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Steelers go cold in Buffalo, lose 5th consecutive playoff game
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The snowstorm that paralyzed western New York and led to the postponement of an AFC wild-card game until Monday merely delayed the inevitable playoff letdown for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Fans shoveled the 3 feet of snow that was dumped on Highmark Stadium over the weekend, but...
Victim of fatal Beaver County fire identified
The Beaver County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who dies in a house fire Monday evening in Ohioville. The victim was Raymond Jankowski, 50, of Ohioville. The fire was reported around 5:13 p.m. in the 100 block of Ridgemont Drive, according to Beaver County 911 dispatchers. Ohioville Borough Volunteer...
MLK prayer breakfast honors Pitt School of Law vice dean Jerry Dickinson
The Allegheny County Bar Association Homer S. Brown division held its 25th annual MLK prayer breakfast on Monday. Jerry Dickinson, vice dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, was recognized with the Drum Major for Justice Award at Bethel A.M.E. Church in the Hill District. Many say Dickinson...
Fans for Steelers-Bills playoff game on apparent shovel-your-own-seats policyVideo
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Apparently, not enough people took up the $20-per-hour offer. The plan for removing multiple feet of snow from the 71,000-plus seats at Highmark Stadium in advance of Monday’s playoff game evidently was to accept those willing to shovel for as long as they pleased. But by...
Arnold man used stolen gun to fatally wound intruder, police say
A gun that was used to fatally wound a man Friday night in Arnold had been stolen from Tarentum, according to court paperwork. Malique Jamal Black, 25, told a Westmoreland County detective that he bought on the gun on the street. Police say it was the gun used to shoot...
Loved ones lament death of Upper St. Clair man killed by police
Yellow police tape fluttered last week like paper streamers from the trees along Lamar Road in Upper St. Clair, a grim reminder for Christopher Shepherd’s family and friends of his violent death at the hands of police. Shepherd, who battled mental illness for more than 20 years, was gunned down...
New law aims to make guardianship a last resort in Pa., but some experts say it doesn’t go far enough
This story first appeared in The Investigator, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA featuring the best investigative and accountability journalism from across Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — With little fanfare, Gov. Josh Shapiro in December signed into law a bill aimed at fixing long-standing problems within Pennsylvania’s vexing system for safeguarding adults...
Trump wins Iowa caucuses in crucial victory at the outset of the Republican presidential campaign
DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses Monday, a crucial victory at the outset of the Republican primary that reinforces the former president’s bond with his party’s voters even as he faces extraordinary legal challenges that could complicate his bid to return to the White House. The...
Tarentum police seek lottery ticket thieves
Thieves made off with hundreds of scratch-off lottery tickets during an overnight burglary at Asay’s News Stand in Tarentum, but they didn’t get any winners. Owner Kevin Bertocki said two men smashed the glass door at the East Sixth Avenue store about 3:30 a.m. and were inside for less than...
MLK Shabbat dinner at East End Cooperative Ministry emphasizes solidarity
A group whose goal is to bring together people of different backgrounds held a dinner Friday night in East Liberty that it called the MLK Shabbat Dinner. The focus for the night at the East End Cooperative Ministry was creating solidarity. The dinner was hosted and organized by Repair the...
TV Talk: KDKA-TV, WPXI ground shared chopper; Mister Rogers moment ranks Top 10
After decades of competition, the Pittsburgh TV station chopper wars are over with just one helicopter left flying. The beginning of the end started two years ago when KDKA-TV and WPXI-TV decided to share one helicopter. Prior to that, each station contracted for its own chopper. Now, KDKA and WPXI...
What you need to know for Steelers vs. Bills AFC wild-card gameVideo
It’s cold. It’s snowing. It’s windy. Get ready for playoff football on a Monday afternoon in Buffalo. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Buffalo Bills will kick off their AFC wild-card game at 4:30 p.m. Workers armed with shovels, plows and dump trucks continued to clear snow from inside and outside Highmark...
Millions will be spent on logs, rocks to stabilize Allegheny, Westmoreland stream banks
A 1,800-foot stretch of the Little Sewickley Creek in the Herminie and Darragh areas will soon be stabilized with rocks and logs. The project will help to deflect the water’s current and improve the habitat for aquatic life of the trout-stocked stream, said Greg Schaetzle, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s watershed...
Pitt Ohio to donate semi-trailer to Forbes Road school in Monroeville
Students in Forbes Road Career & Technology School’s diesel technology program get plenty of experience working on the massive trucks that haul goods back and forth across the country. The difficulty is those trucks are often from the mid-1990s. “There’s none of the modern controls or emissions technology, and there’s...
Tractor-trailer overturns on Route 119 near New Stanton turnpike interchange
Route 119/Interstate 70 in New Stanton reopened Monday morning after an overturned tractor-trailer was cleaned up. The highway was shut down around 7 a.m. just south of Youngwood. A photo from the scene showed the road blocked by the overturned rig at the on-ramp to Route 119 south, not far...
Morning Roundup: 1 injured after tractor-trailer fire at New Stanton exit of Turnpike
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, Jan. 15: 1 injured after tractor-trailer fire at New Stanton exit of Turnpike One person was injured after a tractor-trailer carrying vehicles burned for more than an hour after the trailer rolled over early Sunday along a Pennsylvania...
Freezing temps, snow in immediate forecast for Western Pa.
Western Pennsylvanians should expect to snuggle up, as freezing temperatures and snow don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. According to the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh, temperatures dropped to as low as 0 degrees in Clarion County on Monday morning. Readings in Pittsburgh lingered around 10 degrees, the...
Houthi rebels strike a U.S.-owned ship off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions
JERUSALEM — Houthi rebels fired a missile, striking a U.S.-owned ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after they launched an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea, officials said. The attack on the Gibraltar Eagle,...
LOSS Team provides support for those affected by rising suicide rates in Westmoreland County
Suicide rates are multiplying in Westmoreland County, and to provide support, the county has become the second in the state to start a Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors (LOSS) Team. The county had 60 recorded suicides in 2023, just two less than the 62 that were recorded in 2022, according...
2 stabbed in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood
Two people were stabbed Sunday evening in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood, according to Pittsburgh police. First responders were called to the 2300 block of Wilner Drive around 7:30 p.m. for a reported domestic situation, public safety officials said. Responders found a woman with a stab wound to her chest cavity....
Astrobotic allowing failed lunar lander to burn up reentering Earth’s atmosphere
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic on Sunday announced plans to allow its failed lunar lander to burn up during reentry in Earth’s atmosphere. The Peregrine lunar lander launched into space last Monday with the goal of a soft landing on the moon. It quickly became clear the lander wouldn’t achieve its goal, however,...
Migrant deaths in Rio Grande intensify tensions between Texas, Biden administration over crossings
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — After Texas fenced off a park along the U.S.-Mexico border and began turning away Border Patrol agents, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott explained why at campaign stop near Houston. “We are not allowing Border Patrol on that property anymore,” Abbott said Friday, drawing applause from supporters at a...
4 killed, 1 injured in hot air balloon crash south of Phoenix
ELOY, Ariz. — Four people were killed and another critically injured after a hot air balloon crash Sunday morning near Eloy, Arizona, authorities said. Eloy police said the crash occurred about 7:50 a.m. Sunday in a rural desert area about 60 miles south of Phoenix. The victims’ names are being...
Winter weather continues to impact western New York as Steelers head to Buffalo for wild-card game
That hole the Pittsburgh Steelers figuratively dug themselves out of to qualify for the playoffs? That’s nothing compared to the literal shoveling necessary to facilitate playable enough conditions for the team to take part in their playoff opener in Orchard Park, N.Y. There was more than a foot of snow...
District attorney defends the qualifications of a prosecutor hired in Trump’s Georgia election case
ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Sunday defended the qualifications of a special prosecutor she hired for her case against Donald Trump and others over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia after a defense lawyer accused Willis of professional impropriety. In her first public remarks...
