Pittsburg, PA
Pittsburgh police looking for 65-year-old man who wandered away from South Side Slopes home
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Pittsburgh police detectives are asking for help from the public while they search for a missing man.
Police say Richard Vavrek, 65, was last seen on Feb. 10.
Vavrek wandered away from his home on Holt Street in the city’s South Side Slopes neighborhood between 2:45 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.
Police say Vavrek is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. He has graying dark brown hair and green eyes.
Anyone with information on where Vavrek may be should contact police by calling 412-323-7141 or 911.
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Thunderstorms, showers possible across Pittsburgh region; warm and muggy trend continues
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A crossing cold front is touching off scattered showers and thunderstorms that will linger through late this evening with showers finally tapering toward morning.
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Daily average High: 69° Low: 47°
Sunrise: 6:14 a.m. Sunset: 8:20 p.m.
FIRST ALERT: None
AWARE: T-Storms and showers tonight. We are watching the potential for strong storms on Tuesday late afternoon/evening.
Monday will be mostly cloudy, warm and muggy, but mainly dry until later in the evening when a few showers could develop.
Tuesday will be mainly dry during the morning and early afternoon. Still, we’re watching the potential for strong to severe storms to possibly develop late afternoon into Tuesday evening, depending on how this next system evolves.
Scattered shower and storm chances linger the rest of the week, with temperatures very warm in the 70s before cooling to near-normal 60s next weekend.
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Kennywood celebrates 100 years of its iconic rollercoaster The Thunderbolt
WEST MIFFLIN (KDKA) – Saturday was a milestone day and a celebration at Kennywood as one of the park’s most iconic coasters turned 100 years old.
The Thunderbolt, originally named The Pippin, wooden rollercoaster opened to parkgoers on May 4, 1924. It was designed by coaster builder John Miller and was one of Kennywood’s first rollercoasters.
That was before the lift hill and helix curves were added in 1968.
The Thunderbolt was then named “King of the Coasters” by the New York Times in 1974.
Along with the Jack Rabbit and Racer, Kennywood’s three wooden rollercoasters have been named a Landmark Ride by the American Coaster Enthusiasts in previous years.
A new plaque has been installed outside of the ride in commemoration of the anniversary and Kennywood said that more is on the way this summer to celebrate 100 years of the Thunderbolt.
For those heading to Kennywood for the first time this summer, the Thunderbolt is in the Kennyville section of the park by the iconic Potato Patch, where visitors can get the park’s famous French Fries.
You can get tickets to the park and see their hours and events on their website at this link.
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Runaway steel drum kills woman walking in US
Crews work at the scene of a fatal construction accident in Oakland, Pennsylvania. Photo / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP
A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said.
The accident occurred around 10.40am Friday local time in the city’s Oakland neighborhood, where the University of Pittsburgh’s new sports performance centre is being built.
The drum was either knocked over or dislodged from a piece of heavy equipment, police said. It then rolled several hundred feet as it went down a hill, through a fence and onto the sidewalk where the woman was walking with co-workers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre’s Western Psychiatric Hospital. The drum then went across a road before it came to rest against a pickup truck.
The woman, who suffered a head injury, was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. Her name has not been released, and no other injuries were reported in the accident, which remains under investigation.
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