Cindi Lash
Vice President, NewsCindi Lash joined Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting in 2021 from Missouri Lawyers Media, a subsidiary of BridgeTower Media, where she began her tenure as editor and regional editor in 2018. Before joining BridgeTower, she served as editor-in-chief at Pittsburgh Magazine for four years, and as regional editor of local news startup Patch.com. She previously spent 20 years as a reporter and editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
She began her career as a reporter for the Indiana (Pa.) Gazette and also worked for the Washington (Pa.) Observer-Reporter, the Birmingham News and The Pittsburgh Press.
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No one was killed when the porch roof caved in behind the house in the 300 block of Semple Street. But 16 people were taken to hospitals for treatment — most of them with arm and leg injuries as well as concussions — and at least a dozen others were treated at the scene, a Pittsburgh Public Safety official said. -
Pittsburgh Municipal Court also will be closed, but Arraignment Court will be open for those proceedings, court officials said. Students at Pittsburgh Public Schools will follow class schedules for remote, synchronous learning, as will those at many schools in Western Pennsylvania. -
Sox, a Masai giraffe, had been treated for chronic degeneration of bones in her left leg since the summer, zoo officials said in a statement. -
Through an Election Day that many Americans viewed with trepidation, Allegheny County reported a near-total absence of problems at its more than 1,300 precincts. Elsewhere in the state, however, multiple bomb threats were called in for polling locations and municipal buildings, but none presented a credible risk to the public, Gov. Josh Shapiro said. -
The graffiti incidents in July prompted Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, City Controller Rachel Heisler, Gov. Josh Shapiro and other public officials to publicly condemn the vandalism and the motivation behind it. -
Two days after telling WESA he planned to remain focused on public safety in Pittsburgh while embarking on a return to officiating college basketball in his free time, Pittsburgh Police Chief Larry Scirotto this morning announced his plans to retire from the force. -
The officer, Keith Edmonds, was fired in March 2022, five months after he shocked the homeless man with a Taser a reported 10 times during a 2021 arrest in Bloomfield. -
Also Monday: In the U.S. Secret Service’s first detailed statement since the rally shooting, its director said the agency has “reviewed and strengthened” its security plan for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. -
Allegheny County police said first-responders on Tuesday night recovered the body of a Central Catholic High School teacher whose bicycle struck live Duquesne Light power lines that fell during the storm Monday night onto a trail in North Park. -
City-operated swimming pools are scheduled to open on June 15, after lifeguards complete training, certification and onboarding procedures.
