Новости за 18.07.2018

William Parker recalls seeing gutted school buses in the Hill District in the early 2000s. Those “store buses,” he said, were the best place to buy snacks and household items in communities with a dearth of grocery stores. Sometimes, they were the only place.

When Don Travis moved his modular office manufacturing company to a spot off the main drag in Connellsville from Kansas City years ago, local economic development officials assured him that filling jobs would be no problem.

When the American Cheese Society kicks off its 35th annual four-day conference Downtown on July 25, it tips its hat to Pittsburgh.

Pittsburghers are going to have cheese on their mind when the American Cheese Society brings its annual convention to Pittsburgh, July 25-28. Cheesemakers will bring their finest wedges, wheels and spreadable cheeses and share them with the public at the Festival of Cheese (7-9:30 p.m.) and the Cheese Sale on the last day.

The music coming from the rehearsal at Studio 19 Dance Complex in Adams was a mashup of Broadway, rock, disco and just about anything else under the sun. But that’s nothing new for Texture Contemporary Ballet, a company out to make ballet both current and relevant.

The Andy Warhol Museum has announced an ambitious schedule of public programs to complement the exhibition “Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby.”

Friends and family wanted to know. Co-workers and customers demanded answers. Owners and managers got close, leaned in and softy whispered, as if about to share a national secret.

Pennsylvania has gone to court again to keep secret the incentives it is offering Amazon to locate its second headquarters in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.

A new brand of lamb is just the start of what’s sure to be a juicy, finger-licking Sunday afternoon in East Liberty.

Ex-Calgon Carbon chief headed to Boston area

Officials from Virgin Hyperloop One and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission are in Pittsburgh this week to brief local officials on the progress of plans to send people and freight from Pittsburgh to Chicago in 48 minutes in low-pressure tubes.

East Pittsburgh held its first borough council meeting Tuesday since the fatal police shooting in June of Antwon Rose II, and dozens of people questioned members about the killing, the police and police policies.

WASHINGTON — Felipe Vazquez did not know if he would pitch at all Tuesday night, let alone when. (If he does, he wants to face Mike Trout). The Pirates left-hander closer joked with Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, who helmed the National League All-Stars, that he’d pitched “10 out of nine” during the Pirates’ most recent homestand. He did take the ball in seven out of the final 10 games, including both games of a doubleheader, but he told Roberts he’d be ready.

A former assistant football coach at Kiski Area High School in Westmoreland County has been charged with having sex or other inappropriate contact with five female students.

State lawmakers, police chiefs and experts sounded off Tuesday on police-community relations and how state laws ought to change in the wake of the fatal East Pittsburgh police shooting of an unarmed teenager.

LAS VEGAS — MGM Resorts International has sued hundreds of victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in a bid to block any potential compensation claims for the gunfire that rained down from its Mandalay Bay casino-resort in Las Vegas.

A marathon public hearing in front of Pittsburgh City Council discussing UPMC Mercy's proposed expansion began Tuesday afternoon with impassioned calls for the hospital to work with the community in its development.