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Pittsburgh public safety officials hope to have new police chief in April
Pittsburgh public safety officials on Thursday said they hope to have a new police chief in place in April. Former Chief Scott Schubert retired in July after leading the bureau since late 2016. Deputy Chief Thomas Stangrecki is serving as acting chief as city officials conduct a national search for...
Pedestrian killed by vehicle on Birmingham Bridge, police say
Pittsburgh police said a man was killed Wednesday night after being struck by a vehicle on the Birmingham Bridge. Police and emergency responders went to the bridge just before 7:30 p.m. and found an injured man on the road. The vehicle’s driver remained at the scene. The victim was taken...
Pittsburgh police: Girl escapes possible kidnapping in city’s Bedford Dwellings
Pittsburgh police are investigating a possible attempted abduction of a girl Wednesday in the Bedford Dwellings housing development. According to police, the girl was walking home shortly before 4 p.m. when a man approached and spoke to her in the 890 block of Reunion Place. Police said the girl used...
Pittsburgh police: Carrick homicide was a robbery over $190 in marijuana
A shooting early Sunday that claimed the life of a 21-year-old Carrick man stemmed from a drug deal gone awry, according to criminal complaints filed against the suspects. Four young men — Maurice Nelson, Amier Windsor, Korie Miller and a male juvenile identified as “Conspirator #4” — scrolled through Windsor’s...
Sheraden standoff ends in arrest
Pittsburgh police SWAT officers arrested a man wanted on felony assault charges who had barricaded himself inside a house in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood for several hours early Wednesday. Police responded to a home in the 2900 block of Sheraden Boulevard around 2 a.m. for a report of a domestic dispute....
Heinz History Center opens digital archive documenting 2018 Tree of Life attack
A website displaying archival materials collected in the aftermath of the Oct. 27, 2018, attack against three congregations at the Tree of Life synagogue was set in motion Tuesday by the Senator John Heinz History Center’s Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives. The October 27 Archive website (october27archive.org) is a...
Proposed Strip District development includes nearly 300 apartments, dozens of townhouses
A proposed development could bring 288 apartments and dozens of townhouses to Pittsburgh’s Strip District. The Brickworks Residential Development would include eight buildings on a 3.45-acre lot at 2121 Smallman St., according to plans presented Tuesday to the city’s Planning Commission. The plans call for two, six-story apartment buildings with...
Pitt professor, DuoLingo co-founder will be inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Two Pittsburgh residents will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame’s 2023 class, hall officials announced earlier this month. Rory Cooper, a University of Pittsburgh professor and founder of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, and DuoLingo CEO Luis von Ahn are among 16 innovation pioneers whose inventions range...
Pittsburgh partners with startups to improve city government, support entrepreneurs
Several of Pittsburgh’s city departments will partner with startup companies in an effort to improve how city government functions and support the participating companies, Mayor Ed Gainey said Tuesday. The mayor said seven startups will join the latest cohort of the PGH Lab program. “Piloting new ideas within city government...
Pittsburgh mayor scraps panel created to appoint PWSA board members
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has eliminated an independent board that nominated people to serve on the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority’s board and announced his own nominees. Former Mayor Bill Peduto enacted an executive order to create the board of nominators. Maria Montaño, a spokesperson for Gainey, said the mayor...
Pitt to close English Language Institute
For almost six decades, international students have come to a University of Pittsburgh institute to improve their English and, in many cases, they would eventually teach the language to others. Most who have enrolled in the university’s English Language Institute are in Pittsburgh to immerse themselves in intensive, noncredit training...
Suspects in Route 51 chase charged in connection with Carrick homicide
Pittsburgh police have arrested two suspects in connection with a Carrick shooting that left one man dead. Maurice Nelson, 20, and Amier Windsor 17, each were charged Tuesday with criminal homicide, robbery and criminal conspiracy in the homicide that occurred Sunday in the 1900 block of Concordia Street. Pelson and...
Pittsburgh weather challenged ‘A Man Called Otto’ director Marc ForsterVideo
A movie director can face many challenges — temperamental actors, filming delays, budget overruns, temperamental actors. For director Marc Forster, the biggest challenge of making “A Man Called Otto” certainly wasn’t working with Tom Hanks, whom he labeled a consummate professional. It was something much more elemental. “To be honest,...
Suspect in fatal Pittsburgh stabbing apprehended by U.S. Marshals near Morgantown
A Pittsburgh man wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of his estranged wife last week in her home in the South Side Slopes neighborhood was arrested Monday in West Virginia. Authorities said U.S. Marshals caught up with William Fitzgerald, 50, along Interstate 79 near Morgantown, W.Va. Fitzgerald faces criminal...
Suspect chase ends in Route 51 crash that injures at least 2
A chase for a homicide suspect ended in a car crash that shuttered Route 51 and left at least two men injured Monday. “Multiple Pittsburgh police units” were pursuing the suspect in a recent homicide at about 2:40 p.m. Monday when the suspect’s vehicle crashed at the BP gas station...
Police arrest man suspected of being driver in North Side hit-and-run
A North Side man has been arrested in connection with a suspected hit-and-run incident early Monday. Pittsburgh police responded around 3:20 a.m. to the Sunoco gas station at 310 Cedar Ave. in the North Side for reports of a woman injured in the parking lot. While en route, a second...
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to partner with Allegheny Goatscape to improve Hays Woods Park
The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy said Monday it will use grant money to improve the ecosystem at Pittsburgh’s newly acquired Hays Woods Park and partner with Allegheny Goatscape to remove invasive plants. The nonprofit received a $233,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The wooded space in Pittsburgh’s Hays neighborhood...
Pittsburgh’s Original Oyster House to close through mid-February
Jenn Grippo didn’t want to make this decision without first talking with her employees. The co-owner of The Original Oyster House in Market Square in Downtown Pittsburgh with her mom Renee Grippo (known as Mrs. G) held a meeting with their 10 employees and asked for everyone’s input. The topic:...
No injuries following late-night fire in Arlington
There were no reported injuries following a fire late Sunday in Pittsburgh’s Arlington neighborhood, emergency officials said. Fire crews were called to the 100 block of Cologne Street around 11 p.m. Pittsburgh Battalion Chief James Dolan told Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV that firefighters quickly got the duplex fire under control....
Man fatally shot in Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood
Pittsburgh police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man Sunday morning in the city’s Carrick neighborhood. Police were called at about 6:45 a.m. to the 100 block of East Agnew Avenue, responding to reports of gunshots. They found a man down on the street who had gunshot wounds to...
Teen girl shot in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood
A 17-year-old girl was taken to a local hospital after a shooting Saturday night in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood. Pittsburgh police responded shortly before 10 p.m. to the 6500 block of Deary Street following a ShotSpotter alert for a single round of gunfire and related calls to 911. Officers found the...
Pittsburgh man missing since mid-December found dead in cemetery
Pittsburgh police detectives found a man dead Saturday morning inside St. Peter’s Cemetery in the city’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood. Police identified the man as Kneno “Cino” Weaver, 28, of Homewood. Weaver initially was reported as a missing person on Dec. 18, 2022. He was last seen at the intersection of Lincoln...
Penn Hills police seeking help to find missing woman
Authorities are asking for help in locating a missing Penn Hills woman who could be endangered due to lack of necessary medication. Nia Rash was seen at a bus stop near the intersection of Frankstown Road and Duff Road in Penn Hills at 4:15 p.m. on Dec. 28,2022, according to...
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conductor, musicians excited about performing with Sting
Over four decades ago, when the British-American punk rock group The Police burst onto the pop music scene with a song called “Roxanne,” it would have been hard to imagine the lead singer one day performing it with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The Police blended reggae, jazz and funk with...
Shooting in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood sends man to hospital
An 18-year-old man was in stable condition after Pittsburgh police found him shot in the back early Saturday in the city’s Knoxville neighborhood. Police found the man inside a vehicle in the 300 block of Moore Avenue after responding to a ShotSpotter alert at about 12:30 a.m. in the 900...
