Новости за 10.07.2018

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert for patrons of a Westmoreland County compounding laboratory, warning not to use products labeled as sterile from Ranier’s Compounding Laboratory in Jeannette “due to a lack of sterility assurance.”

The state failed to spend more than $5.4 million of federal weatherization funds intended to help low-income households due to the 2015-2016 state budget impasse and changes in federal standards, an audit released Tuesday found.

If approved by the Senate, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Brett Michael Kavanaugh will be the first U.S. Supreme Court justice from Washington, D.C.

Aliquippa Assistant Police Chief Joseph Perciavalle III is facing a second criminal charge in connection with content found on his cell phone as part of the investigation into the death of teacher Rachael DelTondo, according to court records.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pardoned two ranchers whose case sparked the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.

Scott Wagner's campaign is sharply denouncing a controversial pastor who gave the invocation at his meet-and-greet campaign event in Pike County this past weekend.

Welcome back, mailbag readers. The Pirates are in a critical week. They need to make a reasonable run in the next week if the front office is to add to the current roster. How many games must they win? Well, we know it’s probably more than three. Let’s begin:

Former Secretary of State and former first lady Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders will be among several speakers at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Pittsburgh this weekend.

Neal Huntington has spent most of 2018 casting doubt on statistical projections that pegged his team as a .500-ish bunch. As recently as this past Sunday, he made a point of mentioning that the club’s 2013-2015 playoff teams smashed popular projections, the implication being that they’re some degree of bullpucky. He even got a head start on spinning whatever the models say about 2019.

During the music scene Town Hall at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in February, a panelist suggested that perhaps sprawling festivals with dozens of venues and hundreds of random acts, like the Deutschtown Music Festival, weren’t the best showcase for Pittsburgh music.

For the past couple of years, a handful of restaurants have been opening every week, with more spots owned by out-of-town chains or restaurant groups and fewer run by local families. But opening family-run places on less than a zillion dollars is still feasible in Pittsburgh, although some folks are having to do so in neighborhoods beyond the restaurant rows in Lawrenceville and Downtown.

For the past couple of years, a handful of restaurants have been opening every week, with more spots owned by out-of-town chains or restaurant groups and fewer run by local families. But opening family-run places on less than a zillion dollars is still feasible in Pittsburgh, although some folks are having to do so in neighborhoods beyond the restaurant rows in Lawrenceville and Downtown.

You’ve seen the commercials: a man buys a $100 analysis of his DNA and turns his lederhosen in for a kilt.

Live Nation is offering to compensate Jimmy Buffett fans who were caught up at the gates for hours trying to get into the concert Saturday night at the KeyBank Pavilion.

Live Nation is offering to compensate Jimmy Buffett fans who were caught up at the gates for hours trying to get into the concert Saturday night at the KeyBank Pavilion.

Seven years after residents of the small, low-income Butler County community called the Woodlands became convinced that Rex Energy’s shale drilling had ruined their water wells, the company settled their claims a month before filing for bankruptcy.

By connecting electrodes to the nervous system, scientists are able to restore limited vision or hearing, prevent and control seizures, modulate hormone levels or reduce pain. Patients with brain-machine interfaces have even been able to control video games with their brains. Electronic implants have been used clinically for a half-century.

The federal government froze a key funding cog in the Obamacare health insurance machinery Saturday even as the Pennsylvania Insurance Department was reviewing rates that insurance carriers had proposed for 2019, injecting more uncertainty into an already uncertain market.

The federal government froze a key funding cog in the Obamacare health insurance machinery Saturday even as the Pennsylvania Insurance Department was reviewing rates that insurance carriers had proposed for 2019, injecting more uncertainty into an already uncertain market.

Kevin Bolding arrived in Pittsburgh a decade ago as a district executive director to oversee the opening of the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh’s then-new Downtown facility on Fifth Avenue.

One month after closing its Downtown facility, the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh says it plans to close three more branches due to continued financial problems.

WASHINGTON — Even before Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced his retirement, Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative advocacy group, had reserved more than two dozen internet domain names — one for each candidate on President Donald Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees.

In developing his historic vaccine, Jonas Salk helped save the world from polio. But he didn’t quit there. Later in life, he would outline ways to save the planet from overpopulation.

Thai Navy SEALs say all 12 boys and their coach were rescued Tuesday from a flooded cave labyrinth in Thailand, ending an ordeal that lasted more than 2 weeks.

Authorities are seeking a 35-year-old man with a history of mental illness who is charged with the death of a longtime Point Park professor and his dog in his Carrick home. Police said the suspect, Joseph Martin, shot both in the head, cutting the dog's throat and nearly decapitating 71-year-old Ricardo J. Tobia.