Two drivers were killed Friday morning in a multi-vehicle crash that closed southbound Interstate 79 in Franklin Park for hours.

The crash involving five vehicles, including a water truck, was reported about 3 a.m. and was caused by a woman driving the wrong way, investigators said. She crashed head-on into another vehicle.

The woman and the man driving the vehicle she hit head-on both died. Officials identified the woman as 31-year-old Brandy Lamison and the man as 20-year-old Justin Bowser.

Drue Heinz, philanthropist, widow of Heinz CEO, dead at 103
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Drue Heinz, the widow of the former head of the H.J. Heinz Co. and a longtime patron of the literary arts has died. She was 103.
The Heinz family and The Heinz Endowments said she died Friday in Lasswade, Scotland.
Heinz was known for her philanthropy and support of the literary arts. She endowed a literature prize at the University of Pittsburgh, a national prize which every year since 1980 has provided for publication of a collection of short stories. She also was closely involved in the Endowments’ initiative to develop Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall in 1971 and its efforts to create a downtown cultural district.
Heinz also served on the boards of many cultural organizations, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Academy in Rome, and also served on the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art.
In 1971, Heinz co-founded Ecco Press, which published Antaeus magazine and republished many out-of-print books of outstanding literary merit. She also served as publisher of The Paris Review from 1993 until her retirement in 2008.
She was the widow of H.J. Heinz II, who served as CEO of the family company founded by his grandfather. She also was the stepmother of John Heinz, a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who was killed in a 1991 plane crash. His widow, Teresa Heinz Kerry, serves as chair emeritus of The Heinz Endowments.
“Drue was a very private person but she came to know an amazing group of people in her life. She was smart and passionate and deeply interested in art, literature, and especially poetry,” Heinz Kerry said. “That passion and support made her interesting and helped her make a substantive contribution in ways she cared about, especially on issues like art and beauty.”

Bishop David Zubik held a Holy Thursday mass at the Allegheny County Jail as he has in years past. In a ritual initiated by Jesus Christ shortly before his arrest as told in The Holy Bible, Bishop Zubik washed the inmates feet. The Bishop dried the inmates feet. The Bishop kissed the inmates feet.

“It was awesome, it will be a mass I ain’t ever going to forget,” said inmate Vernon Belinsky, 53. “Just the feeling of love in the air, togetherness. This don’t happen. This don’t happen in jail.”

“It really meant a lot to me, I couldn’t help but crying,” said inmate Phillip Grayson, 49.

Holy Thursday is the night of the Last Supper, when Jesus instituted Communion.

“It was life changing,” said inmate Al Majkowski, 59.
“I’ve been to a million masses in my life and it’s amazing to have the most memorable one in jail.”

During the last five years, Pittsburgh’s police roster has shifted toward less experienced officers. In 2012, about half the force had more than 17 years of experience. By 2017, that median dropped to 12 years.

About 30 percent of officers in 2017 were in their first five years on the job, according to the rosters.

“There is definitely a lack of experience there for the younger officers,” said retired officer Ryan Carr, who left in May during his 24th year. “When I came on, the first guys I partnered with were 20 to 25-year veterans. The average age at some of these stations now, average time on the job is five or six years.”

— According to a police report, Two men have been charged with lighting a car on fire in Beaver Falls in an attempt to destroy it.

A witness told police she saw two men run from the area just prior to her noticing smoke coming from the car.

Brandon Broomfield, 24, of White Township approached the scene and told officers he was the owner of the car. He reported he had “been having issues with the vehicle smoking.” His friend Jason F. Reid, 38, of Ellwood City also made contact with the police.

Beaver Falls Fire Chief Mark Stowe told investigators “something did not seem right about the situation.” The fire was burning with a blue flame, which indicated an accelerant could have been used to start the fire. The fire department’s accelerant-sniffing dog, Patty, was called in to assist in the investigation & she indicated accelerant on Reid’s shoes. Police eventually learned that this was their third attempt at setting the car on fire.

Both Reid and Broomfield were charged by Beaver Falls police with arson, arson with the intent to collect insurance, reckless burning, criminal mischief and conspiracy.

— People who knew the 18-year-old Taiwanese exchange student charged in the U.S. with threatening to shoot up his school say that he liked guns and wanted to join the police. An Tso Sun, who has been jailed in Pennsylvania, was “an extremely simple and kind student, yet he would often have unusual ideas,” his former tutor says. Sun says his comments were a joke but has been charged with making terrorist threats.

Sharmion Peake, 30, was charged by Aliquippa police with burglary, trespassing, criminal mischief and theft. Police used fingerprints left on the glass of a broken window to connect him to the burglary of a Fifth Avenue barbershop.

According to the report, police found several fingerprints on the inside of the broken glass believing the suspect pulled himself through the broken window to get inside. Cigarette lighters were stolen, along with about $30 in change.

At an event in Richfield OH, PRESIDENT Donald Trump talked about his10-year plan to build and fix roads, bridges, pipes and put broadband access in rural America. The plan would be a combined effort of federal, state and local tax dollars along with private investment. His idea is to leverage $200 billion in federal tax dollars with $1.3 trillion from the other sources to reach the final figure.
Such a plan could create as many as 414,000 jobs.

The president referred to the plan as “the next phase of America’s comeback.” He said he knows about building things, adding he may have been better at it than being president. “This is the biggest and boldest infrastructure plan in the last half-century,” Trump said.
“We are like, in many cases, a third-world country.”

Trump referred to digging the Panama Canal and building the Empire State Building as feats to aspire to again. And a key part of his plan, he said, is to reduce a burdensome regulatory approval waiting time from as long as a dozen years to just a year by establishing one federal point of contact for a yes or no answer on a project.

“We must reclaim that proud heritage,” Trump said.

House Speaker Paul Ryan already has said the proposal could be divided into as many as six bills.

PHILADELPHIA ENERGY

Interfaith protests and arrests marked the week before Easter as clergy and congregants demanded investment in a clean-energy grid for Philadelphia’s low-income communities. Twenty five people with the Power Local Green Jobs campaign were arrested for acts of peaceful civil disobedience over three days this week as they demanded more investment in local solar anergy. Greg Holt with the Earth Quaker Action Team points out that PECO, the Philadelphia Electric Company, gets almost two-thirds of its power from fossil fuels in a city where dirty air contributes to high rates of asthma and other respiratory diseases.