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Peduto to join anti-Semitism summit with other mayors
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is scheduled to join municipal and local leaders from around the world taking part in Tuesday’s 2021 Mayors Summit Against Anti-Semitism. The summit is designed to bring the world’s mayors together to eradicate hatred and prejudice. “Mayor Peduto is honored to be opening the summit with...
Still green and mean, Mr. Yuk turns 50Video
Mr. Yuk is still Mean. Mr. Yuk is still Green. Mr. Yuk still can be seen. He’s turning 50. That fluorescent green face inside the circle means: Stay away. Created by Dr. Richard Moriarty in Pittsburgh, Mr. Yuk’s menacing mug continues to be placed on the outside of bottles and...
Peduto endorses bill to provide pathway to citizenship for ‘dreamers’
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is joining more than 1,400 mayors in supporting legislation to help DACA recipients — non-citizens brought by their parents to the U.S. as children — become citizens. The bill, called the American Dream and Promise Act, includes provisions of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), a...
Arbitrator upholds termination of former Pittsburgh cop with troubled history
A former Pittsburgh police officer who’s been in trouble dozens of times throughout his career will not return to the force. An arbitrator recently upheld the termination of Paul Abel Jr., who was fired after an incident involving a homeless man on the North Side in December near Heinz Field,...
Revamped Bakery Square in Pittsburgh includes 4 new restaurants
Comfort food, Asian cuisine, fresh pasta and burgers will be cooked up at the new Bakery Square food hall, slated to open in May. Galley Bakery Square is being developed by the same company that launched Smallman Galley in Pittsburgh’s Strip District in 2015. The new East End location has...
Giant Eagle clinic at Heinz Field extended, open to more teachers
Giant Eagle’s mass vaccination clinic at Heinz Field was again extended, this time for all PreK-12 teachers in Western Pennsylvania. The chain will be holding clinic hours, by appointment, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, and between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. As with...
Pedestrian struck, killed in Downtown Pittsburgh
A man was killed Saturday night after he was struck by a car in Downtown Pittsburgh, according to police. The incident happened about 9:30 p.m. near the intersection of Stanwix Street and Penn Avenue, said Pittsburgh police spokesman Chris Togneri. First responders arrived and found the man pinned under the...
Ron Jaye, a longtime fixture in Pittsburgh broadcast news, dead at 86
Ronald Jaye Krauth, a longtime fixture in Pittsburgh broadcast news, known on the air as “Ron Jaye,” died last week in his Allegheny County home. A spokesman for WPXI News, where Krauth spent the better part of three decades on the air, said the news staff there is mourning the...
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank to benefit from 2nd Feed the Need Radiothon
The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank will benefit from the second Feed the Need Radiothon, which is meant to help those in the region who are using drive-up food distribution sites and food pantries during the covid-19 pandemic. Entercom, a leading media and entertainment company, is hosting the Giant Eagle...
You will find parking and shopping inside this Downtown Pittsburgh garage
Shoppers can buy items out of the trunk of someone’s car next month at a parking garage in Downtown Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership is hosting “Car Bazaar,” a flea market of makers, artists, retailers and people selling second-hand items. Vehicles will be parked on several floors of the Sixth...
Pittsburgh Parks & Rec reaches food distribution milestone during pandemic
Many organizations have had to reinvent themselves since the start of the pandemic one year ago and the City of Pittsburgh Department of Parks & Recreation is no exception. While Citiparks recreation and senior centers have been closed to activities during the pandemic, many have been repurposed as safe sites...
No matter how you slice it, today is Pi(e) DayVideo
To mathematicians, today is Pi Day — 3.14 is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle. Get it … March 14 … 3.14. But to bakers, it’s apple, cherry, cream or even a whiskey-infused Pie Day. “Every day is pie day here,” said...
Woman hospitalized after being mauled by dogs in Pittsburgh
A woman was hospitalized after being mauled by dogs in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning. Pittsburgh Police, EMS and Animal Care and Control responded to a report of a dog attack on the 1000 block of Blackadore Street in the Homewood North neighborhood around 9:10 a.m. Police officers found a woman...
Pittsburgh firefighters battle 3-alarm fire at Marshall-Shadeland home
Firefighters were battling a fire Saturday afternoon at a home in Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood. The three-alarm blaze was reported on the 2800 block of Shadeland Avenue, according to a tweet from the Pittsburgh Fire Fighters. Just after 2 p.m., Pittsburgh Public Safety reported that the fire was under control. No...
About 3,500 high-risk people return to PNC Park to receive 2nd covid vaccine shot
About 3,500 high-risk seniors will receive their second dose of the covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at PNC Park on Saturday. Allegheny Health Network (AHN) hosted a clinic at on Feb. 20, during which 3,500 people in Phase 1A of the state’s covid-19 vaccine distribution plan received their first...
Carnegie Science & Engineering Fair returns this month
Among the casualties that resulted from the start of the pandemic one year ago was the Carnegie Science Center’s Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair, a tradition that began in 1940. The start of the covid-19 crisis made holding the fair, usually scheduled for March, impossible to do in person...
More than half of Pittsburgh Public Schools employees receive covid vaccines
More than half of the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ teachers and staff will be at least partially vaccinated by the end of this weekend, following a series of clinics that started this week, district officials said. “This is the end of a pretty fantastic week,” Superintendent Anthony Hamlet said Friday. Rodney...
UPMC teaming up with Penguins to vaccinate 1,000 at PPG Paints Arena
UPMC is teaming up with the Pittsburgh Penguins to vaccinate over 1,000 high-risk individuals during a clinic at PPG Paints Arena on Monday. The event, which will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., is appointment-only. Vaccines will be offered to those in Phase 1A of Pennsylvania’s vaccine rollout strategy...
Tree of Life synagogue hosting virtual interfaith covid memorial service
Jewish, Christian and Islamic leaders from across Pittsburgh will participate in an interfaith service March 18, one year to the day after the first covid death in Pennsylvania. The Tree of Life Congregation will host the service to memorialize the more than 525,000 lives lost across the country since the...
Heinz History Center’s new exhibition looks at ‘American Democracy’Video
In one of its most ambitious projects to date, the Senator John Heinz History Center takes on the complex essence of the nation with its new exhibition, “American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith,” opening Saturday. It looks not just at the system of democracy and how the Founding Fathers...
7 displaced after house fire in Hazelwood
Seven people were displaced after a fire broke out in a Hazelwood home Thursday afternoon. Crews with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire responded to row houses on the 200 block of Glenwood Avenune around 1:40 p.m. where they were able to quickly extinguish a two-alarm fire, according to Pittsburgh Public...
Man gets life in prison for 2017 North Side killing
An East Allegheny man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced for first-degree murder on Thursday in a 2017 shooting death. Justin Parrotte, 32, was found guilty by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning in a nonjury trial in February 2020 of killing...
$26 million will fund Pittsburgh home ownership programVideo
Pittsburgh officials have long discussed using affordable housing programs and a land bank to make home ownership a possibility for more residents and to transform blighted neighborhoods. On Wednesday, the city announced that $26 million will be invested in those programs by its Urban Redevelopment Authority through a new program,...
Pittsburgh officials plan occupancy checks during St. Patrick’s Day weekend
Pittsburgh Public Safety officials on Thursday urged caution in weekend St. Patrick’s Day parties as warm weather moves in and the covid-19 vaccines offer a hope that gatherings and celebrations could return soon along with a sense of normalcy. “Now is not the time to let down our guard,” Public...
CCAC student from Penn Hills named to All-USA Academic Team
Community College of Allegheny County student Kerry Katz of Penn Hills is one of 20 students nationwide named to the All-USA Academic Team. The All-USA academic honor is for students attending associate degree-granting institutions. Each college can nominate two students for demonstrating academic achievement, leadership and civic growth. Katz will...
