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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What does having dense breasts mean?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.