October 17, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A Duquesne Avenue man accused of setting fire to a home was allegedly targeting two people who owed him money for drugs, according to police — but those people were no longer living there.
Arthur “Bibbler” Franklin III, 32, also known as “Red,” is being held in the Allegheny County Jail without bond after a magisterial district judge said he represents a danger to the community. He faces a preliminary hearing Monday before Magisterial District Judge Eugene Riazzi.
Franklin was apprehended Oct. 9 in the city’s Downtown area and now faces additional narcotics charges in connection with that arrest, according to court records.
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October 16, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: White Oak News
Funeral arrangements have been made public for a Liberty Borough man shot to death on Sunday afternoon in White Oak.
Kenneth Hayman, 33, will be buried Nov. 1, said the DeCarbo Funeral Home in New Castle, Lawrence County, which is caring for the arrangements.
Hayman died Sunday in AHN Forbes Hospital, Monroeville, about one hour after police said three or four armed men shot attacked him at the intersection of Lincoln Way and Route 48 in White Oak.
Witnesses said Hayman was on his motorcycle at the intersection when a Chevrolet Silverado truck approached and the occupants opened fire with rifles. The vehicle then fled on Lincoln Way.
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October 16, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Entertainment
In a satire of a popular book and movie series, members of the Puffs house at a certain school of magic are entertaining McKeesport Little Theater audiences with stories of their trials and triumphs. (Submitted photo courtesy McKeesport Little Theater)
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“Puffs”
Where: McKeesport Little Theater, 1614 Coursin St., (412) 673-1100, www.mckeesportlittletheater.com
When: Friday, Oct. 17, and Saturday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $15 for adults, $10 for students available through the MLT website or http://www.onthestage.tickets/show/mckeesport-little-theater. This show is not rated, but is PG-13 in nature.
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McKeesport Little Theater's current production promises to take audiences through “Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic” when “Puffs” takes to the stage for its final weekend beginning Friday (Oct. 17).
Written by Matt Cox, the play premiered in December 2015 at The People’s Improv Theater in New York City, and is recognized as a parody of the Harry Potter series — but PG-13 in nature.
Cox explained to a reporter that the idea of the play came to him on a subway ride one night, when he considered how terrifying it might have been for other students at magic school through seven years of trials and tribulations with a famous wizard in attendance.
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October 15, 2025 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
(Photo “Socks at Rest” by Sally Cummings via Flickr, licensed as CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 220 Eighth Ave. at Walnut Street, is collecting new, unused socks, hats and mittens for adults to be distributed via local homeless shelters.
Items for “Socktober” are being accepted now through Oct. 31. To donate an item, call Karen at (724) 281-3002.
October 15, 2025 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
State Sen. Nick Pisciottano and state Rep. Dan Goughnour will host a Senior Wellness & Safety Expo at the Palisades on Thursday (Oct. 16) from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This free community event will connect older adults with local organizations and resources dedicated to promoting health, safety, and well-being. Attendees can receive a variety of free screenings and services, enjoy live entertainment, refreshments, and door prizes, and speak with local agencies about available programs and benefits.
Free screenings and services will include:
• Flu Shots
• Bone Mineral Density Scans
• Height, Weight, Body Mass Index
• Hearing Screening
• Glucose Screening
• Total Cholesterol, HDL, LDL
• Blood Pressure
• PRT Senior ConnectCards
The Palisades is located at 100 Fifth Ave., near the McKees Point Marina. Free parking is available in the marina lots.
October 13, 2025 |
By Adam Reinherz | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News
(Adam Reinherz photo for Tube City Almanac)
McKeesport Area School District recognized students, staff and school director achievements during an Oct. 9 school board meeting.
Eighth-grader Evan Durst was celebrated for his selection to the US Youth School Junior Olympic Development Program. The program, according to Superintendent Donald MacFann, is a “pathway for identifying and developing top players across the country.”
Retiring golf coach Joe Bower was honored for 12 seasons of leading McKeesport golfers.
School director David Donato called Bower’s contributions to the program “incredible,” and said, “it takes a very special person to get these guys together and want to come every day.”
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October 12, 2025 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
(This is a developing story and will be updated.)
A local man is dead following a shooting Sunday afternoon in White Oak.
Allegheny County homicide detectives and White Oak police were on the scene gathering evidence following the 2:18 p.m. incident at the intersection of Route 48 and Lincoln Way.
Witnesses said the victim, identified by the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office as Kenneth Hayman, 33, of Liberty Borough was on a motorcycle on Route 48 when a dark-colored Chevrolet Silverado approached and two men armed with rifles opened fire.
Shoppers at nearby Rainbow Village Shopping Center and Oak Park Mall described hearing multiple, rapid shots that sounded “like fireworks.”
The vehicle then fled on Lincoln Way, witnesses said.
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October 09, 2025 |
By Tom Leturgey | Posted in: Duquesne News
Duquesne City Council will put a price on the possible sale of its water system, but said there are no plans to divest the municipality of the water department.
At Tuesday’s council meeting, the city authorized administrators to request proposals for the sale of the Duquesne water distribution system.
City officials said the request for proposals will allow the city to determine the market value of its water system before investing in needed upgrades to comply with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Environmental Protection requirements.
Duquesne faces “significant liabilities and responsibilities that come with running a system of our size and significant resources are going to be needed” to meet EPA and DEP mandates, city officials said.
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October 09, 2025 |
By T.J. Martin | Posted in: White Oak News
White Oak Mayor Ina Jean Marton (at podium) introduces new White Oak Chief of Police Jason Binder at the September borough council meeting. (T.J. Martin photo for Tube City Almanac)
After a months-long selection process, White Oak Borough has appointed a new police chief.
Jason Binder was introduced as the new chief of police at the borough’s September meeting after being sworn in earlier in the month. He replaces Mark Sargent, who resigned in March.
In July, Public Safety Committee Chairwoman Loree Scharritter told her fellow commissioners that, after accepting applications for the Chief of Police position for a month, she and the other members of the Public Safety Committee were joined by Mayor Ina Jean Marton, Borough Manager John Palyo and chiefs of police from neighboring communities to conduct the first round of interviews.
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October 08, 2025 |
By Vickie Babyak | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News
(Vickie Babyak photo for Tube City Almanac)
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Encore Presentation: Living History Tour
Where: McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center, 1832 Arboretum Drive (Renziehausen Park)
When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9
Tickets: $12 members, $15 non-members, $6 kids (12 and under)
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Cemeteries are usually a solemn, serene place of final rest, but on Saturday and Sunday the McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery was alive with historical figures of McKeesport’s past, portrayed by local actors.
The McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center presented its 11th annual Living History Tour featuring characters like Thomas Tilbrook the first mayor of McKeesport, trail blazing journalist Phyllis Garland, and Woodene Merriman, a longtime reporter and lifestyle editor for the McKeesport Daily News.
All together, 10 historical figures were represented by actors, Isaac Richardson as the gravedigger, Greg Nemchick as John Corey, Kim Moore as Woodene Merriman, Ellie Valentine as Jane Berry Smith, Ellis Michaels as Thomas Tilbrook, Wayne Minnicks as Russell Goetz, Ashden Burgman as B.B. Coursin, Isabel Newport as Sarah E. Johnson Phillips Means, John Patalona as John Sellman, and Nie’Zhay Jefferson as Phyllis Garland.
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