Justin Vellucci
Public Safety Reporter at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Public Safety Reporter at TRIB Live
Pittsburgh public safety reporter, @TRIBLive. Husband, father, boomerang journalist. Former @AsburyParkPress.
Articles
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1 week ago |
spectrumculture.com | Justin Vellucci
Let’s go back to July 21, 2017. It’s a Friday and the online equivalent of “the radio dial” has been consumed for the summer by Selena Gomez’s “Bad Liar” and a double-shot of Justin Bieber: singles with Daddy Yankee and DJ Khaled. Then, you hear Austin Chronicle’s “Playback” column has landed an interesting and wholly unexpected bit of news – out of an Austin Music Commission meeting, of all places.
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1 week ago |
triblive.com | Justin Vellucci
As a cacophony of marching bands Monday helped power Memorial Day parades that snaked through small-town streets — marchers and onlookers alike draped in red, white and blue — it was the small details that resonated the loudest for one Alle-Kiski Valley veteran. Don Donahue, a Veterans of Foreign Wars commander and Navy veteran who grew up in Frazer, quietly watched around 9 a.m. as a former soldier placed a single, white carnation — representing purity — at the foot of a Springdale war memorial.
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2 weeks ago |
spectrumculture.com | Justin Vellucci
OST, the new record from heavy, Montreal-based and indescribably post-something trio BIG|BRAVE, is a vexing little thing. Well, to be clear, it’s not so little. Like the band’s best work so far – the not-doom-but-doomed “metal” of last year’s Polaris-nominated A Chaos of Flowers comes to mind – its scope is less inhibited than cinematic. Even when the group’s compositions aren’t BIG (no pun intended), they still cast imposing shadows.
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2 weeks ago |
triblive.com | Justin Vellucci
A man who police say was shot outside a McKeesport hospital by the driver of a car he was trying to get into remained hospitalized Wednesday in critical condition. Allegheny County Police continue to investigate why the victim was trying to get into a stranger’s car early Tuesday morning. Jim Madalinsky, a department spokesperson, said it was too early to rule out a carjacking attempt.
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2 weeks ago |
triblive.com | Justin Vellucci
Two advocacy groups are seeking a meeting with Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato about the “apparent lack of due process” for Lena Bryan-Henderson, the former chief public defender who was fired last week following a monthlong human resources investigation.
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