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A man is in critical condition after he was found with a gunshot wound after a crash in Mount Oliver.
The victim was taken to an area hospital where he was last listed as being in critical condition.
Source: Man in critical condition after suffering a gunshot wound after car crash in Mount Oliver
Westmoreland County has targeted the end of the year to open its new shooting range. Ground was broken this week on a $30,000 project to construct an outdoor facility behind the Westmoreland County Prison in Hempfield. “Any county agency can use it,” county park police Chief Henry Fontana, said.
Source: Westmoreland eyes construction of county gun range
Find out how music can contribute towards creating a more harmonious society.
In 1974, the International Music Council declared that International Music Day would be celebrated on October 1 every year. Celebrate this day even if you don’t play music by actively appreciating and enjoying the power of music in bringing people together.
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According to police, a 13-year-old was shot in Swissvale Friday afternoon. Allegheny County Police say the unidentified male is in critical condition. It happened around 2:40 p.m. on the 7500 block of Short Street.
Source: 13-year-old in critical condition after Swissvale shooting
The coronavirus revealed flaws in the nation’s pandemic plans. The spread of monkeypox shows that the problems remain deeply entrenched.
No single agency or administration is to blame, more than a dozen experts said in interviews, although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged that it bungled the response to the coronavirus.
Source: New Infectious Threats Are Coming. The U.S. Probably Won’t Contain Them.
“Blonde” is being slammed as “sexist” and “cruel” by Netflix subscribers.
Instead of an emphasis on “sexual abstinence as the expected norm,” the revised policy “stresses that abstinence from sexual activity is the only completely reliable means of preventing sexually transmitted infections and HIV when transmitted sexually.”
The revised policy also says that sex education provided by the district “is evidence-based, culturally relevant and inclusive of all students regardless of race, gender, disability, etc.”
Source: Pittsburgh Public Schools updates sex education policy
PITTSBURGH — A student is in custody and a staff member has been transported to a hospital after an incident this morning at Oliver Citywide Academy.
Pittsburgh Public Schools confirmed police are investigating an assault at the school, a special education center in the city’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood that serves students in grades 3-12.
Police sources confirmed to 11 News that the staff member who was assaulted is a teacher at the school.
A Channel 11 crew saw an ambulance in front of the school in addition to a school police cruiser parked in front.
Source: Student in custody, staff member taken to hospital after assault at Pittsburgh school
Police believe someone intentionally set the fire, and it is being investigated as arson.
Source: $10,000 reward offered for information after Pittsburgh police cruisers catch fire
Pittsburgh police are investigating after a carjacking and armed robbery in Shadyside early Thursday morning.
All three suspects were reportedly carrying firearms, police said.
The suspects left the scene in the victim’s vehicle, and went in the direction of Centre Avenue.
The investigation is ongoing. No suspect description is available at this time.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
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Source: Pittsburgh police investigating after employees of Shadyside pizza shop robbed, carjacked after work
PITTSBURGH — A student is in custody and a staff member has been transported to a hospital after an incident this morning at Oliver Citywide Academy.
Pittsburgh Public Schools confirmed police are investigating an assault at the school, a special education center in the city’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood that serves students in grades 3-12.
Police sources confirmed to 11 News that the staff member who was assaulted is a teacher at the school.
A Channel 11 crew on the scene saw paramedics loading a female into an ambulance and officers going in and out of the school.On its website, the school is described as a “highly structured school with a school-wide behavioral management system to support the positive behavioral support plans for each student.” It says the staff is trained in therapeutic crisis interventions.
This is a developing story. Stay with Channel 11 News for the latest details.
TRENDING NOW:
- Weddings end early at popular Allegheny County wedding venue due to noise, neighbor complaints
- Photos: Hurricane Ian batters Florida
- Former Pittsburgh entrepreneur sentenced to prison time for defrauding government
- VIDEO: Kennywood Park officials release new security measures for first weekend open since triple shooting
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Source: Student in custody, staff member taken to hospital after assault at Pittsburgh school
The Bank of England will suspend the planned start of its gilt selling next week and begin temporarily buying long-dated bonds to calm recent market chaos.
KEY POINTS
- U.K. gilt yields were on course for their sharpest monthly rise since at least 1957 as investors fled British fixed income markets following the new fiscal policy announcements.
- The measures included large swathes of unfunded tax cuts that have drawn global criticism, including from the IMF.
Source: Bank of England intervenes in bond market after historic sell-off
After a seven-game stretch without a long ball, New York star Aaron Judge hit his 61st home run of the season Wednesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays, tying Roger Maris’ American League record, a day after the Yankees clinched the AL East crown.
TORONTO — New York Yankees star Aaron Judge hit his 61st home run of the season Wednesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays, tying Roger Maris’ American League record.
It took Maris until Oct. 1, the final game of the 1961 season, to hit his 61st, which broke Babe Ruth’s single-season mark of 60 home runs set in 1927.
Source: Yankees’ Judge hits 61st homer, ties Maris’ record
Westmoreland County’s Republican commissioners Wednesday refused to vote on a plan to install one drop box for mail-in ballots at the courthouse.
Commissioners Sean Kertes and Doug Chew said the box that had been in place for years in the courthouse’s lobby and last spring at the rear entrance of the building was underused and costly. Neither supported a proposal from Democratic Commissioner Gina Cerilli Thrasher to continue the program to install one drop box at the courthouse’s rear entrance ahead of the Nov. 8 general election.
“It’s cost-prohibitive for the number of ballots we got,” Chew said.
Source: Republican commissioners remove ballot drop box from Westmoreland courthouse
Guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult older than 21 at all times.
Trees along the fence line bordering Route 837 have been cut to improve sight lines. New floodlights and ongoing security patrols in the area will also increase, park leaders said.
Kennywood leaders said their weapons detection system that was in place Saturday would remain in place. As a precaution, the park will implement additional spot-checking of bags.
The park revealed a new bag policy. Starting Friday, only bags 8 inches by 5 inches by 1 inch and medical and diaper bags are allowed in the park.
Source: https://www.wtae.com/article/kennywood-enhanced-security-procedures-after-shooting/41426478
Three people who were part of a sophisticated, $87 million health care fraud scheme were sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. The three were among a total of 16 people charged for billing Pennsylvania Medicaid for in-home health care for services that were never performed.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon sentenced Arlinda Moriarty, 53, of Cranberry to seven years in prison.
Her sister, Daynelle Dickens, 48, of Pittsburgh was ordered to serve two years, and their uncle, Tony Brown, 65, was ordered to serve three years probation, including three months on house arrest.
The three, who pleaded guilty in May, must also pay restitution. For Moriarty, that amount is $8.7 million.
Source: Three sentenced in $87 million Medicaid fraud scheme
PITTSBURGH —
A man died after being shot multiple times in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood.
The shooting happened around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday on the 500 block of Kohne Street.
State police said they found the man, identified as 26-year-old Marcus Watts, in the road with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced him dead at the scene.
No arrests have been announced.
On Wednesday, Katie Couric revealed that she had breast cancer.
In an essay on her website, she wrote about the “heart-stopping, suspended animation feeling” she had upon receiving her diagnosis in June; she also noted that she had dense breasts — a common classification that can increase the risk of developing the disease.
About half of women who are 40 years old or older have dense breast tissue, said Dr. Laura Esserman, director of the Breast Care Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Here’s what to know about what breast density means and how dense breasts can influence cancer risk.
Density isn’t related to breast size or firmness, said Dr. Sarah Friedewald, chief of breast imaging at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. It is a measure of how much fibrous and glandular tissue is in your breasts compared with the amount of fatty tissue, as viewed on a mammogram. These tissues include the glands that create milk, the tubes that ferry milk to the nipples and the fibrous tissue that binds them together.
Every mammogram report includes an assessment of a woman’s breast density, which falls into one of four categories: almost entirely fatty; some areas of scattered density; evenly dense; or extremely dense. Dense breasts is an umbrella term that refers to the latter two categories.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/well/live/dense-breasts.html
Hurricane Ian is expected to make landfall in Florida in the next few hours, with wind speeds of up to 155mph meaning the storm is nearing the most dangerous Category 5 status.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Ian was expected to cause “life-threatening” storm surges, catastrophic winds and flooding on Florida’s southwest coast.
Source: Hurricane Ian landfall approaches as storm nearing Category 5 – live
PITTSBURGH —
A suspicious fire engulfed three Pittsburgh police vehicles on Wednesday morning.
The fire broke out a little before 3 a.m. outside of a building on Western Avenue on the city’s North Side.
No injuries were reported.Officials said they determined the fire is arson.
Police have not announced any arrests.
Source: Suspicious fire engulfs three Pittsburgh police vehicles
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. — Don Orkosey was at Kennywood on Saturday night when he witnessed the shooting. He said one teen bumped into another teen by mistake, a punch was thrown, and gunshots followed.
PHOTOS: Police swarm Kennywood Park after multiple people shot inside park
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Source: Man who saw Kennywood shooting says fight started because of mistake
Fire broke out on Tuesday evening
Fire crews on the scene said the fire was mostly contained to one property and no one was inside the house when the fire broke out.
No injuries were reported.
The inside of the home on Franklin Street was pretty much gutted by the fire.
Source: Investigation underway into house fire in East Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH —
A man died after being shot multiple times in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood.
The shooting happened around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday on the 500 block of Kohne Street.
State police said they found the man in the road with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced him dead at the scene.The victim has not been publicly identified.
No arrests have been announced.
Source: Man dies after being shot multiple times in Pittsburgh
Investigators were called to South Sixth Street in Jeannette just around 9:45 p.m. Monday.
Source: Man rushed to the hospital after being stabbed multiple times in Westmoreland County
About 11 hours after the eruption, a new island was visible. It has since grown to 8.6 acres.
Source: A new island is forming in the Pacific Ocean after an underwater volcanic eruption
Forty-seven residents were evacuated from Hillside Manor around 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Mayor Adam Forgie said the closing was caused by a number of issues, including a lack of staff, leaking pipes, an inoperative sprinkler system and detached smoke alarms.
The borough’s building inspector is reviewing the property Monday to see where they go from here.
Some of the residents went with their families, others were sent to Kane in McKeesport or the Walden Nursing Home in North Huntingdon.
Source: Turtle Creek nursing home shuts down suddenly
Across the country, flight attendants and airport workers are responding a hailstorm of workplace issues related to pay and staffing levels—as airline travel in the pandemic recovery economic has been marked by an onslaught of canceled flights, labor shortages and widespread desperation.
Source: Worker protests at airports spread nationwide over staffing and pay
A New Kensington man is being held in the Westmoreland County jail after a fight with another man Saturday. Police charged Shawntre Malik Scott, 24, with a felony count of robbery and misdemeanor counts of simple assault and terroristic threats.
Source: New Kensington man arrested, jailed after fight; charges pending on second man
Pittsburgh police are investigating several vehicles damaged by bullets in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood. Police responded to the area of 18th and Mary Street around 1 a.m. Monday morning, after receiving a ShotSpotter notification for 12 rounds for the 100 block of 18th Street, according to the Trib’s news partner
Source: Vehicles struck by gunfire in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood
A WPXI photographer saw a vehicle in the middle of the street with multiple bullet holes, two vehicles with their windows broken out and evidence markers on the ground.
Source: Police: 3 detained after shots fired on Pittsburgh’s South Side
