Pittsburgh news

• PWSA offering complete lead line replacements at no charge

  23-03-2018 23:36 via post-gazette.com
  An offer that could be worth a few thousand dollars is awaiting scores of Pittsburgh water customers this year.
  
  Read more

• Pa. A.G. Shapiro Reviewing Whether Facebook Broke State Laws

  23-03-2018 23:33
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is reviewing whether Facebook broke state laws when its user data was transferred by third parties, possibly for political purposes by the Donald Trump campaign.
  Appearing on CNBC, Shapiro suggested this situation could be worse than the normal hacker breaking in.
  “With Facebook, they didn’t have to break in. Facebook gave them the keys, and said come on in and take what you want,
  
  Read more

• A.G. Shapiro Reviewing Whether Facebook Broke State Laws

  23-03-2018 23:33
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is reviewing whether Facebook broke state laws when its user data was transferred by third parties, possibly for political purposes by the Donald Trump campaign.
  Appearing on CNBC, Shapiro suggested this situation could be worse than the normal hacker breaking in.
  “With Facebook, they didn’t have to break in. Facebook gave them the keys, and said come on in and take what you want,
  
  Read more

• Suspect arrested in South Side homicide; Arlington man named his own killer

  23-03-2018 23:19 via post-gazette.com
  An Arlington man’s dying declaration Monday led Pittsburgh police to charge a 21-year-old man in his slaying.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Police: Arlington man named his own killer; charges filed

  23-03-2018 23:19 via post-gazette.com
  An Arlington man’s dying declaration Monday led Pittsburgh police to charge a 21-year-old man in his slaying.
  
  Read more

• New tipping regulations will allow workers to keep tips, an about-face from a Department of Labor proposal

  23-03-2018 23:14 via post-gazette.com
  In a change that affects restaurants — what has become the biggest industry in Pittsburgh — updated tipping regulations were tucked among the last 10 pages of a 2,000-plus page, $1.3 trillion-dollar spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law Friday.
  
  Read more

• Exclusive: Pittsburgh Public Schools Seeks To Terminate Administrator For ‘Inappropriate Relationship’

  23-03-2018 23:12
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A top administrator at Pittsburgh Public Schools has been suspended without pay, and he could soon lose his job.
  Milton Walters is the chief human resources officer in the Pittsburgh Public School District — a ranking member of Superintendent Anthony Hamlet’s cabinet, making $145,000 a year.
  But the school board has suspended Walters without pay and plan to terminate his employment on charges of poor job performance and all
  
  Read more

• Simple Treatment For Relieving Serious Leg Pain Problem Now Covered By Insurance

  23-03-2018 23:05
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pain while walking and cramping in your legs could be a sign of a pretty serious condition, but there could be a relatively simple solution to fix it.
  Jim Holmes is going for a short walk, but has to sit down because of his legs.
  “They feel really thick. You know what I mean? And the problem is, I’m not getting enough oxygen down to the muscles,” he says.
  Holmes has a problem called Peripheral Arterial Disease.
  &ldquo
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Former police officer accused of shooting jail guard found not guilty Source: WPXI

  23-03-2018 22:43
  Channel 11's Aaron Martin is in the courtroom and will have reaction to the verdict on Channel 11 News, starting at 5 p.m. The attorney argued self-defense in the case which the jury agreed with. The suspect, former Aliquippa Police Officer Joshua Gonzalez broke into tears when the verdict was announced.
  
  Read more

• Former Aliquippa police officer acquitted in Carrick shooting

  23-03-2018 22:39 via post-gazette.com
  A former Aliquippa police officer was found not guilty on Friday for his involvement in a 2016 shooting in Carrick.
  
  Read more

• Trooper Stewart, Officer Shaw To Be Added To National Fallen Officers Memorial

  23-03-2018 21:35
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A Pennsylvania State Trooper from Latrobe and a New Kensington police officer are among the law enforcement officials who will be added to the fallen officers memorial in Washington D.C. this month.
  The names of 360 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty will be engraved in the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
  Trooper Michael Stewart and Officer Brian Shaw are among those who will be added.
  Stewart, of Latrobe
  
  Read more

• Investigators: Missing Parents, 2 Young Children Found Dead In Mexico

  23-03-2018 20:52
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  CRESTON, Iowa (AP) – Investigators say the bodies of an Iowa couple and their two children have been found in a rented condo in Mexico.
  The family was reported missing by relatives in their hometown of Creston early Friday, about a week after the family left for vacation. Creston police contacted the U.S. State Department, and the bodies were found during a welfare check at the condo in Tulum.
  In Iowa, Union County authorities identified the family as 41-
  
  Read more

• Eagles’ Michael Bennett Charged With Injuring Paraplegic Woman

  23-03-2018 20:17
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  HOUSTON (AP) – Prosecutors in Houston say a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Bennett for injuring a paraplegic woman as he tried get onto the field at last year’s Super Bowl to celebrate with his brother.
  The Harris County district attorney’s office says a grand jury indicted Bennett on Friday on a felony count of injury to the elderly.
  Authorities say Bennett was a spectator at the game in Houston when
  
  Read more

• Conor Lamb gets ready to bounce between 18 and 17, D.C. and Mt. Lebanon

  23-03-2018 20:12 via post-gazette.com
  Conor Lamb just got back from his first official trip to Washington, D.C. as Congressman-elect.
  
  Read more

• Police Seek Help Locating Missing Man After Walking Out Of Hospital

  23-03-2018 19:01
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Police are asking for the public’s help to locate a patient that walked out of a Pittsburgh hospital Thursday night.
  According to police, Raymond Devries, 71, was taken to Allegheny General Hospital to be treated for possible stroke symptoms around 2:30 p.m.
  He is believed to have walked out of the hospital at 9:20 p.m. and has not been seen since.
  Devries has a heart condition, but does not have his medication, ca
  
  Read more

• Report: School Shooters ‘Will Be Stoned’: Pa. School District Plans To Arm Students With Rocks

  23-03-2018 18:57
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  ORWIGSBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — Instead of arming teachers with firearms, one Pennsylvania school district superintendent wants to arm his students with stones.
  CBS affiliate KMOV reports that Dr. David Helsel, superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, told the Pennsylvania House Education Committee that he has placed five-gallon buckets of river stones in every classroom.
  “If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into
  
  Read more

• Opioid measures could go too far, say bioethics experts

  23-03-2018 18:43 via post-gazette.com
  Efforts to address the opioid epidemic, by doctors and insurers, could lead to discrimination or stigma in health care, bioethics experts warned Friday at a conference at the University of Pittsburgh.
  
  Read more

• 'Mister Rogers' forever: U.S. Postal Service dedicates stamp he would have loved to use

  23-03-2018 18:28 via post-gazette.com
  Of all the hoopla and celebrity of the official first-day-of-issue dedication of the Mister Rogers Forever postage stamp, one of the best parts was a Mr. Newell in his blue speedy delivery uniform.
  
  Read more

• Who ya gonna call? A locksmith, as Westmoreland County sheriff's locked doors thwart a search warrant

  23-03-2018 17:51 via post-gazette.com
  Agents from the Pennsylvania attorney general's office executed a search warrant Friday morning on the offices of embattled Westmoreland County Sheriff Jonathan Held — and summoned a locksmith when they were confronted by two locked doors within the office.
  
  Read more

• Civil Rights Pioneer Dorothy Height Celebrated At Rankin Promise School

  23-03-2018 17:36
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  RANKIN (KDKA) — A celebration of life was held Friday for civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height, a graduate of Rankin High School.
  Known for her fancy hats and wearing the color purple, it was the third annual Dorothy Heights celebration held at Rankin Promise School.
  Kids from grades K through 12 in the Woodland Hills School District were there to learn about a woman who left quite the impression.
  (Photo Credit: KDKA)
  Her nephew, Reverend Dan Aldridge, tra
  
  Read more

• Loyola-Chicago Vs. Kansas State Most Unpredictable Elite Eight Game

  23-03-2018 17:24
  By Matt Norlander, CBS Sports
  (CBS Sports) Kansas State last made the Final Four in 1964.
  Loyola-Chicago was there most recently a year before that, in 1963, when it won the national title.
  On Saturday in the South Regional final, the schools will play each other, an improbable No. 9 seed and a Cinderella No. 11. One will finally get back to college basketball’s ultimate weekend. It’s a story decades in the making, something only college basketball could provide.
  Heading to the
  
  Read more

• Agents Raid Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office, Seize Computers & Files

  23-03-2018 17:20
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  GREENSBURG (KDKA) – Agents with the state attorney general’s office raided the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office Friday morning.
  As part of the raid, agents seized several computers, files and other items.
  As they arrived, the chief deputy allegedly locked her officer door and fled the building. Later, she returned and was escorted to another part of the building for questioning. She was not placed in handcuffs.
  (Photo Credit
  
  Read more

• Pa. Lawmaker Introduces Anti-Hazing Bill In Memory Of Penn State Pledge

  23-03-2018 17:15
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (KDKA) — Since 1961, at least one person has died from a hazing incident every year.
  In 2017, there were four hazing-related deaths. Nineteen-year-old Timothy Piazza was one of those deaths. Friday, a Pennsylvania lawmaker introduced a bill in his memory.
  Piazza lost his life while pledging Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State University. As the criminal case is still pending, Piazza’s parents, James and Evelyn, have become outspok
  
  Read more

• Hearing Underway For 11 Men Charged In Penn State Pledge Death

  23-03-2018 17:15
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) – A hearing is underway for Penn State fraternity brothers charged in the hazing death of a pledge last year.
  The hearing Friday involves 11 of the 26 young men charged in connection with the February 2017 death of 19-year-old Tim Piazza, of Lebanon, New Jersey.
  It’s to determine if there is enough evidence to send the cases to trial.
  The men waived their right to attend the hearing.
  Piazza became severely intoxicated during a p
  
  Read more

• Wanted For Deception: Pa. Sheriff’s Office Posts Wanted Poster For Punxsutawney Phil

  23-03-2018 16:47
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) – Punxsutawney Phil is a wanted … groundhog.
  A Pennsylvania sheriff’s officer has put up a wanted poster for Phil.
  The handlers of the groundhog last month said the furry rodent called for six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says that expired last week, yet a spring storm brought more snow to the Northeast on Wednesday and Thursday.Cpl. Scott Martin tells WBRE-TV he
  
  Read more

• Students learn the drill in 'active-shooter' training exercise at Pittsburgh Carrick High School

  23-03-2018 15:56 via post-gazette.com
  Pittsburgh Carrick High School was eerily quiet Friday morning as the security team watched two intruders charge through a back entrance.
  
  Read more

• Lock down or make a run for it? Carrick students, teachers have to decide during active-shooter training

  23-03-2018 15:56 via post-gazette.com
  Pittsburgh Carrick High School was eerily hushed Friday morning as guards in the first-floor security booth toggled between feeds from the building’s 226 surveillance cameras. Students and staff were ready.
  
  Read more

• Edwards says she will not pursue effort to run for redrawn 18th District seat

  23-03-2018 15:49 via post-gazette.com
  Forensic psychologist Shannon Edwards, whose brief Congressional hopes were dashed by traffic delays earlier this week, will not file a legal challenge asking the state to accept her late candidacy paperwork.
  
  Read more

• Egg Hatching Complete, First Eaglet Arrives In Hays Bald Eagles’ Nest

  23-03-2018 15:32
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The first eaglet has arrived in the Hays bald eagles‘ nest.
  According to the Audubon Society, the egg started to hatch Friday morning.
  Officials say the hatching was completed at 10:01 p.m.
  (Photo Courtesy: Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania/PixController)WATCH LIVE HERE: Hays Bald Eagle CamThe eagles were caring for three eggs, but one broke earlier this month.
  Bald eagle eggs take about 35 days to hatch. The first egg was
  
  Read more

• 1st Hays Bald Eagle Egg Starting To Hatch

  23-03-2018 15:32
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  HAYS (KDKA) – One of the eggs in the Hays bald eagle nest has started to hatch.
  According to the Audubon Society, the egg started to hatch Friday morning.
  WATCH LIVE HERE: Hays Bald Eagle Cam
  The eagles were caring for three eggs, but one broke earlier this month.Bald eagle eggs take about 35 days to hatch. The first egg was scheduled to hatch on or around March 20.
  Stay With KDKA.com For More Details
  
  Read more

• Moms join mental health and child advocate experts for postpartum depression discussion

  23-03-2018 15:30
  Lissa Geiger Shulman of Pittsburgh holds her daughter during a public discussion Thursday at Cameron Wellness Center about postpartum depression, its symptoms, its effects on families and infant children, current policy, and Senate Bill 200 - Sen. Camera Bartolotta's legislation aimed at mitigating depression's impact by connecting families to ... (more)
  
  Read more

• SportsLine’s Top Weekend Picks: NCAA Tournament Sweet 16

  23-03-2018 15:11
  Clemson Tigers vs. Kansas JayhawksFriday, March 23, 2018, 7:07 pm ET
  KANSAS -4.5
  Each team has been impressive against the spread, with Clemson hitting on four in a row and Kansas seven of 10. But this matchup shows too many advantages for the Jayhawks to take the points. My simulations project a six-point win, but free throws may stretch it. Lay the points on the No. 1 seed.
  SportsLine Expert: Stephen Oh (9-5 in last 14 CBB O/U picks)
  West Virginia Mountaineers vs. Villanova WildcatsFriday, Mar
  
  Read more

• An eaglet is coming out of its shell in Hays nest

  23-03-2018 15:09 via post-gazette.com
  An eaglet is hatching in the Pittsburgh community of Hays.
  
  Read more

• Pedestrian hit by car in Oakland

  23-03-2018 14:50 via post-gazette.com
  A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle on the University of Pittsburgh campus Friday morning.
  
  Read more

• Suspect ordered to stand trial in death of Wilkinsburg man in Marshall-Shadeland

  23-03-2018 14:49 via post-gazette.com
  A Swissvale man was held for court Friday morning on a criminal homicide charge in the January shooting death of a Wilkinsburg man.
  
  Read more

• Trump Signs $1.3T Budget Bill, Warns ‘I Will Never Sign Another Bill Like This Again’

  23-03-2018 14:31
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  By Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly, CNN
  (CNN) — Early Friday morning, the Senate passed a $1.3 trillion spending package that will increase funding for the military and domestic spending and will keep the government funded through the end of September, sending the legislation to the President for his signature house ahead of a midnight deadline.
  The Senate passed the bill after a whirlwind day where at least two Republican senators held up the legislative p
  
  Read more

• Trump Says He’s Signed $1.3T Budget Bill

  23-03-2018 14:31
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says he’s signed a $1.3 trillion spending measure averting a government shutdown just hours after saying he was considering a veto.
  Trump has been fuming because the package does not include protections for “Dreamer” immigrants and doesn’t provide enough money for his promised border wall.But Trump is pointing to major increases in military spending included in the bill.
  He says, “my h
  
  Read more

• Trump ‘Considering’ Veto Of $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill

  23-03-2018 14:31
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says he is “considering” a veto of a giant $1.3 trillion spending bill, citing concerns over “Dreamers” and border wall funding.
  Trump says on Twitter Friday morning: “I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is despera
  
  Read more

• Maryland School Shooting Victim ‘Brain Dead;’ Being Taken Off Life Support

  23-03-2018 14:12
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) – The mother of a teenage girl shot when a classmate opened fire inside their Maryland high school says she is brain dead and is being removed from life support.
  Melissa Willey told news reporters Thursday night that her daughter, 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey, has “no life left in her.” She said Jaelynn would be removed from life support during the evening.
  The teen was shot Tuesday by 17-year-old Austin Rollins at Great Mi
  
  Read more

• Cashless tolls begin next month on Findlay Connector

  23-03-2018 14:00 via post-gazette.com
  Drivers won’t need cash, but that doesn’t mean it will cost less to use the Findlay Connector near Pittsburgh International Airport when it goes cashless next month. In fact, it will cost more.
  
  Read more

• Man critically wounded in Wilkinsburg shooting

  23-03-2018 13:02 via post-gazette.com
  A 26-year-old man was critically injured in a shooting Thursday evening in Wilkinsburg.
  
  Read more

• 12,000 black engineers are in Pittsburgh to create diversity in technical careers

  23-03-2018 13:00 via post-gazette.com
  Matthew Nelson recalls the feeling of being the only black person in his engineering classes at the University of Michigan. And he remembers being the only person over the age of 19 because he was a nontraditional student.
  
  Read more

• U.S. Postal Service Unveils Mister Rogers Postage Stamp

  23-03-2018 12:51
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (AP) – It’s a beautiful day to honor Mister Rogers with a postage stamp.
  The U.S. Postal Service has released a stamp featuring Fred Rogers, the gentle TV host who entertained and educated generations of preschoolers on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
  The “forever” stamp went on sale Friday. It pictures Rogers in his trademark cardigan along with King Friday, a puppet character from the show’s Neighborho
  
  Read more

• U.S. Postal Service To Unveil Mister Rogers Postage Stamp

  23-03-2018 12:51
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (AP) – It’s a beautiful day to honor Mister Rogers with a postage stamp.
  The U.S. Postal Service is releasing a stamp featuring Fred Rogers, the gentle TV host who entertained and educated generations of preschoolers on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
  The “forever” stamp goes on sale Friday. It pictures Rogers in his trademark cardigan along with King Friday, a puppet character from the show’s Neighborho
  
  Read more

• Former Playboy Model Claims She Was Intimate With Trump ‘Many Dozens Of Times’

  23-03-2018 12:22
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  By Eli Watkins, CNN
  (CNN) — Karen McDougal confirmed to CNN in an interview on Thursday that she had a 10-month sexual relationship with Donald Trump before he was president, saying they were together “many dozens of times.”
  “I can tell you we saw each other a minimum five times a month, up to bigger numbers per month,” the former Playboy model told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
  She said they were together “many dozens of time
  
  Read more

• Pittsburgh Native Uses Politics To Make Name For Himself As Mexican Pro Wrestler

  23-03-2018 11:36
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A pro wrestler from the Pittsburgh area is finding a lot of success by getting people to hate him.
  Sam Adonis has been making a living in the wrestling ring down in Mexico. And he’s been using American politics to get the crowds yelling at him.
  Adonis loves to be hated, waving an American flag with President Donald Trump’s face plastered in the center of it. It gets the Mexican crowd going.
  “What m
  
  Read more

• Rabbi: 'Any differences can be overlooked'

  23-03-2018 10:25
  During what is the most holy time in Christianity - the Lenten season - Novitsky is preparing for Jewish Passover, to be celebrated from March 30 to April 7. Passover, or Pesach, commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt.
  
  Read more

• Pittsburgh Students Head To Washington, D.C. For ‘March For Our Lives’

  23-03-2018 09:36
  Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter
  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A group of students from Pittsburgh Public Schools leaves Friday morning to head to Washington, D.C. for Saturday’s March For Our Lives rally.
  Students from Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were shot and killed last month, are spearheading what is being called the March For Our Lives.
  It could become one of the largest marches in history, with people turning out in Washingto
  
  Read more

Follow @PittsburghNews_ on Twitter!