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Staycation: Artisans, Amish featured in unique day trip to Mercer County and VolantVideo
One in an occasional series highlighting “staycation” ideas found in our own backyard: Take Interstate 79 north from Pittsburgh. Travel 60 miles to the Grove City exit. Just this once, ignore the college and the outlet mall most people associate with Grove City. Instead, head west for a day trip...
Twists, turns, bridges, tunnels could complicate Western Pa. hyperloop projects
Hyperloop technology promises to zip passengers from Pittsburgh to Chicago in less than an hour, but Western Pennsylvania’s mountains, valleys and rivers could slow it down. Two potential hyperloop proposals plan to connect Pittsburgh to Chicago via cities in Ohio in the coming decades but both recognize that tunnels and...
Purple paint laws expanding across country
In fashion circles, they might explain this by saying purple is the new yellow. Or orange. Or white. Hunters, hikers, paddlers and adventurers of all sorts across the country have long known to look for posted signs before venturing onto what might be private property. Those signs are familiar, colorful...
Quarterback controversy something new for Steelers coach Mike TomlinVideo
With a Super Bowl ring to his credit, job security and a 20-4-1 career record against the Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin doesn’t have many reasons to be envious of Cleveland Browns coach Freddie Kitchens. Seven words Kitchens said during a conference call with Pittsburgh media this week certainly...
Man leads state police on 100 mph chase through Squirrel Hill Tunnel; Jeep crashes, burns
A driver led state police on a 100 mph car chase early Saturday through the Squirrel Hill Tunnel that ended with the man’s Jeep crashing into trees and catching on fire in Monroeville, officials said. Officials arrested the driver, Dean Jarreaun Marbury, 39, of Pittsburgh and booked him into Allegheny...
Fans anxious for ‘a hot mess’ in Steelers-Browns rematch 2 weeks after on-field meleeVideo
Latrobe’s Brian Noel is out for revenge. Shamyra Edwards of Aspinwall just wants to watch good football. New Kensington’s Nikala Tallerico hopes that Browns and Steelers players — as well as their fans — behave during Sunday’s game in Pittsburgh — barely two weeks after an on-field melee in Cleveland...
Decades of scars worn by both sides as Steelers-Browns rivalry boils with playoff implications
When sports columnist Bud Shaw arrived in Cleveland in 1991, a colleague told him how captivated the city would get when the Browns were regular playoff contenders. The Browns were only a few years removed from making seven playoff appearances in a 10-year span, including three trips to the AFC...
Police: Bullet strikes Homewood home, lodges in fireplace; no one reported injured
A bullet came ripping through the front window and into the living room fireplace of a home in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood early Saturday, officials said. No one was at home at the house on Bennett Street, Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said. Police found the bullet lodged into the home’s...
Police: Man shot with BB gun after fight between East Liberty neighbors
A man was hurt after being shot with a BB gun Saturday afternoon during a dispute between neighbors in East Liberty, police said. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said police were called at about 12:45 p.m. to the 500 block of North Negley Avenue and the found a man...
Fire damages Greensburg home; residents get out unharmed
Greensburg officials said a late morning blaze Saturday at a home on South Maple Avenue was caused by an overload of electrical appliances. Both residents of the two-story family home were able to escape the fire, which was reported shortly before noon and was quickly extinguished, Greensburg fire Chief Tom...
Alle-Kiski Valley shoppers turn out to support small businesses as Christmas season beginsVideo
The sounds of Christmas music and the sights of holiday trimmings abound at the Hole in the Wall on Leechburg Road in Lower Burrell. The store was filled with shoppers on Small Business Saturday, browsing the items for sale at one of the businesses in the Alle-Kiski Valley that depend...
Deer hunters like starting rifle season on SaturdayVideo
Michael “MadDog” Maddy said Saturday’s early start to the 2019 deer hunting season was, well, unusual. “There was nobody out there until about 9 a.m.,” Maddy said. For hunters such as Maddy, Saturday marked the first time since 1963 that rifle season for hunters in Pennsylvania started on the Saturday...
Pennsylvania’s sexual abuse laws leave survivors conflicted
HARRISBURG — When Pennsylvania overhauled its child sexual abuse laws this week after a years-long battle, absent from the bill-signing ceremony were some of the people who had worked hardest for the changes. Some sexual-abuse survivors and victim advocates felt conflicted by the compromise package: Missing was a cornerstone of...
Browns coach Freddie Kitchens seen in ‘Pittsburgh started it’ T-shirt
Joking or not, Freddie Kitchens made a statement on what he thinks about the scuffle between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns two weeks ago. Two days before the rematch between the Steelers and Browns at Heinz Field, Kitchens was photographed Friday evening wearing a “Pittsburgh started it” T-shirt. The...
Ex-Jeannette, Ohio State star Terrelle Pryor stabbed in Pittsburgh, faces charges
An alleged physical fight between Terrelle Pryor and his girlfriend ended with the former NFL player stabbed in the chest and both facing charges, according to the criminal complaints filed against the pair. Pryor underwent surgery Saturday and is expected to survive, according to a family friend. He is charged...
Powerful storm interrupts nation’s busiest travel weekend
A powerful storm making its way east from California is causing major disruptions during the year’s busiest travel weekend, as forecasters warned that intensifying snow and ice could thwart millions of people across the country hoping to get home after Thanksgiving. The storm caused the death of at least one...
UK police: Bridge attacker had been jailed for terror crimes
LONDON — A man imprisoned six years for terrorism offenses before his release last year stabbed several people in London on Friday, two fatally, before being tackled by members of the public and then fatally shot by officers on London Bridge. Neil Basu, London’s police counterterrorism head, said 28-year-old Usman...
Rope team rescues unconscious worker stranded on scaffold in Pittsburgh’s North Side
A five-person rope team rescued a worker who collapsed Friday afternoon on a scaffold wedged between two buildings in Pittsburgh’s North Side, officials said. Shortly after 3 p.m., medics and firefighters responded to the report of the unconscious man stranded about 40 feet high in the 1300 block of Franklin...
Hikers opt out of Black Friday shopping for outdoor adventures
On a brisk Black Friday morning that left a dusting of snow atop one of the ridges in Linn Run State Park southeast of Ligonier, a group of 23 Western Pennsylvania hikers opted out of the shopping mall crowds and opted in for a nine-mile hike along a trail that...
Black Friday deals lure shoppers into Alle-Kiski Valley stores early, often
Natalie Cale was moving through the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer, two stuffed bags in each hand, with a destination in mind. It was her car, where she planned to drop off her load of gifts before heading back in for more. Cale was finding the deals on this year’s...
Harrison preps tree, plaza for Christmas parade and festival
Organizers of Harrison’s Christmas parade and festival plan to hold the festival under a tent this year to avoid a repeat of last year, when Mother Nature was a Grinch and rained out the festivities. Rain or shine, the parade will begin at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, and is...
Fan loyalties in Shenango Valley divided between Steelers, Browns
You’re not just in Steelers Country when you visit the Shenango Valley, an area that’s about the same distance from Pittsburgh as it is Cleveland. Browns fans make up a sizable minority of the football fan base. That’s made the past couple of weeks interesting in the Shenango Valley as...
Father of former Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury dies
The father of former Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury has died, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Friday. Vegas Golden Knights beat reporter Ben Gotz reported Andre Fleury passed away Wednesday at age 63. According to Gotz, Marc-Andre Fleury left the Golden Knights’ road trip for Quebec on Tuesday because of...
Dutch police: 3 people wounded in Hague stabbing
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — An assailant stabbed three people Friday night in a busy shopping district in the Netherlands, and police were searching for the suspect, authorities said. The attack came just hours after a man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people in London, killing two, before he...
Editorial: Harrisburg targets hunting changes
It used to be that the Saturday after Thanksgiving was about hunting for bargains or hunting for Christmas ornaments or maybe just hunting for the remote to watch college football. “Used to be” was last year. That changes this weekend. This year, the Saturday after Thanksgiving is also the first...
