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Artist unveils new Mac Miller mural on Pittsburgh’s North SideVideo
The peeling russet paint in the neck tattoo of the late rapper Mac Miller is the perfect piece of reality in a new mural honoring him at the intersection of James and East Ohio streets on Pittsburgh’s North Side. A flurry of events around the recent release of Miller’s posthumous...
Curb ramps to be installed in Marshall
Curb ramps in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act will be installed on Perry Highway and Freeport Road in Marshall, PennDOT announced Friday. Construction will begin Monday and continue through Feb. 7. Crews from the A. Folino Construction Company will install sidewalks and ADA curb ramps on weekdays from...
Dora the Explorer from Nick Jr. Live! visits Brightside Academy in PittsburghVideo
Dora the Explorer’s latest adventure took her to Brightside Academy in Downtown Pittsburgh on Friday. The beloved Nickelodeon character is in town for Nick Jr. Live! this weekend at the Benedum Center, Downtown. She will be joining characters from PAW Patrol and Bubble Guppies for the show. The national touring...
Tree of Life congregation warns of scam email
Tree of Life–Or L’Simcha leaders are warning of a scam email that seems to play on the continued wish to help the congregation scarred by violence. The congregation posted to its Facebook and Twitter pages that a phishing email appearing to come from “Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers” has been circulating....
How Prohibition shook Pittsburgh 100 years ago, and how alcohol still flowedVideo
Luigi Lamendola had one of those colorful gangster nicknames. He was known as “Big Gorilla” because he stood 5-foot-8 and weighed 224 pounds. Few called him that to his face because he was a brute and a bully. On a May evening in 1927, Lamendola came to the doorway of...
U.S. Steel hit with $740K in fines over pollution control, other violations
The Allegheny County Health Department has issued $743,625 in fines to U.S. Steel related to air pollution control and permit violations that occurred at the Clairton Coke Works facility last year, according to a statement from the health department Friday. This is the first round of fines that will be...
Dryer lint becomes art at Be Galleries in LawrencevilleVideo
One person’s trash is Cheryl Capezzuti’s treasure. The artist from Brighton Heights turns dryer lint into life-sized sculptures. Seriously. She began recycling the waste into art in 2000. Her first solo show in over a decade marks a return to this work “Discarded: Sculptural Work and Puppetry from Dryer Lint...
New data shows Pittsburgh commuters have it pretty easy
Pittsburgh commuters using public transportation have shorter trips and fewer transfers compared with some of the largest cities in the country, according to a report released this week by trip-planning app Moovit. The average one-way commute on public transportation in and around Pittsburgh is 38 minutes, and more than half...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Jan. 17-19
Winter is really here here. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get out of the house and do something fun this weekend. Here are some options in Pittsburgh: Jam on Winter Jam is a night of Christian music at PPG Paints Arena. The tour’s headliner is Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Crowder. His...
Police searching for man involved in early morning Beechview shooting
Officials are searching for a man police say was involved in an early morning shooting in Beechview. Pittsburgh police responded to the corner of Palm Beach and Saranac avenues around 1 a.m. Friday where they met with a woman who said the male fired one shot at her. The man...
Officials: 24 cats rescued from ‘deplorable conditions’ at McKees Rocks home
Twenty-four cats and kittens were rescued from a McKees Rocks home after humane officers found them living in “deplorable conditions,” according to officials at Animal Friends, an Ohio Township-based animal rescue. Officers said they visited the home Monday where they found the large number of cats, some just days old,...
Police: Man shot in back while leaving Pittsburgh bar
Pittsburgh police are investigating a shooting near the Woods Run section of the city that sent a victim to a local hospital early Thursday. The male victim, who walked into the hospital about 1 a.m., told Zone 1 officers he was leaving a bar in the 2600 block of California...
Police: Pittsburgh woman accused of arson in Greenfield apartment fire case
A Pittsburgh woman is accused of deliberately setting fire to a Greenfield home last month, officials said Thursday. Detectives arrested Victoria Parker, 28, and booked her into Allegheny County Jail on arson charges in connection to the Dec. 16 fire on Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said....
Pittsburgh police union disputes city’s early contract offer
The Pittsburgh police union turned down a contract offer from the city that would have provided officers higher raises than what they received through an arbitration panel’s award released last week, according to a letter obtained Thursday by the Tribune-Review. Robert Swartzwelder, president of Fraternal Order of Police Fort Pitt...
Allegheny Health Network cancels surgeries after gown recall
Several elective, non-emergency procedures were rescheduled at surgery centers throughout Allegheny Health Network on Thursday after the medical device manufacturer Cardinal Health recalled surgical gowns, a spokesman said. The gowns, which are part of kits containing other surgical supplies, were immediately pulled from the shelves after a nationwide “voluntary recall”...
Former cop Michael Rosfeld sues University of Pittsburgh over 2018 firing
The former police officer acquitted last year in connection with the June 2018 shooting death of Antwon Rose is suing the University of Pittsburgh, its police department and a vice chancellor for his firing from the university’s police department. The lawsuit filed Thursday afternoon in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court...
Chicago-area man falls ill on plane, dies after emergency landing at Pittsburgh International
A 48-year-old man from suburban Chicago became unresponsive Wednesday afternoon while on a Southwest Airlines flight from New York to Chicago. The plane made an emergency landing at Pittsburgh International Airport shortly before 1 p.m. and the man was transported to a hospital, according to Allegheny County Airport Authority spokesman...
Baldwin council under fire for solicitor switch process
A majority of Baldwin council members decided through a straw poll — conducted by phone before the borough’s Jan. 6 reorganization meeting — that they planned to switch solicitors that night, according to the current council president. Dating back to December, some council members had individually discussed the idea and...
On Day 9, jury filled out in Wilkinsburg mass shooting case; 3 alternates needed
A jury has been selected to hear the capital case against two men accused in the 2016 mass shooting at a Wilkinsburg cookout. Attorneys agreed upon a 12th juror about noon Thursday, the ninth day of jury selection in the case. The primary jurors are six men and six women....
Ride-hailing service RubyRide adding Sto-Rox pilot to South Hills testing
A new ride-hailing service already operating in the South Hills is eyeing a second test area in Pittsburgh’s suburbs. RubyRide has a pilot program that launched in the Clairton area in late October and will be starting a second pilot Feb. 1 in areas that make up the Sto-Rox School...
Author of ‘Indianapolis’ to speak on World War II sinking, aftermath
Most people know the story of the USS Indianapolis from the movie “Jaws.” To them, it’s a story about sharks. But to best-selling author Lynn Vincent, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis is more a story of faith and leadership. On March 10, she will tell that story in Pittsburgh...
Pennsylvania PUC approves sale of Peoples Gas to Aqua America Inc. in $4.3 billion deal
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Thursday approved a settlement that would lead to the $4.3 billion acquisition of Pittsburgh-based Peoples Gas by a Philadelphia-area water and sewer company. Aqua Chairman and CEO Christopher Franklin said the PUC’s action is the last regulatory approval necessary to close on a sale....
Phipps’ annual orchid, bonsai show is ‘Out of This World’
It’s “all systems go” as Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens prepares for takeoff to a new galaxy of gardens that are truly “Out of This World” in its annual Orchid and Tropical Bonsai Show opening Jan. 18. Phipps’ “Guardians of the Galaxy” (the show’s designers) include Jordyn Melino, associate director...
Fort Pitt Museum cleans 18th-century Pittsburgh with a Q-tipVideo
Kneeling over the side of a massive diorama of 18th-century Pittsburgh, Mariah Simensky gently dabbed each tiny building, house, person and horse and buggy with a Q-tip dipped in water. It will take the visitor services and events coordinator at the Fort Pitt Museum in Point State Park about five...
Police: Man in stable condition after shooting in Marshall-Shadeland
Pittsburgh police are investigating after a man walked into a hospital with a gunshot wound. According to a news release, the man said he was leaving a bar in the 2600 block of California Avenue in the Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood when he heard gunshots. He then realized he had been shot...
