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Wall Street rallies for best week since June on rate hopes
NEW YORK — Wall Street piled more gains Friday onto its mammoth rally from a day earlier to close out its best week since the summer. The S&P 500 rose 0.9% a day after soaring 5.5% for its best day in more than two years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
Twitter Blue signups unavailable after raft of fake accounts
Twitter’s relaunched premium service — which grants blue-check “verification” labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month — was unavailable Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts it itself had approved. It’s the latest whiplash-inducing change to the service where uncertainty has...
British Airways to add flights between Pittsburgh and London Heathrow
Three years after launching service between Pittsburgh International Airport and London’s Heathrow Airport, British Airways is upping its investment in Pittsburgh by adding two more weekly flights between the cities starting in the spring. The Allegheny County Airport Authority said in a news release that the added service is a...
Highlands Elementary students mark Veterans Day by honoring family members who served
Desert Storm veteran Frank Banks shared a special breakfast Friday morning with fellow serviceman Robert Hayden and his nephews, Grayson and Ezra Killian, at Highlands Elementary School. “I love being here with the kids,” said Hayden, an Air Force veteran and Harrison resident. “It’s a nice event all-around.” The pancake...
Upper St. Clair man charged in connection with $8M insider trading scheme
The chief information officer for the pharmaceutical company formerly known as Mylan was charged Thursday in connection with an $8 million insider trading scheme. Ramkumar Rayapureddy, 54, of Upper St. Clair, faces parallel actions filed by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice. A Viatris...
About 680 Pittsburgh customers remain without power
About 680 Duquesne Light customers in the Pittsburgh area were without power around 2 p.m. Friday. Over 2,200 customers had been without power earlier Friday afternoon. Impacted neighborhoods included Bloomfield, East Liberty, Garfield, Green Tree, McKeesport, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, Stanton Heights, Westwood and Wilkins. The utility company expects all service...
Pennsylvania weighs the extra revenue as another neighbor approves marijuana
While Pennsylvania lawmakers debate whether to legalize recreational marijuana, its neighbors have started to greenlight it. The midterm elections have seen Democratic gains on the state and federal level in the commonwealth, and now Maryland voters have approved cannabis legalization. Maryland becomes the third border state to legalize it, following...
Turnpike reopens to traffic after 11 people injured in multi-vehicle crash
A stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike reopened to traffic after being shut down because of a multi-vehicle crash in which 11 people were injured. The crash between the Cranberry and Beaver Valley exits was reported shortly before 10 a.m., according to a Beaver County 911 supervisor. The 11 people who...
Mark Madden: More than anything, Steelers need to see improvement from Kenny Pickett
The Pittsburgh Steelers are coming off a bye week. New Orleans is coming off a short week. The Steelers are 2-6. The Saints are approximately just as rotten at 3-6. The host Steelers are nonetheless 1½-point underdogs. There isn’t a lot of faith in the Steelers. But if the Steelers...
Taylor Swift adds 2nd show to Pittsburgh 2023 tour stop
Taylor Swift’s stop in Pittsburgh in June just got twice as nice. On Friday, the singer-songwriter announced 17 additional shows to her latest tour — and one of them will be a second show on her upcoming Pittsburgh stop. Swift’s “Eras Tour” will now be at Acrisure Stadium on June...
Westmoreland County court program helps struggling veterans turn their lives around
Gary Manges knew he was in trouble after he returned home from serving oversees as a Marine. “I knew I needed help, but I didn’t realize how bad I really was. Drugs and alcohol wasn’t my thing. It was rage and depression. Looking back, I didn’t realize I had all...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Nov. 11-13
This weekend is a great time to celebrate movies, music, dance, cultural heritage and chocolate in Pittsburgh. Film festival The Three Rivers Film Festival continues through Nov. 16, featuring 18 independent feature films not showing elsewhere. Films are screening at the Harris Theater downtown and The Tull Family Theater in...
Police say 2 women stole nearly $23K of perfume from Ross Park Mall Nordstrom
Two women face charges after Ross police say they stole nearly $23,000 of perfume from the Nordstrom in Ross Park Mall. Police allege Stephanie Hopkins of Pittsburgh and De Siree Riley of McKees Rocks took 76 bottles of perfume from the department store on Monday and Thursday. A store manager...
5 things to watch in Week 11: Thomas Jefferson’s Bill Cherpak could be 4th WPIAL coach to 300 wins
Twenty-seven years ago, Thomas Jefferson started the 1995 football season with a 15-0 win over Belle Vernon behind a first-year head coach named Bill Cherpak. That was win No. 1. Now, almost three decades later, Cherpak could celebrate a much bigger milestone this week that would put him in elite...
Portion of Brookline Memorial Park may be converted into urban farm
An empty field in Brookline Memorial Park could be converted into an urban farm, which would produce food for city residents and local food banks. City Councilman Anthony Coghill said the site, located within the roughly 20-acre park in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood, was the last active farm in Pittsburgh. He’d...
Man fatally stabbed in Knoxville home invasion identified; woman suffers facial injuries
Officials have identified a Pittsburgh man found stabbed to death Thursday afternoon inside a home in the city’s Knoxville neighborhood. The victim, who died at the scene, was 52-year-old Victor Sawyer, according to a report from the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Pittsburgh police said they also found a woman...
Federal judge in Texas strikes down Biden loan-forgiveness plan
FORT WORTH, Texas — A U.S. judge in Texas on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness — a program that was already on hold as a federal appeals court in St. Louis considers a separate lawsuit...
6 hurt in North Huntingdon crash; Route 30 reopens at Colonial Manor
Six people were injured and transported to hospitals as a result of a two-vehicle crash Thursday night along Route 30 in North Huntingdon. It closed a section of Route 30 for more than two hours, according to township police and Tribune-Review news partner WPXI said. The crash occurred at about...
Retired Tarentum serviceman gets free roof in time for Veterans Day
Kenneth Snead Sr.’s mom always told him believing is half the battle. Snead recalled her words Thursday while watching contractors install a free roof on his West Eighth Avenue home in Tarentum. “I am so grateful, but I just knew it was gonna happen,” said Snead, 62, an Army veteran....
Close races put Pennsylvania House majority control in limbo
HARRISBURG — Partisan control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives remained up in the air Thursday, two days after 101 Democrats and 100 Republicans were elected, leaving two races in swing districts still unresolved. Both of the seats are held by Republicans in the General Assembly session that ends later...
Mastriano yet to concede Pa. governor’s race 2 days after Shapiro declared winner
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Republican Doug Mastriano had yet to concede Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial election nearly two days after it was called for Democrat...
Elon Musk ends remote work at Twitter, warns of troubles aheadVideo
Elon Musk has emailed Twitter employees, most working remotely, ordering them to return to the office immediately for at least 40 hours a week and warning of “difficult times ahead.” A pair of Wednesday night missives seen by The Associated Press marked Musk’s first companywide message to employees who survived...
McCandless man gets 2 to 4 years in deadly DUI crash
The grandmother of a woman killed by a drunk driver and the man convicted of killing her were both seeking the same thing in an Allegheny County courtroom Thursday. Dorothy Guy, whose 19-year-old granddaughter, Egypt White, was killed two years ago, wanted mercy for the man responsible, Evan Hilliard, now...
Now that the late Tony DeLuca has been re-elected, what happens next?
It was a possibility that tantalized political pundits for the four weeks leading up to the November general election. When state Rep. Tony DeLuca, a Democrat, died on Oct. 9 at the age of 85, after a brief battle with lymphoma, his name remained on the ballot because it was...
Wall Street surges, Dow up 1,200 points on cooling inflation
NEW YORK — Wall Street surged to its best day since April 2020 as markets cheered a government report that inflation cooled more than expected last month. The S&P 500 jumped 5.5% Thursday and the Dow rose nearly 1,200 points as traders took the data as a sign the worst...
