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Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor in Strip District is for sale
Wanna buy an ice cream shop? Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor in the Strip District is for sale for $1.2 million. “Everything is laid out perfectly for the next owner,” owner Jacob Hanchar said on Monday. “We’ve put so much into Klavon’s that it’s like the perfect softball pitch right down...
Police: Shooting outside Monroeville Olive Garden sparked by robbery
Monroeville police on Monday charged a Turtle Creek man as a suspect in a robbery-turned-shooting outside an Olive Garden restaurant. Accorie Wilder-Mack, 22, is charged with assault, robbery, conspiracy, carrying a firearm without a license and several misdemeanors in connection with the March 12 shooting. A criminal complaint filed in...
Police: Pittsburgh man set fire to woman’s home after she left to get PFA
Authorities filed charges against a Pittsburgh man who they said set fire to a woman’s home last week, killing two cats, when she left with a friend to get a protection from abuse order against him. A woman called police to her Moore Street home in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood shortly...
Shaler woman charged in connection with Capitol riot
Federal authorities filed charges Monday against a Shaler woman who they said illegally entered the U.S. Capitol during last year’s Jan. 6 riot. Melanie M. Archer, 42, faces counts of disorderly conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; entering and remaining in a restricted building; and...
Doctors finding hurdles to using pills to treat covid-19
High-risk covid-19 patients now have new treatments they can take at home to stay out of the hospital — if doctors get the pills to them fast enough. Health systems around the country are rushing out same-day prescription deliveries. Some clinics have started testing and treating patients in one visit,...
Pittsburgh to resume street sweeping with related parking enforcement after 2 years
Pittsburgh is planning to resume street sweeping with related parking enforcement in April, after a two-year enforcement hiatus during the covid-19 pandemic. The street sweeping and related parking enforcement will begin on April 1 and continue through Nov. 30. For the past two years, the city has not implemented parking...
Picture perfect: Movie star Tom Hanks takes photo with bride and her wedding party
In true Mister Rogers’ fashion, Tom Hanks continues to do kind things. Hanks, who embraced the role of Fred Rogers in the film “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” hasn’t stopped being like the late Pittsburgh icon. Last week, he took time out from shooting his latest film to wave...
Federal prosecutors seek jail time for Ross woman involved in Capitol riot
Federal prosecutors argue that a Ross woman’s lack of remorse and her purposeful lies to the FBI about her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol warrant 14 days of incarceration followed by three years of probation. But Jennifer Heinl’s defense attorney said his client has...
Man jailed after police say he tossed drugs out of window during high-speed chase that ended in East Huntingdon
State troopers recovered crack cocaine, suspected heroin and marijuana that they said a driver tossed along Route 119 during a high-speed chase in Westmoreland County early Sunday, according to court papers. The driver — Jonah K. Reid, 30, of East Pittsburgh — was apprehended in East Huntingdon, police said. Troopers...
Hempfield man accused of assaulting Lyft driver after ride home from gentlemen’s club
A Hempfield man who got a ride home from a gentlemen’s club during the weekend is accused of assaulting his Lyft driver and stealing an electronic device from the vehicle, according to court papers. Carl L. Beltz, 42, is charged with robbery, aggravated assault, resisting arrest, escape and related offenses....
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson vows to defend the Constitution and equal justice under lawVideo
WASHINGTON — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s historic nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, promised Monday that if confirmed, she would seek to make the words “equal justice under law” a reality for all Americans. She called herself an independent jurist who follows the law and pledged to...
Man accused of leading police on 5-mile chase on Parkway East, crashing into another vehicle
A Jeannette man is free on his own recognizance after state police said he led them on a chase through Monroeville before crashing in Wilkinsburg. Brett R. Birch, 19, is charged with fleeing from police, failure to stop and several other traffic violations. Troopers said they were checking drivers’ speed...
2 Pennsylvania troopers, man killed; police open DUI probeVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers and a civilian were killed in a car crash on I-95 early Monday morning in what law enforcement officials described as a possible DUI incident. Around 12:45 a.m., troopers responded to calls about a man walking in a southbound traffic lane near Lincoln...
As Mariupol hangs on, the extent of the horror not yet knownVideo
LVIV, Ukraine — As Mariupol’s defenders held out Monday against Russian demands that they surrender, the number of bodies in the rubble of the bombarded and encircled Ukrainian city remained shrouded in uncertainty, the full extent of the horror not yet known. With communications crippled, movement restricted and many residents...
Police use license plate readers, video to link suspect to 4 robberies, 2 shootings
Detectives investigating four violent robberies over nine days were able to link them together using license plate readers, video surveillance and matching shell casings collected from the scenes. All of that evidence led to the arrest Saturday of a Pittsburgh man, now charged with robbery, aggravated assault, attempted homicide and...
Derry Township woman killed in 2-vehicle crash
A Derry Township woman was killed Sunday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash, according to the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office. Jennifer L. Krinock, 36, was driving a 2003 Acura RSX headed west on Industrial Boulevard in Derry Township just before 3 p.m. when a Toyota Camry driven by Marilyn Kondrich, 56,...
Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with infection, high court saysVideo
WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized because of an infection, the Supreme Court said Sunday. Thomas, 73, has been at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., since Friday after experiencing “flu-like symptoms,” the court said in a statement. The court offered no explanation for why it waited two...
‘No city anymore’: Mariupol survivors take train to safetyVideo
LVIV, Ukraine — The heat on the train was as thick as the anxiety. Ukrainian survivors of one of the most brutal sieges in modern history were in the final minutes of their ride to relative safety. Some carried only what they had at hand when they seized the chance...
Democratic Senate candidates square off in political forum at CMU
Democratic candidates for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat on Sunday agreed on several important party platform items but disagreed when it came to big tech companies and the Supreme Court. Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, Jenkintown Borough Council member Alex Khalil and U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb...
U.S. covid infections likely to rise again, Dr. Anthony Fauci saysVideo
WASHINGTON — A likely rise in U.S. covid-19 cases probably won’t amount to a full-scale surge or prompt a renewal of widespread restrictions, one of President Joe Biden’s top advisers said. “The bottom line is we likely will see an uptick in cases, as we’ve seen in the European countries,...
Judge denies motion to move trial in Tree of Life shooting case
A federal judge on Friday denied a request to move the trial of the man charged with killing 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue in 2018. Defense attorneys for Robert Bowers filed a nearly 3,900 page change-of venue motion in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh in January, alleging that...
Taco Bell opens in Allegheny Township
Allegheny Township has a Taco Bell. The restaurant at 500 Hyde Park Road in Allegheny Plaza welcomed customers during a drive-thru-only soft opening Saturday and Sunday. Inside dining opens Monday. Customers lined up in their cars in the drive-thru portion of the eatery both days, awaiting the 11 a.m. opening....
U.S. admiral says China fully militarized isles
OVER THE SOUTH CHINA SEA — China has fully militarized at least three of several islands it built in the disputed South China Sea, arming them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming equipment and fighter jets in an increasingly aggressive move that threatens all nations operating nearby,...
Amid new bombings, Ukraine now seen as a war of attrition
LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that Russia’s military bombed an art school sheltering about 400 people in Mariupol, and tearful evacuees from the devastated port city described how “battles took place over every street,” weeks into the siege. The fall of Mariupol would allow Russian forces in southern...
Man dead in South Side shooting
A man was fatally shot in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood late Saturday, according to police. Officers were called to Freysburg Street around 10:30 p.m. and found the man with gunshot wounds to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene in a residential area a few blocks back from...
