Steelers’ Cam Heyward is not letting Acrisure name bring him down
As Pittsburghers come to terms with the renaming of their football stadium, there’s at least one Steelers player who is accepting the new branding of his workplace. Black and Gold fans appear to have nearly universal disdain for a Michigan-based insurance company’s purchase of the naming rights to what has...
No recent covid deaths in Allegheny, Westmoreland counties; cases trending up slightly
While case numbers might be trending slightly upward, Allegheny and Westmoreland counties have gone nearly a dozen days without recording a death related to the coronavirus. With 25 new covid-19 cases reported Wednesday, the seven-day average in Allegheny County has ticked up to 19, the highest it has been in...
As vaccinations inch upward, Pennsylvania’s covid cases continue lower
Pennsylvania continues to see a steady drop in cases of covid-19, with resulting deaths and hospitalizations following that downward trend. As vaccinations continue, the coronavirus appears to be spreading at a slower rate even as more people gather in public without protective masks or social distancing. The state on Friday...
Covid cases rise slightly in Pennsylvania as hospitalizations drop
Pennsylvania recorded a slight rise in covid-19 cases while the number of people hospitalized with the illness continued its steady drop. The state on Friday added 1,823 cases, the most in the past six days, according to data from the state Department of Health. Those cases helped raise the seven-day...
Covid cases continue to drop across Pennsylvania as more get vaccinated
Reported cases of covid-19 and related deaths and hospitalizations continued their downward trend in Pennsylvania as the number of vaccinated residents marched upward. Pennsylvania on Friday added 1,643 cases of covid-19, pulling the seven-day case average down to 1,892, the 14th consecutive drop for the average, according to data from...
Pennsylvania’s covid cases, hospitalizations continue to drop as more get vaccinated
Cases of covid-19 continue to trend downward in Pennsylvania, decreasing related hospitalizations and deaths. The state on Saturday added 2,610 cases, staying below 4,000 for the eighth consecutive day, according to data from the Department of Health. The seven-day average sank to 2,598 cases, the lowest since it was 2,570...
Backlog of covid cases contributes to rise in Pennsylvania; Allegheny, Westmoreland also up
Pennsylvania on Friday saw an uptick in covid-19 cases, with similar rises reflected in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. The increase comes as nearly half the state’s population has at least one dose of covid vaccine. Cases The state added 4,607 cases of covid-19, the most reported in a single day...
Covid cases taper in Pa., but deaths, hospitalizations remain a concern
Pennsylvania continues to see the coronavirus claim lives and put people in the hospital at a rising rate, even as reported cases of covid-19 trend downward. Cases Pennsylvania on Friday reported 4,188 additional cases of covid-19, the fewest in four days. The seven-day average of cases dropped to 4,050, the...
Pennsylvania sees rising covid cases, deaths, hospitalizations
Pennsylvania on Friday reported 5,650 new cases of covid-19, raising the seven-day average to 4,916, the highest average since early February. There have been 1,098,502 cases recorded since the pandemic began, according to data from the state Department of Health. The state added 56 new covid-related deaths, the second most...
Pennsylvania’s covid hospitalizations continue upward trend
Pennsylvania on Saturday reported 4,882 additional cases of covid-19. That makes for a seven day average of 4,318. The state’s seven-day case average has now been above 4,000 for 12 consecutive days. Prior to that, the average remained below 4,000 since Feb. 4, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department...
Pennsylvania’s covid cases remain elevated
Pennsylvania on Friday reported more than 4,000 new cases of coronavirus — the seventh time in two weeks the state has eclipsed that threshold. The state added 4,656 newly reported cases, raising the total case count to 1,033,406. The seven-day average, at 4,034, has been above 4,000 cases for the...
Covid cases jump in Allegheny, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania
More covid cases were reported Friday in Allegheny County than at any point in the past 10 days, according to the most recent health department data. An additional 346 cases were announced Friday, bumping the county’s seven-day average up to 262. That’s the highest level for that metric since March...
Heinz mashes up Wasabioli, Hanch and Tarchup
It started with Mayochup. But Heinz couldn’t leave it there. Kranch, Mayomust, Mayoracha and Mayocue soon followed. Enough? Nope. The condiment mashups continue with Wasabioli, Hanch and Tarchup. Kraft Heinz Canada on Monday announced the launch of these dual-flavored sauces available north of the border. For now, you can get...
Covid cases tick up slightly in Pennsylvania, deaths trend downward
Pennsylvania recorded a slight increase in covid-19 cases but is seeing a downward trend in covid-related deaths and a drop in hospitalizations. Pennsylvania The state on Friday added 3,074 new covid cases, the most in a single day this month, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The seven-day average...
Pennsylvania continues downward trend in covid deaths
Pennsylvania continues to report fewer deaths attributed to the coronavirus. The state on Friday reported 43 additional covid-related deaths, for a total of 325 in a seven-day period. That’s the lowest seven-day total since mid-November. That number was over 1,000 for most of December and January but has been steadily...
Westmoreland County adds 95 covid cases, 2 deaths
Westmoreland County on Friday reported an additional 95 cases of covid-19, keeping the seven-day average at 63 cases for the third consecutive day and below 70 for nearly two weeks. Of the new cases, 60 are confirmed via 290 new PCR tests and 35 are listed as probable, according to...
Allegheny County adds 288 covid cases, 9 deaths
Allegheny County on Friday reported 288 additional cases of covid-19, bringing the total to 77,803 since the pandemic began. The county’s seven-day case average, currently at 238, has remained below 300 cases since Feb. 9. Of the new cases, 185 were confirmed via 864 new PCR tests and 103 are...
Pennsylvania adds fewer than 3,000 covid cases 7 days in a row
Pennsylvania has reported fewer than 3,000 additional cases of covid-19 each day for a week. The state on Thursday added 2,356 coronavirus cases to bring its total to 922,990 since the start of the pandemic, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The seven-day average of new cases in the...
Westmoreland County adds fewer than 100 daily covid cases for 3 weeks
Westmoreland County on Thursday reported fewer than 100 new covid-19 cases for the 22nd straight day. The county reported 53 additional cases to bring its case total to 26,550 since the pandemic began nearly a year ago, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Of the new cases, 39 are...
Allegheny County adds fewer than 300 covid cases for 12th day in a row
Allegheny County on Thursday reported fewer than 300 additional cases of covid-19 for the 12th consecutive day. The county added 224 cases to bring its total to 75,724 since the pandemic began last March. Of the additional cases, 174 are confirmed via 1,065 new PCR tests and 50 are recorded...
Westmoreland County reports 66 new covid cases, no deaths
Westmoreland County on Friday reported 66 additional cases of covid-19, below the seven-day average of 77 cases. Of the new cases, 32 are confirmed via 141 new PCR tests. The county has seen a total of 25,668 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. Of those, 18,338 were confirmed via PCR...
Pennsylvania adds 3,987 covid cases, 99 deaths
Pennsylvania on Friday reported 3,987 additional cases of covid-19, keeping the seven-day average below 4,000 for the eighth consecutive day. The state’s seven-day case average has been trending mostly downward since peaking above 10,000 in mid-December. It currently sits at 3,797. Of the newly reported cases, 3,337 are confirmed via...
Allegheny County adds 252 new covid cases; 7-day average continues to drop
The seven-day average of covid-19 cases in Allegheny County on Friday continued to drop as 252 additional cases were reported, according to county and state health department data. The seven-day average of 270 is the lowest since early November. It peaked at more than 1,300 in December. Of the newly...
Photos: 20 years ago, Three Rivers Stadium came crashing down
It took just 19 seconds for a colossal Pittsburgh sports landmark to collapse. It was a cold Sunday, Feb. 11 — 20 years ago — that a demolition crew reduced Three Rivers Stadium to a heap of rubble and twisted steel. The home of the Steelers and Pirates...
Westmoreland County reports 62 more covid cases, 9 deaths
Westmoreland County on Friday reported 62 more cases of the coronavirus, dropping the seven-day average to 79. That’s the lowest the average has been since early November. The total reported cases in the county is 25,130, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Of the new cases, 29 are confirmed...
