Wednesday, November 28, 2012
2-year-old Maddox Derkosh of Whitehall was killed in early November.
The Allegheny County District Attorney's Office will not pursue criminal charges against Elizabeth Derkosh, the mother of the late Maddox Derkosh, who was killed in a tragic mauling accident at the Pittsburgh Zoo in early November. However, according to KDKA, District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. is investigating a possible criminal negligence charge against the zoo. Elizabeth and 2-year-old Maddox, both of Whitehall Borough's Highgrove Road, were visiting the zoo on Nov. 4 when Maddox fell from the top of a platform railing to the ground inside of the pit area of an African painted dogs exhibit, according to a statement from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. Pittsburgh police said that the child lost his balance after his mother lifted …
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1 Wild Place, Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh Zoo
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The dogs mauled a 2-year-old Whitehall boy to death in early November.
Less than a month after 2-year-old Maddox Derkosh of Whitehall Borough was mauled to death at the Pittsburgh Zoo, news has surfaced that the zoo's 2013 calendar features African painted dogs, the same species that killed the boy in early November. Zoo officials say that the calendars, featuring the dogs in its March spreads, had already been printed and made available to patrons before Derkosh's death, according to this Huffington Post article. Maddox was visiting the zoo with his mother on Nov. 4 when he fell from the top of a platform railing to the ground inside of the pit area of the dogs' exhibit, according to a statement from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. Pittsburgh police said that the child lost his balance after his mother …
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1 Wild Place, Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh Zoo
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
These cases from the Pittsburgh area did not have a happy ending, but finding those missing persons might have brought closure to families.
As early as this July, people in the law enforcement community knew that the remains of Amanda Sue Myers of Pittsburgh had been identified through DNA comparison. However, it was only about a week ago when Pittsburgh police finally released the news. In July, two separate sources told Patch that Myers had been identified but that police wanted to hold off on releasing information until some interviews had been conducted. Amanda, who was 22 years old at the time of her death, was last seen alive in Pittsburgh at the end of 1999 but may have been in Florida and Tennessee as late as April 2000. She was not reported missing until 2007, according to the Pennsylvania Missing Persons website. Known unofficially as Homestead Jane Doe, Amanda was …
Friday, November 16, 2012
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Friday marks the 52nd annual Light Up Night in the City of Pittsburgh. Although it's exciting to kick off the holiday festivities, there are a few parking restrictions and road closures to be aware of if you're headed Downtown from the South Hills. Pittsburgh police recommend that visitors use parking garages and surface lots to ensure that they aren't parked in restricted areas. The police also want you to be safe while you're Downtown, so they remind visitors to remove valuables from view and to keep vehicles locked. The following roads will be closed or restricted during Light Up Night: The following streets will also be closed for various Light Up Night activities: More information can be found on the Downtown Pittsburgh Light Up Night…
Sunday, November 11, 2012
The mother said that her daughter had been abducted on the South Side, but later, the mother's boyfriend confessed to burying the toddler in Brookline.
The image of a little girl on a grocery shopping trip with her mother—then, suddenly, gone ... That's what many folks imagined in March of 1982, when Melody Childs Thomas told police that her daughter, Nicole Lynn Bryner, 3, had been abducted from a shopping cart at the Giant Eagle supermarket on the South Side of Pittsburgh. Though there were extensive searches, no trace of Nicole was ever found. Then, in 1986, Timothy Widman, Childs Thomas' boyfriend at the time, allegedly confessed that he had punched Bryner, accidentally killing her. He told police that he and Childs Thomas buried the body in a wooded area along Timberland Avenue in Pittsburgh's Brookline neighborhood. Police searched unsuccessfully for the body. Without it, …
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2021 Wharton St, Pittsburgh, PA
Giant Eagle
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Timberland Ave & Abstract Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Trucks can be donated immediately at Slater Funeral Service in Scott Township or at Maddox Derkosh's funeral Mass at St. Bernard Church in Mt. Lebanon on Friday.
UPDATE: Funeral Home, Police Station to Accept Derkosh Trucks 'Indefinitely' The Derkosh family of Whitehall Borough is asking that interested parties, in lieu of flowers, give toy construction trucks to be donated to a children's Christmas charity in the memory of 2-year old Maddox Derkosh, who died tragically at the Pittsburgh Zoo on Sunday. The trucks are being accepted right now at William Slater II Funeral Service in Scott Township. They will also be accepted at Derkosh's funeral Mass at St. Bernard Church in Mt. Lebanon at 10 a.m. on Friday. Friends will be welcomed for a viewing of Maddox at Slater Funeral Service from 2 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, according to Maddox's obituary on the funeral service's website. Trucks can also be …
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311 Washington Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
St. Bernard Parish
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1650 Greentree Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
William Slater II Funeral Service
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Monday, November 5, 2012
Two-year-old Maddox's parents live on Highgrove Road.
The mauling death of a 2-year-old boy at the Pittsburgh Zoo on Sunday has shocked and saddened many area families. That is especially true in Whitehall Borough, as it turns out. Whitehall police Chief Donald R. Dolfi confirmed on Monday that the victim's family lives in Whitehall. Maddox, the victim, is the son of Jason and Elizabeth Derkosh, of Highgrove Road, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is reporting. The Derkosh family has lived on Highgrove since December 2011, according to the Allegheny County Assessment Web page. Maddox was visiting the zoo with 34-year-old Elizabeth when he fell from the top of a platform railing to the ground inside of the pit area of an African painted dogs exhibit, according to a statement from the Pittsburgh …
Sunday, October 21, 2012
In July 1979, Carol Jursik picked up some groceries on her way home from jogging but vanished just 10 houses from her front porch.
Life seemed like it was on the right path for Carol Jursik on a July evening in 1979 as she jogged with a housemate. A nationally ranked college fencer and a possible contender for a spot on the 1980 U.S. Olympics team, Jursik, 24, was a Penn State University graduate student working during the summer through a cooperative job program at a U.S. Steel facility in Monroeville. Jursik and a friend, Michael Pierce, had jogged 15 miles together the night of July 30 before they separated at roughly 9:15 about one mile from the home in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill North neighborhood that they shared with four other friends. The home, which had been converted into apartments, was found on Murrayhill Avenue (also spelled Murray Hill). Jursik …
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Forbes Ave & S Craig St, Pittsburgh, PA
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1100-1200 Murrayhill Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Monday, October 15, 2012
The 'Fats'/'Pat' incident is now believed to have happened in Carrick.
UPDATE: The owner of Shawn Ryan's Pub said that he has reviewed security tapes from the night of the incident and that no one fitting the description of the alleged attacker was in his bar. Baldwin Borough police Chief Michael Scott said that a case involving a local stabbing this past Tuesday has moved in a different direction—specifically, away from Baldwin Borough. Initially, Baldwin police had been told that a man known as either "Fats" or "Pat" had stabbed a Whitehall Borough resident as the victim and the victim's girlfriend were leaving Hog's Bar & Grill on Prospect Road in Baldwin. "(The victim's) girlfriend I guess got into an argument with (the attacker) in the bar," Scott said on Oct. 9. "Over what? We don't know." But the story…
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2900 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
Burger King
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-79.97668
2907 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
Shawn Ryan's Pub
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
The newborn infant was left near a Hazelwood church. His mother was never found.
Easter Sunday is the day that Christians observe Christ's triumph over death and the renewal of life for all beings. That day of celebration turned dark just before Easter services on April 7, 1996, at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Hazelwood. Two church members discovered the body of a newborn infant in an alley between the church and the adjacent property at Mansion Street and Gate Lodge Way. The baby boy seemed to have been swaddled in a pink towel but rolled out of it at some point during the chilly April night when the thermometer registered a low of 26 degrees. He was unclothed, next to the towel, when they discovered him frozen to death. Dr. Cyril Wecht, then-Allegheny County coroner, ruled …
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5319 2nd Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
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1:44 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
There is one FORMER zoo employee who appeared on the tv news and says his version of what he remembers from when he worked there. May or may not be accurate. No it is not remotely like what happened at Penn STATE! more ›