 p.m. on Tuesday in the the Oakland area. Police special victims unit detectives...

Pre-K classes soon could be available at more schools throughout Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. Several schools and child care centers from Allegheny and Westmoreland counties were chosen to receive part of more than $384 million Gov. Tom Wolf is aiming at early childhood education in the state. Among them are...

Pittsburgh’s private moped-sharing company, Scoobi, has shut down operations in the city, according to city officials. Scoobi rents out electric mopeds through an app, and the mopeds can be driven and parked throughout certain city neighborhoods. Maria Montaño, press secretary for Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, said the city’s Department of...

Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire is hosting its first Girls Fire Camp this month. Open to girls ages 15 to 18, the event aims to help young women kickstart their careers as firefighters or community leaders, Pittsburgh officials said. Participants will learn from experienced women in the field what it takes...

Sheree Daugherty has been drawing animals since before she began grade school. “I drew stacks of unrealistic scenes, like elephants, skunks, snakes and monkeys all in the same setting,” said Daugherty, 65, of Pittsburgh’s North Side. A few years later, Daugherty saw a painting by wildlife artist Ned Smith on...

Pittsburgh police said they responded early Tuesday to a reported carjacking in the 1200 block of Chartiers Avenue in the city’s West End. Zone 6 police officers said they spoke with a male victim who told them he was a ride-hail driver and was called to pick up passengers at...

A crash early Monday on Pittsburgh’s Fort Duquesne Bridge led police to a woman wanted on attempted homicide charges stemming from a shootout in Hazelwood last year, court records show. Ronika Carter, 33, is accused of giving state troopers a fake name following the crash around 12:30 a.m. Police said...

One person was reported in critical condition as a result of a rollower crash in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood, city police said. One vehicle rolled over shortly before 3:30 p.m. outside of UPMC Children’s Hospital at 44th Street at Post Street, police said. The driver was the only occupant in the...

Pittsburgh officials have selected four artists to create permanent art installations in Homewood Park as part of the city’s Homewood Park Improvement Project. The Department of City Planning’s Public Art and Civic Design Planning division selected Camerin “Camo” Nesbit, Juliana Jones, Mikael Owunna and Najja Moon to create the artwork....

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh said affiliated nonprofits have dedicated more than $500,000 over four years to help students living in HACP housing with college tuition. HACP’s nonprofit affiliate Clean Slate E3 and its partner organization NEED are offering scholarships to 23 new recipients and nine returning...

Pittsburgh police responded early Monday to reports of a shooting on the city’s North Shore and found a male who had been shot twice. The man was transported by EMS to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner identified the...

Several hundred households in Pittsburgh’s Northside are being asked to boil their water as a precaution after a water main break Saturday. Officials with the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority said the break caused a loss in water pressure, which can result in bacterial contaminants entering the water. There were...

A man was hospitalized in critical condition Friday night after Pittsburgh police said he was shot in the head. The shooting may have occurred during a robbery around 9:15 p.m. in the city’s Beltzhoover neighborhood, according to police. Authorities were notified by ShotSpotter of the shooting in the area of...

A Pittsburgh man was killed Friday afternoon in Pittsburgh when his vehicle went off Bigelow Boulevard and hit a tree, city police said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim as Lonnie J. Middleton III, 52. He was dead at the scene, Pittsburgh police said. The accident occurred...

A federal judge on Friday threw out an age discrimination lawsuit filed by longtime KDKA reporter Dave Crawley against KDKA-TV and parent company Viacom CBS. Judge W. Scott Hardy granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, finding that Crawley was unable to prove that the station had discriminated against him...

A woman who was shot during the mass shooting at an Airbnb party Easter morning in Pittsburgh filed a lawsuit this week against the company and owners of the property where the shooting happened. The lawsuit, filed in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday, alleges negligence on...

A Marshall-Shadeland man has been accused by Pittsburgh police of fatally shooting one man and wounding another man last month in the city’s Strip District. Jeffdyn Rushton, 33, was arrested Thursday by Penn Hills police after a traffic stop on charges of illegal possession of firearms, according to court documents....

It’s the last weekend in July. Here are some ways to spend it. Beer here Pittsburgh Summer Beer Fest is 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Stage AE on the North Shore. The two-night annual event features craft beers from approximately 200 local, regional and hard-to-find brews, as well as...

Pittsburgh City Council on Thursday formally introduced Daniel Friedson as council’s first council solicitor. With over 20 years of experience, Friedson will advise council on legal matters. City Council last fall decided to hire its own solicitor. Council had previously relied on the legal advice of the city’s law department,...

Pittsburgh City Council has hired four people to run its newly formed Office of Public Engagement. The new office will work to improve communication and give residents more of a voice in City Council decisions that impact their communities, officials said. “City Council created the office … to effectively connect...

The Mon Wharf parking lot in Downtown Pittsburgh was closed Thursday and could be again on Friday because of an ongoing Peoples Gas project. In addition to the work being done, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV reports that a power line was severed during the project, further impacting the parking lot....

One person died in a rollover crash late Wednesday in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, police said. Officers responded to Lawson Street and Midtown Square around 11:45 p.m. and found a man dead at the scene, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Amanda Mueller. The man was not identified. The incident is...

The Pittsburgh Public Schools made official Wednesday what it had revealed last week — the interim superintendent since October was promoted to superintendent, ushering in what school officials hope will be a “reset period” with a opportunity to recommit to public education in the city. The school board unanimously approved...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro pitched his economic plan during a Pittsburgh campaign stop Tuesday and said one of his goals as governor would be to ensure that the region becomes the world leader in the robotics industry. “I am here today to plant a flag and say we will...