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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Nonprofit lands $582,000 grant to transform 2 Wilkinsburg parking lots with rain gardens and bioswales
The state Department of Environmental Protection awarded $582,000 to the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association to install natural drainage with rain gardens and bioswales in two Wilkinsburg parking lots. Underground stomwater storage tanks will also be installed. The gardens, bioswales and storage tanks will catch the runoff that would normally...
New Abraham Lincoln statue unveiled in Wilkinsburg 
Abe Lincoln is back in Wilkinsburg. A new 400-pound bronze life-size statue of the 16th president of the United States was unveiled Tuesday morning in the Wilkinsburg Borough Municipal Building. The approximately 6-foot-4 statue (same height as the man himself) will replace the battered sheet-copper Lincoln statue that was dedicated...
3 Allegheny County clubs shut down for covid violations, no health permit
The Allegheny County Health Department shut down three illegal nightclubs over the week, none of which had valid health permits and all of which were flouting covid-19 mitigation measures, according to health department data. The Alley in Carrick, 9 Café in Wilkinsburg and the 703 Social Club in Marshall-Shadeland were...
Criminal charges dropped in case involving woman who sued Churchill police
Criminal charges have been dismissed against a woman who had an encounter with a Churchill police officer while taking a walk. She said the 2019 incident left her handcuffed and briefly detained. Rebecca Suits, 60, of Boise, Idaho, was visiting her godmother in Wilkinsburg when she went for a walk...
Police safely locate Pittsburgh man missing since Feb. 6
Pittsburgh police have located a missing man last seen in Homewood on Feb. 6. George Booker, 51, of Pittsburgh, is considered at-risk, according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesperson. Police annnounced that Booker had been safely located shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning....
New bronze Abe Lincoln statue coming to Wilkinsburg
President Abraham Lincoln, who was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Ky., would have been 212 years old Friday. Two years ago, when he was a mere 210, the Wilkinsburg Historical Society announced plans to raise $70,000 to build a bronze, life-size statue of the 16th president of the United...
Wilkinsburg author Deesha Philyaw in running for 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Wilkinsburg author Deesha Philyaw is continuing to rack up literary accolades. Philyaw’s “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies” was named to the longlist for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America’s largest peer-juried literary prize, on Tuesday. In October, Philyaw’s story collection was named a finalist in the fiction category...
Pittsburgh artist designed Google Doodle honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Monday’s Google Doodle was designed to show the duality of history and current events, pointing out similarities and differences in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the one that is taking place today. That’s according to the doodle’s creator. She is artist Noa Denmon, 25, a Pittsburgh native...
Teen dies at shooting scene in Wilkinsburg
One of three boys handling a handgun in a Wilkinsburg home died when the weapon discharged, according to Allegheny County Police. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the boy as Marcus Gibson, 15. According to Allegheny County Police, Wilkinsburg police and paramedics were called to the 1300 block of Franklin...
Police: Woman in critical condition after she was shot in neck in Wilkinsburg
Police are investigating a shooting that occurred on the 1200 block of Morrow Street in Wilkinsburg. Wilkinsburg Police got the call just before 3 p.m. First responders found a woman who had been shot in her neck. She was transported to a hospital where she was listed in critical condition....
Man acquitted in Wilkinsburg mass shooting pleads to gun charge
Darnell Mahone logged in to the federal court hearing Tuesday to watch the man he believes killed his daughter in a mass shooting plead guilty to a gun charge. It isn’t as much as he’d hoped for — the plea agreement Cheron Shelton reached with the U.S. Attorney’s office calls...
Man charged with homicide, robbery in November shooting in Wilkinsburg
Allegheny County Police have arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with a fatal November shooting in Wilkinsburg. Elyzah Cecil King-Bradley is charged with criminal homicide in the death of Emanuel Deshawn Johnson, 35, who was found dead inside a vehicle after county police responded to the shooting shortly before 8...
Wilkinsburg to host gun buyback, no questions asked
Wilkinsburg will host a a gun buyback program Saturday at its borough building. People turning in hand guns will receive a $50 Giant Eagle gift card. A rifle can earn someone a $25 Giant Eagle card. The buyback runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. People must be 18 to...
3 charged with homicide in Wilkinsburg shooting that killed 1, injured 2
Three people have been charged with homicide in connection to a Wilkinsburg shooting last year that killed a 22-year-old man and injured two women, police said Friday. Herbert Lee Walker III, 24, and Kenya Harper, 25, are charged with homicide and conspiracy, court records show. Both were arrested and booked...
U.S. Marshals arrest man wanted in fatal Wilkinsburg shooting
U.S. Marshals on Friday arrested an Edgewood man wanted for an alleged homicide in Wilkinsburg earlier this year, authorities said. Tieriq Pinnix, 27, faces homicide and other charges in connection with the Aug. 31 killing of Marque Yellets. Police responded to a home on Penn Avenue in Wilkinsburg shortly before...
Family of Romir Talley sues police over his shooting death in Wilkinsburg
The mother of a man shot and killed by a Wilkinsburg police officer last year filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday against the police department, its leadership and the officers involved. The complaint, filed by LaTasha Talley as administratrix for her son’s estate, includes claims for excessive force, unreasonable seizure...
Founded in Wilkinsburg, Scholastic magazine celebrates 100 years of educating children
The first issue of Scholastic was born in Wilkinsburg on Oct. 22, 1920. Maurice R. “Robbie” Robinson started the publication as a four-page magazine about high school sports called The Western Pennsylvania Scholastic. The Wilkinsburg resident had just graduated from Dartmouth College, after spending more than a year in the...
Edgewood, Swissvale area real estate transactions for the week of Oct. 18
Edgewood Girish Chavan sold property at 322 Dewey Ave. to Jessica Becker and Jacqueline Bialostozky for $355,000. Tricia Delnay sold property at 317 Garland St. to Eric Mazza for $209,000. Sue Phillippi sold property at 212 Lincoln Ave. to Nathan and Kristen Tavenor for $195,000. Gerald Price sold property at...
Wilkinsburg writer Deesha Philyaw a finalist for National Book Awards
A Wilkinsburg woman well known for her writing about race, gender, parenting and culture is now receiving national recognition for her fiction. Deesha Philyaw is among five finalists in the fiction category of the National Book Awards for her story collection “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” her first book...
Pittsburgh firefighter injured while battling fire in Wilkinsburg
A Pittsburgh firefighter was injured while battling a one-alarm fire in Wilkinsburg Wednesday afternoon. According to Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman Maurice Matthews, firefighters with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire responded to an abandoned structure at the 500 block of Singer Place around 2 p.m. On scene, one firefighter suffered a...
Lawyer: Notes on report show Wilkinsburg police may have been chasing the wrong man before deadly shooting
There’s no video footage of the 43-second pursuit of Romir Talley by Wilkinsburg police in December 2019, which ended in Talley’s death after being shot seven times by police. But an emergency medical services log obtained by the attorney representing Talley’s family indicates that police may have been going after...
Man charged in connection with fatal Wilkinsburg shooting
Allegheny County police arrested a man Friday morning in connection with a deadly July shooting in Wilkinsburg that left another man dead, authorities said. Jordan Cobb, 23, of Pittsburgh, is charged with homicide, tampering with evidence and firearms violations. A criminal complaint against Cobb was not immediately available. The late-morning...
Wilkinsburg officer who shot Romir Talley also reported the memorial mural
A Wilkinsburg police officer who shot and killed a man last year is the same officer who tipped off other officers that a mural honoring the slain man was being painted, leading to felony charges against the artists, documents show. Officer Robert Gowans shot and killed 24-year-old Romir Talley just...
Football coaches fear postponement, transfers could doom City League
City League football coaches are worried about losing their season, but they’re also fearful they could lose the entire league. “If we don’t play football this year, we won’t have City League football in a couple of years,” Allderdice coach Jerry Haslett said. Pittsburgh Public Schools’ administration recommended earlier this...
Feds accuse 26 of being part of fentanyl-trafficking ring tied to Shot Boyz gang, Latrobe drug dealing
A federal grand jury this week indicted more than two dozen people for their alleged roles in a fentanyl-trafficking ring that stretched into Westmoreland County. The 17-page indictment unsealed Friday is the culmination of a five-month wiretap investigation that included law enforcement from Pittsburgh, Wilkinsburg, Latrobe, federal agents and more....


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