Rebecca Reese
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Kalaris took over the cart from his father in 1951, and it sold flavored ice balls, popcorn and peanuts in Allegheny Commons Park every summer since. An iconic fixture in the park, the cart became part of the Carnegie Science Center's Miniature Railroad and Village in 2021.
Courtesy of Central Catholic High School
Katie Blackley
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Employees represented by the Communications Workers of America and other staff are on strike following the expiration of their health insurance coverage on Oct. 1. -
Workers with the Communications Workers of America, responsible for designing, printing and distributing the paper, are on the picket line this morning. -
Judah Samet, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped a shooting rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, has died. -
Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” has died. Manager Jarez Posey tells The Associated Press that Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died at the Los Angeles home of a friend on Wednesday. -
WESA is collecting stories and questions regarding abortion access. -
A federal judge has ordered the FBI to speed up the release of records about the agency’s search for buried Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania. -
Southwestern Pennsylvania will experience wet, cold and even snowy weather Monday. -
Pennsylvania’s Labor and Industry secretary says the state “continues to rebound strongly” from the COVID-19 pandemic with unemployment dropping by two-tenths of a point in March. -
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins has been killed in an auto accident in Florida. Haskins’ agent, Cedric Saunders, told ESPN about the quarterback’s death, and the Steelers released a statement extending their condolences. -
Pressley Ridge says it has received a $10 million donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
