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NEW LIST: Which NJ & PA Big Lots Stores Are Closing Permanently?
I filled you in a few weeks ago that a beloved retailer was in financial trouble. Big Lots, a discount chain, with over 1,000 locations across America has fallen on tough times because of what the company is calling, "elevated inflation." Not as many Americans are shopping because paychecks aren't...
Sam’s Club Is Making Major Changes That Will Affect Its PA Members
Sam’s Club members in Pennsylvania need to be on the lookout for some major changes coming to the store in the near future. Across the state of Pennsylvania, there are 24 Sam’s Club locations and people in our area really tend to love it. You can find just...
Vice presidential nominee JD Vance speaks on veteran issues at Pennsylvania rally
LOWER BURRELL, Pa. (WTAJ) — Vice presidential candidate JD Vance addressed a group of a few hundred veterans and republican party members in battleground state Pennsylvania Thursday, marking his first stop in western Pennsylvania since being named former president Donald Trump’s running mate. Vance spoke at VFW Post 92 in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County, focusing […]
Twin Tiers Football Season Previews: North Penn-Mansfield Panthers
MANSFIELD, PA (WENY) - We continue our Twin Tiers Football Season Previews with the North Penn-Mansfield Panthers. The Panthers team also consists of student-athletes from North Penn-Liberty. Assistant Coach Phil Leid says the team has grown in numbers since last season and the running back room is looking strong coming into the new year.
Man involved in Monongahela standoff, another suspect charged in Ohio Township homicide
OHIO TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- The Allegheny County Magistrate's Office has filed homicide charges against the man who led police on a chase through two counties before ending in an hours-long stand-off in Monongahela.Emmanuel Houghton, 19, is now charged with killing 18-year-old Jordan Geiger in Ohio Township. Tyler Stewart, 22, is also charged.Geiger was found injured in a crashed car on Ben Avon Heights Road and later died of a gunshot wound in the hospital.State police said earlier this week that Houghton drove away from a traffic stop in a reported stolen car.Following the pursuit, Houghton later ran into a home in Monongahela, barricaded himself, and threatened to shoot himself and officers.Stewart is also facing separate charges after Allegheny County deputies say he led them on a chase before crashing on Banksville Road and trying to carjack an elderly man.Stewart was stopped by two witnesses.Houghton and Stewart are both charged with criminal homicide, conspiracy, robbery, and firearm violations.Both men are now in the Allegheny County Jail pending preliminary arraignment.
Pittsburgh Regional Transit to install 80+ new ticketing machines at T stations
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- There will soon be a new way to pay to ride the light rail system with the help of the ticketing company Flowbird.Pittsburgh Regional Transit has announced they'll be installing more than 80 state-of-the-art ticket vending machines at stations in the city.The machines are designed to help streamline the payment process by offering easier options for buying single tickets and re-loading your card.The new machines should be up and running in 2025.
Death by Violets: PGH Festival Opera Presents Adriana Lecouvreur
Pittsburgh Festival Opera (PFO) is thrilled to present Adriana Lecouvreur on September 8 at the newly renovated Carnegie Music Hall. Inspired by the scandalous life of French actress Adrienne Leouvreur, this concert opera premieres with a full orchestra, renowned opera stars, and Pittsburgh Festival Opera Artistic Director and vocal legend Marianne Cornetti at the helm.
Clyburn: Project 2025…Jim Crow 2.0
(BlackPressUSA)—In two years, we will celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday. Our great country has survived a Civil War, two world wars, a Cold War, and a plethora of legislative and judicial fits and starts in our pursuit of a “more perfect Union.” We have endured some devastating Supreme Court decisions, Dred Scott, The Slaughterhouse Cases, and Plessey v Ferguson, to name just a few. We have survived some oppressive presidencies, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford Hayes, and Woodrow Wilson, tantamount among them. Johnson attempted to nullify the impact of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Hayes ended Reconstruction. Wilson’s policies towards federal civil service employment seem to be the foundation upon which a significant portion of Trump’s 2025 Project is built.
Pittsburgh Public Schools prepare to add 2 students to school board
PITTSBURGH — It’s a move that some believe will open a window for leaders to better understand students. Others think it will level the playing field and allow students to have a say in the direction of Pittsburgh Public Schools. For the first time, two students will be...
Portfolio of Energy-Curable Coatings Launched
The PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Duranext portfolio of electron-beam (EB) and UV curable backers, primers, basecoats and clearcoats offer energy efficiency and high speed of energy curing for metal coil coaters. The coatings use an electron beam or UV energy to convert a liquid coating into a fully cured solid finish...
National Roller Coaster Day celebrated at Kennywood
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. — Friday was National Roller Coaster Day, and there are some thrilling ones right in our backyard. Phantom's Revenge, Thunderbolt, Racer and Jack Rabbit are favorites among roller coaster fans at Kennywood. Pittsburgh's Action News 4 took a trip to the amusement park in West Mifflin...
Washington County business owner unsure of future after car crashes into budling
CHARLEROI, Pa. (KDKA) -- In an already-blighted community, one local business is doing everything to keep it from turning into another empty building.Moke's Martial Arts is off Fallowfield Avenue in Charleroi and has been open since 2018."You drive through Charleroi, you don't see much anymore. We lost the Coyle Theater. We lost the stadium, and then you get to this point, and you see the Moke's sign, and it's just something so unique that, you know, we want to keep that sign where it is," Brad Podroskey said, an instructor at Moke's Martial Arts.On Aug. 4, a car crashed into...
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