Новости за 15.06.2018

I thought Jamie Dixon was a bad hire. He became the winningest basketball coach in Pitt history. I said Jim Rutherford was too old and too washed up for the Penguins. He built consecutive Stanley Cup winners and is headed to the Hall of Fame.

FBI Agent Gregg Frankhouser hunts predators.

When he was 10, Nathan Sawaya asked his parents for a dog.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — South Side Beaver was rolling right along on its trip to what it hoped would be a first PIAA title.

Chef owner Andrew Garbarino has decided to rename Bar Frenchman as Le Riviera, a change that will take place during the week of July 2, when he’ll have a new sign and new menu.

Pennsylvania’s biggest wildlife problem continues to grow. Last week the state Department of Agriculture announced that three deer in Blair and Lancaster counties were confirmed to have contracted chronic wasting disease.

The Pirates have signed first-round draft pick Travis Swaggerty, the team announced Friday.

Matt Broley is taking people wakesurfing on the three rivers this summer for free — no strings attached.

Matt Broley is taking people wakesurfing on the three rivers this summer for free — no strings attached.

Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate fell to 4.5 percent in May, adding to the steady decline in the rate even as people continue to drop out of the workforce.

A sheepish grin and a few reserved sentences are the calling cards of Darrin Hall Jr. Even-keeled would be an understatement, and it’s hard to believe the next time he raises his voice won’t be the first time.

Joe DeNardo, a broadcasting legend whose Pittsburghese forecasts of “partly clahdy” with “shars” and wisecracking banter with anchorman Paul Long entertained generations of viewers, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 87.

“Joe Said It Would.”

WASHINGTON — The world’s two biggest economies inched toward the brink of a trade war Friday after President Donald Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on up to $50 billion in Chinese imports to take effect July 6.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said on Friday that it would move ahead with imposing tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese products, prompting vows of retaliation from Beijing and turning a spat into a full-blown trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

After 18 years in a Peters Town­ship sub­di­vi­sion, no one could fault Robin Zou­fa­lik and his wife, Katie, for want­ing to down­size on the North Side.

Dave Gilbreath and his wife, Lynn Schraf, moved from Beechview to a Foursquare house in Observatory Hill because they admired the North Side neighborhood’s architecture.

Though Tyler Abbott grew up in Carrick, his family has lived on the South Side for three generations. So his parents were delighted that he was buying a house on the South Side Slopes -- until they saw it.

Highmark Inc. will continue pressing its claim against the federal government for $600 million in compensation for losses selling Affordable Care Act health insurance between 2014 and 2017, despite appellate court rulings Thursday against two insurers that filed similar claims.

The decision to trade Martavis Bryant already is looking like a great move by Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert, and it has nothing to do with the development of Mason Rudolph.

The Allegheny County Health Department is taking issue with a study on childhood vaccinations that calls Pittsburgh a “hotspot” region that’s more susceptible to medical outbreaks due to what it calls the area’s “large numbers” of non-medical exemptions.

Lashawn Reed’s business, called Strong Ambitious Women, mentors African-American girls in the Sto-Rox and Pittsburgh Public school districts. The goal is to help them develop confidence and self-esteem, and to avoid bad choices such as drug use and bullying.

For a quarter of a century, the silhouetted images of four geese have adorned the top of the outbound side of the Tenth Street Bridge spanning the Monongahela and connecting the South Side to Second Avenue at the Armstrong Tunnels.

In an attempt to allay concerns of McDonald-area residents who have experienced repeated flooding from highway construction, Pennsylvania Turnpike representatives opened a meeting Thursday by apologizing and outlining a plan to fix the problem.

A man was taken to a hospital in "very critical" condition Thursday evening after a shooting in Crafton Heights, Pittsburgh police said.