Новости за 12.06.2018

Sunday’s storms created landslides along the Great Allegheny Passage bicycle trail in Elizabeth Township, McKeesport and Fayette County.

Starting June 18, home visits to investigate lead hazards will be offered to all Allegheny County families with children under 6 who have high blood lead levels — at or above 5 micrograms per deciliter.

The Peters Township School Board has awarded more than $80 million worth of contracts for the construction of a new high school on the former Rolling Hills Country Club property.

A deal that calls for the bankrupt YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh to continue to pay its landlord at the Downtown Y — though it has closed that fitness branch — was approved today by a federal bankruptcy judge.

Pittsburgh City Council honored former Pirates shortstop and longtime Pitt broadcaster Dick Groat at its weekly meeting Tuesday, declaring June 12, 2018, “Dick Groat Day” at a ceremony attended by Groat, his family members and representatives from the Pirates and Pitt.

An independent group of Roman Catholic priests is urging that people not judge the innocent along with the guilty when a grand jury report into sexual abuse by priests is released.

A veteran Aliquippa police captain took the helm as acting chief Friday, two days after the department’s chief was ousted by city council and the same day the chief’s initial replacement was arrested.

The Pirates are either the dumbest MLB organization or are simply out-thinking themselves. I can’t figure out which fits better, but their decisions in recent weeks have me leaning towards the former.

Several local schools were honored by the state for promoting civic engagement and registering students to vote in the next election.

Advocates for sexual-abuse survivors are rebooting their effort on Tuesday in Harrisburg for legislation that would allow victims to sue over abuse that happened years or decades ago.

Science has a sexual harassment problem. From the most polished ivory tower to the local community college, harassment pervades lecture halls and laboratories, observatories and offices, teaching hospitals and Antarctic field sites. And it takes an economic and emotional toll on female researchers and stifles their scientific contributions, according to a sweeping new study released Tuesday.

Found guilty of criminal mischief and trespass after masturbating in his female tenant’s bedroom, landlord Thomas Fallon was sentenced to six months of house arrest followed by six months of probation on Tuesday. He was acquitted of burglary.

If there’s one thing all middle-schoolers learn in health class, it’s that you don’t have to do drugs to be cool.

Scott Blasey was actually pretty happy working for a home medical supply company, selling wheelchairs, oxygen tanks and the like.

A legislative committee that oversees the PIAA will have a public hearing next week to discuss the idea of separate championships for public and private schools, as well as other issues in Pennsylvania high school athletics.

Dance recital season, usually between April and June, is big business. With an estimated 100 studios located in Western Pennsylvania, thousands of teachers and students are busy these days perfecting routines.

Pitt fans have mastered the art of self-deprecation amid losing seasons on the football field and basketball court over the past year. So, it seems appropriate that a Panthers-themed beer has, too.

In the 11 years since Zelda Curtiss retired as an attorney for the state Department of Environmental Services, she has continued paying all the fees necessary to continue practicing law on behalf of people who cannot afford to hire a lawyer, although she receives no income for her work.

Len Kensey had built a career as a special projects manager for a large oil and gas company. Traveling to production sites in Colorado, Oklahoma and states across the country, the Indiana, Pa., resident often found himself returning home to a refrigerator full of unidentifiable leftovers.

A new type of fitness concept — Ramp ’n’ Rize, a tech-driven fitness studio — is headed to Lawrenceville this fall.

SINGAPORE — After all the hype, all the vows to tackle what’s perhaps the world’s most urgent crisis, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fell short of the kind of deal the U.S. president himself has long said is needed to settle the North’s decades-long pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Coming off the heels of one of the worst flu seasons on record — locally and nationally — is a federal report that shows doctors are still overprescribing antibiotics to treat the flu.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday rocked a region and suggested the upending of decades of U.S. defense posture on the Korean Peninsula when he announced that he was stopping annual U.S.-South Korean military drills and wants to remove the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in the South as a deterrent against North Korean attack.

Authorities have identified the woman who died in a house fire in Shaler Monday night.