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Officials: W.Va. woman caught with loaded handgun at Pittsburgh airport
Transportation Security Administration officers say a West Virginia woman tried to get on a plane at the Pittsburgh International Airport with a loaded handgun Monday. The Arthurdale woman was stopped at the checkpoint when TSA officers found a loaded handgun in her carry-on bag. The green camouflage-designed handgun was loaded...
Video caught woman dumping 7 puppies behind California storeVideo
COACHELLA, Calif. — Authorities are trying to identify a woman captured by security cameras tossing seven newborn puppies into a dumpster in Southern California. The Riverside County Department of Animal Services released surveillance video of the woman pulling up to a dumpster behind an auto parts store in Coachella Thursday...
Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate, payrolls set new records
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate dropped in March to the lowest rate on record, as payrolls hit a new record. The state Department of Labor and Industry said Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate dropped by one-tenth of a percentage point to 3.9%. Pennsylvania’s rate had twice previously hit 4% since 1976, which...
Official: Sri Lanka failed to heed warnings of attacks
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan officials failed to heed warnings from intelligence agencies about the threat of an attack by a domestic radical Muslim group that officials blame for Easter Sunday bombings which killed more than 200 people, the country’s health minister said Monday. The coordinated bombings that ripped...
Police: Fire at Sheldon Park in Harrison caused $500K in damageVideo
Kate Keener has lived in public housing in Harrison for about 10 years, but a fast-moving fire Monday morning forced Keener, her daughter and two pets to get out in a hurry. The two were among at least four people who had to evacuate a four-unit building in the Allegheny...
Vietnam vets appreciate Heinz History Center artifacts of war, memories
John Clark had been in Vietnam for about three weeks when, while out on patrol, he stepped on a metal stake that went through the side of his foot. “It looks like a big nail, maybe 8 inches long, with a fish hook at the end, so if you step...
4 killed in Beaver County crashVideo
Four people were killed and one was injured in a two-vehicle crash in Beaver County, according to Harmony Police. The crash on Route 65 in Baden near the intersection with Merchant Street happened just before 11 p.m. Sunday. One of the vehicles, a Jeep, was driving the wrong way in...
Pittsburgh preserving historic tunnel mosaic under Bigelow Boulevard
A historic mosaic inside a Downtown Pittsburgh pedestrian tunnel is more than halfway gone. And an Ohio art conservator tasked with meticulously removing the work of art before the tunnel is demolished expects to have the job completed by next week. Two employees of McKay Lodge Fine Arts Conservation Laboratory...
Farmer’s market returning to downtown Greensburg
The farmers market is coming back to downtown Greensburg. “We always wanted to go back to Greensburg,” said Paul Sarver, head of the Central Westmoreland Farmer’s Market Association. “The downtown, the merchants and the customers always appreciated us.” For the last few summers, the market has been held twice a...
Business projects booming on Greensburg’s South Pennsylvania Avenue
Mary Wilmes can look out the window of Penelope’s, her gift shop in downtown Greensburg, and see a construction crew hard at work across the street. Another is working a few doors down, and two more projects are happening about a block away. “It hasn’t been this interesting in town...
Demolition starts for mini casino in Hempfield, township says
Demolition for the new mini casino has started inside the former Bon-Ton store at Westmoreland Mall, according to Patrick Karnash, Hempfield’s planning coordinator. Plans for the proposed $131 million casino show about 750 slot machines and 30 table games for the 100,000-square-foot space. Stadium Casino LLC purchased a $40.1 million...
Trib Total Media earns Best Overall Daily Newspaper award
Trib Total Media has received several top awards from the Keystone State Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, including being named Best Overall Daily Newspaper across all circulation categories. The award was announced as part of the group’s annual “Best in Journalism Contest,” which draws entries from throughout Pennsylvania...
Pittsburgh police: Man in critical condition after being shot in Allentown
A man was taken to a hospital in critical condition after he was shot in the back Sunday in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood. Pittsburgh police and paramedics responded to reports of a man shot at 4:10 p.m. in the 200 block of Allen Street. When they arrived, officers found the man...
‘Panic mode’: Witness describes aftermath of Sri Lanka bombsVideo
Bhanuka Harischandra was running a little late for his meeting Sunday. As a car carrying him pulled into the back entrance of the luxury Shangri-La Hotel in Sri Lanka’s capital of Colombo, he realized something was wrong. People were telling him not to come in, it wasn’t safe. Still, the...
Adam Schiff says Democrats will debate impeachment amid left pressureVideo
WASHINGTON — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that the Democrats will discuss whether to begin impeachment hearings of President Trump after progressives ratcheted up the pressure on a reluctant party leadership. “We’re going to have a caucus about this over the next couple weeks to try to...
2 people injured in multi-vehicle crash on Parkway East
Two people were hurt in a multi-vehicle crash that closed a portion of the Parkway East on Sunday afternoon, according to an Allegheny County 911 dispatcher. The crash occurred just after 1:20 p.m. on I-376 eastbound between the I-279 North and 71A - Grant St. exits, according to 511PA Pittsburgh....
Pennsylvania eyes retirement-savings plan for its portfolio
HARRISBURG — With Pennsylvania facing a wave of retirees leaving the workforce with no savings, top state officials are working to head off the financial blow. A task force organized by Treasurer Joe Torsella has spurred an effort that now has key state lawmakers writing legislation to create a potentially...
1 person injured in crash on Route 136 in Hempfield, officials say
One person was reported injured in a crash along Route 136 in Hempfield on Sunday morning, according to authorities. Fort Allen Volunteer Fire Department Chief Neil Kush said one person was extricated from a car by firefighters following the crash at about 8:24 a.m. along the two-lane highway. The patient...
Trump attends Easter service following slew of tweets
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Easter morning offered condolences to the people of Sri Lanka, continued his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and attended service at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea near his Florida estate. The president tweeted happy Easter to his many followers earlier in...
Ohio man on beer fast drops 44 pounds during Lent
The Ohio man that decided to sustain himself on just beer for Lent lost 44 lbs and is easing himself back into eating solids. Del Hall of Cincinnati, who is director of sales at Fifty West Brewing, told the Cincinnati Enquirer this week that he lost over 40 lbs and...
Landslide closes portion of Squaw Run Road in Fox ChapelVideo
A portion of a Squaw Run Road in Fox Chapel is closed indefinitely after a landslide Saturday evening. Fox Chapel police sent out a Nixle alert warning drivers Squaw Run Road will be closed between Hunt Road and Squaw Run Road East until the landslide can be cleaned up. The...
Dozens attend annual sunrise Easter service at Allegheny ObservatoryVideo
Dozens of people braved the rain and cold weather Sunday morning to attend the annual sunrise Easter service on Pittsburgh’s North Side, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV reported. This is the 85th year for the interdenominational event held at Allegheny Observatory in Riverview Park. The service started at 6:30 a.m. with...
2 reported injured when car flips over in GarfieldVideo
Two people were reportedly injured Saturday night in the Garfield section of Pittsburgh when a man flipped his car over as he was trying to park, according to Tribune-Review news partner, WPXI. The accident occurred about 8 p.m. along Kincaid Street. Police at the scene told WPXI an elderly man...
Pope denounces ‘cruel violence’ of Sri Lanka Easter attack
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis denounced the “cruel violence” of the Easter Sunday slaughter of Christians and foreigners in Sri Lanka as he celebrated the most joyful moment on the Christian liturgical calendar by lamenting the bloodshed and political violence afflicting many parts of the world. Francis skipped his homily...
Easter Sunday bomb blasts kill more than 200 in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in eight bomb blasts that rocked churches and luxury hotels in or near Sri Lanka’s capital on Easter Sunday — the deadliest violence the South Asian island country has seen since a bloody civil war ended...
