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Mac Miller Fund will support Pittsburgh music programs
Even in death, Mac Miller continues to inspire and support youth music programs in his native Pittsburgh. A $100,000 grant established to honor the rapper’s legacy will go toward music programs for teens and young adults at the Homewood-Brushton YMCA, according to officials at the Pittsburgh Foundation. The Mac Miller...
Tuberculosis case at Pittsburgh school isn’t cause for panic, health department saysVideo
A confirmed case of tuberculosis at Arsenal 6-8 school in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood doesn’t pose a risk of the disease spreading through the community, health officials said Wednesday “There is absolutely no reason for the general public or the parents at the school to worry,” said Dr. Kristen Mertz, an...
Pittsburgh’s East End Brewing celebrates 15 years of beerVideo
East End Brewing Company in Larimer turns 15 on Thursday and its owner is celebrating by honoring local craft brewers this week. “When I first started this business I didn’t think I would last 15 hours or 15 days let alone 15 years,” founder and owner Scott Smith said. “It...
Pittsburgh council postpones vote on pension enhancement for elected officials
Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday postponed a vote on a pension enhancement for elected officials that appears to conflict with an ordinance members approved two years ago banning changes in pension payments outside of collective bargaining. Council unanimously postponed the vote for a week. Members on Tuesday fast-tracked an amendment...
Coraopolis girl and her family hope to make a big impact with mini-doughnuts business
For the Gracie family of Coraopolis, doughnuts always make a bad day better. Frustrated by work or school, they come home and split a half-dozen pastries to melt the stress away. “One day my dad said, ‘Why don’t we just sell doughnuts?’ It was so random, but that’s how it...
Food Podcast: Table Magazine founder pushes to end hunger
Table magazine founder Christina French says she knows how food can affect the sustainability of a region. French joined Brian Gulish of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank on this week’s Food Podcast to discuss how the idea of Table came together. “I was trying to piece together what’s missing,...
Fire damages Carnegie home once owned by Pirates legend Honus WagnerVideo
A fire that broke out Tuesday in a Carnegie home once owned by baseball Hall of Famer Honus Wagner might have started in a clothes dryer, officials said. The dryer was in the basement of the home on Beechwood Avenue and the fire spread through the walls and climbed up...
Police: Nevada man stalked, sent nude photos to West Mifflin teen
A Nevada man accused of stalking a 15-year-old West Mifflin girl on social media for more than year was arrested Monday after police say he traveled from Las Vegas in an attempt to have sex with her. Police said Renad Bautista, 30, was “constantly contacting” the girl starting in August...
Pittsburgh police: Duquesne man killed after night of drinking in Hill District
A 24-year-old Duquesne man was shot twice in the head early Wednesday after a night of drinking at the Hill District home of the man accused of killing him, according to Pittsburgh police. Trevon Adams died from two gunshot wounds, one of which severed his carotid artery, the Allegheny County...
Allegheny County Council honors outgoing members
County Executive Rich Fitzgerald joined Allegheny Council at their final meeting of the year Tuesday to offer his quarterly address and to send off outgoing members of council. Council President and At-Large Representative John DeFazio, a Democrat from Shaler who served on council since the legislative body was created in...
Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8 student diagnosed with tuberculosis
A student at Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Arsenal 6-8 was diagnosed with tuberculosis, Allegheny County Health Department officials announced Tuesday. The student reportedly is out of school receiving medication to treat the illness and is expected to return in the near future. Officials said they are identifying individuals who may have...
Harlem Globetrotter signs love for students at Western Pennsylvania School for the DeafVideo
Harlem Globetrotter Chris “Animal” Hyche sat on the bleachers inside the gymnasium surrounded by students he didn’t know. But he felt comfortable telling them something personal. Lifting his right hand, he told them: “I love you.” The children from the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Edgewood raised their...
Monroeville man to plead guilty in $127 million Medicare scheme, officials say
A Monroeville business owner is expected to plead guilty in a $127 million kickback scheme against Medicare patients, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman. Ravitej Reddy, 52, is accused of conspiring with multiple companies to pay kickbacks for lab tests done at his two genetic testing facilities. He was...
Fundraising effort for Wilkinsburg’s Abraham Lincoln statue moves slowly
There’s an empty pedestal at the intersection of Penn Avenue and Ardmore Boulevard. A lonely sign reads “Go Fund Me … Lincoln Statue for Wilkinsburg.” For over a century, with a few interruptions, a copper statue of Abraham Lincoln stood on that perch overlooking the Lincoln Highway. Now a group...
The Pittsburgh sinkhole bus is back on the roadVideo
Pittsburgh’s infamous sinkhole bus that dropped partially into a Downtown street in October is back on the road. Port Authority’s 6015 bus, which can pick up any route that begins at the Collier garage, was put back into service on Saturday, about six weeks after a sinkhole partially swallowed it....
Allegheny County Health Department awards $113K in grants
The Allegheny County Health Department awarded 13 mini-grants totaling $113,552 to local organizations for projects aimed at addressing racial equality in chronic disease factors. The projects will increase access to healthy food, physical activity and connect residents to clinical care, the health department said. Social factors like employment, education and...
Man accused of punching Port Authority bus driver turns self in
A man facing charges for punching a Port Authority of Allegheny County bus driver told police he did so because the doors to the bus closed on him and it triggered his anger, according to a criminal complaint filed against the man. Richard David Hickman, 36, turned himself into authorities...
Smokey Robinson talks Pittsburgh, songwriting and wine makingVideo
If anyone in popular music can be called a legend, it’s Smokey Robinson. He rose to fame in the 1960s as the founder of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. He wrote and recorded such hits as “Shop Around,” “My Girl,” “You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me,” “I Second That...
Missing Pittsburgh girl found safe
Pittsburgh police say a 12-year-old girl who was reported missing on Monday has been found safe. Saniyah Gates, who attends South Hills Middle School on Mt. Washington, was located on Tuesday. Police said the previous day that she did not return home from school. No further information was immediately available....
Police: Man shot in hand in East Liberty
Pittsburgh police are investigating after a man arrived at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Oakland with a gunshot wound to his hand. The man, who arrived at the hospital by private means shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, told officers he was on Larimer Avenue in East Liberty behind the Target when...
Pittsburgh police find missing 83-year-old woman
Pittsburgh police have located an 83-year-old woman who had been missing since Monday night. Beatrice Stapf, of Morningside, was found shortly before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 1600 block of Jancey Street where she had fallen. Officers said she was alert and conscious and was transported by EMS to UPMC...
Man shot in the leg in Pittsburgh
A man was shot in the leg in Pittsburgh Monday night. City police are investigating the incident reported around 8:40 p.m. along the 5500 block of Hays Street. Authorities said officers found a man who had been shot in the leg, and he told officers it happened at Hays Street...
4 arrested in Propel Schools check forgery case; warrant out for 5th suspect
Police arrested four people in connection with a scheme to steal nearly $23,000 from Propel Schools by forging checks in the Western Pennsylvania charter school operator’s name, officials said Monday. The Propel Schools Foundation filed a report with police on Nov. 12 after discovering nearly two dozen fraudulent checks in...
Pittsburgh man pleads guilty to dealing cocaine from Sheraden convenience store
A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty to dealing cocaine from a convenience store he owned in the city’s Sheraden neighborhood, federal prosecutors said Monday. Willie Harris, 40, admitted to conspiring to sell more than 500 grams of cocaine — or more than a pound — out of Woogie’s Mini Market on...
Police searching for man who punched bus driver in Downtown Pittsburgh
Police say a man punched a bus driver in the face in Downtown Pittsburgh and are asking for the public’s help to find him. Police on Monday released two photos of the man they say assaulted the driver at about 8:20 p.m. Sunday, Port Authority of Allegheny County spokesman Adam...
