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Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership hopes NFL Draft momentum bolsters retail market
The 2026 NFL Draft sparked a flurry of activity in Pittsburgh, as art installations spruced up empty storefronts, pop-up businesses filled Downtown spaces and crews cleared litter and scrubbed graffiti so the city would look its best. Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership President Jeremy Waldrup on Tuesday said he hopes to build...
Man dies after Market Square shooting
A man hospitalized in critical condition after being shot Monday night in Market Square has died, a Pittsburgh police spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim Tuesday afternoon as Terryll Little, 19, of Duquesne. Police said they were dispatched around 11 p.m. following a report...
PennDOT to host virtual meeting on Parkway East bridge project
PennDOT will unveil details behind this summer’s closure of Parkway East for the installation of the new Commercial Street Bridge during a virtual meeting this week. The highway is scheduled to be closed for 26 days, between the Edgewood-Swissvale and Squirrel Hill exits, beginning July 10. PennDOT has opted to...
Pittsburgh City Council votes to ban ICE from operating on some city property
Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to bar federal immigration officers from operating on some city property. City officials acknowledged their powers to curtail U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are limited. They cannot, for example, stop ICE agents from driving down city streets, pursuing people in public parks or...
Gail Klingensmith, co-owner of Pamela’s Diner for nearly a half century, has died
Gail Klingensmith, co-owner of Pamela’s Diner, a Pittsburgh institution for well over four decades, has died. Pamela Cohen, who founded the local chain with Klingensmith 46 years ago, took to Facebook to make a public remembrance on Tuesday morning: “Today, I lost my business partner, best friend and my ‘sister.’...
More cold weather expected this week
The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh reports the region had the 20th coolest start to May on record. From May 1-10, the average temperature was 52.2 degrees, just around 5.5 degrees warmer than the coldest start to the month — in 1917. Before we hit temperatures in the 80s this...
1 dead following East Hills shooting
A man is dead following a shooting late Monday night in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood. Pittsburgh police reported to the 2300 block of East Hills Drive a little before 11 p.m. after receiving multiple reports of shots being fired. Police said they received three separate ShotSpotter alerts totaling 32 rounds....
David Wecht’s decision to leave Democratic Party is symbolic, experts say
The announcement this week by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht that he was renouncing his Democratic Party affiliation amid what he feels is growing antisemitism in the party likely will have a limited impact on him politically. That’s because Wecht, who won another 10-year term on the bench in...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon reveals his secrets to Woodland Hills students
It’s not often a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and screenwriter levels with high school kids. On Monday, author and former Pittsburgh resident Michael Chabon — whose works include “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” and “Wonder Boys” — spoke to the hearts and minds of Woodland...
Pittsburgh native and Pa. Supreme Court Justice David Wecht changes party affiliationVideo
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David N. Wecht on Monday renounced his registration as a Democrat and said that moving forward he will be an independent. The decision, he said in a news release, is based on his feelings that antisemitism in the Democratic Party is growing. “Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants,...
Carnegie resident and immigrant reunites with wife and baby amid legal battles
When Luis Gilberto Loja Mayancela emerged from a friend’s car Friday and into his wife’s arms, it marked an emotional end to nearly four months in federal immigration detention. The reunion had a twist of humor: A friend asked Mayancela’s wife to step outside to look at something in his...
Farmers market, yoga returning to Market Square
The newly renovated Market Square will once again host weekly farmers markets and yoga classes, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership announced Monday. The Downtown Farmers Market will launch its 22nd season Thursday. More than 30 local vendors will be on hand with regionally grown produce, small-batch foods and artisan merchandise. The...
April Barton reappointed as dean of Duquesne University law school
April Barton has been reappointed as dean of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University. Duquesne University President Ken Gormley reappointed her “during a period of strong momentum and national recognition for the school.” Barton became dean in 2019, and the school recently climbed seven spots and...
Morning Roundup: Police investigate stabbing report in Sheraden; Butler home charred in Sunday fire
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, May 11: Pittsburgh police investigate possible stabbing in Sheraden Pittsburgh police are investigating a possible stabbing late Sunday in the city’s Sheraden neighborhood. Just after 11 p.m., police were dispatched to the 3100 block of Kelvin Street for...
2 injured in South Side stabbing on East Carson Street
Two men were injured in an early-morning stabbing Sunday in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood, police said. The incident comes amid an uptick in crime in the city’s largest entertainment district. Pittsburgh police said they were dispatched shortly after 3 a.m. for a fight near the intersection of East Carson and...
Pittsburgh Vegan Restaurant Week returns for 2nd yearVideo
Preparing for Pittsburgh Vegan Restaurant Week, Chef Frank Vitale was surprised to find out how many ingredients on his menu at Cucina Vitale were already vegan. At the traditional red-sauce Italian restaurant in Green Tree, pasta is made fresh from semolina flour and water. Wines from the family-run Allora Wine...
Counting calories at PNC Park: How ballpark foods add up
Grabbing a bite at the ballpark used to mean peanuts and Cracker Jacks — immortalized in song since 1908. But modern ballparks have raised the culinary stakes, expanding menus to include extravagant, oversized and hyper-local food each season. This year, the Pirates home opener at PNC Park debuted chipped ham...
Pittsburgh artists turn industrial relics into creative hubs
Pittsburgh’s identity is deeply rooted in its history as the Steel City and “The City That Built America,” at one time producing more than half of the nation’s steel and 80% of its glass. Though these heavy industries have faded, their remnants are visible all over, in old buildings and...
Pittsburgh-area pharmacies cling to razor-thin margins as reforms trickle in
Running two drugstores is a break-even endeavor for Primary Care Pharmacy Services owner Anthony Bertola, as long as he barely pays himself. There’s little he can do to improve his margins — he’s at the mercy of a small number of companies that oversee prescription drug benefits. Pharmacies buy their...
Pittsburgh Controller Rachael Heisler serves as vocal watchdog amid financial woes
Rachael Heisler warned time and again that Pittsburgh was heading for trouble. The mayor’s office kept insisting the city’s 2026 budget was fine — no need for a tax hike, no need to cut services. But Heisler, the city controller, wasn’t convinced. So she did what any responsible elected official...
Offbeat Pittsburgh: Meet Johnny Pittsburgh, a local influencer on the riseVideo
A day after Bill Mazeroski died in February, I made my way to the famed Forbes Field wall. It’s there that I met Johnny Pittsburgh. If you’ve spent any time on social media lately, chances are you’ve seen him — an ever-present Pittsburgh influencer on the rise. One day, Johnny...
Drones increasingly a necessary tool in policing, experts sayVideo
David King predicts that over the next decade, every police cruiser may come equipped with its own drone. His guess is arguably better than many. King is owner of Carnegie-based Steel City Drones, which he says is the largest drone supplier in the region. The firm partners with more than...
Meet Joe Wos, the Pittsburgh artist behind ‘Mazetoons’
Those in the habit of heading to the comics section of the newspaper can expect something a little different in the Tribune-Review, courtesy of local cartoonist Joe Wos. Wos is the creator of syndicated comic-puzzle “Mazetoons,” and he’s excited to see his work appear in a Pittsburgh newspaper. It debuts...
Pittsburgh Media Partnership series: The Allegheny Front
Editor’s note: TribLive will profile members of the Pittsburgh Media Partnership in this weekly series to spotlight the robust media landscape in Western Pennsylvania. The Allegheny Front has reported on the environment since 1991. Reporters travel across the region to talk to people impacted by pollution, climate change and energy...
‘We were given nothing’ Relatives of North Side shootout victims feel robbed of justice
Bridgette Mehalic settled wearily into the wooden chair of a Downtown Pittsburgh courtroom in January expecting justice. Instead, she got heartache. Mehalic was sure jurors would convict the man charged with killing her daughter Jacquelyn, 33, at a North Side bus stop during a wild shootout more than three years...
