Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, July 12: Severe weather risk forecast Thursday The likelihood of severe weather will increase around the Western Pennsylvania area from Wednesday into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh. Forecasters say there is a marginal risk
When Greensburg police charged two men with a downtown shooting outside The Rialto bar, in which a bystander was wounded in late January, video footage helped investigators identify one of the suspects. “Without the surveillance video, that may not have been the outcome,” police Chief Shawn Denning said. “With the
Jeannie Hall-Harris did a lot of praying going into Tuesday’s mass-vaccination event in Monroeville.
“I was hesitant at first,” she said, moments after receiving her first dose of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine. She was one of 5,100 people who received the shot at the Monroeville Convention Center, which partnered with Allegheny Health Network and the Monroeville Area Chamber of Commerce for the event that was scheduled for 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Hall-Harris of Penn Hills is 65, which puts her in Phase 1A, the state’s first wave of people who qualify for the vaccine. She said she also has high blood pressure.