South Hills Record category, Page 68
Man stable after being found shot in Beechview
A man was in stable condition after being found shot in Beechview Monday night, police said. According to Pittsburgh police, officers responded around 9:50 p.m. to a 911 call of a man shot in the 200 block of Sebring Avenue. The man had been shot in the leg. He was...
Fire fills Virginia Manor shops with smoke in Mt. Lebanon
Smoke from a fire filled several stores at a Mt. Lebanon shopping center just after midnight Monday morning. The fire at Virginia Manor Shops at Greentree and Cochran roads was reported around 12:30 a.m., an Allegheny County emergency dispatcher said. The Allegheny County Fire Marshal determined that a delivery truck...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 3
Baldwin Borough Estate of Charles Wiedder sold property at 443 Blossom Drive to Bhadrika Phuyel and Guna Subedi for $165,000. Eleanor Popatak trustee sold property at 1122 Edward Drive to Luke Barkhymer for $187,000. Estate of Norene Mears sold property at 615 Jenne Drive to Michael Jugovich and Jacklyn Welage...
13th Port Authority employee tests positive for coronavirus, 11th at West Mifflin garage
Port Authority officials announced that a 13th employee has tested positive for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. All but two of the confirmed cases have come out of the bus service’s West Mifflin maintenance garage, officials said. Nine of the cases at the garage involved a maintenance...
Thomas Jefferson High School keeps moving with musical plans
Most school districts across Pennsylvania have been scrambling to make end-of-year plans for the class of 2020 – namely prom and graduation. But Thomas Jefferson High School in West Jefferson Hills School District is taking things a step further by regrouping for the spring musical, “Peter Pan.” Musical director and...
10 of Port Authority’s 12 covid-19 cases linked to West Mifflin garage
The Port Authority of Allegheny County reported Tuesday its 12th employee has tested positive for covid-19. The vast majority of the public transit agency’s coronavirus cases reported so far — including the latest one — are linked to the same West Mifflin maintenance garage. “We are concerned,” Port Authority spokesman...
Richard Baumhammers still on death row 20 years after killing spree
On a cloudy Friday afternoon 20 years ago Tuesday, an unemployed immigration lawyer went on a killing spree. It started next door to his parents’ Mt. Lebanon home, where he killed his Jewish neighbor. He went on to shoot five more people, all ethnic or racial minorities. Richard Baumhammers, 54,...
Road work to resume Friday in Penn Hills, South Hills and Collier
Work is scheduled to resume this Friday on sections of three roads, the Allegheny County Department of Public Works said Tuesday. The department said the work, expected to begin at 7 a.m. May 1, will lead to “short stoppages in work zones” on the following roads: • Nadine Road between...
Gill Hall VFC recertified as a Jefferson Hills fire company with conditions
Gill Hall Volunteer Fire Company in Jefferson Hills was reinstated on a probation basis as a certified borough company after being idle for more than a year. Council voted 5-2 in January 2019, with members Vickie Ielase and Mary Reynolds dissenting, to drop the department as a recognized company, meaning...
9th employee at Port Authority’s West Mifflin garage tests positive for coronavirus
Port Authority of Allegheny County on Monday reported that another employee has tested positive for covid-19. Eleven employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, including nine at the West Mifflin bus garage. The latest employee to test positive works in maintenance at the garage, Port Authority spokesman Adam Brandolph said....
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 26
Baldwin Borough Ryan Loew sold property at 938 Brentview Drive to Bernard and Annette Smith for $134,501. Earl Kleckner sold property at 5106 Colewood Drive to Modern Edge Ventures LLC for $75,000. Jayson Monroe sold property at 919 Edward Drive to Derek Parker for $139,500. Susanne Powers Waugaman sold property...
Port Authority to increase safety protocols at West Mifflin garage after 5th worker there tests positive for covid-19
Port Authority officials announced new safety protocols will be put in place at its West Mifflin garage after another employee tested positive for covid-19. Spokesman Adam Brandolph said Thursday that a fifth garage worker, who last worked on Monday and is at home in quarantine, was diagnosed with the novel...
Pennsylvania liquor stores rake in $2.3M in first days of curbside sales, with more to open
Pennsylvania liquor stores fulfilled more than 25,000 orders for about $2.3 million in the first three days of curbside sales, and there are plans to expand the number of stores participating in the program, according to the Liquor Control Board. There were about 6,000 orders fulfilled statewide Monday — the...
‘Sewing angels’ provide 1,000 homemade masks for Pittsburgh policeVideo
Pittsburgh police were set to run out of crucial face masks used to combat the spread of the coronavirus when a “sewing angel” in Mt. Lebanon stepped in. “Every single Pittsburgh police officer, detective, supervisor — even the clerks that work in our buildings — have these masks from Gloria,”...
Smoking identified as cause of Brentwood apartment building fire
Smoking sparked a fire at a Brentwood apartment building on Easter Sunday, resulting in some of its residents dangling from windows to escape the smoke and flames. The fire at Brentwood Manor in the 3300 block of Brownsville Road was reported around 9:30 a.m. April 12. The fire was caused...
Baldwin man awaiting rape trial arrested in Robinson, faces charges of assaulting teen girl
A Baldwin man awaiting trial on allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Robinson on charges of violating his bond conditions, officials said. Charles Lantzy, 48, is being held at Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, county Sheriff Chief Deputy Kevin Kraus said. A bench...
Brentwood cancels July 4 celebrations due to coronavirus
Brentwood Borough announced the cancelation of its three-day Fourth of July Celebration, including the parade and 37th Annual Firecracker 5K, via a Facebook post Monday night. Brentwood Police Chief Adam Zeppuhar, who wrote the post, said that it was a decision made by borough council. “Depending on what kind of...
Group founded by Mt. Lebanon native aims to supply 100,000 masks to people
A Mt. Lebanon college student and three of his friends have a noble goal: To raise enough money to buy and distribute 100,000 disposable masks by June 1 to those who need them. As of Tuesday, the Covid Response Network had distributed 38,000 masks that it was able to get...
Police: Body found in Plum identified as Whitehall woman missing for a year
Nearly a year after she was reported missing, Elizabeth Wiesenfeld’s remains were found Sunday, Allegheny County police said. Wiesenfeld, 67, of Whitehall, had been missing since April 30, 2019. In September, Douglas Berry, 48, was charged with homicide in connection with her death, but authorities had been proceeding with the...
Port Authority reports 7th covid-19 case; 3rd at West Mifflin garage
Another Port Authority employee who worked at the agency’s West Mifflin garage has been diagnosed with covid-19, authority spokesman Adam Brandolph said Monday. This is the seventh Port Authority of Allegheny County employee to test positive for covid-19 and the third maintenance employee who worked at the West Mifflin garage....
Kennywood picked as country’s Favorite Traditional Park, coasters land No. 1 spots
Kennywood Park has scored big in a new amusement park industry survey. Kennywood claimed the title as Favorite Traditional Park in the 33rd annual NAPHA Amusement Park and Attractions Survey. Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pa., came in second. According to organization, the two parks have been the tops in...
2 injured in crash in Pittsburgh’s Beechview neighborhoodVideo
Two people were injured Sunday morning when their pickup truck slammed into a pole and a building in Pittsburgh’s Beechview neighborhood. Police said a man and a woman, who were not identified, were removed from the vehicle and taken to a hospital where they are listed in critical condition. The...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 19
Baldwin Borough Julie Litz sold property at 119 Brailler Ct to Anthony Coll for $149,000. James Roell sold property at 18 Elma St. to Cole Tabacchi and Claudia Alvarez for $125,000. Clifford Lane sold property at 5132 Elmwood Drive to Bhanu Bhakta Khawas and Tika Devi Thapa for $180,000. Richard...
6th Port Authority employee tests positive for covid-19; West Mifflin garage closed for ‘deep clean’
A Port Authority of Allegheny County maintenance worker has tested positive for covid-19, marking the second employee at the West Mifflin garage to contract the disease in two days, officials said Saturday. The latest employee to learn of the positive test result last worked on Monday, Port Authority spokesman Adam...
Hospitals looking for more help; lawmakers say Pennsylvania shorted on CARES Act relief
Hospitals across the region that are looking to recover revenue they lost while preparing to meet a surge in covid-19 cases say they need more help and are seeking a more equitable piece of the pie as the federal government rolls out the remaining $70 billion of a $100 billion...
