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Appeals court: Trump can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico
SAN DIEGO — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for immigration court hearings while the policy is challenged in court, handing the president a major victory, even if it proves temporary. The order by the 9th U.S. Circuit...
Police shoot man in Kennedy shopping plaza during drug sting
Police shot a 27-year-old man twice in the arm Tuesday afternoon while trying to arrest him at a Kennedy Township shopping center as part of a multi-department drug sting, officials said. The shooting happened at 2:17 p.m. in the parking lot of the Kenmawr Plaza near a Beer 4 Less...
Tax returns from ’80s and ’90s reveal Trump lost over $1 billion in business deals
Donald Trump reported $1.17 billion in financial losses to the IRS between 1985 and 1994, a massive run of red ink that kept him from paying income taxes during most of that period, according to a report published late Tuesday in The New York Times. The Times said it had...
Pa. Senate unanimously confirms Elliot Howsie as Common Pleas judge
Allegheny County Chief Public Defender Elliot Howsie has been named a Common Pleas judge. On a 47-0 vote, the state Senate on Tuesday confirmed Howsie to fill the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas seat left vacant by Judge Donna Jo McDaniel. McDaniel resigned in January following Superior Court rulings...
Lawmakers consider lifting auto emissions testing in Westmoreland County
Vehicle emissions inspections in Westmoreland County could be a thing of the past if a group of state lawmakers gets its way — but any changes to the law would require tricky legal wrangling and almost certainly leave some groups angry. The state Senate Transportation Committee, chaired by Sen. Kim...
1 dead, 8 hurt in Colorado school shooting, 2 in custodyVideo
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — Two students opened fire Tuesday inside a charter school in an affluent suburban Denver community not far from Columbine High School , killing a teenager, wounding eight and spreading minutes of terror before they were taken into custody with no injuries, authorities said. Douglas County Sheriff...
Worsening U.S.-China trade tensions rattle financial marketsVideo
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 470 points Tuesday amid a broad sell-off on Wall Street as the United States and China moved closer to an escalation of their already costly trade war. The United States was set to impose higher tariffs on China on Friday, a day...
Somerset native flew on little-known first flight across Atlantic
“We have safely crossed the pond.” With that telegram, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Albert C. Read announced to the world the first transatlantic flight in 1919 — eight years before Charles Lindbergh’s solo, nonstop voyage. One of Read’s crewmen on the NC-4 seaplane was a Somerset County native by the name...
Pittsburgh council authorizes $32M in spending on I-579 ‘cap’
Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday authorized about $32 million in spending for the Interstate 579 “cap” designed to link the Lower Hill District and Downtown via a three-acre park. PennDOT will oversee the work expected to start by July and end in late 2021, according to the Sports and Exhibition...
Peduto searches for towing improvements after Shadyside ‘pandemonium’
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is looking for ways to avoid another tow truck incident like the “pandemonium” that erupted Saturday night in Shadyside when police and trucks arrived to remove vehicles on Walnut Street in preparation for the marathon. Peduto and the city’s public works department announced repeatedly on social...
Photo of final 2 Pittsburgh marathon finishers goes viralVideo
Two strangers found strength in each other about halfway through Sunday’s Pittsburgh Marathon when they realized they would be the last to finish. Coming in at 7 hours, 22 minutes and 56 seconds, Jessica Robertson of Braddock and Laura Mazur of Ohio, who grew up in the Alle-Kiski Valley and...
Nestle to cut 4,000 jobs in delivery changes
Nestle SA’s U.S. unit will lay off about 4,000 workers as it stops delivering frozen pizza and ice cream directly to stores and instead transitions to a warehouse model that’s becoming an industry standard for Big Food companies looking to trim costs. The company said Tuesday that it’s shutting down...
Psychedelic mushrooms may be the next illicit drugs to go legal
First pot. Now shrooms. Americans want access to psychedelic mushrooms and the psilocybin they produce. Advocates are pushing for legalization on several fronts. Denver is the latest place where the mushroom movement is trying gain ground, reports NPR. Who's at the door in Denver? Magic mushrooms.Volunteers canvas for America's first...
Woodland Hills, Elizabeth Forward lead Gene Kelly nominations with 9
And the nominees are … Pittsburgh CLO has announced the nominees for the 29th annual Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater. Patterned after Broadway’s Tony Awards, the event will begin at 7:30 p.m. May 25 in the Benedum Center, 237 Seventh St., and will celebrate the...
What’s the line of succession for British throne, U.S. presidency?
With the birth of the first child for Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife, Meghan Markle, the line of succession for the British throne is one notch longer. Where does the new — as yet unnamed — royal fall? Well, he’s seven in line, right behind his father....
Police: Jeannette woman hit boy with car during school drop-off
A Jeannette woman is accused of hitting a boy with her car while dropping a child off at McKee Elementary last week and then leaving the scene without checking on him, according to police. Frances Gross, 33, is charged with accidents involving injury, reckless endangerment and two summary counts. Police...
Joe Biden parody site outranks his official page on Google
Parody is the sincerest form of flattery, right? So, Joe Biden should feel pretty good. Although, on second thought … A parody Joe Biden website — joebiden.info — is outranking the Democratic presidential candidate’s official website — joebiden.com — in current Google searches. A recent Google search of “Joe Biden”...
Police: 3 Navy corpsmen dead in double murder and suicide
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Authorities in Virginia say they’re investigating the shooting deaths of three active duty service members in what appears to be a double murder and suicide. The Virginian-Pilot reported Tuesday that the two women and one man were Navy corpsmen. The two women were stationed at Naval Medical...
Billy Porter slays Met Gala red carpet as gold-winged ‘Sun God’
Why walk the red carpet when you can be carried in on a litter by six buff, shirtless hunks in shiny gold trousers? Always pushing the boundaries of gender and genre, actor Billy Porter thus made his entrance at the 2019 Met Gala in an ancient Egypt-inspired “Sun God” ensemble:...
Sheetz launches its own craft beer brewed with coffee beansVideo
Sheetz has almost everything, so it was only a matter of time until it rolled out its own craft beer. Altoona-based Sheetz is collaborating with Rusty Rail Brewing Company of Mifflinburg to unveil the convenience store’s first ever craft beer, Project Coffee Hopz, a limited edition coffee bean IPA. The...
Man shot in leg in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood
A man was shot in the leg in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood early Tuesday, according to police. The shooting was reported just before 3:30 a.m. in the 8600 block of Bricelyn Street. Pittsburgh police officers were called to the scene for reports of a shooting. When they arrived, they found...
Missing Whitehall woman presumed dead, McKeesport handyman a suspect
A missing Whitehall woman is presumed dead and her handyman is the main suspect in the case, according to court documents related to the case. Elizabeth Wiesenfeld, 67, last spoke to her family the evening of April 29, according to Allegheny County police. Her daughter reported her missing the next...
Trump awards medal to ‘true legend’ Tiger Woods
WASHINGTON — President Trump awarded golfer Tiger Woods the nation’s highest civilian honor on Monday, describing the 43-year-old as a “true legend” who transformed golf and then fought through years of injury to return to the sport’s summit. Trump awarded Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He’s the fourth...
Possible measles exposure at 3 more Pa. locations, including National Aviary, Squirrel Hill
Visitors and workers at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh’s North Side, a Squirrel Hill restaurant and an Avalon thrift shop may have been exposed to measles last month, health officials said Monday. The Allegheny County Health Department confirmed last week four new cases of measles, all from members of the...
Hundreds of former federal prosecutors: Trump would’ve been charged if not presidentVideo
More than 500 former federal prosecutors who worked in Republican and Democratic administrations have signed on to a statement asserting special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings would have produced obstruction charges against President Trump — if not for the office he held. The statement — signed by myriad former career government...
