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Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium offer free admission for World Wildlife Day
Admission to the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium will be free on Tuesday as the zoo celebrates World Wildlife Day. “It is important for all of us to start thinking about how our actions can make a positive impact on the environment and conservation efforts,” said Dr. Barbara Baker, President...
Carnegie Mellon tops list of U.S. universities pulling in foreign cash
What a difference a generation and a billion dollars or so can make. Four decades ago, when economist Robert Strauss landed at Carnegie Mellon University, the Pittsburgh school Andrew Carnegie launched as a training center for the children of mill workers in 1900 was a small, well-regarded private research university....
League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh seek to intervene in voter-roll lawsuit
Four groups on Monday requested to intervene in a federal lawsuit accusing Allegheny County officials of failing to maintain county voter rolls. The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and of Pittsburgh, along with One Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, filed a motion in...
Allegheny County health officials emphasize calm with eye on likely spread of coronavirus 
Health officials continue to prepare locally for the likely spread of the coronavirus that has killed more than 3,000 worldwide, but they cautioned that there are still no known cases in the region. “We expect to see some (cases) as we expand testing,” said Dr. Kristen Mertz, an epidemiologist with...
Penn Hills schools prepares for coronavirus, communication procedures
Penn Hills School District administrators are asking parents to double check email addresses and contact information in the event schools are forced to shut down due to a coronavirus outbreak. “Our district principals will be working with instructional teams to develop standards-based, K-12 lessons that may be forwarded to families...
Don’t succumb to stock market panic, advisers caution
Stocks tumbled, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged and the S&P 500 index fell dramatically — all over bad news out of China. That was a little more than a year ago — when Apple announced that iPhone sales in China were slumping. This year, the bad news out of...
Allegheny County health officials to give update on coronavirus prep
Allegheny County health officials will give an update Monday on preparations for what experts say is the inevitable spread of the coronavirus into the Pittsburgh region. The 10:30 a.m. news conference will include remarks by Allegheny County Health Department officials. Allegheny County and Pittsburgh public safety officials will also be...
Inspectors find rodent droppings in Carlow University dining hall
Inspectors found mouse droppings and other evidence of rodents at Carlow University’s Tiernan Dining Hall during a February inspection, according to the Allegheny County Health Department’s Food Safety Division. University officials told Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV that the problems have been corrected, and the dining hall successfully passed a reinspection....
Police: 5-year-old stable after hit-and-run in East Hills
Pittsburgh police are investigating a hit-and-run in the city’s East Hills neighborhood involving a five-year-old boy. Police and EMS responded to the scene in the 2100 block of Park Hill drive around 5 p.m. Sunday. The boy, who had been struck by a gray sedan that fled the scene, was...
Police: Man in critical condition after shooting in McKeesport
A man is in critical condition after he was shot multiple times in McKeesport, according to Allegheny County Police. McKeesport police were dispatched to the 2900 block of Jenny Lind Street just after 2:30 p.m. Sunday, where they found a 19-year-old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to Allegheny...
Police: Man tries to rob woman, chases after her on bicycle in Oakland
Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh police are investigating after a man on a bicycle allegedly tried to rob a woman Saturday night in Oakland. The incident occurred shortly after 9 p.m. in the 3600 block of Fifth Avenue, according to a university crime alert. When officers got to the scene,...
Handful of babies born in region on Leap Day, share rare birthday 
You could say she’s 1 in 1,461 — the odds of being born on Leap Day. Nyla Allen, at 7 lbs. 5 oz., was one of seven babies to be born at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital on Feb. 29, also known as Leap Day, as of early afternoon Saturday. “She’s perfectly...
University of Pittsburgh tells students in 3 countries to return home, stay away from others
The University of Pittsburgh has notified 41 of its students studying in Italy, South Korea, and Japan that “they should return to their home communities in the United States and practice social distancing for 14 days after they arrive.” Pitt already had canceled or changed the venue for all spring...
2 Steel Valley workers monitored for possible coronavirus
Two Steel Valley School District employees have been told to stay away from school property as a precaution related to the threat of the spreading coronavirus. The employees are required to distance themselves until the incubation period of the virus has passed and they are cleared by a medical professional,...
Pittsburghers lap up beers at BrewDog’s grand opening in East Liberty
It’s 11 a.m. at BrewDog’s grand opening on Friday, Feb. 28, and the place is packed. The new 4,000-square-foot space is the Scottish company’s latest American outpost. It is located on Centre Avenue across from Target in East Liberty. Co-founders James Watt and Martin Dickie started releasing experimental beers in...
Duquesne woman accused of stealing $500K worth of opioid-addiction remedy
A Duquesne woman is accused of stealing from her former employer more than $500,000 worth of a drug used to treat opioid addiction. Rena Lynne Schleehauf, 33, is charged with delivery and possession of a controlled substance, theft and theft by deception. Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Schleehauf has admitted...
Drug ringleaders admit to moving 300 pounds of cocaine from L.A. to Penn Hills
A Georgia man admitted Friday to running a cross-country drug ring that moved as much as 300 pounds of cocaine from Los Angeles to Penn Hills in either an RV or a Mercedes-Benz van emblazoned with a promotional photo of “Sno Cold,” his rapper wife, officials said. Don Juan Mendoza,...
Duquesne University to bring Rome campus students back to U.S.
Duquesne University is making plans for students at its Rome campus to return to the United States after the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention on Friday evening raised the caution level against travel to Italy because of the growing coronavirus threat there. None of the 59 American students at...
CommonWealth Press workers form union in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh screen printing company CommonWealth Press has unionized. The company announced its workers are now AFL/CIO members of The Printing, Publishing, and Media Workers Sector of the Communication Workers of America and the Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters local 412. View this post on Instagram CommonWealth...
High school dancers from around the world visit Point Park for national dance festival 
Driven by the dream of a college scholarship, high school dancers from around the world have traveled to Point Park University in Downtown Pittsburgh to perform for the country’s top dance schools during the National High School Dance Festival. “It is an amazing way to get my name out to...
17-year-old boy charged with attempted homicide in connection to Duquesne shooting
Police arrested a 17-year-old boy Friday in connection to a Duquesne shooting that sent a man to the hospital in critical condition two weeks ago, officials said. Terril Leverett was taken into custody at Allegheny County Jail after officials served an arrest warrant at his home, Allegheny County Police Lt....
Downtown Pittsburgh steam heat system ‘beyond repair,’ says mayor
A failing steam factory that has provided heat for more than a century to buildings in Downtown Pittsburgh is “beyond repair,” but plans are afoot for a national energy company to replace it with a new system that would provide heat and electricity through renewable energy, Mayor Bill Peduto said....
Obituary: William L. ‘Bill’ Smith of Upper St. Clair worked 42 years at U.S. Steel
Martin J. Smith once reached into the pocket of a tuxedo jacket his father William L. “Bill” Smith had given him and pulled out a special pin. The Civitan International pin had been passed down from Martin Smith’s grandfather. To the Smith family, it represented a life well lived. Smith...
Pitt commits to being carbon neutral by 2037
By 2037, University of Pittsburgh intends to be completely “carbon neutral,” just in time for its 250th anniversary. Pitt’s Board of Trustees voted Friday to support Chancellor Patrick Gallagher’s signing of the “Second Nature Climate Leadership Statement and Carbon Commitment,” a resolution to improve energy efficiency and sustainability. The commitment...
Students hit the pool to raise funds for Special Olympics Pennsylvania 
On a freezing morning outside Heinz Field, students and teachers from across the Pittsburgh region took turns plunging into a pool to help raise money for Special Olympics Pennsylvania. Twenty schools and nearly 500 students participated in the Cool Schools Plunge. The high Friday was 31 degrees. The 10th Annual...


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