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Beaver Grade Road in Moon Township is back open after a landslide
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- Part of Beaver Grade Road in Moon Township has reopened after it was closed the last six months because of a landslide. It took six months and 40 million pounds of rock to get the road reopened to traffic. Now that it is, who is responsible for its $4 million price tag?Beaver Grade Road between Montour Run and Duckhorn Drive, which is owned by PennDOT, closed on Jan. 26 due to a landslide above that affected a handful of homes along Stags Leap Lane in the Sonoma Ridge Development.Emergency repair work to shore up the hillside...
Cranberry Township secures $36 million loan for Brush Creek facility
Cranberry Township can move forward with its $36 million Brush Creek Water Pollution Control Facility upgrade project because of a low interest loan from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority, or PENNVEST. According to township manager Dan Santoro, the project will aim to improve the “solids side” of the plant, where...
Jeff Capel's 'family-type' culture helped attract transfers Damian Dunn, Cam Corhen to Pitt
Jul. 18—Damian Dunn didn't transfer to Pitt from Houston, one of the top college basketball schools in the nation, because his hometown of Kinston, N.C., is less than 100 miles from where Jeff Capel grew up in Fayetteville. He didn't listen to Capel's sales pitch because his father, Paul, competed against Pitt's coach in high school. Dunn said, by the way, his father described Capel as a ...
‘That’s When I Heard The First Bullet’: Christians Recall Harrowing Trump Rally
Just before the shooting began at former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Becky Krivak’s husband, John, tapped her on the shoulder. Police snipers were aiming at the AGR International Inc. building, he told her. “I looked, but I felt safe, and I wanted to watch...
Video Shows Trump Assassin at Rally an Hour Before Shooting, Sparks Scrutiny
In the wake of the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, new video footage has emerged that sheds light on the movements of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman, before the incident. The video, obtained exclusively by Pittsburgh's Action News 4, shows Crooks lingering near the rally site in Butler, Pennsylvania, an hour before he opened fire.
Woman who lives near Trump rally site says "this is not what Butler should be known for"
BUTLER, Pa. (KDKA) -- Two sisters from Butler, Pennsylvania, say they're still in shock nearly a week after witnessing the Trump rally shooting firsthand. The scary event all unfolded feet from one sister's home. "[I] can still hear the shots being fired and not knowing what's going on," Valerie Fennell admits to KDKA-TV News, as memories of last weekend keep flooding back of the Trump rally turned nightmare in her neighborhood.For Fennel and her sister Debbie Kuminkoski, the event last Saturday started in high spirits. "When I heard he was coming, I'm like, 'This is going to be awesome,' like this is...
Want a quick getaway? Newly remodeled, ‘Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park’ is in Pittsburgh’s backyard
All photos courtesy of Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park™ at Kozy Rest Camp-Resort. Has your family tried camping? A survey by Campspot, a popular booking platform, shows a rise in first-time campers each year — with “glamping” and water recreation being two things guests are looking for in particular. Whether your family are seasoned campers or looking to try the trend for the first time, the newly remodeled Jellystone campground just an hour from Pittsburgh is a great place to start.
Picklesburgh adds extra day, new events
Jul. 18—Leave it to Pittsburgh to continue to make an even bigger big dill out of pickles. For its annual pickle-inspired event — Picklesburgh — produced by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership and presented by Kraft Heinz, there is a new competition and an extra day for the event voted the No. 1 food festival in America by USA Today for three consecutive years. Picklesburgh, which began in ...
Affordable-ish Housing in Pittsburgh: Missing middle edition
There’s a concept in housing called the “missing middle,” which partially explains why finding adequate, affordable housing seems like such a struggle. It’s because the kinds of houses we need most don’t really exist, unless they were built in the 1940s or earlier. The “missing...
VIDEO: Meuser defends local police response at Trump rally shooting
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Secret Service, not local police, bears responsibility for the unmanned roof where a gunman tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa. on Saturday. So says Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, who represents the commonwealth’s ninth congressional district that stretches roughly 200 miles south from the northeastern New York border to Harrisburg. “Come on, the Secret Service is...
Scott calls on Biden administration to deliver daily briefings on Trump shooting
Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R), one of former President Trump’s closest Senate allies, called on the Biden administration Wednesday to deliver daily briefings about its investigation into the shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa., over the weekend. “The security of our Republic is being questioned. The Biden administration can’t wait until the investigation is…
Online account thought to belong to Trump shooter was fake, source says
A new analysis shows an online account that was believed to belong to the shooter in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump — and where he had purportedly called the date of the attack his "premiere" — was fake, a federal law enforcement official told CBS News on Thursday.A law enforcement official and an additional source familiar with a briefing given to U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday previously told CBS News that the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had an account on an online gaming platform on which he posted: "July 13 will be my premiere." But the federal law...
Pittsburgh Regional Transit could borrow $800 million to replace light rail trains
Pittsburgh Regional Transit is committed to replacing its 81 light rail trains and will set up a process to borrow as much as $800 million for the work in case it needs it. Borrowing money through state and federal programs is a backup plan in case the agency is unsuccessful in efforts to obtain grant money for the project and reinforces the agency’s plans to replace the cars over the next 12 years.
All in the family: 4th-generation employee retires after more than 4 decades working at Peoples Natural Gas
Craig Wyke’s first job at Peoples Natural Gas was in the delinquent accounts department. “I had to inform people their gas was about to be turned off,” said Wyke, who grew up in Penn Hills and lives in West Deer, as he recalled his more than 40-year career with the company. “It wasn’t easy. People were upset.”
Chaos and Heroism in Butler: A Closer Look at the Trump Rally Shooting Through Lock Haven ED Physician Dr. Jim Sweetland’s Eyes
LOCK HAVEN— Pennsylvania residents expected high temperatures in the forecast but an otherwise normal weekend on the horizon at the end of last week, however, most are still reeling after former President Donald Trump survived an attempted assassination on Saturday at a campaign rally held just over two and a half hours away from Lock Haven in Butler, PA. Not only are Pennsylvania residents shaken by the event, but the entire nation has also been deeply affected by the assassination attempt and the tragic loss of rally attendee Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old former fire chief from Pennsylvania who was also a regular churchgoer, father of two daughters, husband, and devoted Trump supporter.
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