Новости за 05.07.2018

It only took a few hours to find the mystery couple.

WASHINGTON — Toward the end, the pain had practically driven Elizabeth Martin mad.

The final months of the 2018 Harmar bald eagle show were abruptly canceled Tuesday when heavy rains, high winds and flooding knocked out the power supply on a live-streaming video camera monitoring the site.

WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday amid ethics investigations of outsized security spending, first-class flights and a sweetheart condo lease.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has accepted the resignation of scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has resigned from the post, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter this afternoon.

An Allegheny County judge on Thursday requested additional legal arguments before he decides whether the Pittsburgh region's secret bid to land Amazon's second headquarters should stay secret.

Catcher Francisco Cervelli, who has been on the disabled list since June 22 with a concussion, will begin a rehab assignment Thursday with Class AA Altoona, the Pirates announced.

It’s a sure sign of summer in Pittsburgh — people wearing furry costumes wandering around Downtown.

An early morning storm Thursday sent Girty’s Run over its banks and into the streets, businesses and homes of Millvale, a borough prone to flooding.

Pennsylvania’s entire grand jury system could be undermined if a group of people are successful in blocking publication of a grand jury report that criticizes them for their roles in the scandal of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, the state attorney general’s office argued in a court filing Thursday.

A Port Authority bus was stranded and its passengers needed emergency evacuation Thursday morning in Ross after it was inundated by flash flooding on Babcock Boulevard and Thompson Run Road.

Welcome to Paul Zeise’s weekly mailbag, where the Post-Gazette columnist and 93.7 The Fan radio host answers your questions about sports, life and everything in between. If you want to ask Paul a question, tweet him @paulzeise or email him at pzeise@post-gazette.com. Let’s get started:

The North Allegheny School Board has adopted a 2018-19 budget that raises taxes.

It’s been 25 years since the NFL instituted the franchise and transition tags as ways for teams to retain top players and delay them from reaching free agency. The Steelers have succeeded in keeping their stars under contract on only a handful of occasions.

ALTOONA, Pa. — Shortstop Cole Tucker, one of the youngest players on the Class AA Altoona roster, has a locker just a couple of spots away from the team’s oldest member, Tyler Gaffney.

Confession time. I was tone deaf when writing what I thought was a quick one-and-done about Scarlett Johansson playing the real-life Pittsburgh massage parlor boss Dante “Tex” Gill in the upcoming film “Rub & Tug.”

Customers have spoken, and the museum has listened. Driven by popular demand, The Frick Pittsburgh in Point Breeze announced the extension of its “Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art From the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts” exhibit another week to Sunday, July 15. The museum will also extend its hours to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10, through Sunday, July 15, during the exhibit’s final week. General admission is $15, free for Frick members. The museum strongly encourages customers... Читать дальше...

Customers have spoken, and the museum has listened. Driven by popular demand, the Frick Pittsburgh in Point Breeze announced the extension of its “Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts” exhibit another week to Sunday, July 15. The museum will also extend its hours to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 15 during the exhibit’s final week. General admission is $15, or free for Frick members. The museum strongly encourages customers... Читать дальше...

2018 BMW X3 XDrive 30i vs. 2018 Volvo Xc60 T6 AWD R-Design: Two luxury crossovers get prettied up for 2018, so let’s put them side by side.

The developers behind a plan to convert the historic Alfred E. Hunt Armory in Shadyside into an ice skating complex are scrambling to find more money for the project because of an increase in construction costs.

At the Parkway West Career and Technology Center in Oakdale, high school seniors will soon be able to get hands-on with the components of a solar energy system: the battery, the inverter and the solar panels.

As Alcosan hikes rates in preparation for a multibillion-dollar revamp, the sewer authority is paying a retired judge to help it reach out to its municipal customers.

If your car was damaged by the heavy rains that tore through parts of Allegheny County in recent weeks, there’s a four in five chance you’re covered.