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Steelers swing another QB trade, acquire Justin Fields from Bears for 2025 draft pick
Russell Wilson no longer is the only quarterback on the Pittsburgh Steelers roster. One day after the Steelers traded two-year starter Kenny Pickett to the Philadelphia Eagles, the Steelers found a replacement in Justin Fields. The Steelers traded a sixth-round draft pick in 2025 in exchange for the multi-dimensional Fields....
Duquesne tops St. Bonaventure in Atlantic 10 semifinals, 1 win from 1st NCAA berth in 47 years
It was Dae Dae’s day. Riding the hot shooting of Dae Dae Grant, Duquesne surged Saturday into its first Atlantic 10 Tournament championship game appearance in 15 years. The Dukes are one win away from reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 47 years. “We told y’all, ‘Hop...
Pittsburgh Brewing hosts St. Patrick’s Day celebration
More than 2,000 people attended the St. Patrick’s Day festivities at the Iron City brewery in East Deer on Saturday, adding to a growing number of events and crowds taking advantage of the massive 150,000-square-foot Pittsburgh Brewing Co. complex. Saturday’s event, dubbed the Irish City Celebration, ran from morning through...
Sea of green: Thousands line the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade
Pittsburgh painted the town green on Saturday. From leprechauns and bagpipers, to jig dancers and flags waving of orange, green and white, the city celebrated its annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. Spectators started arriving by 6 a.m. with parade participants lining up by 6:30 a.m. It’s a special day, Dee...
Russell Wilson entrusted to improve Steelers QB play, return franchise to postseason success
Two statements made by Art Rooney II stood out among the others when the Pittsburgh Steelers president met with reporters in January two weeks after the franchise endured a fifth consecutive playoff loss dating to the 2016 postseason. The first had to do with that losing skid, the organization’s longest...
Pittsburgh police: 3-year-old girl hit by police motorcycle after St. Patrick’s Day parade
A 3-year-old girl was reported in stable condition at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh after being hit by a police officer’s motorcycle during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety report. The girl suffered bruises, but was “alert and oriented” when...
Police: Suspect is barricaded in New Jersey home after killing 3 people in Philadelphia suburb
LEVITTOWN, Pa. — A suspect has barricaded himself in a home in New Jersey after allegedly killing three people in a shooting in suburban Philadelphia on Saturday, authorities said. The morning shooting in Falls Township in eastern Pennsylvania forced the cancellation of a St. Patrick’s Day parade and shut down...
Washington County woman killed in I-70 crash in Rostraver
A 25-year-old Washington County woman was killed Saturday morning in a two-vehicle crash along Interstate-70 in Rostraver, the Westmoreland County coroner said. The victim, Tori L. Demo of Allenport, was fatally injured about a mile west of the Route 51 exit when her eastbound car was truck from behind by...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Kenny Pickett failed and got what he deserved
Kenny Pickett failed. That’s his story. He got lied to by Mike Tomlin, but that’s not an exclusive club. Pickett was well-served by a previous Tomlin fib, one that fleeced Mitch Trubisky. In 2022, Tomlin told Trubisky he’d be the starting quarterback at least through Week 9, the Pittsburgh Steelers’...
From clovers to some unexpected history, all you need to know about St. Patrick’s Day
NEW YORK (AP) — If it’s March, and it’s green, it must be St. Patrick’s Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage. And nowhere is that more so than in the United States, where parades take place in cities around the...
Bryan Adams gives a performance ‘straight from the heart’ at PPG Paints Arena
Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams remembers the first time he ever played in Pittsburgh. “The first time I ever played in America properly, I opened for The Kinks here,” he recounted to the audience during his show Friday night at PPG Paints Arena. “I started when I was 15 but...
Police say Bloomfield man posed as cop in assault of woman
A Bloomfield man is accused of posing as a police officer as a way of making a woman feel safe with him before he allegedly assaulted her inside his vehicle, Pittsburgh police said. The suspect, Andrew Ranallo, 31, met the woman for the first time at a restaurant in the...
He killed his wife, she killed her father. Now they want to live together.
On Feb. 15, Christina Nicassio met with her attorney, a prosecutor and a judge for a status conference like they had dozens of times before to discuss her ongoing case in the killing of her father seven years ago while in the grips of mental illness. The plan was for...
Husband of slain pregnant Amish woman: Young children told him of killing
MEADVILLE — The husband of a pregnant Amish woman killed inside her rural Pennsylvania home late last month testified Friday that his two young children told him about the crime when he got back from looking at potential roofing jobs. “I didn’t really believe it,” Andy Byler said at a...
Steelers fans shocked, pleasantly surprised by Kenny Pickett trade
As Ray Huff sat down with his family Friday at Live Casino Pittsburgh’s Sports & Social restaurant in Hempfield, he was shocked to learn that the Steelers traded quarterback Kenny Pickett to the Philadelphia Eagles. Following his senior season at Pitt, Pickett was drafted in 2022 by the Steelers in...
Tim Benz: Kenny Pickett trade shows Steelers’ trust in Russell Wilson … and why we should never trust what they say
On Feb. 29, Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Omar Khan said he has “full faith” in Kenny Pickett. Steelers GM Omar Khan says he has "full faith" in Kenny Pickett pic.twitter.com/p3Ooefacoi— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) February 29, 2024 Now it’s March 15, and last year’s starting quarterback is a Philadelphia Eagle. If...
From a hero’s welcome to a one-way ticket out of town, Kenny Pickett era brief for Steelers
The satisfaction and pride were palpable on the faces of both Kenny Pickett and Mike Tomlin the afternoon of April 29, 2022. The duo was standing off to the far left of Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II, who was behind a podium at the front of a large room...
Home sellers cut list prices as spring buying season starts with higher mortgage rates
LOS ANGELES — More homeowners eager to sell their home are lowering their initial asking price in a bid to entice prospective buyers as the spring homebuying season gets going. Some 14.6% of U.S. homes listed for sale last month had their price lowered, according to Realtor.com. That’s up from...
‘You’re talking to the victim here’: 18,500 missing Jagr bobbleheads plunged Penguins into crisis mode
On Tuesday, two days before a giveaway of Jaromir Jagr bobbleheads, the Pittsburgh Penguins learned that the toys had been stolen, plunging the front office into a whirlwind of activity. The 18,500 tiny likenesses of No. 68, complete with hand raised in a salute, had disappeared after being shipped by...
Westmoreland prison warden gets $11,000 raise as county boosts salaries of some employees
Westmoreland County’s new warden, on the job for less than a month, has been given an $11,000 raise. Commissioners and Controller Jeffrey Balzer, acting as the county’s salary board this week, approved raises for a series of department heads and supervisors in what they said was an effort to retain...
‘This is my dream come true,’ says Pitt med student, a Fox Chapel native, on Match Day
Medical student Rachel Kann said she couldn’t be happier to find out she’ll be staying in Pittsburgh. “This is my dream come true. … I’m just so grateful to have gotten the chance to stay in this amazing city for seven more years and practice here,” Kann said. A Fox...
Two ex-Pittsburghers plead guilty to ‘Rent-A-Vet’ fraud scheme
Two former Pittsburgh men have pleaded guilty in federal court for claiming their companies were owned by disabled veterans so they could obtain special government contracts for their construction businesses. Edward Kessler, 68, of Myrtle Beach, entered his plea Wednesday before U.S. District Judge William S. Stickman IV. Edward DiGorio...
Steelers trade quarterback Kenny Pickett to Eagles
On the day the Pittsburgh Steelers introduced new quarterback Russell Wilson, they traded the only other one on their roster. Kenny Pickett, the former first-round pick from Pitt whose starting status was in question after Wilson’s signing, was sent to the Philadelphia Eagles, a league source confirmed to TribLive, ending...
FAFSA data finally starts flowing to colleges to develop financial aid offers to students
Some colleges and universities are beginning to receive long-delayed information they need from the U.S. Department of Education to develop financial aid offers to college-bound students. Word that data is flowing from the troubled rollout of the revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid form (FAFSA) is welcome news. But...
Xylazine’s role in Westmoreland overdoses continues to surge, coroner’s report shows
A veterinary sedative that can’t be counteracted with anti-opioid medication contributed to 42% more deaths in 2023 than the year before, continuing a troubling trend even as Westmoreland County’s overall overdose figures decline. Accidental drug overdose deaths continued to drop in 2023, but the number of deaths caused by xylazine...
