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Democrats: Abortion rulings may be ‘a blessing in disguise’
RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic candidates have decried North Carolina’s newly reinstated abortion restrictions after a federal judge allowed a state law banning nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy to go into effect. But some North Carolina Democrats say the ruling earlier this month — the latest fallout of...
Man dead after crashing into Jersey barrier on North Side
A man was killed Saturday night when his vehicle collided with a Jersey barrier on Pittsburgh’s North Side. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the victim as 30-year-old Anthony Nsemo of Pittsburgh. Police said Nsemo’s vehicle struck the barrier at the intersection of Ridge and Allegheny avenues shortly after 9...
Pa. lawmakers eye stronger guidelines as school districts enhance security measures
Following the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Pennsylvania lawmakers approved a grant program with the goal of getting $300 million to state school districts for security upgrades. Four years after the killing of 17 people, schools in Western Pennsylvania are continuing to make...
Man fatally shot in North Versailles
A man was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in North Versailles. According to the Allegheny County Police, a county 911 dispatcher summoned first responders to the 400 block of Porter Street. They found a man who had been shot in his torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The man...
Route 30 reopens near Idlewild after crash closed it for nearly 90 minutes
One person was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital following a two-vehicle crash on Route 30 near Idlewild & SoakZone on Saturday afternoon in Ligonier Township. The eastbound lanes of Route 30 were closed for nearly 90 minutes and were reopened just after 3 p.m., according to Westmoreland County 911. Officials...
Trump search: What may come next in inquiry with legal peril
WASHINGTON — A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified material at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. But plenty of questions remain, especially because half the affidavit, which spelled out the FBI’s rationale for searching the property, was blacked out. That document,...
Explainer: Lower prescription prices to take time in new law
WASHINGTON — After decades of failed attempts, Democrats passed legislation that aims to rein in the soaring costs of drugs for some in the United States. It will take years for people to realize some of the most significant savings promised in the climate and health care bill that President...
Suspect wounded by police gunfire after pursuit that killed Wilkinsburg biker
A man died Friday night when another man fleeing police struck his mini motorbike at a Wilkinsburg intersection, according to Allegheny County Police. The fleeing driver, Jack Sherwood, 48, was later wounded when he tried to run down an officer who in turn fired into Sherwood’s car, police said. Monroeville...
Twins crowned Westmoreland Fair royalty
Ties to the Westmoreland Fair run deep in Emma and Addison Heeter’s family. The twins’ dad has been involved with the fair for years, their grandfather attended the first fair in 1954, and their mom was crowned fair princess twice. Perhaps it is only natural that Emma and Addison were...
5 things to watch for in Steelers preseason finale vs. Lions
It was a tradition that went back two decades. Every year, just before Labor Day, the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Carolina Panthers in the teams’ annual preseason finale. It wasn’t quite Michigan-Ohio State or Alabama-Auburn, but the “rivalry” was a staple of the end of the preseason, a mishmash of...
Woman initially released from scene as witness to fatal North Side shooting charged with homicide
A woman who investigators, believing she was a witness, initially released from the scene of a fatal shooting on Pittsburgh’s North Side has now been charged with homicide in connection with the shooting, court records show. Tylajae Allen, 21, was one of the first people officers encountered Aug. 7 after...
Doug Mastriano wore Confederate Army uniform in Army War College faculty photo
PHILADELPHIA — State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, appeared during his time on the faculty of the Army War College in an official photograph while wearing a Civil War Confederate Army uniform. That photograph, first reported Friday night by Reuters, was recently removed from the...
Heinz History Center hosts citizenship ceremony on Women’s Equality Day
Thirteen women from 13 countries sat in the front row of chairs assembled for a special women’s citizenship ceremony in the Senator John Heinz History Center’s Great Hall on Friday morning. It was not a coincidence that the ceremony happened on Aug. 26 — Women’s Equality Day. As Heinz History...
Prosecutors claim New Kensington man’s death involving teens was over owed drug money
Prosecutors for the first time Friday publicly revealed an alleged motive in the fatal shooting of a New Kensington man in July. Seven teens are charged in the death of Jason Raiford, 39. Westmoreland County Detective Jason Napier testified during a preliminary hearing for four of them that some of...
New Kensington church damaged by tornado in 2020 to reopen
Parishioners of a New Kensington church damaged by a tornado more than two years ago are slated to return to it for worship in November. The Rev. Larry J. Kulick, bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg, announced Friday that he will be at St. Mary of Czestochowa at 1 p.m....
Work on northbound Highland Park Bridge ramp to Freeport Road to begin Monday, last into February
Another long-term roadwork closure along the Route 28 corridor is set to start at 6 a.m. Monday as PennDOT crews reconstruct the northbound Highland Park Bridge ramp to Freeport Road. The ramp is expected to be closed until early February. The work will include bridge rehabilitation and drainage improvements. Ramp...
U.S. data reveals racial gaps in monkeypox vaccinations
The Biden administration said Friday there’s sufficient supplies of monkeypox vaccine available now but the shots aren’t getting to some of the people who need them most. About 10% of monkeypox vaccine doses have been given to Black people, even though they account for one-third of U.S. cases, according to...
Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech over patents behind covid vaccine
Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech, accusing its main competitors of copying Moderna’s technology in order to make their own vaccine. Moderna said Friday that Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine Comirnaty infringes on patents Moderna filed several years ago protecting the technology behind its preventive...
FBI: Trump mixed top secret docs with magazines, other items
WASHINGTON — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday. No space at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was authorized...
Woodland Hills struggles with dress code policies as classes begin
A plan to ban Crocs and ripped pants was put on hold at Woodland Hills High School after administrators reconsidered dress code policies in the first days of the new school year. After students returned to school Wednesday, high school principals Shelly Manns and Berchman Grinage said in a letter...
Butler County man dies after 2 garbage trucks collide in Adams Township
A Waste Management truck driver died on Friday after colliding with another garbage truck and hitting a building in Butler County. David Bortmes, 53, of Karns City, died of injuries he sustained during the crash, which was reported shortly after 5 a.m. in the 400 block of Mars-Valencia Road in...
Pet python on the loose in Duquesne; residents urged to stay back, contact police
Duquesne police are asking residents to be on the lookout for a pet python that escaped from its owners. The white snake, which is between 5- and 7-feet long, went missing Thursday near the 800 block of State Street while its owners were out for walk, according to authorities. Police...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Aug. 26-28
It will be a festive weekend in Pittsburgh, with events celebrating everything from fine art to tiny houses to vegan food. Tiny house roadshow The Reuse Box Truck Roadshow makes a stop from 9 a.m. t0 5 p.m. Saturday at Construction Junction, 214 N. Lexington St., Point Breeze. The event...
Lasagna Love delivers carbs and comfort
All you need is love. And lasagna. The classic Italian comfort food is the inspiration for Lasagna Love, a national nonprofit dedicated to providing free homemade lasagnas to individuals in need. The concept is simple — volunteers make homemade lasagna for people from online requests they receive and deliver them...
Coraopolis man charged in Pittsburgh shooting that killed 1, injured 3
Pittsburgh police used footage pieced together from multiple cameras across the North Side and recorded video calls from the Allegheny County Jail to piece together the movements of a shooter who killed one and wounded three others, according to charges filed this week. Andrew Shaqkere Johnson, 25, of Coraopolis, was...
