Employee pistol-whipped during robbery of Overbrook business

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February 12, 2024

Employee pistol-whipped during robbery of Overbrook business

PITTSBURGH — An employee of Sky Spa in Pittsburgh’s Overbrook neighborhood was pistol-whipped during a robbery on Monday evening.

First responders were called to the 2500 block of Library Road just before 7:50 p.m.

The female employee told police she was letting a customer out the door when two men wearing masks pushed their way inside the business.

The victim told police she saw one gun before she was hit in the head.

Three customers and four employees were inside the business at the time of the robbery, but they were all on a different floor and did not witness the attack.

It’s not clear what, if anything, was taken from the business at this time.

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May 21, 2024

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Pittsburgh is the 36th best place to live in the U.S., according to new U.S. News & World Report

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May 21, 2024

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Pittsburgh is the 36th best place to live in the U.S., according to new U.S. News & World Report

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Since Pittsburgh was declared the nation’s most livable city by Rand McNally in 1985, we’ve kind of paid close attention to these kinds of rankings.

U.S. News and World Report has released its new listing of the best places to live, and Pittsburgh has landed at #36 on the list of 150 cities.

“#36 overall which is really incredible,” said Erika Giovanetti.

There are a lot of categories included in the rankings where Pittsburgh is listed #1. If this was a beauty contest, Pittsburgh would be near the top with its Golden Triangle and the confluence of its three rivers, but U.S. News and World Report looks deeper, so brace yourself.

“Pittsburgh is ranked #23 for quality of life, which includes the #13 health ranking and the #12 for establishment ratio for the number of bars and restaurants per capita,” said Giovanetti.

That’s right, our foodie scene ranks up there on a per-person basis.

“Pittsburgh outranks a lot of much larger cities for that at #12,” Giovanetti said, mentioning Los Angeles and New York by comparison.

The report says that Pittsburgh is the 10th best place to retire.

Giovanetti, who is an Oakmont native, says that the healthcare ranking at #13 doesn’t surprise her.

“We have UPMC and the wonderful health care system that comes along with it,” said Giovanetti. “And that’s just that health index that we have. It is overall access to quality health care.”

When people are asked which cities they would see themselves living in the most, Pittsburgh did not fare well in that category.

But when disaster strikes, Pittsburgh is one place you want to live.

“Pittsburgh ranked number one in the country for FEMA risk,” Giovanetti said. “So, what FEMA risk determines is the, I guess, the risk of natural disaster and how resilient a city is to handling those disasters.”

For those keeping score, Cincinnati was listed #100, Baltimore was ranked #118, and Cleveland was ranked #141 out of the 150 cities.

U.S. News’ top 10 best cities to live in the U.S. are below. Click here for the full list.

Naples, Florida
Boise, Idaho
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Greenville, South Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Huntsville, Alabama
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Austin, Texas
Boulder, Colorado

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John Shumway joined KDKA in October 1988 as a General Assignment Reporter. During his years at KDKA, he has anchored the morning and weekend news and is currently a featured General Assignment Reporter on the station’s 4, 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts.

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How a gun from a police department in New Jersey turned up at a crime scene in Pittsburgh

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May 20, 2024

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A CBS News investigation revealed that more than 52,000 guns, once in the possession of law enforcement across the country, turned up at crime scenes between 2006 and 2022. Tonight, in a collaborative investigation with KDKA-TV’s sister stations in New York and Baltimore, we’re tracing a gun from a police department in New Jersey to a crime scene in Pittsburgh.