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The owner of North Country Brewing in Slippery Rock believes he did everything right. When faced with the initial covid-19 shutdown orders implemented by the governor a year ago the first of which, right before St. Patrick’s Day, cost him about $32,000 in wasted food Robert McCafferty closed. He tried to do takeout, he said, but his business just couldn’t sustain it. “It was all very new,” he said. “We understood the severity of everything.” So they made it through last spring, and got to work rebuilding in the summer when some restrictions were lifted, and he could reopen. ....
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. An East Allegheny man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced for first-degree murder on Thursday in a 2017 shooting death. Justin Parrotte, 32, was found guilty by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning in a nonjury trial in February 2020 of killing 40-year-old John Miller on city steps in the Spring Hill-City View neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Following the verdict, and again during Thursday’s hearing, Parrotte denied committing the crime. He was ordered to serve life plus five to 10 years in prison by Judge Jill E. Rangos. She took the case over from Manning, who is on medical leave. ....
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A Pennsylvania appellate court said that the city of Pittsburgh does not have to pay a $75,000 federal jury award to a man who had his nose broken by an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer more than eight years ago. Shane McGuire, who at the time was 16, had been smashing pumpkins and ringing doorbells with his friends in Sgt. Colby Neidig’s New Homestead neighborhood in 2012, when the officer chased him down, subdued him, and ultimately broke his nose. McGuire sued the officer in federal court, alleging civil rights claims, including excessive force, assault and battery. ....
A man who operates a woodworking business in Bentleyville is charged with entering the U.S. Senate floor and reading documents removed from desks there during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Dale “DJ” Shalvey, 36, was charged by criminal complaint on Feb. 12 in the District of Columbia. The case remained ....