Paul Guggenheimer stories, Page 68

A new office providing medical marijuana evaluations and certifications is opening in Kittanning. Compassionate Certification Centers, a U.S. medical marijuana healthcare system, is hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony inside The Rehab Centre on Friday morning. The Kittanning facility is located near Armstrong County Memorial Hospital and will provide medical marijuana...

If working as a lifeguard has been a summer job you’ve coveted, now is your chance. Citiparks Aquatics is looking for Pittsburgh residents to work as lifeguards this summer. You must be at least 16 to apply. The city is offering lifeguard certifications and lifeguard training classes beginning March 16...

Talk about taking out the trash. The Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful program resulted in 7.2 million pounds of trash being disposed of in 2018, thanks to the work of nearly 130,000 volunteers, according to a spokeswoman for the organization. In addition, 2.3 million pounds of electronics waste and over 43,000 tires...

When Jason Deichler was a student at Chartiers Valley High School, he dreamed of joining the U.S. Navy and working as an officer on a nuclear submarine. Now, he commands them. Deichler was at the helm when the USS Pittsburgh made its final patrol this year. The Scott native piloted...

Citing a lack of diversity on the Allegheny County bench, Pittsburgh’s Black Political Empowerment Project is calling on Gov. Tom Wolf to appoint Rosemary Crawford to fill a vacancy on the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. In a letter to the governor, B-PEP Chairman and CEO Tim Stevens wrote...

In what’s being declared a win for workers, four national fast food chains agreed Tuesday to stop using “no-poach” agreements. “No poach” agreements are clauses, often contained in fast-food franchise agreements, that prevent fast food workers from switching between employers of the same franchise in order to obtain a better...

The Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium will reopen Tuesday, a spokeswoman said. A power outage at the zoo forced it to remain closed for the entire day Monday. The closure was only expected to last for one day....

The Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium will be closed on Monday. A power outage at the zoo is the reason for the closure, according to a spokeswoman. The zoo is expected to reopen on Tuesday....

The driver involved in a hit-and-run crash in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood Saturday night turned himself in to Zone 3 police officers on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said. She said charges are pending. The crash happened shortly before 10 p.m. in the 1700 block of Sarah Street. According to a...

A Pittsburgh firefighter suffered a slight hand injury at the scene of a three-alarm house fire on Mt. Washington on Sunday afternoon. The fire broke out shortly after 2 p.m. in a two-story house in the 300 block of Kambach Street. All residents got out safely, according to a spokeswoman...

Visiting and normal operations will resume Sunday morning at the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh after repairs to the water tower were completed and hot water was restored to the facility. A problem with the jail’s water tower prompted a modified lockdown at the facility through Sunday, officials said. Fixing...

State police are seeking information about the death of a 40-year-old Manor Township woman. Alyssa Rene Claypool was found dead in her home early Saturday afternoon. Upon arrival, police found several used and unused stamp bags. Toxicology tests and an autopsy are scheduled to be conducted Sunday. Anyone with information...

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala, Jr. wants residents to consider cleaning out their medicine cabinets while they are setting their clocks ahead this weekend. He says it’s a good way for people to make their homes and the community safer. “The beginning of daylight saving time is the...

Primanti Bros. will open a new restaurant at Pittsburgh International Airport with much fanfare on Wednesday. With all of the locations Primanti’s has established around Pittsburgh and in other parts of the U.S., it may come as somewhat of a surprise that this new location is its first in an...

Lane restrictions on southbound McKnight Road begin Thursday night, weather permitting, PennDOT announced. Crews from Peoples Natural Gas will conduct service line repair work between McKnight Circle and Patrick Place from 8 p.m. Thursday night until 5 a.m. Friday morning. Two of three lanes will be closed to traffic....

Longtime Pirates and Penguins organist Vince Lascheid may have passed away 10 years ago, but his music lives on at PNC Park. Devoted fans of Lascheid’s distinctive keyboard stylings will be able to hear more of his ballpark melodies as more have been digitized and will be played at PNC...

The three Jewish congregations targeted in the Oct. 27 Tree of Life synagogue massacre were thankful for the more than $6.3 million donated. “The generous outpouring of support through donations by people in Pittsburgh and from around the world demonstrates that love will triumph. We, along with our two partner congregations,...

St. John Bosco Academy is scheduled to close its doors in June, but at least one alumnus is not going to let it happen without a fight. Joseph Rogers, a 2010 graduate of the school, has started a petition to “save our neighborhood Catholic school” that now has almost 1,000...

A shaggy-haired, 6-month-old terrier mix named Willow became the 10,000th animal rescued by the Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team on Saturday. The dog and four others were flown from a shelter in Morgan County, Ky., on the team’s airplane. The plane landed at Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin to...

Ellsworth Kolb left Pittsburgh in 1900 with $2 in his pocket. He nearly ended up in China. After working his way across the country to San Francisco, he signed on with the crew of a freighter headed across the Pacific. But before he shipped out, something swayed him to go...

The West Mifflin-based nonprofit Operation Troop Appreciation is receiving a $45,000 state grant to help it provide welcome-home kits to veterans, state Rep. Austin Davis, D-McKeesport, announced Friday. Davis said the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs selected Operation Troop Appreciation to get the grant through the Veterans Trust Fund....

Another iconic Pittsburgh record store has gone out of business. Rather Ripped Records in Brookline closed its doors for the last time on Thursday. The store had been in business for 50 years, after South Side native Russ Ketter opened at his original location in Berkeley, California in 1969. He...

The six-week Lenten period leading up to Easter is a time when Christians around the world give up something. While Christians commonly give up food or drink such as chocolate or alcohol, the governing body for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in southwestern Pennsylvania wants to take the practice...