Biden swings through the ’Burgh to meet with union folks
Two days after the Republican vice presidential nominee crossed a picket line set up by striking workers producing this publication, the sitting U.S. president, who walked a picket line with striking autoworkers last summer, arrived in Pittsburgh to praise organized labor. President Joe Biden didn’t hurl the word “scab” during his remarks to a group…
Traffic patterns change on Fifth, Sixth avenues in Downtown Pittsburgh as part of bus project
Two Downtown Pittsburgh streets will have traffic patterns change over the next two weeks as crews finish segments on Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s University Line. Work will begin Monday to expand sidewalks on Fifth and Sixth avenues to align with some of the 35 new traffic signals the agency is installing in the Golden Triangle. The…
Allegheny County Health Department may aid in bringing more overdose prevention medication to campus
Free naloxone could soon be available on more college campuses in Allegheny County. The Allegheny County Health Department began placing the life-saving overdose drug in vending machines in August and is working to distribute more. Under discussion: college campuses, said Ottis Pitts, deputy director of the Bureau of Food Safety, Housing & Policy with the…
State legislators break promise to address transit funding ‘crisis’
With only two days in session remaining this year, it appears unlikely the state Legislature will follow through on a July promise to enact a sustainable funding source for public transit this fall. And the fallout from the lack of additional funding already is beginning to show with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority raising fares…
High school football: Here come the playoffs!
Best in Show: PUP high school football rankings (Oct. 27)
Below are the final Pittsburgh Union Progress high school football rankings for the 2024 regular season, with all rankings voted on by the PUP sports staff. Class 6A 1. Central Catholic (8-2) 2. North Allegheny (9-1) 3. Mt. Lebanon (3-7) 4. Seneca Valley (3-6) 5. Hempfield (3-7) The skinny: Central Catholic and North Allegheny were…
City League championship: Westinghouse withstands spirited upset attempt by Allderdice, dominates second half for third consecutive title
For one half of football on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon on the South Side, it appeared Allderdice might muster enough magic to pull off a miraculous upset in the City League championship game against Westinghouse. But the big bad Bulldogs are the undisputed kings of the city for a reason — and they made sure…
PUP high school football notebook: Carlynton ends 23-year postseason drought, joins Latrobe, Greensburg Salem and 13 others as WPIAL wild-card qualifiers
The last time Carlynton qualified for the WPIAL playoffs, the Steelers, then coached by Cougars’ legend Bill Cowher, were in their first season playing at Heinz Field. Twenty-three years later, Heinz Field is now Acrisure Stadium and will play host to the WPIAL Class 2A championship in a few weeks. And for the first time…
PUP Friday Night Rewind (Week 9): West Allegheny knocks off Montour in overtime, shakes up Class 4A playoff picture
News, notes, scores, photos and videos from Week 9 of the high school football season. To protect and to serve. That’s what Police did on Friday night, and it was enough to shake up the WPIAL playoff picture in Class 4A. West Allegheny’s Roman Police protected his team’s end zone with a fourth-down tackle in…
Qualan Cain, Amari Jackson lead Beaver to vengeful victory against Avonworth along with a share of first conference title since 2007
No one had to remind Qualan Cain and Amari Jackson who was on their team’s schedule this week. The Beaver two-way senior standouts were seeing nothing but Avonworth’s famed red and white with the Antelopes traveling to the Bobcats’ Pat Tarquinio Field Friday night for a showdown of two of WPIAL Class 3A’s hottest playoff…
Trinity topples defending champ Belle Vernon, secures second consecutive playoff berth behind dual-threat QB Jonah Williamson
After spending most of the 21st century mired in mediocrity, Trinity was about as far removed from the WPIAL playoff picture as any team in Class 4A going into the 2022 season. Turns out, tough times don’t typically last long when Dan Knause is in charge. From 2008-22, the Hillers went 15 seasons without winning…
College football
District college football: California wins overtime thriller against IUP to win PSAC West Division title; nationally ranked Grove City, Carnegie Mellon, W&J all earn blowout victories
Gary Dunn does not usually plan on Davis Black running the football often. With their California team facing a critical third-and-goal play from Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s 3-yard line in overtime Saturday afternoon, though, Dunn said he was informed his offensive playbook had suddenly shrunk. “Davis wanted the football,” said Dunn, now in his ninth…
Historic Riverview Park shelter to receive much-needed repairs
A Riverview Park historic structure will be repaired through a collaboration of private and public partners that provided grant funding and in-kind work to make it a reality. Valley Refuge Shelter, constructed in 1939 by the National Youth Association, an arm of the Works Progress Administration, will receive much-needed upgrades through the $240,000 project. The…
Buttigieg and Republicans unite in a common goal: Defeating Trump
After 20 minutes of discussing the importance of voting for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris to end what he and several other speakers called a threat to the country, Pete Buttigieg stepped off a small stage at the Roberto Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood on Friday and made a beeline for Ginny…
Pittsburgh Regional Transit says it finds no ‘toxic’ workplace
After the Pittsburgh Regional Transit board of directors heard concerns for the second month in a row Friday from fired Black employees, CEO Katharine Eagan Kelleman said the agency has found no evidence to support claims of a “toxic” work environment for minorities at the agency. Chaz Williams, a former PRT bus driver and chairman…
A North Side factory burned more than a century ago; the losses continue to echo
This story about a Pittsburgh family’s long, long heartache begins with wisps of smoke rising from the edges of a third-floor factory in the Brown Building on the city’s North Side. The room was filled with tables and machines – workstations where about 30 young women assembled cardboard boxes. A supervisor saw the smoke but…
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New book creates a living history of Hungarian immigrants and ancestry with Western Pennsylvania ties
Réka Bakos and Anna Fenyvesi, both of Hungary, share an interest in family history and genealogy research and a connection to Western Pennsylvania. Bakos wanted to find out more about her great-grandparents who left Hungary for Pittsburgh in the early 1900s. Fenyvesi, a professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary, earned her master’s and…
Pennsylvania allows vehicles without drivers, but don’t expect to see them any time soon
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced formal guidelines Wednesday that will allow self-driving vehicles to operate without an emergency driver in the vehicle. But don’t expect to see them on local streets any time soon because the technology isn’t ready to handle quickly changing weather conditions in Pennsylvania, according to a Carnegie Mellon University professor…
PUP recruiting notebook: Her college decision behind her, South Fayette’s Mia Deramo continues to come up in the clutch while helping Lions hunt WPIAL Class 3A title repeat
Mia Deramo has that “clutch gene” in her. “Oh, yeah, she definitely has that,” her coach said. A junior at South Fayette, Deramo has scored some gigantic goals in her career, among them the decisive shootout goal in last year’s WPIAL semifinals and the lone goal of the game in South Fayette’s win against Thomas…
