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Madness: Pa. gambling revenue hit new record in March
The month of March tends to yield higher gambling revenue for Pennsylvania and last month was no exception. In fact, it broke records. Money generated from gambling during March was about $515.3 million, an increase of 11.35% compared to the previous year, according to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. Of...
Tarentum and Brackenridge in talks to consolidate police departments
Residents in Tarentum and Brackenridge could be covered by one police force if a potential department consolidation moves forward. Officials are eyeing a merger to enhance coverage and improve services for the combined 7,500 residents of the two towns that sit side by side along the Allegheny River. The idea...
Distrust in America: Small mistakes, deep fear — and gunfire
In suburban Detroit, it was a lost 14-year-old looking for directions. In Kansas City, it was a 16-year-old who went to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers. There was the 12-year-old rummaging around in a yard in small-town Alabama, the 20-year-old woman who found herself in the...
7 arrested in multicounty robbery ring targeting truckers, Pa. rest stop visitors
Seven men who authorities said stole jewelry and cash from people at truck stops and rest areas in Washington, Westmoreland and Somerset counties were arrested Thursday as they traveled back into Westmoreland County, according to court papers. The suspects were found with more than $21,000, jewelry and other items, as...
Vehicle crashes into Pittsburgh animal shelter
A Pittsburgh animal shelter got an unwanted visitor sometime overnight, and it wasn’t an animal. The East Side domestic shelter of the Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh was apparently hit by a vehicle after the Homewood shelter closed on Wednesday evening. The exterior brick wall of the shelter suffered significant...
IRS agent alleges Hunter Biden probe is being mishandled
WASHINGTON — An IRS special agent is seeking whistleblower protection to disclose information about what the agent alleges is mishandling of an investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, according to a letter sent to members of Congress. Mark Lytle, the attorney for the IRS whistleblower, wrote to lawmakers...
Officials identify Moon Township man found dead inside drainage tunnel
A domestic disturbance led to the discovery of a dead man inside a drainage tunnel Wednesday in Moon Township. The medical examiner Thursday afternoon identified the man as Panayioti R. Rauseo, 35, of Moon Township. He was pronounced dead at 9 p.m. Wednesday in the area between Stoops Ferry Road...
Pittsburgh to spend $18 million to resurface over 30 miles of roads
Pittsburgh officials on Thursday said the city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure this week began the 2023 milling and paving season, which will see about 32 miles of city streets resurfaced. The city is investing over $18 million in the street resurfacing program, which supports asphalt street resurfacing and ADA...
SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off Thursday on it first test flight and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the nearly 400-foot Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near...
Charge to be dropped in Alec Baldwin movie set shooting
SANTA FE, N.M. — Prosecutors in New Mexico plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film “ Rust,” Baldwin’s attorneys said Thursday. “We are pleased with the decision to dismiss the case against...
Allegheny Township supervisors approve liquor license transfer to convenience store near Kiski Area High School
The Allegheny Township supervisors approved a liquor license for a convenience store near Kiski Area High School. The license headed for the Buy N Fly gas station/convenience store at 315 Hyde Park Road is being purchased from Monike Inc. of Delmont. Anna K Holdings filed the transfer application for Buy...
More say Trump broke law in Ga. case than NY’s: AP-NORC poll
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has emerged largely unscathed politically from his New York indictment. But a new poll suggests that investigations in Georgia and Washington could prove more problematic. Only 4 in 10 U.S. adults believe Trump acted illegally in New York, where he has been charged in...
$252.6 million winning Powerball ticket sold in Ohio
MACEDONIA, Ohio — Someone in Ohio went to bed $252.6 million richer, before taxes, after hitting the Powerball jackpot. The winning ticket for Wednesday night’s drawing was sold at Get Go #3279 in Macedonia and is Ohio’s fourth Powerball jackpot winner since joining the game in 2010. The retailer will...
Morning Roundup: Sunshine and temps into the 80s expected today
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Thursday, April 20, 2023: Sunshine and warm temps return Sunny conditions will dominate Thursday, with temperatures soaring into the 80s. National Weather Service meteorologist Lee Hendricks said the heat wave will remain through Friday, with overnight temps in the...
Nonprofit honors Greensburg native, more than 500 others lost in German attack on WWII troop ship
Joel Eugene Paulson, known as Pete to his friends in the Greensburg High School Class of 1942, wanted to be a forest ranger, according to his senior yearbook entry. That ambition came to an unexpected and violent end nearly 80 years ago today, when a German torpedo bomber plane attacked...
River recreation opportunities expand along the Kiski River in Leechburg
It just got a lot easier to float your boat in Leechburg. A public recreational project several years in the making was completed Saturday. The Leechburg primitive gravel boat launch in Riverfront Park is a packed-gravel road with an adjacent parking lot designed for nonmotorized boats, specifically kayaks and canoes....
Robert Bowers trial: What you need to know about Tree of Life synagogue shooting case
Jury selection begins Monday in the capital case against the man accused in the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue building in Squirrel Hill. Robert Bowers, 50, of Baldwin, could face the death penalty if convicted in the federal case. The process of choosing 12 jurors and...
‘A million moving parts’: New Bushy Run manager focusing on this year’s battle reenactment
Bushy Run Battlefield opens its 2023 season with a history buff who will step back in time as its new manager. Matt Adams, originally of Altoona, takes on the newly defined role of manager as the Penn Township site enters its visitor season after a rocky series of engagements with...
Florida expands ‘Don’t Say Gay’; House OKs anti-LGBTQ bills
TALLAHASSEE — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis added more wins to his agenda targeting the LGBTQ+ community as a state board approved an expansion of what critics call the “Don’t Say Gay” law Wednesday, and the House passed bills on gender-transition treatments, bathroom use and keeping children out of drag...
3 Pittsburgh public schools will hold classes remotely Thursday due to air conditioning outage
Students at Pittsburgh Brashear, Pittsburgh Brashear Early Head Start, and Pittsburgh South Hills 6-8 will attend classes remotely on Thursday because of an air conditioning outage, according to an announcement from Pittsburgh Public Schools Wednesday night. Because the school on Crane Avenue is designed for air conditioning, it doesn’t have...
Man shot in Homewood, taken to hospital in critical condition
A man was shot just after 5 p.m. Wednesday in Homewood in the 7900 block of Frankstown Avenue, according to Pittsburgh police. Police, fire and EMS received a report of gunshots in the area and found the man with multiple gunshot wounds to his legs. He was taken to the...
UPMC Mercy Pavilion: 8 eye operating rooms, 83 exam rooms, 10 rehab rooms, massive research space — and 1 cool coffee shop
It’s not unusual for a hospital to have a coffee shop in the lobby. But at the new UPMC Mercy Pavilion, which will house institutes for ophthalmology and rehabilitation, the goal is that it will be more than just staff and patients ordering a latte in between appointments. The Uptown...
New York woman shot after wrong turn had hopes, dreams, father saysVideo
FORT EDWARD, N.Y. — The father whose 20-year-old daughter was fatally shot after she and her friends got lost and drove to the wrong house in rural town upstate New York raged Wednesday at the man who pulled the trigger. “For this man to sit on his porch and fire...
Route 8 to Highland Park Bridge ramp to close Thursday night
The northbound Washington Boulevard (Route 8) ramp to the Highland Park Bridge will close Thursday night, April 20, according to PennDOT. The ramp will close to traffic from 8 p.m. Thursday night through 4 a.m. Friday morning, as PennDOT crews patch the deck and repair barriers there. Traffic will be...
MAWC allocates $1 million grant to pay for replacement of lead waterlines
The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County will replace as many as 400 lead service lines for customers in northern Westmoreland and Armstrong counties. The project is the first phase of what will be an authoritywide program to meet federal standards to remove all lead service lines from the water system,...
