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Central Catholic High School’s campus in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood will close Thursday and students will switch to strictly online classes following multiple newly positive covid-19 cases in recent weeks.
Diocesan officials said they made the decision to close the campus through at least next week in response to guidance issued by the Allegheny County Health Department.
“This action comes after several positive cases in the Central Catholic community were reported in the month of February,” says a statement issued Wednesday afternoon by the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Natasha Lindstrom
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Officials reduced speed limits and limited the types of vehicles that can travel on Western Pennsylvania’s highways as a winter storm brings snow, ice and freezing rain the evening of Monday, Feb. 15, 2021.
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Speed limits and commercial vehicle travel are back to normal on Pennsylvania highways Tuesday morning following the previous evening’s winter storm.
PennDOT reduced speed limits to 45 mph on many Pennsylvania highways as the state was belted with snow and ice. All speeds had been restored to their usual limits by 5:30 a.m.
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The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania building on Grant Street in Downtown Pittsburgh.
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A federal grand jury has accused a Pittsburgh man of sex trafficking an adult woman, prosecutors said Friday.
Anthony Juskowich, 22, of the city’s Oakland neighborhood was named as the sole defendant in a one-count indictment returned by the grand jury on Thursday, according to U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady.
Brady said the indictment signals how seriously his office takes sex crimes and helping the survivors of human trafficking.
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Federal and local authorities on Tuesday arrested a Pittsburgh man accused of killing a man and injuring another in a shooting this past summer in the city’s Brighton Heights neighborhood, officials said.
U.S.Marshals teamed up with Pittsburgh police officers to find suspect Darnell McFaddden, 24, of the city’s North Side neighborhood in connection to the mid-June killing of 28-year-old Demetrius Herring.
Officials with the Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety did not provide details on how or where McFadden was located, but confirmed Tuesday he was taken into custody.
Heinz Field has been offered up as a possible site for a mass covid-19 vaccine distribution — but there are no imminent plans to do so as Pennsylvania scrambles to get enough vaccine doses to people in top-priority groups. “We previously offered Heinz Field for use as a vaccination site