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Lottery jackpot worth $650K sold at Hempfield store
A Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 ticket worth $650,000 was sold Wednesday at a Westmoreland County convenience store, according to state lottery officials. The winning ticket matched all five balls drawn, 07-10-12-35-40, to win the jackpot, less withholding. The BP convenience store, Par Mar 66 at 4613 Route 136 in Hempfield,...
Rep. Elijah Cummings dies from health complications at 68Video
BALTIMORE — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital due to complications from longstanding health challenges, his congressional office said. He was 68. A sharecropper’s son, Cummings became the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, and was a formidable...
Spirit announces nonstop flight to Cancun from Pittsburgh
A new flight at Pittsburgh International Airport will make it easier to get to the sunny beaches of Cancun, Mexico. Spirit Airlines on Wednesday announced a nonstop flight to Cancun International Airport. The flight is scheduled to start Feb. 13 and will be available Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Direct flights...
Guillermo Rodriguez of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ stops at Pittsburgh’s Primanti Bros.Video
There was a special guest behind the bar on Wednesday at Primanti Bros. in the Strip District. Wearing a red Primanti Bros. T-shirt with the words “Bite Me” on the back, comedian Guillermo Rodriguez stopped by to film a segment for ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He posed for photos with...
Remembering the ‘We Are Family’ 1979 Pirates
Now that the Washington Nationals have clinched the pennant, the Pirates are the National League team with the longest wait since their last World Series appearance. But if Pirates fans are forced to live off a memory of the team’s last appearance, Pittsburgh’s thrilling come-from-behind-victory over the Baltimore Orioles in...
Chicago teachers to strike amid no contract deal
CHICAGO — Chicago teachers are set to go on strike after failing to reach a contract deal with the nation’s third-largest school district. Both sides have been negotiating for months over issues including pay and benefits, class size and teacher preparation time. The Chicago Teachers Union said Wednesday night that...
Woman in critical condition after being hit by vehicle in Point Breeze
A woman was hospitalized in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle Wednesday night in Pittsburgh’s Point Breeze neighborhood. Authorities said city police responded to the area of Penn Avenue and Linden Street shortly after 8:30 p.m. for a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle. Officers found...
South Park man admits to stealing more than $1 million from Upper St. Clair church
A South Park man admitted to stealing $1.2 million from an Upper St. Clair church that he and his wife used on vacations, Pittsburgh Pirates tickets and other expenses, Allegheny County authorities say. David Reiter, 50, a former administrator at Westminster Presbyterian Church, pleaded guilty Wednesday before Allegheny County Judge...
911 recording: Boy found hanging in home with sister was bullied, ‘didn’t want to go alone’
ALLENTOWN — Minutes after finding her two children hanging from a support beam in the basement of their Albany Township home, Lisa R. Snyder told a 911 dispatcher that her 8-year-old son was bullied and had “made threats of doing this, but didn’t want to go alone,” a recording of...
Police: Man pulled gun on 2 women in suspected road rage incident outside Rivers Casino
A North Side man apparently fueled by road rage is accused of chasing after and pulling an AK-style gun on two women early Wednesday outside the Rivers Casino parking garage. Jamal Dailey, 24, faces several charges tied to an incident that began while driving in his home neighborhood of Manchester...
Pittsburgh Police: 9-year-old Homewood boy found
Pittsburgh police said a 9-year-old boy who went missing in Pittsburgh’s Homewood South neighborhood Wednesday afternoon has been located. Terik Smith Jr. was safely located that evening, according to Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz....
City council urged to confront inequities, institutions hindering Pittsburgh’s black residents
Pittsburgh’s elected leaders should own up to historical barriers as well as persisting structural and institution-driven ones that contribute to the city’s drastic racial inequities and poverty-based segregation between whites and blacks, several residents told city council on Wednesday. “We demand reparations,” said Khalil Raheem, founder of the New Afrikan...
2 Penn Hills juveniles struck by vehicles in 2 days
Two Penn Hills children were struck by vehicles in as many days. Police Chief Howard Burton said a 6-year-old boy was hit by a car at a bus stop at Frankstown Road and Erhardt Drive early Wednesday morning. Burton said the bus was headed eastbound along Frankstown Road and boy...
Attorney: Lawsuit planned over VA hospital death in West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An attorney representing the family of a patient who died at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia says he plans to sue over what he believes is the man’s suspicious death from a wrongful insulin injection. Charleston attorney Tony O’Dell said a notice of a pending...
Bedbugs found at Penn Middle School in Penn Township
Bedbugs have been found at Penn Middle School in the Penn-Trafford School District. District officials alerted parents Wednesday that a student was found with bedbugs on their body. No additional bugs were found in the student’s belongings. When a professional exterminator and the district’s maintenance director began searching classrooms frequented...
Technology companies lead modest slide for U.S. stock indexes
A day of mostly listless trading on Wall Street ended Wednesday with modest losses as the stock market gave back some of its gains from the day before. Technology stocks accounted for most of the selling, which lost some of its momentum toward the end of the day. Energy companies...
Prosecutors: Man accused of killing New Kensington officer was armed drug dealer
Westmoreland County prosecutors said Wednesday they have evidence that the man accused of killing New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw was an armed drug dealer who sought to avoid arrest when he fired the fatal shots. According to court documents presented during a pretrial hearing in preparation for the capital...
Man killed in turnpike crash in Somerset
A Cincinnati area man was killed Wednesday when his can hit a parked tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near the Somerset-Bedford border, state police said. Justin Drew, 34, of West Chester, Ohio, was driving a 2019 Dodge Caravan eastbound when it went off the road and hit the tractor-trailer parked...
Judge: DA not required to pursue private criminal complaints over Pittsburgh gun banVideo
A judge ruled Wednesday that the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office is not required to pursue private criminal complaints against Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and council members for enacting a package of controversial gun ordinances. The ruling came a few hours after Anthony Golembiewski, 63, of Lawrenceville appeared in court...
Daily Download: Trump’s upcoming visit to Pittsburgh, airport auction and Hodges vs. RudolphVideo
Each day, TribLIVE reporters and editors will break down the biggest news of the day, with video highlights of the people and places making headlines. Today, reporter Paul Guggenheimer discusses President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Pittsburgh, items left behind by travelers that the Allegheny County Airport Authority is auctioning...
Fentanyl test strips should be legal in Pennsylvania, auditor general says
Citing the growing role of fentanyl in drug overdoses, Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale on Wednesday called on state lawmakers to legalize fentanyl test strips. The call was among the top recommendations DePasquale released in a new report, “A Deadly Dose: Fentanyl’s Impact on Pennsylvania.” The two-term auditor general, who...
What happens to cars abandoned at Pittsburgh airport? Sold at auctionVideo
A 2015 GMC Sierra Denali pickup was parked and left in a lot at Pittsburgh International Airport more than two years ago. Airport officials don’t know why the truck, which could be worth more than $30,000, was left behind. But it could be yours this weekend. It’s among the 15...
Pittsburgh to be featured in Jimmy Kimmel segment
Pittsburgh will get more play on late-night TV. The Steel City will be featured on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” when Guillermo Rodriguez, a Kimmel show regular, makes a stop at Primanti Brothers in the Strip District on Wednesday night. Join us at our Strip District restaurant tomorrow night at 8PM as...
Pittsburgh City Council postpones vote on Penn Plaza development
Pittsburgh City Council will host a public hearing before voting on a land swap necessary for construction to begin on a $50 million retail and office complex on the site of the former Penn Plaza Apartments in East Liberty. Council on Wednesday postponed a preliminary vote on the land swap...
Cops: Motorcyclist who fled police in West Newton also accused of cocaine possession
An Irwin motorcyclist accused of leading police on a high-speed chase for 5 miles Tuesday between West Newton and Rostraver was arrested on multiple criminal and traffic charges, including illegal possession of cocaine and stimulants. Anthony E. Faloona, 29, was arraigned before District Judge Charles Christner on seven counts of...
