A local businessman and his family were on an episode of “Family Feud” on Wednesday.
A watch party was held for Doug Sprankle, the owner of Sprankle’s Neighborhood Market in Saxonburg, and his family at the Saxonburg Volunteer Fire Company’s carnival grounds on Wednesday. Everyone in attendance watched as the family came together to win big.
“Just being here now with all these people watching this is surreal,” said Ryan Sprankle, who represented the family on the show.
Incumbent Progressive Congresswoman Summer Lee fended off a more moderate challenger to win the Democratic primary for the 12th Congressional District on Tuesday against Bhavini Patel, an Edgewood Council member.
Ms. Lee’s victory, leading by 18 percentage points and about 11,000 votes with 55% of ballots counted when the Associated Press called the race Tuesday night, caps one of the most closely watched races in southwestern Pennsylvania this cycle and confirms the ongoing strength of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in Western Pennsylvania. Ms. Patel had attempted to cast Ms. Lee as too far to the left for the district, challenging her on positions related to the Israel-Hamas War, support for President Joe Biden, her presence in the district, and other issues.
Jackie Tustin was treated like family when she worked once a week at Roadman’s Country Living Shoppe in Unity. “This isn’t my full-time job. It’s my fun job,” she said. But she and a few other employees are out of work, at least for now,
Security will be patrolling the scene until insurance adjusters and a state police fire marshal finish their work and the strip of storefronts can be boarded up. The fire was reported around 3:15 a.m. by a passerby and spread along a 250-foot section of wooden canopy that covers the sidewalks in front of the stores, Lloydsville Fire Chief Brian Schulthies said.
A teen boy has died from a shooting at a McKees Rocks park Saturday afternoon.
Allegheny County 911 confirmed that police and medics were sent to the area of Broadway Avenue between Second and Third streets.
“We are currently dealing with another shooting in the area of Third Street Park,” McKees Rocks police wrote on Facebook.
Lt. Venerando Costa with Allegheny County police said two teenagers were at the playground when someone outside the playground shot at them. One of the teens was hit multiple times in his upper body.
He later died at the hospital. His name has not yet been released.
A Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 photojournalist on scene saw evidence markers and police tape near the park playground.
McKees Rocks police are asking anyone with information to stay in the area or call 911. County police can also be reached through their anonymous tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS.
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A Pittsburgh-based tow truck operator is facing charges after he allegedly inflated costs for over two dozen customers.
Vincent G. Fannick, 56, is charged with 27 counts of insurance fraud, theft by deception, theft by unlawful taking and securing execution of documents by deception.
A line of powerful thunderstorms moved through the region Wednesday evening, leaving several thousand customers of Duquesne Light and West Penn Power without electricity.
The National Weather Service had issued a hazardous weather forecast and a tornado watch for the region; heavy rain struck about 8 p.m., and a possible tornado was reported in Portage and Trumbull counties in Ohio, about 110 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
The tornado watch, in effect until midnight, covered the counties of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Crawford, Erie, Greene, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango and Washington.
Senators are expected to be sworn in as jurors Wednesday after the House sent the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday. Follow here for the latest live news updates from Capitol Hill.
The torturing included taping the man’s eyes shut, urinating on him and pistol-whipping him. The suspects also put cigarettes out on his skin, according to the criminal complaints.
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Four people have been taken into custody in connection to the disappearances of two Kansas mothers, according to authorities.
Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, both of Hugoton, Kansas, have been missing since late March. The Texas County Sheriff’s Department said the women were traveling to pick up children but never arrived at their destination.
The vehicle Butler and Kelley had been traveling in was previously found abandoned near a highway outside Elkhart, Oklahoma.
The OSBI tells KSN that all four were arrested in counties near or along the Kansas border. Each was taken into custody on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. All four are set to be processed in Texas County.
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OSBI tells KSN they are still searching a wide area of Texas County for the missing women. No other details were released.
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the OSBI at tips@osbi.ok.gov or 1-800-522-8017.
PITTSBURGH — March of Dimes, the leader in the fight for the health of all moms and babies, kicked off its 54th annual March for Babies Walk on Sunday at the North Shore. Hundreds of people came together to support one another on their parenthood journies.
Sunday was John Bricker’s 50th March for Babies walk and his first in Pittsburgh. The Harrisburg native started walking for March for Babies in 1971 before he had children, but when his twin sons were born, the walk became personal.
“One [of the babies] was no problems. One had a lot of physical difficulties. He had many, many surgeries and died out of Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of three,” Bricker said. “My wife said, ‘what are you going to do about the March of Dimes?’ And I said, ‘I’m going to raise more and more money so their parents don’t go through what we went through.’”
In 50 years, Bricker has raised $900,000.
March for Babies is the largest fundraiser for the March of Dimes and the nation’s oldest charitable walk. Participants in Pittsburgh’s event raised more than $800,000 for education, training, and research so moms and babies get the best possible start.
“The United States, unfortunately, is one of the most dangerous developed nations in the world for childbirth,” said Jim Hoga, from March of Dimes. “One in 10 babies is born too soon, and two babies die every hour.”
According to March of Dimes’ annual report, which measures the state of maternal and infant health in the U.S., the nation’s pre-term birth rate is a D+ Grade, with a pre-term birth rate of 10.4%. One in 10 babies in the U.S. will be born premature, and about 700 women die each year from pregnancy-related complications — making the U.S. among the most dangerous developed nations for childbirth. Pennsylvania earned a C+ in March of Dimes’ 2023 Report Card, with a pre-term birth rate of 9.6%. The study found 15.5% of Pennsylvania residents have inadequate prenatal care, and the pre-term birth rate among Black women is 1.5 times higher than the rate among all other women. There has been no improvement in the disparity ratio for pre-term birth.
The U.S. has started to shore up its focus on Israel as expectations of an Iranian attack, which would come as a response to the strike on a consulate in Damascus, continue to grow.
Potentially dangerous storms are poised to hit parts of the Southeast and the Ohio Valley on Thursday, a day after deadly storms spawned damaging tornadoes and flash flood emergencies from Texas to Mississippi.
After heavy rains flooding major roadways, parks and other areas of Pittsburgh, one parking area is reopening on Thursday. The Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh says the Mon Wharf parking area will reopen on Thursday, April 11.
A Pittsburgh woman is the first-ever “Jeopardy!” Invitational Tournament champion. Victoria Groce of Point Breeze was the first player to win twice in the finals on Tuesday.
Following a months-long closure for remodeling, the Sheetz on Harvey Avenue in Greensburg reopened Tuesday. The gas station and convenience store, located near Lynch Field, closed Oct. 1 for a major remodeling. Employees worked at other Sheetz stores during the renovations. Natawsja Sosnak, hospitality assistant manager at the Greensburg store,
While solar eclipses happen about twice a year, any given spot on the planet only sees temporary darkness from the moon’s shadow once every 400 years, according to the American Astronomical Society.
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