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Pin your own cicada at Cicadapalooza! at Powdermill Sunday
Powdermill Nature Reserve will present Cicadapalooza! from 2 p.m. to about 4 p.m. Sunday at its Rector, Westmoreland County, facility. The event is free to the public. Staff will discuss the periodical cicada Brood VIII currently resurfacing at Powdermill and elsewhere around the region. The event features a lecture on...
Company ignites fury by naming unscented candle ‘Ohio’
Ohio residents might think this new candle stinks. Simple Nature, an Indiana candle company, is offering an unscented option that pokes fun at their neighboring state. “Not much to see. Not much to do. Welcome to Ohio, the unscented candle,” is the tagline for the aroma-free cylinder of white soy...
Authorities investigating 2 fatal shootings at county park outside Cleveland
CLEVELAND — A medical examiner says two people found slain in a county park outside Cleveland were both shot in the head and their deaths are considered homicides. Cleveland Metroparks Chief Ranger Katherine Dolan provided no additional details at a briefing Thursday about the slayings of 40-year-old Carnell Sledge, of...
Police: Butler County woman hid on roof to escape man with rifle
A Butler County woman hid on a roof Wednesday night after being threatened by a man holding a rifle, according to state police. The incident happened shortly before 11 p.m. Wednesday on Hidden Hill Road in Clinton Township, state police said. According to state police, Robert Wargo, 65, threatened a...
2 southwestern Pa. businesses win volunteer award
United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania has honored Indiana County-based S&T Bank and Achieva, a Southwestern Pennsylvania organization, with its United in Service Volunteer award. The award is given to an individual or group who shows “excellence in volunteerism within its local community,” according to a news release. “S&T Bank is...
Western Pennsylvanians look back on D-Day 75 years later
Editor’s note: Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day. This story details the roles played by three Western Pennsylvania men in the largest seaborne invasion in history, one that would begin the Allied campaign to liberate Europe and help turn the tide of World War II. Warren Goss will never...
Pittsburgh lawsuit details allegations of church negligence in vetting Nigerian priest accused of rape
Kathy Coll still has trouble processing how the Catholic Church responded two years ago when she reported she had been raped in 2016 by a Nigerian priest who was studying at Duquesne University and assisting in her North Hills parish. Coll, a retired high school English teacher and Eucharistic minister...
Ohio boy, 9, raises $80K to buy bulletproof vests for police dogs
A 9-year-old boy got the idea to buy protective vests for police K-9s while watching TV. Brady Snakovsky of Strongsville, Ohio, has raised $80,000 in 17 months via GoFundMe to protect police dogs in his community. “He noticed a dog on television who wasn’t wearing a vest and he wanted...
‘Absolutely amazing’ $3.5M renovation complete at Butler County’s Succop Nature ParkVideo
It’s now more than a place to get married and take a walk. About $3.5 million worth of renovations at the Succop Nature Park along West Airport Road in Penn Township, Butler County — a longtime park most recently known for its elegant country weddings — has turned an old...
Cops: Somerset County teen threatened to shoot student on social media
A Somerset County boy was cited to juvenile court for making terroristic threats and disorderly conduct by state police after posting on social media last month that he planned to shoot another student in the Rockwood Area School District. Trooper John Wogan of the Somerset station reported that the threat...
5 Western Pennsylvania nursing homes among the nation’s most troubled
What regulators called a “persistent record of poor care” landed two Westmoreland County nursing homes and a third in Allegheny County on a waiting list as candidates for special government oversight reserved for the nation’s worst skilled care centers. The Special Focus Facility program, which scrutinizes some of the nation’s...
School bus, vehicle collide in Indiana County
A vehicle and a school bus collided on Ben Franklin Road in White Township, Indiana County, on Tuesday afternoon, according to state police. There were no students in the bus. Police said it was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt. INDIANA COUNTY: Traffic Alert. Troopers on-scene at 2-vehicle crash...
Pennsylvania’s new class of drug recognition experts hopes to make roads safer
Years of responding to deadly crashes along Route 28 spurred O’Hara patrolman Benjamin Wolfson to seek additional training in the hope it might help save lives. “Almost all of (the deadly crashes) had some type of driving-under-the-influence cause,” Wolfson said, adding that PennDOT statistics show nearly half of all crashes...
Peduto to honor Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO for gun safety efforts
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Tuesday evening will honor the CEO of Coraopolis-based Dick’s Sporting Goods with a leadership award for promoting firearms safety. Peduto and Farooq Kathwari, CEO of Ethan Allen, will present Edward Stack with a Maverick in Leadership Award from the Yale Mayors College and CEO Summit....
Burn Camp brings together survivors for support, fun
After Tyaira Cobb suffered burns from an accident involving hot water, she had a hard time explaining to her friends how the experience affected her. “When I talk to my friends at home about it, they don’t really understand how traumatic the experience is,” she said. Cobb, 15, of Duquesne...
Cold night falls short of record; rain, storms return Wednesday
The Pittsburgh area came within a couple degrees of setting a new record low temperature Tuesday morning. The temperature at Pittsburgh International Airport, where the official measurements are made, was down to 43 degrees as of around 6 a.m. Tuesday, National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Kennedy said. That’s just shy...
Number of Pennsylvania babies treated for drug exposure levels off, report shows
After spiking for more than a decade, the rate of Pennsylvania newborns hospitalized for drug withdrawal at birth leveled off and remained stable for the last two years, a new report reveals. The report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council said Pennsylvania babies were hospitalized for Neonatal Abstinence...
PennDOT honors 2 Uniontown employees for excellence
Two staff members at PennDOT’s District 12 headquarters in Uniontown were among 30 recipients of the department’s annual Star of Excellence awards presented Monday in Harrisburg. Uniontown residents Gary V. Ferrari Jr., senior civil engineer supervisor, and Jay Ofsanik, safety press officer, were among PennDOT employees from across the state...
GirlGov pitches political engagement for local high school girls
The Women and Girls Foundation of Pittsburgh is making a pitch for the next generation of female leaders with its GirlGov program. The free program is open to girls from Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Washington or Westmoreland counties entering grades 9 to 12 this fall. The foundation will launch...
U.S. Rep. John Joyce racks up 12,000 miles of travel in six months
In just six months in office, U.S. Rep. John Joyce, R-Blair County, will have racked up about 12,000 miles on the public dime. In April, Joyce traveled to Yuma, Ariz., to get a firsthand look at the flow of migrants streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border, seeking asylum. He said the...
Several Western Pa. swimming spots fail water-quality tests
Several area swimming spots failed water-quality tests because of strands of E. coli, according to a Melcroft environmental organization. The Mountain Watershed Association, which tests popular swimming spots in the region, found 11 out of 14 tested locations failed the test. Swimming, wading and paddling should be avoided to reduce...
Girl Scouts receive $845,000 grant for building outdoor programs
Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania is building their outdoor programs thanks to a $845,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. Girl Scout officials plan to use the money for research and training, hoping to encourage girls to get outdoors and experience new things, spokesperson Stefanie Marshall said. Troops in...
Police: 2 taken to hospitals after assault in Aliquippa
Two people were taken to a hospital after an assault Sunday night in Aliquippa. Police were called to an apartment complex on Superior Avenue around 11 p.m. after a report that shots were fired, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV reported. No evidence of a shooting was found, but two people were...
Gas prices continue decline on tariff worries, falling oil prices
Gasoline prices are down again in Pittsburgh, and the national average has fallen for four straight weeks — not something drivers expect at the start of the summer season. “More impressively is the surprise that may soon hit some motorists: the nation’s cheapest gas prices may soon fall back under...
Authorities identify 18-year-old man killed in Butler County crash
A Butler man died from injuries suffered in a crash Sunday in northwestern Butler County, according to state police. Authorities identified the man as 18-year-old Cole Wilson. The crash happened around 4:30 p.m. at Route 108 and the northbound ramp of Interstate 79 in Worth Township, authorities said. State police...
