Paul Guggenheimer stories, Page 21

Pittsburgh Public Schools announced Wednesday night that it is dropping mask requirements for performing arts students while they are on stage. Theater students and their parents have been urging board members recently to drop the mandate for performers. The announcement came at PPS’s March legislative meeting. “We revised the safety...

One man is dead and the suspect in his death is in the hospital after an overnight incident in North Versailles. Allegheny County 911 received a call about a shooting in North Versailles around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday night. First responders found Travis George Sanner, 38, dead at the scene in...

One of Pittsburgh’s biggest radio conglomerates just got bigger. And more diverse. Audacy, Inc., owners of KDKA news radio, 93.7 The Fan, Y108, and 100.7 Star, announced Tuesday it has acquired WAMO Pittsburgh’s intellectual property and format from Martz Communications Group. WAMO is considered the only urban, hip-hop station in...

One of Downtown Pittsburgh’s busiest intersections was closed at 6 a.m. Tuesday and will remain shut down for about a month. Port Authority officials said the entire intersection of Wood Street and Sixth Avenue has closed to allow for the replacement of the crosswalks and intersection. Sixth Avenue is closed...

A fire destroyed a Penn Hills home early Tuesday morning. The Penn Hills fire chief said all the occupants made it safely out of the house and no one was taken to the hospital, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV. However, the chief said the house appears to be a...

Musician and actor Colson Baker, known professionally as Machine Gun Kelly (MGK), will play PPG Paints Arena on Aug, 2 in Pittsburgh as part of a North America and European tour. Produced by Live Nation, the tour features special guests Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker among others. It’s the first...

Port Authority of Allegheny County has extended free fares through the end of service Sunday. Delays resulting from staffing shortages caused by the company’s vaccine mandate led to free fares being put in place last week. “As many of us have experienced over the last week, service reliability remains an...

Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl Williams identified Adam Cloud, 29, of New Kensington as the man who was shot and killed on Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats on Saturday night. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Pittsburgh Zone 3 Police officers arrived at the 1000 block of Freyburg Street...

As Laura Klimchock left the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh Friday afternoon with her father, Rick, she told him she felt sick. The No. 13-seeded University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, coached by Laura’s longtime boyfriend, Lamont Paris, was about to take on heavily favored No. 4 seed Illinois in a first-round...

It was one of those scenes that can make a person yearn for the carefree days of youth — when a few cold ones, some tunes, and tickets to a couple of NCAA Tournament games are enough to make your day. And so it was for a couple of guys...

The Pittsburgh skyline is lighting up blue Friday night to commemorate what is being billed as the “Ultimate NCAA Basketball Weekend” in Pittsburgh. Several Downtown buildings will light up blue — the same color as the NCAA logo. It’s the Steel City’s way of welcoming college basketball fans from around...

As NCAA basketball fans from Philadelphia and Chicago to Chattanooga and Houston and points in between descend upon the Steel City for four days of tournament action, many will be looking for sports bars to celebrate wins or watch games on off days. In many cases, fans will be on...

Community College of Allegheny County became the latest area business to go solar. The school announced Thursday the addition of a new 543-kilowatt installation that produces enough electricity to power 30% to 40% of the CCAC North Campus’ electrical energy needs. The new solar array was put in by BAI...

As area theaters go back to producing live stage shows, fans of tightly produced, intimate plays can celebrate the return of Barebones Black Box in Braddock. The brainchild of actor/director Patrick Jordan, barebones productions is bouncing back from a two-year hiatus in a big way with the opening of the...

It has been 45 years since the Duquesne men’s basketball team has been to the NCAA Tournament. As a participant, that is. While it’s been four-and-a-half decades since Duquesne received a coveted invitation to the Big Dance, it doesn’t mean it hasn’t been at the party. In fact, the Dukes...

Henry Rollins needs to talk. The mesmerizing, Grammy-winning spoken word artist hasn’t toured since 2018. He had planned to tour in 2020 and 2021, but we all know what happened. “We have all been through something and I am no different,” said Rollins in a phone interview. In just four...

From 8 inches of snow and wind chills in the single digits to 60-degree temperatures in a matter of days. That’s the hairpin turn into spring the weather is making this week. By Wednesday, temperatures will be flirting with 70. “We can thank something called warm advection,” said Jenna Lake,...

Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point in January to 5.4 %, the lowest since March 2020, according to figures released by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. It’s the 21st consecutive month without an unemployment rate increase. The commonwealth’s unemployment rate was 2.1 percentage points below...

There was a time when Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood featured some of the hippest dance clubs in town. From the 1960s to the 1990s there was the Razzberry Rhino, Lou’s Bar and The Encore to name a few, hosting live musical acts like DC Fitzgerald, Harold Betters and Frank Capelli. In...

Butler Street between the 62nd Street Bridge and 57th Street in Upper Lawrenceville will be closed for at least a week because of damage caused by a 42-inch water main break Thursday afternoon, officials said. The break flooded the street as well as several nearby buildings. Pittsburgh Water & Sewer...

Let’s face it: A good many major cities east of Chicago claim to have a great St. Patrick’s Day Parade — among the best in the U.S., they say, including New York and Philadelphia (the origins of which date back to before the Declaration of Independence, according to organizers). Even...

Country music Hall of Famer Alan Jackson will perform at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Oct. 8 as part of his “Last Call: One More For The Road Tour.” It’s Jackson’s first time on the road since revealing last fall that he’s living with CMT (Charcot-Marie-Tooth) disorder, a chronic...

It won’t exactly be a repeat of the unforgettable Blizzard of 1993, but the forecast for Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Pittsburgh includes rather heavy snow accumulation and high winds. “There will be accumulating snow during at least the early part of the parade,” said WPXI-TV’s chief meteorologist Stephen...

A program encouraging owners of businesses and homes to turn off lights during peak migration hours is set to continue. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s BirdSafe Pittsburgh program has announced the Spring 2022 Lights Out Pittsburgh campaign. Its purpose is to reduce bird collisions with windows and the disorientation...