January 29, 2021 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A Wilkinsburg man is being held in the Allegheny County Jail after leading police on a chase that ended up with a crash inside the RIDC Industrial Center of McKeesport and a search through a local railroad yard.
Zaire Hatchin, 21, is jailed in lieu of $20,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing Feb. 8 on more than a dozen charges, including possession of drugs with intent to deliver, reckless driving, firearms violations and leaving the scene of an accident.
McKeesport police said an officer on routine patrol early Wednesday morning observed a blue Toyota sedan traveling at a high rate of speed on Lysle Boulevard, and began following it as it turned onto Coursin Street.
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January 28, 2021 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A former city man faces five years in federal prison after his conviction on narcotics and firearms charges.
Jared A. Ogrosky, 23, formerly of the city’s Highland Grove neighborhood, also was sentenced to three years’ probation following his release. The sentence was imposed Jan. 20 by Senior U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti in Pittsburgh.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady said that Ogrosky was arrested May 10, 2019, following a search of his Bowman Avenue home. According to federal prosectors, police and federal law-enforcement officers found nine bricks of heroin in a closet inside the home, along with a loaded 9-mm pistol and a 50-round 9-mm magazine.
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January 28, 2021 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements, West Newton News
The West Newton Center for Active Adults is selling a special fundraising raffle ticket tied to the Pennsylvania Lottery’s April 1 evening three-digit drawing.
“I think we can safely say that 2020 made fools of all of us, but winter blew in and with the change in seasons came the change in calendars,” said Paul A Kurzdorfer III, center manager. “Now we sit in 2021 anxiously awaiting spring and those better days ahead.”
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January 28, 2021 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements, Duquesne News
A volunteer helps direct traffic during a drive-up food distribution at Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank in Duquesne in 2020. (Submitted photo courtesy Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.)
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank continues to offer drive-up food distributions in the city, Duquesne, Glassport and other communities.
A spokesperson said the drive-up distributions are designed to comply with federal, state and county COVID-19 mitigation regulations that limit crowd sizes and recommend social distancing.
The next drive-up distribution is from 3 to 5 p.m. Feb. 1 at the food bank’s headquarters, 1 N. Linden St., Duquesne, followed by a distribution from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 11 at Queen of the Rosary Church, 530 Michigan Ave., Glassport, and 10 a.m. to 12 noon Feb. 20 at Founders Hall Middle School, 1960 Eden Park Blvd., McKeesport.
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January 27, 2021 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 22, 2020. (File photo courtesy U.S. National Institutes of Health)
The Allegheny County Health Department has opened additional vaccination appointments for individuals 65 years of age and older, beginning Feb. 9 and continuing through Feb. 13.
A spokesman said the vaccination site, located at the DoubleTree Hotel near the Monroeville Mall, is in “great demand” and that appointments are required.
The health department also continues to vaccinate eligible healthcare workers and people who are returning for the second shot in the vaccination series.
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January 26, 2021 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A Monroeville man is being held in the Allegheny County Jail without bond in connection with the strangulation death of a McKeesport man inside his home on Grover Street.
Devin Alexander Hale, 30, faces a preliminary hearing March 12 before Magisterial District Judge Kim Berkeley Clark in Pittsburgh.
Allegheny County police allege that Hale and another man forced their way into the home of David M. Faust, 66, on Jan. 19, and that Hale strangled him during a robbery.
Faust died Jan. 23 at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Oakland, of injuries sustained in the incident, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said.
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January 26, 2021 |
By Sarah Turnbull | Posted in: Announcements, White Oak News
White Oak’s Heritage Hill Pool is expected to open this year.
The pool didn’t open in 2020, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which meant that lifeguards could not be trained and necessary repairs could not be completed.
The city of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County also did not open their pools last year.
Councilwoman Julie Opferman said last week that although pool season is still months away, it’s on council’s radar.
However, she said, Heritage Hill Pool will implement a new system of pricing and passes this year.
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January 25, 2021 |
By Sarah Turnbull | Posted in: White Oak News
White Oak Borough is planning to pave all or part of more than a dozen streets this summer as it tackles infrastructure improvements.
At last week’s meeting, Manager John Palyo presented a list of streets targeted for repaving, including Andrew Drive, Main Street, Maple Drive, Laurel Lane, Circle Drive, Midway Drive, Stepanik Road, Chesapeake Street, Longvue Drive, Glass Street, Terrace Drive and Sunset Drive.
The borough is also targeting four properties for demolition, including two properties on O’Neil Boulevard and one each on New Jersey Street and Capitol Street, Palyo said.
In other business, Councilman George Dillinger, who chairs the finance committee, encouraged other members of council to be mindful of the $7.2 million bond that the borough issued in 2019 for infrastructure projects.
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January 16, 2021 |
By Jason Togyer | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News
The family of a retired Pittsburgh Steelers player who was found dead in a personal care home on Versailles Avenue has sued the facility, alleging negligence.
Samantha Davis of Washington, D.C., filed suit this week in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court against New Life Personal Care Home Inc. of McKeesport on behalf of the estate of her father, Samuel R. Davis.
Davis, 75, was found at the bottom of a flight of stairs in the New Life facility on Sept. 10, 2019, about 14 hours after he was reported missing. He was pronounced dead a short time later. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said Davis died of complications related to heart disease.
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January 15, 2021 |
By Kristen Keleschenyi | Posted in: North Versailles Twp. News
East Allegheny School District will begin hybrid learning in the district Jan. 25.
School directors this week voted 5-4 to resume some in-person classes. The district has been fully remote since Dec. 1 based on a recommendation from the state Department of Dealth when the state’s COVID-19 daily case count reached 6,000.
Prior to that, both the high school and elementary school were operating within a scaffolded learning model accommodating students with individualized education plans (IEP's) in person.
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