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Giant Eagle to allow fully vaccinated customers, staff to go maskless
Giant Eagle will not require fully vaccinated shoppers or workers to wear masks at its supermarkets and GetGo locations starting Monday, company officials announced. Company spokesman Dick Roberts explained the move via press release Tuesday evening. “Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, we have taken every opportunity to safeguard the health and...
Food Podcast: A look at crisis nursery Jeremiah’s Place
This week, the food podcast focuses on the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s “food justice is social justice” initiative and features Jeremiah’s Place, a crisis nursery in the Pittsburgh area. “A crisis nursery is essentially an emergency childcare center. Pittsburgh didn’t have one till about 2014 when we opened our...
Pittsburgh woman who robbed 3 PNC branches pleads guilty
A woman pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to committing three bank robberies with another woman who used to work for PNC Bank. Donna Poremski, 44, and formerly of Pittsburgh, pleaded to conspiracy, bank robbery and armed bank robbery before U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer. She will be...
Filmed version of Pine-Richland’s spring musical being livestreamed; show receives 3 Kelly nominations
Working through the pandemic restrictions to rehearse for their spring musical was no cakewalk across the stage for the theater students at Pine-Richland High School. But as the saying goes, the show must go on. Following strict covid-19 pandemic safety protocols, the actors and crew spent the past three months...
Allegheny County covid case average lowest since Halloween
Both the state and Allegheny County on Tuesday saw covid-19 statistics drop to levels not seen since the fall. Locally and at the commonwealth level, case averages are back to where they were late last year. Cases Allegheny County saw its seven-day average of covid-19 cases drop to lows not...
Gateway Education Association calls for a strike as contract negotiations linger for more than a year
Gateway School District’s teachers’ union has threatened to go on strike beginning May 24, according to union officials. The Gateway Education Association notified Superintendent William Short on Tuesday morning that a strike will begin next Monday if a tentative agreement has not been reached. The district and association have been...
La Roche hosting outdoor college fair featuring 50-plus schools
La Roche University in McCandless is hosting an outdoor college fair with more than 50 colleges, universities and educational institutions scheduled to participate. The fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 22. The rain-date for the event is at the same time on May...
Sparse voter turnout for Pennsylvania primary election; votes start being countedVideo
Voter turnout for Pennsylvania’s primary Tuesday was sparse compared to November’s election, but officials say it was bolstered by mail-in voting and statewide ballot questions drawing out third-party voters. Results are slowing coming in for Allegheny County and Westmoreland County races. In Allegheny County, voters requested 124,813 mail-in ballots —...
North Allegheny teacher accused of dragging 6-year-old girl with Down syndrome won’t face criminal charges
A teacher at North Allegheny’s Hosack Elementary School who was placed on administrative leave May 4 while McCandless police investigated allegations that a young girl with Down syndrome was dragged across the floor during a gym class will not face criminal charges, according to authorities. The McCandless police department began...
Police investigate Bridgeville shooting death
An 84-year-old man who was pronounced dead Monday morning was a gunshot wound victim, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner. Matthew Knepp, of Bridgeville, was found at a South Fayette home in the 2700 block of Ravenwood Drive around 8:30 a.m., according to the examiner’s report. South Fayette Police...
Police: Man shot multiple times in Stowe
A man was shot multiple times along a Stowe Township street Monday night. Allegheny County police said they were dispatched for a shooting around 9:20 p.m. along the 600 block of Woodward Avenue. Officers found a man with multiple injuries and other evidence of a shooting, according to a county...
Penn Hills reverses decision on hiring former Wilkinsburg police officer under investigation in shooting death
Penn Hills community members and activists celebrated Monday after the Municipality of Penn Hills pivoted on the hiring of former Wilkinsburg police officer Robert Gowans. Penn Hills council held an emergency meeting Monday afternoon that resulted in letting Gowans go, after facing backlash from the community over his hiring in...
Capacity restrictions on Port Authority buses, trains will end next month
The Port Authority of Allegheny County will begin a two-step process for lifting bus and train capacity limits starting May 31, officials said Monday. Masks will still be required, as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week. The new mask guidance declared that those who are...
Pennsylvania’s covid report dips under 1,000 for 1st time in over 7 months
It hasn’t happened since Oct. 5. That’s the last time Pennsylvania’s daily covid report showed fewer than 1,000 new cases. On Monday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health added just 872 new cases. It’s been 225 days since the state posted such a low number — adding 672 on Oct. 5....
New York man charged in child sexual trafficking linked to Monroeville, Erie
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has indicted a New York man on a charge of child trafficking, prosecutors said. Adrian Petty, 26, of Buffalo is the sole defendant in the grand jury’s recently unsealed indictment, Acting U.S. Attorney Stephen Kaufman said. According to the indictment, Petty was charged for...
Murrysville landmark known for pasta goes up in flames
The Spaghetti & Steakhouse, a landmark on Route 22 in Murrysville for more than 50 years, was destroyed Sunday in an early morning fire. The restaurant that has fed generations of local families and survived the pandemic was a total loss. A dispatcher for Westmoreland 911 said a caller reported...
Is extra $300 in federal unemployment assistance stopping people from applying for jobs?
With about 56,000 people in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties reporting they are without a job, businesses still find themselves scrambling to fill vacancies. One reason cited for the challenge is the extra $300 a week in federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Assistance that people have collected since the end of December....
Allegheny County surpasses 100,000 covid-19 cases, half-million residents fully vaccinated
Allegheny has become the second county in Pennsylvania to surpass 100,000 cases of coronavirus. In its covid-19 report released Saturday, the Allegheny County Health Department reported 186 new cases of the virus. That brings the county’s total since the pandemic began to 100,039. Only Philadelphia, with 146,238 cases, has more....
Pittsburgh’s green fleet bolstered by 9 electric vehicles, including bucket truck
The City of Pittsburgh is getting its first all-electric bucket truck for its Forestry Division. It’s just one of nine new electric vehicles the city plans to buy with the help of a $160,000 state grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants program (AFIG). In...
Pittsburgh police free elderly couple from car on railroad tracks
Pittsburgh first responders on Saturday morning freed an elderly couple from a car that was found on railroad tracks on West Carson Street. A Pittsburgh police officer noticed the car, a four-door Mercury, on the tracks shortly before 9 a.m. Medics and firefighters were able to get the man and...
Man critical after McKeesport shooting
A man is in critical condition after a shooting early Saturday morning in McKeesport. First responders were called to the 2300 block of Grandview Avenue about 12:55 a.m. where they found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the upper body, police said. The victim was transported to an...
Bald eagle chicks thrive along Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers
All three bald eagle nests along the Monongahela River and Youghiogheny River near McKeesport in Allegheny County have chicks this spring, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. At the Youghiogheny River nest, near McKeesport, there is at least one young bird on private property, said Douglas Bergman, a game warden...
4 Republicans, 3 Democrats seeking seats on Harmar Board of Supervisors
Four Republicans and three Democrats are vying for two nominations in their respective party’s primary races for the Harmar Board of Supervisors. The board is made up of five supervisors who are elected to six-year terms. The primary is May 18. The GOP race features incumbent Robert Seibert, who was...
Fully vaccinated parishioners can shed masks in Pittsburgh Diocese churches
The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh announced Friday that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in church. According to the Centers for Disease Control, fully vaccinated is defined as being two weeks after a second dose in a two-dose series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines,...
Kasperowicz suing Pine-Richland School District for defamation of character
Former Pine-Richland High School head football coach Eric Kasperowicz on Friday filed a lawsuit for defamation of character against Pine-Richland School District and several district officials for comments school officials made in the wake of his dismissal. Kasperowicz, who was informed on April 14 that his contract would not be...
