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Sanders wins Nevada caucuses, takes national Democratic lead
LAS VEGAS — Bernie Sanders scored a resounding victory in Nevada’s presidential caucuses on Saturday, cementing his status as the Democrats’ national front-runner amid escalating tensions over whether he’s too liberal to defeat President Donald Trump. While Sanders scored a strong victory, a cluster of candidates fought for a distant...
6 hurt when Port Authority bus, car crash on Highland Park Bridge
Six people were treated for minor injuries after a Port Authority bus crashed on the Highland Park Bridge on Saturday. Adam Brandolph, a Port Authority spokesman, said the injuries are non-life threatening. The crash involved an inbound Route 75 bus and a vehicle around 2:45 p.m. He did not have...
Charter bus rollover kills 3, injures 18 outside San Diego
PALA MESA, Calif. — A charter bus swerved on a rain-slicked Southern California highway and rolled down an embankment Saturday, killing three people and injuring 18 others, authorities said. Several passengers were thrown from the bus, and one of the dead was trapped under the vehicle after it landed on...
Liberty Tunnel reopens after 3-car, rollover crash inside
Several people involved in a crash inside the outbound Liberty Tunnel were injured Saturday, but no one was seriously hurt, Pittsburgh police said. Around 1:55 p.m., a vehicle tried to change lanes inside the tunnel and clipped another. That made the driver swerve, hitting a second vehicle and causing it...
Ligonier Township student leads effort to ship enough food to feed 10,000 peopleVideo
On Saturday, Braden Myers learned that one 18-year-old can feed 10,000 people — with a little help from his friends. The home-schooled Ligonier Township high school student organized a food drive as his senior project but decided to make it international in scope. “I just got so excited to have...
Teens in capsized raft in Northmoreland Park lake saved by firefighter who used a shovel as paddle
John Uskuraitis said he “thought the worst” when he arrived at Northmoreland Park Lake where two teenage boys struggled to get out of the frigid water Saturday afternoon. But as soon as he got closer, he saw them moving. He, along with his counterparts from Markle, Vandergrift and Allegheny Township...
’70s saw beginning of change for women in Pittsburgh police ranks
The 1970s saw women consolidate gains in the workplace that began with the second-wave feminism of a decade earlier. Therese Rocco began the Seventies wondering whether women in the Pittsburgh Police Department would ever get the pay, training and opportunities for advancement that men did. In the mid-1960s, women in...
Editorial: Legislation strangled by partisanship
The political landscape is as partisan as a war zone, but “bipartisan” seems to be every politician’s favorite word. If a legislator does something with even one member of the opposing party, you will hear crows of “bipartisan support.” Without that one member, there is a great wailing and mourning...
Big plans for redevelopment of Hunt Armory will come at big costVideo
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto can already hear hockey pucks bouncing off boards at the city’s Alfred E. Hunt Field Artillery Armory in Shadyside. The Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority is finalizing a $1 million purchase of the historic landmark on Emerson Street and is partnering with the city, Pittsburgh Parking Authority...
Virus spreads in South Korean city as thousands are screened
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Saturday reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections in four days to 433, most of them linked to a church and a hospital in and around the nation’s fourth-largest city, where health workers scrambled to screen thousands of worshippers. The country also reported...
Ohio woman killed in late night Hampton crash
A Canton, Ohio, woman was killed in a head-on crash in Hampton late Friday night, officials said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the woman as Kaitlyn Eckelberry, 23. She was pronounced dead shortly after midnight after being struck head-on by another vehicle in the 3800 block of William Flinn...
Casey, Toomey toe party lines as presidential election looms in Pennsylvania — a critical swing stateVideo
Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators Bob Casey, a Democrat from Scranton, and Pat Toomey, the Lehigh Valley Republican, were among the more muted voices throughout acrimonious impeachment proceedings against President Trump. But with no political races of their own this year, their voices are growing as they line up along party positions...
‘Impractical Joker’ Sal Vulcano pumps up packed theaters for movie’s openingVideo
Cinemark movie theaters in Monroeville, Robinson and the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer were packed with patrons hoping to meet an impractical star. Sal Vulcano, one quarter of TruTV’s “Impractical Jokers,” visited the Steel City on Friday to help promote his group’s new film. “Impractical Jokers: The Movie” launched in...
Cherrie Mahan’s mysterious disappearance haunts her mother 35 years laterVideo
Janice McKinney is still looking for answers, 35 years after the disappearance of her daughter, Cherrie Mahan. The 8-year-old third-grader was last seen Feb. 22, 1985, as she got off a school bus about 100 yards from her home in Winfield Township, Butler County. McKinney struggles daily with questions that...
South Fayette, Freeport Area, Taylor Allderdice students recognized for anti-opioid videosVideo
Students from three school districts in the region were recognized by the FBI for developing a strong message about confronting Western Pennsylvania’s opioid epidemic. South Fayette High School students took first place in the Pittsburgh FBI’s “Heroin Outreach Prevention and Education (HOPE)” public service announcement contest, followed by Freeport Area...
Man in critical condition after getting shot in leg in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood
Police are investigating a shooting Friday afternoon in the city’s Homewood neighborhood that sent a man to the hospital in critical condition, officials said. Authorities received a ShotSpotter alert shortly after 1 p.m. near the 7400 block of Race Street, a few blocks from the intersection of Frankstown and Brushton...
Kobe Bryant’s pilot had been disciplined by FAA over weather-related flight violation
LOS ANGELES — The pilot of the helicopter that crashed into a Calabasas hillside last month, killing NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others, violated federal flight rules in 2015 when he flew into busy airspace near Los Angeles International Airport despite being ordered not to by air traffic control,...
Penn State says it has settled all claims with the family of Joe Paterno
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Following eight years of rocky relations in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, Pennsylvania State University has made peace with the family of Joe Paterno. The head of Penn State’s board of trustees announced Friday that the school had resolved all outstanding...
120-year-old restored Victorian house for sale in Greenfield for $689KVideo
The minute you turn onto the street it catches your eye — the 120-year-old Victorian home with the wrap-around white front porch on Winterburn Avenue in Greenfield. The house has been completely renovated from top to bottom with all high-grade, top-of-the-line finishes while preserving the integrity of the house, said...
House fire leaves Avonmore family of 5 homelessVideo
An Avonmore family of five is homeless after fire swept through their home Friday afternoon. Avonmore Volunteer Fire Company Chief John Shaffer said one of the adults and two kids were home but got out safely. Several firefighters were checked by medics at the scene, but no one was transported....
Entercom names Kevin Battle KDKA Radio morning show co-host
Pittsburgh area native Kevin Battle will join “The KDKA Radio Morning News with Larry Richert” weekdays from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m., effective March 9. He replaces former co-host John Shumway, who stepped away after 15 years as Richert’s on-air partner to devote himself to his duties as a reporter...
Heavy snow, 40 below zero temps stop Latrobe man’s Alaskan journey
Tim Hewitt’s hopes of trekking some 1,300 miles through the Alaskan wilderness were smashed last week by deep snow that slowed his progress, making every step in his snowshoes difficult and deep snow that obliterated any traces of a trail. Hewitt, a Latrobe attorney, said on Feb. 24 from his...
Former Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney: ‘Russia is interested in destroying democracy’
American voters are in the midst of a Russian redux, warns David Hickton, the former U.S. Attorney in Pittsburgh whose office uncovered the 2016 Russian election hacks. Hickton, founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security, was U.S. Attorney for the Western District of...
Homewood man convicted in 2017 shooting, robbery of Braddock woman
A Homewood man was convicted Friday of shooting and robbing an 18-year-old Braddock woman in 2017 after she got off a Port Authority bus in Homewood. The woman got off a bus at the North Homewood stop on the East Busway, walked down steps to the street and was followed...
Week in review: August Wilson Center makes comeback, Pirates legend puts home up for auctionVideo
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center is making a comeback five years after confronting a sheriff’s sale and over a decade since its 2009 grand opening. Last year, the center held 227 events, of which 87 were produced and presented by the center. The number of privately booked rentals...
