Paul Guggenheimer stories, Page 14
PRT Red Line T service disrupted during Thursday morning commute
Damage from a tree that fell on the Red Line tracks at the Kelton stop in Dormont caused Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) to halt Red Line service Wednesday night and Thursday morning and reroute traffic over the Blue Line. The tree fell on the tracks but also pulled down overhead...
Homewood stabbing victim dies
A 27-year-old man who was stabbed in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood Wednesday afternoon has died. David L. Kelley was stabbed about 3:38 p.m. by someone in the 7500 block of Mulford Street, police said. He was taken to UPMC Presbyterian, where he died, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Amanda Mueller....
Knives found on Hempfield High School student Wednesday
The Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a 14-year-old boy was found to be carrying knives at Hempfield High School on Wednesday. The knives were discovered by a school nurse when she was helping the student retrieve medication from his book bag, according to a statement from the Hempfield Area...
Shaler police investigating spectator/player incident after Hampton-Shaler game
The Shaler Township Police Department is trying to determine what led up to an alleged physical confrontation between a spectator and a Hampton Township High School football player after last Friday’s Hampton-Shaler football game at Shaler’s Titan Stadium. Shaler Police issued a statement saying that they are investigating the disturbance,...
Water main break slows traffic at Route 22 in Monroeville
Crews are working to repair a large water main break that has delayed traffic along Old William Penn Highway at William Penn Highway/Route 22 in Monroeville. Traffic flows into that intersection from the Pa. Turnpike, Route 22, Route 48 and the Parkway East/I-376. The water main break happened at about...
New charges filed against youth coach arrested in connection with sexual assaults
Allegheny County Police detectives filed additional charges Tuesday night against Eric Fairman, a local teacher and youth sports coach first charged last week in connection with sexual assaults of several children ranging in age from 10 to 12. The new charges involve three more children who have come forward with...
McKeesport woman dies after being shot in Braddock
A McKeesport woman was shot and killed on Tuesday night in Braddock. Pennsylvania State Police said the woman was shot once in the chest at 9:40 p.m. Tuesday night and was taken to Forbes Hospital where she died a short time later. The woman was identified as Sade Lanise Brown,...
Pittsburgh motorcycle officer struck by vehicle while providing security for Biden visit
A Pittsburgh police officer was hurt after being struck by a vehicle Monday night while providing security related to President Joe Biden’s visit to Western Pennsylvania. The officer’s motorcycle was struck by a vehicle as he was blocking a ramp on the Parkway West in Robinson for the presidential motorcade,...
Boil-water advisory in effect for 2 Beaver County communities
A water main break in Beaver Falls on Tuesday morning led authorities to issue a boil-water advisory for residents living in the city and neighboring Eastvale. The break resulted in a loss of water pressure, increasing the risk for water contamination. People were advised to boil their water before using...
Benedum Center stage gets major upgrade
For the first time in over two decades, Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center has a new stage floor. The Benedum Center is one of the busiest theaters in the world, so the old 7,000-plus-square-foot stage had a lot of wear and tear from the past 20 years. According to the trade publication...
‘Night of the Living Dead’ display to be added to Carnegie Science Center’s Miniature Railroad & Village
The latest addition to the Carnegie Science Center’s Miniature Railroad & Village will have a “Night of the Living Dead” theme. The addition being unveiled later this month is a replica of the Evans City Cemetery chapel featured in the iconic zombie movie made in Western Pennsylvania. It was where...
Fans celebrate long-waited return of Backyard Brawl
Pitt and West Virginia fans waited over a decade for the return of the Backyard Brawl, and they weren’t going to wait another minute longer to start partying in the Acrisure Stadium parking lots. There was a line of traffic to get into the stadium parking lots well before they...
Expanded Rib Fest gets underway at Acrisure Stadium
The Backyard Brawl isn’t the only thing that’s kicking off on the North Shore Thursday. While the college football season opener between Pitt and West Virginia will be a large part of the focus of events at Acrisure Stadium, the Kickoff and Rib Festival will have a formidable footprint as...
WYEP radio axes ‘Soul Show’ and ‘An American Sampler’ from weekend lineup
Two longtime staples of public radio station 91.3 WYEP’s weekend lineup are departing the airwaves. WYEP, which is run by the Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation and bills itself as “Pittsburgh’s home for Adult Alternative Music,” announced Wednesday that it is canceling “The Soul Show.” It has been on the air...
Pittsburgh sculptor who decided to get serious about his craft at age 69 is now subject of an art book
Point Breeze resident Dan Droz has always been interested in sculpture. But he said he was more of a “closet sculptor,” toiling away in his basement while he ran his own design firm doing design-related marketing and working as an adjunct professor at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design....
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! Three Stooges Festival coming to Pittsburgh in September
Moe, Larry, Shemp, and Curly are coming to Pittsburgh. On film at least. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced Friday that a Three Stooges Festival will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Harris Theater. The Three Stooges consisted of the Howard brothers, Moe, Shemp and Curly, and...
Heinz History Center hosts citizenship ceremony on Women’s Equality Day
Thirteen women from 13 countries sat in the front row of chairs assembled for a special women’s citizenship ceremony in the Senator John Heinz History Center’s Great Hall on Friday morning. It was not a coincidence that the ceremony happened on Aug. 26 — Women’s Equality Day. As Heinz History...
Pittsburgh Opera to open season with ‘Opera’s Little Mermaid’
There aren’t many major operas that the 84-year-old Pittsburgh Opera has not performed, especially ones that have been around since 1901. But on Sept. 17, the Pittsburgh Opera will stage the company’s debut performance of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s “Rusalka” at the Benedum Center. The opera is the Czech version...
Fall flights increase from Pittsburgh International Airport
In a sign of recovery for the airline industry in Pittsburgh, several airlines are bringing back nonstop routes this fall. • Southwest Airlines is adding a weekly Saturday flight to Houston and regular flights to Austin. • Spirit is adding daily flights to Fort Myers and frequent trips to Orlando....
Four Heroes of World War II Dinner set for Aug. 26
Four people with extraordinary stories of heroics performed during World War II are being honored at a special dinner on Aug. 26 at 6 p.m. at the Edgeworth Club in Sewickley. Each of the four has a unique story to share. Julia Parsons is a 101-year-old former Navy WAVE codebreaker...
Pa.’s 1st space museum to open on Pittsburgh’s North Side
A little over a year after its creators announced plans to open “Pennsylvania’s first space museum,” the Moonshot Museum is scheduled to open its doors to the public on Oct. 15. Pittsburgh-based space robotics company Astrobotic is behind the museum, which it is calling “the first in the world to...
Ukrainian refugee and her daughter find a home in Sewickley
When Russia began its war with Ukraine six months ago, Katerina Boyko thought it would be over in three days. She could not have imagined that the war would still be raging half a year later, and that she and her 13-year-old daughter Alexa would end up living half a...
U.S. senators request State Department declare Oakmont man jailed in Russia ‘wrongfully detained’
A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators, including both of Pennsylvania’s, signed on to a letter Tuesday requesting Secretary of State Antony Blinken designate Oakmont native Marc Fogel as being “wrongfully detained” under federal law. The Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act is named in honor of former...
Former Shondell Mike Vale’s Crystal Blue Band to hold final concert Saturday in Latrobe
Mike Vale can vividly recall the details of the night his life changed dramatically in January 1966. He and his band, The Raconteurs (not to be confused with the modern Jack White-affiliated band), were playing at the Thunderbird Lounge in Greensburg. “Who, of all people, walks into the Thunderbird Lounge...
Marty Griffin moves to KDKA Morning Show
It didn’t take the powers that be at KDKA Radio long to find a replacement for Kevin Battle on the station’s morning show. Marty Griffin, a sharp-tongued talk show host and well-known investigative reporter for KDKA-TV, is being moved from his mid-morning slot to the new “Big K Morning Show,”...
