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Squirrel Hill restaurant hit with health department violations for roaches
Silk Elephant restaurant on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill received an Allegheny County Health Department consumer alert following an inspection on Monday. The reinspection — following others in August and June — showed a number of safety violations, including cockroaches, potential for cross-contamination of food and sanitization problems. According to...
TSA stops man with gun at Pittsburgh Airport
For the second time in five days, Transportation Security Administration officers stopped a passenger with a loaded handgun at Pittsburgh International Airport. On Tuesday, TSA officers observed a loaded 9mm Glock handgun in a backpack belonging to a 44-year-old man at the airport’s main security checkpoint. The man possessed a...
Team of Carnegie Mellon students, robots to compete in search-and-rescue missionVideo
Carnegie Mellon University is sending a team of about a dozen robots to a competition testing their navigation of an unknown underground course, meant to simulate search-and-rescue scenarios. The university’s 20-person team of faculty, students and staff — along with their league of robots — will compete in a Defense...
Chaka Khan headlines Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival
Chaka Khan will perform at the 11th annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival this weekend. The 10-time Grammy-award winning singer will take the stage at 8 p.m. Friday at the Benedum Center, Downtown. Khan’s musical repertoire encompasses rhythm and blues, pop, rock, gospel, country, world music and classical. She has released...
Steel City Big Pour returns a little smaller to Construction Junction
The Steel City Big Pour will flow again after a year off. One of the first Pittsburgh beer festivals, the 14th annual event is from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 16 at Construction Junction. The festival will feature 34 brewers, including Allegheny City Brewing Co., Dancing Gnome Brewery, East End...
ShotSpotter alert lead Pittsburgh police to shooting in Homewood
A man was seriously injured late Monday after being shot in his lower back in Homewood, according to Pittsburgh police. Officers from the city’s Zone 5 station found the victim after responding to a ShotSpotter gunfire alert for the 7100 block of Frankstown Avenue around 10:55 p.m. The man who...
Volunteers needed as Garbage Olympics returns to Pittsburgh
It’s an Olympic year in more ways than one. The City of Pittsburgh is holding its annual Garbage Olympics on Saturday, a citywide cleanup event the Department of Public Works bills as a “competitive litter pick-up event.” More than 40 Pittsburgh neighborhood teams are being pitted against one another to...
Police: Man in critical condition after being shot in Mt. Washington Monday evening
A man was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in Pittsburgh’s Mt. Washington neighborhood Monday night. Public Safety spokesperson Maurice Matthews said officers responded to a 911 call for the shooting around 8:30 p.m. along the 200 block of Jasper Street. Police encountered a 20-year-old man suffering from a...
Pittsburgh police make arrest after suspected meth lab found in Squirrel Hill
Pittsburgh police arrested one man and obtained an arrest warrant for a second man after a suspected methamphetamine lab was discovered early Sunday in a Squirrel Hill apartment. About 1:15 a.m. Sunday, police were called to a residence in the 6300 block of Darlington Road after a resident reported a...
Pittsburgh police looking for missing 11-year-old boy
Pittsburgh police detectives are asking the public’s help locating a missing 11-year-old boy. Ronnell Miller is 5 feet tall, weighs 100 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. According to police, he was last seen in Homestead wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans. Miller is also known to...
Police: Greenfield church evacuated after man calls in threat
A church in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield neighborhood was evacuated Sunday after a man called 911 and threatened to harm himself and others at the church, police said. About 30 members of St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church, 506 Saline St., were inside the church when 911 received the call at 11:15...
Al Franken to perform at Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
Comedian Al Franken has a question. “Is it pronounced Car-neg-ie or Car-negie?” said Franken. “I want to find out from the people in Pittsburgh. It’s a lively debate.” Franken wants to know because he will be on stage at Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall in Munhall. The former “Saturday Night...
Pittsburgh police file more charges in illegal ‘ride-outs’
Pittsburgh police arrested four more people in connection with ongoing “ride-outs” happening across the city in which dozens of ATV and dirt bike riders take dangerously and illegally to the streets, authorities said. Police made their first six arrests in connection several ride-outs last week. Pittsburgh and several other law...
Amtrak chief promotes 2nd Pittsburgh-Harrisburg service
Amtrak remains committed to adding a second daily train between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, with stops in Greensburg, Latrobe and Johnstown, the president of the passenger rail service said. Making that expanded service a reality, however, depends on negotiations with Norfolk Southern and securing state and federal money. Stephen Gardner, president...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Sept. 10-12
It’s the weekend. The weather forecast looks good. Here are some ways to enjoy it. Taco Saturday The Original Pittsburgh Taco Festival will feature more than 25 food trucks selling authentic hand-held fried tortillas, folded and filled with seasoned meat, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes or a variety of ingredients. It’s...
Doors Open encourages Pittsburghers to embrace their nebbiness
If there are two things Pittsburgh is known for, it’s iconic buildings and curious people. Or in Pittsburgh parlance, people who are “nebby.” Well, all you neb noses can now satisfy your curiosity about what’s inside those historic buildings, as well as some newly designed spaces. The nonprofit Doors Open...
Charges pending after police remove 24 cats from Lawrenceville home
Charges are expected to be filed against a Lawrenceville resident after Pittsburgh police removed at least 24 cats and kittens from a home along Foster Street. A warrant was served Thursday after complaints of possible animal hoarding. Officers, along with Animal Care and Control, retrieved the animals from deplorable conditions,...
Woman surrenders after standoff in Pittsburgh
An armed woman who had barricaded herself in a building South Braddock Avenue in Pittsburgh surrendered without incident early Thursday night, according to Pittsburgh police. The woman, who was not identified, ended the standoff in the 200 block of South Braddock Avenue at 7 p.m. and was going to be...
Green light: Pittsburgh’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade still on
Pittsburgh’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in September will proceed, officials said Friday. The parade committee and its parent organization, the Irish Society for Education and Charity, announced they are “committed to move forward with our plan to hold a parade celebrating Irish heritage and culture in the Southwestern region of...
Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle company Aurora donates $65,000 for STEM-related requests for local teachers
Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle company Aurora announced Thursday that the company is donating $65,000 to fund STEM-related requests from Pittsburgh teachers. The donations will be distributed via DonorsChoose, a nonprofit that works to match teachers with funding for classroom initiatives. Aurora said the donation was “a way to support future generations...
Report details lending inequities between Blacks and whites in PittsburghVideo
Pittsburgh’s Black residents and those who live in the city’s Black neighborhoods are less likely to get a mortgage for a home than white residents or people who live in white neighborhoods, according to a report released Thursday by city officials. The 129-page report, “Inherited Inequality: The State of Financing...
‘Celebrate Roberto’ kicks off days of Clemente events
Even Pittsburghers who don’t follow the Pirates have never forgotten Roberto Clemente. In the nearly half century since his tragic death, there has been a bridge named after him and a museum created to honor his memory. And next week there will be plenty to remind people of the great...
Pittsburgh’s first responders can get help using new wellness app
Police, fire and other professionals are there for the public in times of crisis, but when they face crises themselves it’s often hard for them to get help. Clinical psychologist David Black worked to change that after 9/11 solidified how important it is for first responders to have access to...
Lawrenceville’s Arsenal Bowl has a buyer, but real estate group mum on who
Pittsburgh’s iconic Arsenal Bowl has sold, according to the real estate firm marketing the bowling alley, though the buyer remains under wraps. Terri Sokoloff, of the commercial real estate firm Specialty Group, said only that the sale brought together two initially separate buyers. She said the group met with more...
Barrel & Flow Fest highlights Black brewers, musicians, artists in Pittsburgh
The collaboration is in perfect harmony. Inner Groove Brewing and Driving While Black Records, a label highlighting Black artists, combined to create “Got The Juice.” The beer will be released Friday at Inner Groove Brewing in Verona and served at Barrel & Flow Fest on Saturday at Pittsburgh’s SouthSide Works....
