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McKees Rocks woman pleads guilty to narcotics trafficking for the GBK street gang
A McKees Rocks woman accused of conspiring to distribute crack, cocaine and heroin pleaded guilty in federal court, authorities announced . Tamra Moore, 35, admitted violating federal narcotics laws before Senior U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab. Authorities said Moore and her co-conspirators distributed the drugs November 2017 through June...
Food Podcast: How to keep public aware of hunger as communication landscape changes
Making the public more aware of hunger in the United States is a key priority of Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the country. “Feeding America only has about 50 percent awareness in the U.S., and that’s because we changed our name about 10 years ago,” Feeding America Chief...
West Newton man pleads guilty to heroin, gun charges
A West Newton man accused of being part of a Western Pennsylvania drug trafficking operation pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing heroin. William Kalna, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and one count of possession of firearms and ammunition by a person addicted to...
Pittsburgh steering new development toward neighborhoods
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Wednesday introduced the city’s new economic team to a group of local leaders and outlined plans for steering development toward neighborhood business districts and blighted, city-owned property rather than large-scale projects. Peduto noted that the city owns nearly 17,000 vacant lots, houses and buildings. He...
Allegheny Health Network expands partnership with Johns Hopkins to women’s health
Allegheny Health Network and Johns Hopkins Medicine will expand an existing collaboration to focus on women’s health, pulmonary disease and lung transplantation, the organizations announced today. This new expansion will create one of the largest coordinated research programs for gynecological and obstetrical health research programs in the country. AHN and...
McDonald’s in Pittsburgh’s Strip District closes without explanation
Pittsburgh’s Strip District has a case of fallen arches. A McDonald’s restaurant that been a longtime fixture along Penn Avenue in the Strip has closed without explanation, according to Dan Kamin, president of Kamin Realty and the property owner. Kamin said McDonald’s corporate offices notified him in late fall that...
South Fayette retiree, daughter sue to recover $82K seized at Pittsburgh airport
A 79-year-old retired railroad engineer and his adult daughter Wednesday sued two federal agencies in an effort to recover more than $82,000 seized last summer inside Pittsburgh International Airport. Rebecca Brown, 54, of Lowell, Mass., said her father, Terry Rolin, a resident of the South Fayette village of Morgan, had...
Police: 2 charged in Carrick child rape case
A New Castle man and an Ingram woman were charged Wednesday with allegedly beating and raping two young children more than 10 years ago in Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood. Seth Price, 36, of New Castle, and Trista Price, 36, of Ingram, are facing a host of charges in the case. Both...
Pittsburgh native Bari Weiss wins book award for work on anti-Semitism
Pittsburgh native Bari Weiss won a 2019 National Jewish Book Award for her book “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.” Weiss, who grew up in Squirrel Hill and graduated from Shady Side Academy, won the Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award in the category Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice. Hers was one of...
Tempers flare briefly on 8th day of jury selection in Wilkinsburg mass shooting case
Tempers briefly flared before interviews began Wednesday on the eighth day of jury selection in the 2016 Wilkinsburg mass shooting case. Cheron Shelton, 32, and Robert Thomas, 31, both face five counts of homicide, one count of homicide of an unborn child and a multitude of other charges related to...
Waterworks Giant Eagle among 1st to eliminate plastic bags
Several shoppers at The Waterworks Market District bustled about the parking lot early Wednesday, toting armfuls of reusable bags, seemingly prepared for the company’s initiative to eliminate single-use plastics. The O’Hara-based retailer announced its plan in December to rid all of its stores of single-use plastics by 2025. Most notably,...
Pittsburgh police nab suspect in North Side graffiti case
A Sharpsburg man with a history as a graffiti artist was arrested Tuesday by Pittsburgh police for allegedly painting on Norfolk Southern property near Federal Street on the city’s North Side. The graffiti covered 264 square feet and could cost $7,000 to clean up, according to Detective Alphonso Sloan, the...
Who wants to buy a house-bus in Pittsburgh?
One can’t help but notice this house rolling down the road that’s for sale. Pennsylvania native Andrew Weidman, 27, is visiting Pittsburgh for the winter, hoping to sell “Lucy Half-Bus.” It’s a 2003 Ford E350 converted former school bus, powered by Ford’s legendary 7.3 diesel, with 137,000 miles on the...
Police: Carrick man arrested with 6 bricks of suspected heroin on Route 22 in Salem
An Allegheny County man was arrested Tuesday after state police said they found six bricks of suspected heroin in his car during a traffic stop on Route 22 in Salem, according to court papers. Michael Patrick Crawley, 39, of Carrick, was being held in the Westmoreland County Prison on $100,000...
Officials: 1 transported to hospital in Brookline apartment fire
One person was taken to the hospital after an apartment fire Wednesday morning in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood, according to an Allegheny 911 shift supervisor. The fire, which broke out in an apartment building on Southcrest Drive, was out before 7 a.m. Crews responded shortly before 4 a.m. Further information on...
Police searching for woman who escaped Pittsburgh corrections facility
State police are searching for a woman who left the Pittsburgh Community Corrections Center without authorization. Kaila Rae Rose Sloan, who is serving time for possession with intent to deliver, left the Shadyside facility Monday, police said. WANTED FOR ESCAPEOn 1/13/20, Kaila Rae Rose Sloan left the Pgh Community Corrections...
Cirque du Soleil brings OVO show to PPG Paints ArenaVideo
In Cirque du Soleil’s touring production of OVO, insects are larger than life and the world is a buzzing spectacle of color. The Montreal-based contemporary circus returns to Pittsburgh Jan. 23-26 for the first time since 2017 with OVO, after having toured the show in North and South America and...
Single-lane restrictions planned on Parkway East
Single-lane restrictions will be in place Wednesday in the area of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel as crews do maintenance work, according to PennDOT. Westbound motorists along the Parkway East will encounter a lane restriction between the Squirrel Hill Tunnel and the Squirrel Hill/Homestead exit. A restriction also will be in...
Juror excused in 2016 Wilkinsburg mass shooting case, total selected down to 9
Attorneys selected no new jurors — and one already seated was excused — on Tuesday in an Allegheny County death penalty case headed to trial next month. One juror selected last week in the case against Cheron Shelton and Robert Thomas was excused for unknown reasons. With none selected Tuesday,...
UPMC, Pitt test out wireless eyeball implant in hopes of restoring lost sightVideo
A surgeon at UPMC Mercy hospital implanted a wireless chip designed to act like a small, artificial retina in the eye of an Ohio woman last week in the first trial of the technology in the United States. The treatment could offer a novel way to restore the sight of...
Advocates push for Alina’s Law for additional protections in domestic abuse
A pair of Allegheny County lawmakers joined domestic violence prevention advocates and the parents of a murdered Pitt student Tuesday in Harrisburg in a renewed push for the passage of Alina’s Law. The measure was named for Alina Sheykhet, a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student who was bludgeoned and stabbed...
Outbound Liberty Tunnel restrictions set for Thursday
Editor’s note: The work has been canceled. The outbound (southbound) Liberty Tunnel will be down to one lane on Thursday, according to PennDOT. A single-lane closure will take place between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. to allow crews to install crash barrels. Motorists are advised to use caution in the...
Pittsburgh working out glitches in $1.4 million snow tracking systemVideo
A Minnesota company was in Pittsburgh on Tuesday trying to work out bugs in the city’s new $1.4 million system for treating streets in the winter. Pittsburgh last year purchased technology and equipment from Minnesota-based Quetica LLC that permits officials to control and track snowplow operations, including routes, vehicles locations...
Ruffed Grouse Society banquet to be held in Crabtree
The Western Allegheny Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society will holds its 29th annual Conservation and Sportsmen’s Banquet on Jan. 31 at Rizzo’s Malabar Inn, Crabtree. The banquet, which begins with a social hour at 5 p.m., is a fundraiser for the Ruffed Grouse Society and its efforts to enhance...
Allegheny County names chief public defender
Acting Chief Public Defender Matthew Dugan has been officially appointed to the post, County Manager William D. McKain announced Tuesday. Dugan has served as acting chief public defender since May 2019, when his predecessor, Elliot Howsie, was confirmed as an Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas judge. “I’m just really...
