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Gaucho Parrilla Argentina to leave Strip for old Six Penn Kitchen site in Downtown Pittsburgh
The popular Gaucho Parrilla Argentina restaurant, where patrons line up to enjoy wood-fired grill meats, is moving to a larger space in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Gaucho announced on its Facebook page that it plans to move into the old Six Penn Kitchen space this spring or summer. The restaurant, owned...
Shadyside ‘Babcock Mansion’ listed at $2.45 million housed U.S. presidents, lavish parties
In the market for a fancy mansion known for hosting several U.S. presidents and celebrities? The Beatty mansion at 5135 Ellsworth Ave., near Colonial Place, is listed by Howard Hanna Homes of Distinction with an asking price of $2.45 million. The original asking price was $2.99 million when it went...
Allegheny Health Network expanding healthy food center
Since opening in 2018 at West Penn Hospital, the region’s first Healthy Food Center has provided nearly 40,000 meals to patients and their families who lack access to nutritious food items, according to Highmark Health. Allegheny Health Network will expand the effort’s reach, with the recent opening of a second...
Police: 17-year-old shot in arm in North Braddock
A 17-year-old was shot in North Braddock on Sunday night, according to Allegheny County police. The shooting happened in the area of 4th Street and Hawkins Avenue shortly before 5 p.m. According to county police, the victim and another person were walking onto Hawkins from 4th when a man began...
Police: Man drunk, driving over 100 mph in fatal Whitehall crash
A Pleasant Hills man was driving at 101 mph and with a blood alcohol content more than two times the legal limit when he crashed his car on Brownsville Road in December, killing his girlfriend, Whitehall police said. Whitehall police charged Tyler Jesse DeGraffenreid, 24, Sunday with homicide by vehicle...
Pittsburgh was a sanctuary city 150 years ago. Now racism is a public health crisis
Pittsburgh is a city of contradictions when it comes to race relations. In its infancy, Pittsburgh was a hotbed of abolitionism, and residents provided safe harbor to blacks fleeing slavery in the South. Yet 150 years later, a report on racial disparity in the city prompted two city councilmen to...
West Carson Street reopens after water main break at the West End Bridge
Work to fix a water main break on West Carson Street was finished Monday morning and the road has reopened to traffic, a PennDOT spokeswoman said. The break in a 20-inch main was discovered around 7:15 p.m. Sunday. West Carson was closed near the West End Bridge as crews made...
Pitt student killed by bus remembered as ‘inquisitive, hard-working’
Barbara Como, the University of Pittsburgh senior struck and killed by a bus Saturday, is being remembered as a bright and promising student by faculty and fellow students. Como, of Chester Springs, Chester County, would have turned 21 next month. She was planning to graduate this spring with degrees in...
Beaver County teen retains title of Pennsylvania’s pinball champion
Robbie Orsino backed away from the Corvette pinball machine buzzing with adrenaline, eager to see if his multi-ball runs and flipper skills racked up enough points to topple his opponent. “It’s very much a momentum game,” said Orsino, nearly out of breath between turns during Saturday’s International Flipper Pinball Association...
State Rep. Adam Ravenstahl challenged by progressive attorney Emily Kinkead
Pittsburgh attorney Emily Kinkead will join a wave of progressive Democrats who in recent years have challenged establishment incumbents in Allegheny County’s Democratic Party. Kinkead will take on sitting state Rep. Adam Ravenstahl for the District 20 seat in the April 28 Democratic primary. Ravenstahl, the brother of former Pittsburgh...
Women’s March rallies for 4th year in Downtown Pittsburgh, with anti-war, anti-Trump focus
Flanked by a giant inflatable chicken with orange-gold hair, Tracy Baton urged hundreds of people gathered Saturday in Downtown Pittsburgh’s Market Square to sustain momentum for the national Women’s March movement — an effort she says aims to confront the challenges that hit families closest to home. The director of...
HOV lanes remain closed because of snow, rainstorms Saturday
The High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes that run along I-279 remained closed to traffic Saturday afternoon for snow removal on the mainline, PennDOT said. The HOV lanes have been closed since about 4 a.m. Twelve hours later, they remained closed, PennDOT said. Normally, the HOV lanes are open to all...
Pitt student struck, killed by Port Authority bus in Oakland
A University of Pittsburgh student was struck and killed by a Port Authority bus Saturday in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section, authorities said. The dead woman was identified as Barbara Como of Chester Springs, Chester County. Como was a senior anthropology student and research assistant with the Learning Research and Development Center...
PennDOT lifts speed restrictions on I-79, I-80
PennDOT has lifted the speed limit restrictions it had imposed on Interstate 79 and Interstate 80 due to snow and rain that hit the region Saturday morning. A 45-mph speed limit had been is in place on I-79 from the Butler and Allegheny County exit (Exit 78) to Erie, which...
Piano bar opens at the Waterfront in HomesteadVideo
A new brand of piano music has come to the Waterfront Shopping Center in Homestead. The shopping and dining destination has added the national dueling piano chain, The Big Bang Dueling Piano Bar. It opened Friday. A crowd gathered for opening night offering song requests from country to pop. Guests...
Storm to bring 1 to 5 inches of snow, dangerous travel conditions to Western Pa.
A storm set to strike early Saturday is expected to slather Western Pennsylvania’s roads with a mix of ice and rain and dump 1 to 5 inches of snow, prompting officials to warn of potentially dangerous travel conditions. A winter weather advisory is in effect for much of the region...
Pittsburgh man sentenced to nearly 5 years in federal prison on cocaine charges
A Pittsburgh man convicted of cocaine possession was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison. Brian Horvath, 48, was ordered to spend 57 months in jail followed by three years’ supervised release by U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab, authorities announced Thursday. Horvath was one of several people indicted...
Jury selection in Wilkinsburg mass slaying case suffers another setbackVideo
Another juror selected to hear the 2016 Wilkinsburg mass shooting case was excused Friday, the second to be let go before jury selection has even ended. The man chosen Wednesday as juror No. 10 was excused by Judge Edward J. Borkowski. The man, an architect, was excused because of “work...
Voters could have chance to put term limits on county council members
Allegheny County Council will consider an ordinance that would allow voters to place term limits on members of the legislative body. At present, council members are elected for four-year terms but without term limits. Councilman Nick Futules, D-Oakmont, plans to introduce the ordinance at council’s Tuesday meeting. If passed by...
Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program faces persistent pot shortages
Pennsylvania doesn’t have enough marijuana to go around. Product shortages have plagued medical marijuana dispensaries across the state for months. Dry leaf marijuana has been especially hard to come by. “It’s so sad: I’ll put out two strains in the morning and by 12 o’clock or 1 p.m., they’re gone,”...
New leadership at Peoples Gas vows company will remain unchanged
Peoples Gas will essentially remain unchanged under the new ownership of an eastern Pennsylvania water and sewer company, the head of water company said Friday. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Thursday approved the sale of Peoples to Bryn Mawr-based Aqua America Inc. for $4.3 billion. Christopher Franklin, Aqua’s chairman...
Man impersonated Allegheny County police officer in scam, authorities say
Allegheny County police are warning people of a scam that involved a person who impersonated a police officer to extort money from a resident. Police said the victim was using Hily, a dating app, and met someone he believed to be a girl between the age of 16 and 18....
Police seize 13,000 packets of heroin in Troy Hill house drug bust
Police arrested a North Side man after seizing more than 13,000 small packets of heroin, ecstasy pills and a large amount of cash from a house in Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood, officials said Friday. Detectives from the bureau’s drug trafficking squad served a search warrant at about 11 a.m. Thursday...
Route 51 in Moon reopened after landslide repairs
Repair work on Route 51 in Moon has been completed, two weeks after a landslide closed the road to traffic, PennDOT announced Friday. The slide occurred Jan. 2, dumping tons of debris onto the busy road and knocking down utility lines. More than 770 Duquesne Light customers were without power...
Michael Lamb scores endorsement of Philadelphia mayor for state auditor general race
Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb, a Democratic candidate this year for Pennsylvania auditor general, scored a major pledge of support this week with an endorsement from Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney. Lamb, 57, of Mt. Washington, who has been campaigning across Pennsylvania since announcing his candidacy late last year, said gaining the...
