Paul Guggenheimer stories

Here are some of the latest news items for Friday, Nov. 3: SWAT team called to incident in Pittsburgh’s East Allegheny A SWAT team was called to an incident in Pittsburgh’s East Allegheny neighborhood early Friday morning. Police said the situation came to an end just before 6 a.m. after...

Here are some of the latest news items on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023: Near record low temperature in Pittsburgh It was an unseasonably cold morning in the Pittsburgh area Thursday and the record-low temperature of 25 degrees, set in 1879 and reached again in 1905, was nearly reached shortly before...

Here are some of the latest news items of note on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Man killed in Homestead shooting A man is dead and another is in critical condition in the hospital following a shooting Wednesday morning in Homestead. The shooting happened about 1:10 a.m. in the 300 block...

Here are some of the latest news items of note on Tuesday, Oct. 31: Man charged with assaulting Homestead elementary teacher A man is facing multiple charges after police said a teacher was assaulted outside a Homestead elementary school. Court paperwork said the assault happened shortly after 3:20 p.m. Monday...

A cold and snowy Halloween is in store for the Pittsburgh area, according to the National Weather Service. “In terms of accumulations, we’re really not expecting much,” said meteorologist Tim Cermak with the National Weather Service office in Moon. “We’re expecting about an inch, possibly as high as an inch-and-a-half...

There were kids in costumes, adults in costumes and pets in costumes at a Halloween-themed fall festival Saturday along Allegheny River Boulevard in Oakmont. The street was jammed with visitors from around the area who enjoyed a morning parade, food booths, pumpkin decorating, train rides for kids, a DJ and...

Two-and-a-half-year-old Christian Stiehler of Sarver doesn’t know much about truck and tractor pulls, but he sure seemed happy to be with his parents on Saturday morning for the start of the fifth annual South Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department charity tractor pull. Christian has cerebral palsy, which is a congenital disorder...

Ross Township’s odd numbered ward seats were up for election this year, but only two wards have contested races. In Ward 1, Daniel DeMarco received both Democrat and Republican nods in the primary and is unopposed. In Ward 3, Democrat Sarah Poweska is the only candidate on the ballot. In...

The races for West View council’s four year seats are uncontested, with Scott V. Miller, Donald E. Mikec and M. Kimberley Steele running for three open seats. The two-year term race has Democrat Eugene Borio and Constitution Party member Jim Barr running for one spot. Borio did not return requests...

In Etna’s council race, only the Ward 1 race is contested with incumbent Democrats Megan Tunon and Brad Iannuzzi and Republican challenger Nicholas Behr Leffakis running for two open seats. The Ward 2 race only has Democrat Ronald Trader on the ballot. In Ward 3, Democrat Jessica Semler is the...

The North Hills School Board race has 10 candidates vying for five open seats. Candidates running for the four-year terms are incumbents Helen D. Spade, Phil Little, Kathryn Poniatowski and Rachael Rennebeck, and newcomers Traci Brown, April Lynn Casey, Samantha Ellwood, John Hoffman, Dana Merlino and Ashley Stephens. Here are...

Shaler Township’s odd numbered wards have seats up for election this November, but only Wards 5 and 7 have contested races. In Ward 1, incumbent Frank Izzo won both the Democrat and Republican nominations in the primary and is unopposed. It’s the same situation in Ward 3 with incumbent and...

Gray skies and rain falling would seem to be perfect weather for a Halloween event. For the folks involved with the Fall Fun for Youth event Saturday at the Natrona Park and Playground on River Avenue, the gloomy weather prevented the kids, 3-year-olds up to high schoolers, some 40 in...

Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash Friday evening in Butler County. The crash happened about 10 p.m. at the intersection of Winfield and Brose roads in Winfield Township, according to a representative at Butler’s 911 center. State police are investigating. Police said David Faulx, 65, of Cabot was...

North Hills School District’s Indians’ colors are red and white, but on Tuesday, green was the color to wear for the boys’ soccer game against North Allegheny. That’s the color worn to support the fight against cerebral palsy. North Hills athletes wanted to show support for Nataly Price, secretary to...

Shaler Area High School’s Homecoming parade began at mid-morning Sept. 30 and made its way down Mount Royal Boulevard. It prominently featured Shaler’s cheerleaders as well as the Titan Marching Band, including the majorettes, dance team and color guard. Dave Zalewski, 39, a member of Shaler’s class of 2002, came...

When Etna council members discussed the idea of passing a single-use plastic bag ban at a meeting in April, council member Alice Gabriel advocated taking a cautious approach. She has stuck to that. “I’m not looking to push this on anybody,” Gabriel said six months ago. “We’ll talk to small...

Many people see the outside of the historic Burtner House in Harrison — built close to the Route 28 Expressway, for which it was nearly destroyed, and located on busy Burtner Road, but not many get to go inside. On a beautiful early fall Saturday — for one of only...

Marzolf Primary School first-grade teacher Darla Hursh remembers what it was like when she was a young student waiting for food in grade school. “I was a free and reduced lunch kid when I was little, we had tickets and you’d walk up to the little table and they had...

Following a multipurpose field installation bid that was deemed too high at $1.4 million by North Hills School Board earlier this month, the approval of a new bid has been added to the Oct. 5 committee meeting with acting agenda. A re-bid was conducted and the board will pursue awarding...

The Shaler Area School Board unanimously approved a contract with Millvale Borough for a school resource officer for the 2023-24 school year at its meeting on Sept. 20. There had been a contract in place and now Shaler is renewing it, according to district superintendent Sean Aiken, who said it...

Nannette Banichar of Arnold is like a lot of people. She had no working smoke detectors in her home — that is, before Saturday. Tessie Amaranto, executive director of the American Red Cross, Chestnut Ridge Chapter, said that’s the case more often than not. The Red Cross teamed up with...

Pittsburgh police detectives are investigating the shooting of a man Saturday morning in the city’s East Hills neighborhood. The incident reportedly happened in the 2300 block of East Hills Drive just after 11 a.m., according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety release. City detectives already working in the area found the...

The Plum School District is investigating a recent incident in which a bullet was found on one of its school buses. The district said it’s working closely with law enforcement agencies to gather information. It said there was no immediate threat to any students or staff members. In a letter...

A single-lane restriction on southbound Interstate 79 in Glenfield, Sewickley Hills and Franklin Park boroughs and Ohio and Aleppo townships is scheduled to begin Monday night, according to PennDOT. Single-lane and shoulder closures will occur on southbound I-79 between I-279 (Parkway North) and the Neville Island Bridge weeknights from 7...