Western PA Local News category, Page 992
Southwestern Pa. under heat advisory with high temps set to scorch region
Southwestern Pennsylvania is in for a scorching hot Friday, with a heat index forecast of 104 degrees in the afternoon. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory in the region from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Temperatures will be hottest — around 95 degrees — between 1 and...
Delmont boy’s fatal injuries were ‘diagnostic of torture,’ doctors say
A 5-year-old Delmont boy who liked to sing country music and play with monster trucks died a torturous death at the hands of his adoptive parents, authorities said Friday. Lauren E. Maloberti, 34, and Jacob N. Maloberti, 33, of Delmont are being held without bail on homicide charges in the...
Turner’s tanker to distribute tea at Penn Hills supermarket
There’s not many things Pittsburghers appreciate more than some Turner’s Iced Tea. And there’ll be plenty of it when Turner Dairy Farm brings a literal tanker truck filled with Turner’s Iced Tea to the Community Supermarket in Penn Hills, according to the company’s Facebook page. The company urges folks to...
Car wash planned at old Teddy’s restaurant location in North Huntingdon
The site of the former Teddy’s restaurant along Route 30 in North Huntingdon is to be razed for an automated car wash, making it the fourth place to clean a vehicle in a two-mile stretch of the highway east and west of Irwin. Express Wash Concepts of Etna, Ohio, plans...
Alle-Kiski Valley High School Reunion news July 28, 2023
• Freeport High School Class of 1955 will have a get-together at 1 p.m. Sept. 6 at River Forest Country Club, Allegheny Township. Classmates and spouses welcome. • Ken Hi Class of 1958 will have a reunion at noon Sept. 21 at Hill Crest Country Club, Lower Burrell. Classmates who...
Morning Roundup: Goat Fest PGH returning to South Side
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, July 28: Goat Fest PGH returning to South Side What’s more “greatest of all time” than taking care of the environment? At Goat Fest PGH on Saturday, working goats from Allegheny GoatScape will lend a helping hoof by...
High school history retold through Hempfield Project archive
A Spartan pennant from the 1960s, rescued from between the pages of a yearbook. A school handbook from 1962. A seat cushion from the 1970s. A mug from the Cotton Bowl, where the district’s band performed in 1971, and a football program from the 1980s. Hempfield Area teacher and English...
Franklin Park, a community in transition, celebrates bicentennial
Franklin Park Manager Rege Ebner admits that the borough’s 200-year history as a sleepy outcropping of Pittsburgh doesn’t include many claims to fame. “The only thing we do know is it was named after Ben Franklin, though we’re not sure why,” Ebner said. Nonetheless, the borough of about 15,000 people...
The Stroller, July 28, 2023: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Summer festival on tap at Concordia Lutheran Ministries The 142nd annual...
Pittsburgh officials look to shift covid relief funds to other projects
Pittsburgh officials are looking to reallocate millions in federal covid-19 relief funds to invest in public safety vehicles, landslide remediation and other projects. Legislation before City Council would shift American Rescue Plan Act money to projects that “we need to spend money on now,” City Council Budget Director Peter McDevitt...
Penn State eliminates funding for well-respected, student-run newspaper The Daily Collegian
Terry Mutchler, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and former Daily Collegian writer, likened Penn State University’s elimination of funding for its storied student newspaper to “ditching the Creamery,” another mainstay on the University Park campus. “Am I aware of it? I had to double my blood pressure medication,” quipped Mutchler, a...
Pittsburgh synagogue shooter ‘actively attempted to present himself as less ill,’ psychiatrist says
The man who killed 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue nearly five years ago doesn’t want people to think he’s mentally ill. So much so, a psychiatrist testified Thursday, that when experts questioning Robert Bowers about his alleged delusions have implied that his thoughts are bizarre, he retracts them....
Crews repair water main break in Lawrenceville
A 6-inch water main break that shut down 40th Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood was repaired early Friday morning. Officials said the break, which occurred about 5:20 p.m. Thursday near the 40th Street Bridge, was patched by 1:15 a.m. Friday. “There have been no residential customers that have been affected...
Derry mother on arrest in daughter’s 2007 death: ‘I didn’t think I would see this’
Carol Polo waited years to hear the news she received this week. “I didn’t think I would see this,” Polo said Thursday at a news conference held the day after police arrested and charged a Derry Township man in the 2007 murder of her 22-year-old daughter. Police said Samantha Lang...
1-year-old boy dies weeks after nearly drowning in Etna
A 1-year-old boy died two weeks after nearly drowning in Etna, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office reported. Leo Garrison was reported to be unresponsive around 3:40 p.m. July 13 in the 100 block of Etna’s Sycamore Street, Allegheny County Police said. First responders performed life-saving measures on the boy...
GOP Allegheny County Executive candidate Joe Rockey picks up law enforcement endorsements
Allegheny County Executive candidate Joe Rockey said Thursday that, if elected, he would boost the number of county police, reopen a county juvenile detention center, and provide more oversight of the county jail. Rockey, a Republican from Ohio Township, laid out those and other plans to address what he called...
State suspends license of nurse accused of killing care home patients
The nursing license of a Harrison woman charged with purposely administering fatal doses of insulin to two patients has been suspended indefinitely. Defendant Heather Pressdee, a registered nurse since 2018, agreed to the suspension sought by Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. Prosecuting attorneys for the bureau signed off...
Adzema Pharmacy offers doses of charm, modern care in McCandless
You’d be out of luck searching for an egg sandwich or plate of lasagna at a typical pharmacy, save for the frozen food aisle. Adzema Pharmacy in McCandless is different, with a lunch counter just a few steps away from a fully stocked drug store, all under one roof. It’s...
Pittsburgh synagogue shooter could earn more privileges in supermax prison, expert says
A federal prison expert who testified Wednesday about harsh conditions Robert Bowers could expect at the Bureau of Prisons’ only super-maximum security facility if he receives a life sentence said Thursday during cross-examination that he also could earn privileges for good behavior. That could mean more phone calls, recreation and...
4th Plum road to close for slide repair
Another road in Plum is closing for slide repair. PennDOT announced Thursday that Milltown Road between Shearer and Barnes roads will close at 7 a.m. Monday and remain closed through late September. Crews from A. Liberoni will be fixing three separate slides within the roughly mile stretch of Milltown, said...
Murrysville area: Franklin Regional parking passes, emergency services speaker, summer festivals and more
Email news briefs and event information to pvarine@triblive.com. Franklin Regional parking passes Franklin Regional school officials have mailed student parking-pass applications, which can be completed and returned to the high school office by Aug 9. Forms can be placed in the front-lobby drop box. Parking passes are currently available to...
Bedford Dwellings to receive $62.5M makeover in Hill District redevelopment project
A $62.5 million redevelopment project that will bring new apartments and townhouses to Pittsburgh’s Hill District is moving forward. The Bedford Dwellings project, approved this week by the city’s Planning Commission, is being led by the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh-based Trek Development Group. Plans include...
Hampton forms Youth Sports Advisory Board
A community group in Hampton has been founded at the recommendation of the municipal manager, Christopher Lochner. The Youth Sports Advisory Board was created to combat miscommunications and improve planning among officials from the township, school district and sports organizations. “Often times, our biggest problem is that the left hand...
Squirrel Hill community group may rethink contentious Irish Centre development
A proposal to build housing at the Irish Centre site near Pittsburgh’s Frick Park that received immediate outrage from community groups may be getting a second chance. Toronto-based Craft General proposed a 162-unit apartment complex in May at the former Irish Centre site in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The proposal...
5 things to do in Westmoreland County this weekend: July 28-30
On stage Stage Right of Greensburg will present two summer camp musicals this weekend at The Lamp Theatre, 222 Main St., Irwin: • Chicago: Teen Edition, presented by the teen group at 2 and 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. • We Will Rock You, with the music of Queen, presented...
