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23-year-old man found shot, lying in road in Penn Hills after being thrown from car
Allegheny County Police are seeking information on a shooting Saturday that critically injured a 23-year-old man. Police were dispatched just before 8 p.m. Saturday to the 7500 block of Manilla Street in Penn Hills for a report of a man found shot in the street. Penn Hills Police and paramedics...
Man struck and killed by car on Parkway West
The Fort Pitt Tunnel outbound reopened to traffic about 8:15 a.m. Sunday after the highway was closed for nearly three hours while authorities investigated a fatal pedestrian accident on I-376 West near the Banksville Road exit, according to state police. State Trooper Melinda Bondarenka said a 45-year-old man was struck...
Search for time capsule at former Riverview Elementary School in Harrison comes up empty
The whereabouts of a time capsule buried on the grounds of a former elementary school in Harrison remains a mystery. During the 1950s, 10-year-old Edward Zembrzuski stood outside near a flagpole at Riverview Elementary in Harrison, watching as each class presented an item for inclusion in a school time capsule...
Rahmael Holt joins list of Southwestern Pa. men on death row
On death row There are 136 men on death row in Pennsylvania, including the following from Southwestern Pennsylvania: ALLEGHENY • Richard Scott Baumhammers, 54, sentenced in September 2001, convicted of killing five people in 2000 shooting spree. • Leroy Fears, 57, sentenced February 1995, pleaded guilty to molesting and strangling...
Cop killer Rahmael Holt’s execution could be years away, experts say
Convicted cop killer Rahmael Holt’s appeal of his death sentence to the state Supreme Court could take a year to 18 months to resolve, says a Westmoreland County attorney representing another convicted killer on Pennsylvania’s death row. It may take even longer to be carried out, as there are people...
Democrats hold on to Louisiana governor’s seat despite Trump
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has stunned Republicans again, narrowly winning a second term Saturday as the Deep South’s only Democratic governor and handing President Trump another gubernatorial loss this year. In the heart of Trump country, the moderate Edwards cobbled together enough cross-party support with...
Greensburg, Carnegie made phone history as the first cities with touch-tone phones
Southwestern Pennsylvania made telephonic history in November 1963. Carnegie and Greensburg were first cities in the nation to get Bell Telephone’s touch-tone phones, which would eventually eclipse the old-fashioned rotary models. Bell used the municipalities as test sites before bringing the phones nationwide. According to newspaper reports from the time,...
6 health benefits of eating wild game
The alarm goes off in the pre-dawn dark and, rolling over, you touch the shoulder of your significant other. An affectionate yet sly smile crosses your lips. “Shh,” you say. “Shh. It’s OK. I’m just letting you know I’m leaving.” “Huh? What? Where?” he or she asks. “Hunting,” you answer....
Opalko’s late field goal lifts Central Catholic past Pine-Richland in WPIAL Class 6A finalVideo
This was a kick that might make NFL kickers nervous. A 40-yarder on the notorious Heinz Field grass, yet Central Catholic’s Johnathan Opalko tucked the ball inside the left upright Saturday night to defeat Pine-Richland, 10-7, in a slow-moving WPIAL Class 6A championship that turned into a defensive grind. Opalko...
Aliquippa quarterback plays in WPIAL championship hours after mother’s deathVideo
On the eve of the WPIAL championships, Aliquippa football coach Mike Warfield received a desperate text message from his quarterback. Coach Mike. Please call. It’s an emergency. “I called him and he told me he thought his mom had passed,” Warfield said Saturday, speaking quietly as he fought back tears...
Vera Clemente, wife of former Pirates star outfielder, dies
Vera Clemente, the widow of former Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente, died Saturday at age 78. “We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Vera Clemente, the widow of the great Roberto Clemente and a cherished member of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Major League Baseball family,” Pirates chairman of...
Pittsburgh police searching for city man suspected of shooting 2 teens in Carrick
Pittsburgh police detectives have an arrest warrant for a city man wanted in connection with the shooting of two teenagers in Carrick on Thursday. Cody Smith, 23, of Pittsburgh is wanted on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, robbery in addition to other charges, police said Saturday. Anyone with information...
Allegheny County detectives injured arresting armed Hays youth in Homestead
A pistol-toting Hays youth is accused of fighting two Allegheny County police detectives before he was subdued in Homestead on Friday night. Police said Jymein Brian Chandler, 17, who was already convicted as an adult in June, was walking along 16th Avenue in Homestead where the two unidentified detectives were...
At least 2 hurt in Route 910 crash in Richland
At least two people were injured in a multi-vehicle crash along the 3800 block of Gibsonia Road in Richland on Saturday afternoon. The wreck on the road, also known as Route 910, was reported to police and Allegheny County 911 at about 2:20 p.m. Northern Regional Police are investigating. No...
Springdale family’s 50-foot tree ready to be spruced up for Pittsburgh’s Light Up Night
A 50-foot blue spruce that grew in the yard of a Springdale couple was moved to the City County Building in Pittsburgh on Saturday to be decorated for Christmas. Lindsay and Dennis Malinowski donated the tree, which, in 1987 was a 5-foot-tall Christmas tree of the property’s previous owner, who...
Parents, 3 sons die in apparent San Diego murder-suicide
SAN DIEGO — A husband and wife and three of their young children died Saturday morning at the family’s San Diego home in what police believe was a murder-suicide sparked by a bitter divorce. Police Lt. Matt Dobbs told reporters that officers arrived at the home shortly before 7 a.m....
Medical examiner: Penn Hills man whose car crashed into Plum pool drowned
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Saturday said a driver whose car crashed into a backyard swimming pool in Plum last August drowned. William Gibson, 49, of Penn Hills was driving along Repp Road at about 7:40 a.m. on Aug. 21 when his car went off the road, crossed...
Church sanctuary in Ligonier transforms into skiing ‘swap shop’ one Saturday each fallVideo
Nearby Laurel Mountain Ski Resort has not opened for the season, but as temperatures dipped into the 20s early Saturday plenty of Ligonier-area skiers were prepping to hit the slopes. As many skiers have for the past 20 years, they flocked Saturday to the sanctuary at Ligonier Valley Heritage United...
Catholics halt adoption, foster care programs in Greensburg, Pittsburgh over state rule
Pennsylvania’s Catholic dioceses are challenging a recent state policy that has essentially put them out of the adoption and foster care business. The Diocese of Greensburg recently announced that its Catholic Charities agency was closing its adoption and foster care program after 65 years because the state’s nondiscrimination policy added...
WPIAL Playoffs 3rd round results — Nov. 15 and 16, 2019
TribLIVE’s sports reporters have you covered from Friday’s WPIAL high school football playoff action. GAMES OF THE WEEK • RICHLAND 34, LIGONIER VALLEY 6 @ Mansion Park Senior Trevor Tustin caught two touchdown passes, and senior Caleb Burke scored twice and threw a pair of touchdown passes as Richland posted...
Fire at Penn Township commercial building
Firefighters from several departments responded to a large fire at a commercial building in Penn Township. Butler County dispatchers said the blaze at 103 Hicks Road began shortly before 9 p.m. Friday. Emergency crews remained on scene late that evening and no injuries were reported as of 10:50 p.m....
Texas appeals court blocks inmate Rodney Reed’s execution
HOUSTON — Texas’ top criminal appeals court on Friday halted the scheduled execution of inmate Rodney Reed, whose conviction is being questioned by new evidence that his supporters say raises serious doubt about his guilt. The stay of execution by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals came just hours after...
WPIAL football playoffs 3rd round: How to watch, listen and find scores
Championship berths are on the line Friday night in the WPIAL football playoffs. Teams in Class 5A and 2A will be vying for spots in the finals. Noteworthy, in Allegheny County’s 5A battle, Gateway will faceoff against McKeesport in a rematch from three weeks ago. Tonight’s winner will move on...
50-foot blue spruce from Springdale to become Allegheny County’s Christmas tree
The 50-foot blue spruce on the corner of Lindsay and Dennis Malinowski’s yard will come full circle this Christmas season. In 1987, the five-foot Christmas tree was displayed in Ron Renaldi’s house. Instead of being discarded, it was planted at his mother’s home on Garfield Street in Springdale. This year,...
Jeannette: Hemp drying facility could reopen under certain conditions
If Patriot Shield Security addresses odor complaints at their hemp drying facility in Jeannette, the company will be permitted to resume operations on a temporary basis, said city solicitor Tim Witt. “That needs to immediately be brought into compliance before anyone operates in that building again,” he said. The company...
