Новости за 27.05.2018

In his first three starts of the season, Jameson Taillon looked like the Pirates’ ace. In his next seven starts, the results were poor to mixed, a stretch during which he had a 6.97 ERA over 31 innings.

WASHINGTON — The handshakes came across the generations and through tears that had been welling up since World War II.

Tens of thousands of people congregated in the city Sunday for a recreational festival that connected participants  to Pittsburgh’s public streets through biking, yoga and more — and stretching through three of the city’s neighborhoods.

A water main ruptured about 8 a.m. Sunday in Beechview, sending water cascading down a steep roadway and filling at least one house basement with 8 inches of water.

A water main ruptured about 8:00 a.m. Sunday in Beechview, sending water cascading down a steep roadway and filling at least one house basement with 8 inches of water.

Clint Hurdle won’t call it an outfield rotation, and he doesn’t refer to it as a platoon. Instead, he says the Pirates have a “plan” about how they will give Austin Meadows — and their other outfielders — regular opportunities to play.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Beaches in Florida were largely empty ahead of Memorial Day as the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Subtropical Storm Alberto, gained strength as it approached the northern Gulf Coast carrying brisk winds and heavy rain.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Normally packed with vacationers over the Memorial Day weekend, beaches along the eastern U.S. Gulf Coast were largely empty Sunday as a slowly intensifying storm carrying brisk winds and heavy rain approached.

WASHINGTON — A flood of lawsuits over LGBT rights is making its way through courts and will continue, no matter the outcome in the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated decision in the case of a Colorado baker who would not create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

A five-by-eight inch telegram bearing this date arrived at the Naujokitis home at East Third Avenue in Homestead 100 years ago:

The Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop will celebrate its 40th birthday on June 6, and you’re invited. Festivities will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Heinz History Center.

WASHINGTON -- In an unusual political twist, a major conservative group is taking aim at U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, the Pennsylvania Republican who is the party's nominee in a key U.S. Senate race.

His monument at Allegheny Cemetery says he fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War including Antietam in 1862, with its 23,000 casualties in a single day.

School districts often boast about their latest digital initiatives. Sleek devices and flashy technology in classrooms abound, depending on the school.

Nasir Butler of Pittsburgh CAPA and Johanna Loughran of Oakland Catholic High School are headed to New York City after winning the top acting awards at Pittsburgh CLO’s 28th annual Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater.

When Robert Peoples got assigned the early morning housekeeping shift at the Downtown branch of the YMCA in January 2013, he was a little disappointed. “What the hell am I doing up this early in the morning?!” he often wondered during his first few weeks on the job.

Simply putting a pen to paper doesn’t create a nation. Such an undertaking takes inspirational leadership and dedicated followers.

Before the letter to President Donald Trump, before the bloody battlefields in Iraq, there was the 18-wheeler with the secret compartment for human cargo.

Months after burying his mother in 2014, Brian Markunas was free of caretaking, but it had been his life, his 24/7 job for 3½ years — a job that paid nothing and left him with a big employment gap.

Ten people in Sharpsburg came together in 2017 to get out of poverty. They knew they were part of a larger demographic. One-fourth of borough residents live below the poverty line.

The Pirates had a new-look batting order Saturday afternoon. Francisco Cervelli and Colin Moran moved up in the order, and Gregory Polanco was dropped to the seventh spot. Yet in one critical area, things went back to the way they were.

A Pitcairn man who was fatally shot outside a Wilkinsburg mosque earlier this month was able to identify his attacker before he died, according to court documents.

Allegheny County Police said a man wanted for a fatal shooting earlier this month outside of a Wilkinsburg mosque has been arrested.

DURHAM, N.C. — Devin Mann homered and drove in three runs, and Louisville advanced to the Atlantic Coast Conference title game after beating Pittsburgh 5-2 on Saturday.