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Cold-weather shelters open in Allegheny, Westmoreland
With frigid temperatures creeping in this week, cold-weather shelters in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties are open. The United Way is working with the Welcome Home Shelter in Greensburg and Union Mission, just outside of Latrobe, to provide emergency housing and transportation. Both will be open when nighttime temperatures drop below...
Guy Fieri’s Chicken Guy! restaurant opens in Pittsburgh
There are plenty of chicken restaurants in Pittsburgh, but the first of Guy Fieri’s chicken eateries known as Chicken Guy! opened Monday in PPG Place adjacent to the iconic ice skating rink Downtown. The opening had been anticipated with word spreading last week, and the food appeared to be worth...
Pittsburgh City Council approves contract with consultant in search for new police chief
Pittsburgh City Council on Monday voted to award a contract to an independent firm to lead a national search for the city’s next police chief. Council members unanimously approved an $80,000 contract with California-based Public Sector Search & Consulting, Inc. The company will be tasked with gathering additional public input...
Pittsburgh to use $400K designated for public safety training facility on road work
Pittsburgh City Council on Monday voted to reallocate more than $400,000 initially earmarked for a new public safety training facility in the city’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood to road paving projects. The decision comes after city leaders last week said there is no timetable on when construction may begin at the new...
Gainey touts investments in infrastructure, public safety in Pittsburgh budget
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey on Monday touted investments in infrastructure, public safety and public works in his first annual budget address before City Council. The city has faced an array of challenges since Gainey took office in January — including the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in the city’s...
Pittsburgh leads national Light To Unite for Purple Heart’s 240th anniversary
As the sun set on Veterans Day, the land of the red, white and blue turned purple. Starting in Pittsburgh at the Koppers Building and followed by New York’s One World Trade Center, reddish-blue illumination glowed across the United States for Light To Unite, an initiative to honor the 240th...
Police: Pittsburgh teen dies in Mercer County rollover crash after pickup hits wrecked vehicle
A woman who was a passenger in a vehicle that rolled over after the driver lost control along Interstate 79 in Mercer County on Friday died when another car crashed into the wreck. Danielle J. Duncan, 19, of Pittsburgh was pronounced dead at the scene following the crash near mile...
Crash in Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood sends 1 to hospital
Medics took one person to a local hospital following a wreck Friday night in Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood. The crash was reported at about 9:30 p.m., when a vehicle collided with two parked cars in a parking lot near the 1700 block of Saw Mill Run Boulevard, according to Pittsburgh Public...
Hill District nonprofit buys URA property for affordable housing, retail project
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority on Thursday agreed to sell a Hill District property to Amani Christian Community Development Corp., which will use the site to create retail space and affordable housing. The Hill District-based nonprofit bought the property on Centre Avenue for $27,300 plus costs. Plans call for an 18,000-square-foot...
URA to provide funding for affordable housing projects in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority has approved funding to support affordable housing initiatives in the city’s South Oakland, East Hills and East Liberty neighborhoods, as well as a loan to help upgrade affordable senior apartments in the Central North Side. This comes as city leaders have said they are working to...
Former chief of staff says she was fired for reporting mold in state House district office
The former chief of staff for a Westmoreland County state legislator is suing him and members of the House Republican Caucus alleging that she was fired for reporting mold in the district office. Marcel Nicole Ingram of West Newton is suing in federal court for retaliation under Pennsylvania’s Whistleblower law...
Man injured in Homewood shooting late Friday morning
At least one person was injured when gunfire broke out on Homewood’s North Murtland Avenue late Friday morning. Pittsburgh police responded to a 12-round Shotspotter alert in the 1400 block of North Murtland just before noon. Soon after, a male with several gunshot wounds drove into the parking lot at...
Pittsburgh considers using $400K earmarked for public safety training facility on road work instead
Pittsburgh City Council is again looking to reallocate money intended for a new public safety training facility in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood, as city leaders said it’s unclear when work on the facility might begin. Council is considering moving over $400,000 allocated for the proposed public safety facility to use for...
About 680 Pittsburgh customers remain without power
About 680 Duquesne Light customers in the Pittsburgh area were without power around 2 p.m. Friday. Over 2,200 customers had been without power earlier Friday afternoon. Impacted neighborhoods included Bloomfield, East Liberty, Garfield, Green Tree, McKeesport, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, Stanton Heights, Westwood and Wilkins. The utility company expects all service...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Nov. 11-13
This weekend is a great time to celebrate movies, music, dance, cultural heritage and chocolate in Pittsburgh. Film festival The Three Rivers Film Festival continues through Nov. 16, featuring 18 independent feature films not showing elsewhere. Films are screening at the Harris Theater downtown and The Tull Family Theater in...
Pittsburgh Career Institute to close after losing accreditation
The Pittsburgh Career Institute will close its doors before Thanksgiving because the healthcare training school lost its academic accreditation this summer, the Downtown Pittsburgh school said Thursday. The private, for-profit school with six degree programs said it will shutdown its classes on Nov. 23. It said it will continue to...
Portion of Brookline Memorial Park may be converted into urban farm
An empty field in Brookline Memorial Park could be converted into an urban farm, which would produce food for city residents and local food banks. City Councilman Anthony Coghill said the site, located within the roughly 20-acre park in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood, was the last active farm in Pittsburgh. He’d...
Man fatally stabbed in Knoxville home invasion identified; woman suffers facial injuries
Officials have identified a Pittsburgh man found stabbed to death Thursday afternoon inside a home in the city’s Knoxville neighborhood. The victim, who died at the scene, was 52-year-old Victor Sawyer, according to a report from the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Pittsburgh police said they also found a woman...
Repeat offender apprehended in Elliott homicide
Pittsburgh police have arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with an Oct. 1 homicide in the city’s Elliott neighborhood. Donte Brewer, of Pittsburgh, was apprehended Wednesday by Pittsburgh police and U.S. Marshalls Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force in the shooting death of Carrington Keys, 41, in Elliott. He is charged...
New public works facility won’t be ready to help Pittsburgh’s South Hills neighborhoods this winter
Residents in Pittsburgh’s South Hills neighborhoods might not be wishing for a white Christmas this year. A Department of Public Works facility that was supposed to bring snow plows, salt and other supplies to the district won’t be built this winter, Councilman Anthony Coghill said. Coghill represents Pittsburgh City Council...
Pitt unveils plans for $240M athletic center in Oakland
The University of Pittsburgh has approved plans for a $240 million athletic center called Victory Heights that will include a 3,000-seat arena, as well as space for training and sports performance and sports medicine facilities for many of Pitt’s student-athletes. Pitt’s Property and Facilities Committee OK’d the project Thursday, according...
Pittsburgh man faces charges in connection with deadly shooting in East Liberty
A Pittsburgh man is facing charges in connection with the September death of a man in East Liberty. Pittsburgh police said Rayvaughn Perkins, 25, approached a white SUV around 5:30 p.m. Sept. 29 in the 600 block of North St. Clair Street and got into an argument with the vehicle’s...
Pittsburgh City Council president says West End ‘excluded’ from public discussions about police chief search
Pittsburgh City Council President Theresa Kail-Smith on Wednesday said she felt her West End council district was “excluded” from conversations about what city residents hope to see in the city’s new police chief. Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration held listening sessions over the past few weeks at Carrick High School, PPG...
Route 28 lane restrictions set Saturday in Pittsburgh during walkway inspection
PennDOT District 11 is alerting motorists of lane restrictions Saturday on Route 28 in the City of Pittsburgh. Single-lane restrictions, weather permitting, will occur from 6 a.m. to noon in both directions near the East Ohio Street (Exit 1B) off-ramp as crews inspect the Charles J. Lieberth Pedestrian Walkway. Ramp...
Braddock man faces charges in connection with deadly shooting in Highland Park
A Braddock man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the October death of a man in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood. Deashawn Watson, 20, faces charges for criminal homicide and unlawfully carrying a firearm. First responders found Omar McCord Jr., 18, unresponsive with gunshot wounds on Oct. 25 in the area...
