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  • 3 weeks ago | wtae.com | Marcie Cipriani

    Using your phone behind the wheel has long been seen as dangerous, but now it’s officially illegal in Pennsylvania, even while stopped at red lights. The new measure, dubbed Paul Miller's Law, aims to get phones out of drivers’ hands, a move that officials say could save lives. "If someone is traveling 70 miles an hour on the turnpike, that’s 100 feet per second. Just five seconds of distraction equals 500 feet traveled.

  • 3 weeks ago | wtae.com | Marcie Cipriani

    Law enforcement officials across Pennsylvania are warning residents about a highly convincing scam targeting drivers through text messages falsely claiming to be from official government agencies like the Department of Motor Vehicles or PennDOT. These messages, described by authorities as "well-written and deceptively professional," demand payments for alleged toll violations, fines, or tickets.Pennsylvania Trooper Steve Limani revealed how widespread these scams have become.

  • 3 weeks ago | azfamily.com | Marcie Cipriani

    PITTSBURGH (WTAE) - An investigation is underway after a patient at a Pittsburgh hospital waited for hours in a hallway to be transferred to another facility. The patient’s daughter, Rae Corrado, said she was at the second facility expecting her mother, but there was another patient in the bed. “I ran back and I said, ‘That’s not my mom,’” Corrado said. However, she said hospital staff told her that the patient was indeed her mother, as stated on the wristband. “I said, ‘I don’t care what it says.

  • 3 weeks ago | wtae.com | Marcie Cipriani

    The Allegheny County Health Department’s vector control specialist, Nick Baldauf, is kicking off mosquito and tick surveillance season by monitoring ticks in Schenley Park and Highland Park. During a tick drag demonstration in Highland Park Tuesday, Baldauf identified the black-legged nymphal tick, responsible for most disease transmissions, notably active in the summer months.

  • 3 weeks ago | wbaltv.com | Marcie Cipriani

    Gloria says she was waiting for hours in the hallway at Presby for that transfer over to Mercy. She was very distraught this afternoon, fighting back tears while sharing that experience with us. I was Velcro to *** stretcher. I couldn't move. I could hardly move my feet, let alone move my body. And I kept thinking this can't be legal. Gloria Corado says she was stuck waiting in the hallway for hours when she was supposed to be transferred from UPMC Presby to Mercy Rehab.

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Marcie Cipriani
Marcie Cipriani @MCipriani_WTAE
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Packed room inside the Churchill Borough building as Duquesne Light reps take questions of residents still without power #WTAE https://t.co/M6rakS7J9G