Bob Bauder stories, Page 26
Pittsburgh salt truck driver wins job back after he was fired for failing to report crash
A Pittsburgh Department of Public Works salt truck driver who was fired last month after failing to report a crash involving three parked cars has won a reprieve. The Mayor’s Office said Friday that the driver won his job back through a union grievance procedure. City officials have not released...
Steelers to honor the late Dan Rooney during Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day Parade
The Steelers will honor the late Dan Rooney on the 10th anniversary of his appointment as U.S. ambassador to Ireland during Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pittsburgh. Rooney, a lifelong North Side resident who died in 2017, served as Irish ambassador from 2009 through 2012. Rooney family members, Steelers...
UPMC announces start of construction for $400M vision and rehabilitation facilityVideo
UPMC broke ground Thursday on its new $400 million vision and rehabilitation facility at Mercy Hospital. UPMC officials and doctors and local dignitaries gathered at Mercy in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood to celebrate the nine-story tower with views of the city skyline and Monongahela River. The project scheduled for completion in...
Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto meets with Dalai Lama during vacation in India
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has met with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the mayor’s office said Thursday. The meeting happened Wednesday in Dharamshala, India during Peduto’s week-long trip to India. Peduto, Bill Strickland Jr., founder of the Manchester Craftsman’s Guild and the Manchester Bidwell Corp.; Scott Lammie, senior vice...
Pittsburgh Council amends proposed firearms ordinances
Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday attached 2,200 pages of academic data on gun violence to proposed legislation that would ban certain firearms, ammunition and accessories from within city limits. Council members said the information, including peer reviewed academic studies and Congressional testimony, would help them draft amendments for the gun...
Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey gives $7,500 to Pittsburgh for police horse
Pittsburgh’s newest police horse is a big one. But that makes sense, considering it joined the department as a gift from Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey. Nimbus stands 17.3 hands high with a long neck and large head. Hands are a measurement for horses; a hand is four inches. He weighs...
Detroit prosecutor: No decision this week on charges against Chelsa Wagner
Detroit officials are not expected to make a decision this week on possible assault charges against Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner, an official said. Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Maria Miller said her office is continuing to review the Detroit Police Department’s request that Wagner be charged with assaulting a police...
Pittsburgh Council to amend gun legislation Wednesday, but no vote expected
Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday will amend - but not vote on - controversial legislation that would ban certain firearms and accessories from within city limits, a sponsor of the bills said Wednesday. Councilman Corey O’Connor of Swisshelm Park said council would amend the proposed legislation to add information, including...
Rosfeld trial will bring traffic restrictions to Downtown Pittsburgh streets
Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich said traffic will be restricted on streets around the perimeter of the Allegheny County Courthouse during the trial of former police officer Michael Rosfeld starting next week. Hissrich said restrictions will be in place only during trial sessions, which are expected to run from...
Pittsburgh bans open containers of alcohol in Market Square on St. Patrick’s Day
For years, Pittsburgh allowed St. Patrick’s Day revelers to openly drink alcohol in Market Square. No longer. The city Tuesday announced street closures and other preparations — including the banning of open containers of alcohol in Market Square — for Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade and celebration. Public Safety Director...
Leon Ford ends campaign for Pittsburgh City Council seat
Leon Ford on Tuesday ended his campaign for a Pittsburgh City Council seat representing part of the East End. Ford, 26, an activist who was paralyzed after being shot by Pittsburgh police in 2012, said in an email that he decided “after several weeks of reflection” to drop out of...
Allegheny County Democrats reject Pittsburgh councilwoman’s endorsement bid
Allegheny County Democrats rejected an incumbent Pittsburgh city councilwoman’s bid for an endorsement on Sunday while pledging support to 22 other primary candidates. The Democratic Committee passed over Councilwoman Deb Gross of Highland Park, who is seeking a second term, and endorsed political newcomer Deirdre Kane of Stanton Heights for...
Pittsburgh community group sues Mayor Bill Peduto, city department director
A Pittsburgh community group is suing Mayor Bill Peduto and a city department director, alleging they have refused to enforce landscaping requirements at three North Side businesses. East Allegheny Community Council last week filed a lawsuit with the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas naming Peduto and Maura Kennedy, director...
Open Streets Pittsburgh 2019 schedule released
Bike Pittsburgh is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its popular OpenStreetsPGH program this summer with three events planned for the last weekends of May, June and July. Sponsored by UPMC Health Plan, the free events close down city streets so people can bike, walk and run safely without worrying about...
PWSA erroneously warns customers their water will be shut off
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority issued a public apology for automatic calls Monday morning to customers warning that their water would be shut off within 72 hours because they hadn’t paid bills. PWSA spokesman Will Pickering said the authority has contacted the company that generates its robocalls to find...
Pittsburgh recognized as starting point for Lewis and Clark expedition
The federal government has recognized Pittsburgh as the starting point for the Lewis and Clark expedition. It was America’s first great effort to explore and chart the western United States and find a navigable water route across the continent to improve and increase commerce. The trip covered about 8,000 miles...
Penguins announce new development team, start of construction at Civic Arena site
The Penguins on Friday announced a new team for redevelopment of the former Civic Arena site in Pittsburgh’s Hill District and that the first phases of construction would begin by year’s end. Penguins President and CEO David Morehouse said in a statement that the Buccini/Pollin Group would serve as master...
Detroit police want charges against Chelsa Wagner, prosecutor saysVideo
Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner and her husband both appeared drunk as they interacted with police inside a Detroit hotel, the city’s police chief said Friday. Chief James Craig, during a press conference that was streamed live on Facebook, said video footage of a confrontation in the Weston Book Cadillac...
Pittsburgh Councilwoman Darlene Harris again defies city campaign finance rules
Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Darlene Harris is once again flouting Pittsburgh’s campaign finance ordinance, contending the law is illegal, unconstitutional and unenforceable. Harris, a Democrat running for re-election this year, informed the Pittsburgh Ethics Hearing Board by letter on March 1 that she would not comply with the ordinance requiring candidates...
Peduto endorses North Side man for Pittsburgh City Council seat
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Thursday publicly endorsed a City Council candidate running against his longtime political rival Darlene Harris. Peduto issued a statement endorsing Bobby Wilson, 36, of the North Side’s Spring Hill neighborhood, calling him a “dynamic, qualified community leader.” This is Wilson’s third attempt to unseat Harris,...
Chelsa Wagner jailed in Detroit after police altercation, attorney says
Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner spent Tuesday night in a Detroit jail after an altercation with police in a hotel where she and her husband were staying during a belated Valentine’s Day celebration, her attorney said. Attorney Heather Heidelbaugh said Thursday that Wagner, 42, of Point Breeze has not been...
Potholes top Pittsburgh’s ‘Most Wanted’ list
Pittsburgh has classified potholes as public enemy No. 1. The city’s 311 Response Center created a pothole wanted poster on Wednesday to draw complaints from residents about the annual western Pennsylvania street menace. WANTED: Suspect is known as POTHOLE with known aliases such as crater & rut. If seen avoid...
Pittsburgh planning ‘artistic intersection’ in Shadyside to commemorate gay pride
Pittsburgh is looking to remake the intersection of Ellsworth and Maryland avenues in Shadyside with an artistic design commemorating the neighborhood’s history of gay activism and the 50th anniversary of riots in New York City that touched off the modern LGBT rights movement in the United States. The Public Art...
PWSA waives hearing on 161 criminal charges over replacing lead lines
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority waived a preliminary hearing Wednesday on charges that it violated Pennsylvania’s Safe Drinking Water Act during a lead line replacement program in 2016 and 2017. PWSA faces 161 criminal counts and fines ranging from $201,250 to $2 million. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office...
Pittsburgh offering free parking, shuttles to South Side on St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day revelers don’t have to worry about parking and transportation to bars and restaurants on Pittsburgh’s South Side. The city is offering free parking at a lot on Second Avenue in Downtown and free continuous-loop shuttle service to Carson Street, said Councilman Bruce Kraus, who represents the neighborhood....
