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When the coal industry unraveled around Tremont, Pa., generations ago, it didn’t leave much behind. Nestled in the valleys of central Pennsylvania, the old mining town today has no hospital and no independent police force. A Family Dollar serves as its only grocery store. For years, the water supply has been so tight that trucks have at times hauled water in to keep the taps from running dry.

But this year, the Trump administration determined that the Tremont area — already creaking under the weight of its roughly 2,000 residents — could support one of its new mega immigrant detention centers, larger than any currently in operation.

In January, the Department of Homeland Security bought, without public notice, a vacant warehouse two miles down Tremont’s main street to house up to 7,500 detainees. With the site tentatively scheduled to open within the year, residents have been left to wonder how their area will sustain a captive population nearly four times its size, plus an accompanying work force.

“We don’t need that,” said Tom Pribilla, who has run a hardware store in Tremont for decades. “The community, the area, is not going to be able to absorb the costs.”

Financial pressure on families from inflation, government shutdowns and the Iran war is apparent at area food banks, where some say demand is outstripping even what they saw during the covid-19 pandemic.

From July 2024 to July 2025, the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank distributed 5 million more meals than the previous year, jumping from 48 million to 53 million in that period.

During the height of the pandemic in 2020, the food bank distributed 40 million meals.

That equates to a 32.5% jump in five years.

And that food bank isn’t alone.

Charges against a Sewickley man detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been withdrawn.

Bruno Guedes da Silva, 38, has been in federal custody since Feb. 22.

He was charged with the sale or transfer of firearms and unsworn falsification to authorities.

Charges stem from an incident in early July 2024 in McCandless, according to online court documents.

Attorney Thomas N. Farrell represents Guedes da Silva in the criminal case and is not involved in immigration enforcement issues. He said charges were withdrawn Wednesday.

According to the criminal complaint, Guedes da Silva attempted to buy a glock at Midwest Shooting Center.

Part of the related paperwork asked if the purchaser was “an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States.”

Guedes da Silva checked “no,” according to the complaint.

ICE records indicate he is in the country illegally and “is currently under removal proceedings,” court documents read.

Farrell said his client believed he was legally in the country because he is seeking asylum and the government permitted him to work and pay taxes. Guedes da Silva, a Brazilian native, also has a driver’s license and Social Security card, the attorney said.

Allegheny County First Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Spangler, via email, explained the withdrawal.

“The circumstances of this case were recently brought to our attention,” the email read. “Because of the medical condition and treatment regimen being received by a family member, for compassionate and humanitarian reasons the charges … are being withdrawn without prejudice to refile at a later date if warranted.”

Spangler said the statement speaks for itself and they have nothing more to add.

An Allegheny County man is suing two Pittsburgh police officers in federal court, claiming they misidentified him, arrested him for an assault without probable cause and violated his constitutional rights.

Chiyeh Green, 22, alleges he was wrongfully held in jail for six days despite being on probation and wearing a location-tracking electronic ankle monitor.

Green’s ankle monitor showed he was at home at the time of the incident, making it impossible for him to have committed the crime, according to the complaint.

The lawsuit, filed against Officers Brian Shelton and Joseph Giles, stems from a July 20 assault on Sydney Street in Pittsburgh’s South Side that was livestreamed on Facebook.

Shelton reviewed video evidence that showed the victim being assaulted by a man and woman, according to the suit.

The victim, who is not named, knew the woman and gave officers her name, the suit said.

He told police the man was the father of the woman’s children, according to court paperwork filed by Shelton, the lawsuit said.

The victim gave police an image of a Facebook profile for “Sly Green,” which showed a Black man who Shelton wrote “matched” the perpetrator in the video, the lawsuit said.

At that point, a Pittsburgh detective called Shelton and told him Giles had learned of the video and identified the male attacker as Green.

Green was charged on July 24.

Shelton and several other officers arrived at Green’s house on July 24, 2025, to arrest him. The lawsuit said that Green’s probation officer also arrived at the home and informed Shelton and the other officers that Green was on house arrest with an electronic monitor.

His home, according to the lawsuit, is five miles from where the attack occurred.

The lawsuit also alleged video evidence of the attack “clearly depicts a different individual who does not resemble” Green committing the crime.

“The only identifiable similarity between the male perpetrator depicted in the video evidence and the plaintiff (Green) is their race and/or skin color,” the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit said Shelton did not include in his affidavit of probable cause that Green was on probation and wearing an electronic home monitoring ankle brace at the time of the incident.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio, a Navy veteran who has strongly opposed Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran, said the president's diatribes against Tehran “merit the president’s removal from office.”

His comments on X came after Trump in social media posts warned that a “whole civilization will die” and the U.S. would destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges. “Open the F’in’ strait, you crazy bastard, or you’ll be living in hell,” he warned.

“It's a grave decision to come to and I think meets the moment of what we just saw an American president threaten to do,” Mr. Deluzio, D-Fox Chapel, said in an interview Wednesday. 

“I have a constitutional responsibility, as does every officer of the United States, whether you're in Congress or you're serving in the Cabinet or you're the president. We all take the same oath to our Constitution. I think that responsibility is the one that drives my thinking, and what I do in this job.”

State Treasurer Stacy Garrity raised more than $1 million for her gubernatorial campaign during the first three months of the year, but was outraised by incumbent Gov. Josh Shapiro by more than a 10-to-1 margin, campaign finance reports show.

Garrity, a Republican from Bradford County, filed paperwork Tuesday showing that she raised just over $1 million and spent nearly $530,000 from January through March. Accounting for money she carried into the year, Garrity’s campaign ended the first quarter with more than $1.5 million in available cash.

Shapiro, a Democrat from Montgomery County who is seeking a second term as governor, raised nearly $10.5 million and spent nearly $4.6 million during the first quarter, records show. His campaign ended the period with $36.1 million in available cash.

“The Garrity campaign is humbled by the support she has received from her supporters all across our commonwealth,” campaign spokesman Matt Beynon said in a statement.

“Unlike Josh Shapiro, who spent his time traveling to New York and Los Angeles to collect million-dollar checks from liberal billionaires like Reid Hoffman, who appeared more than 2,600 times in the Epstein files, Treasurer Garrity’s support comes from hardworking Pennsylvanians who donated because they recognize that Pennsylvania needs a turnaround,” Beynon added.

Despite the wide money gap, Beynon said Garrity’s campaign “will have the resources to hold (Shapiro) accountable for his failures and ethical scandals that have hurt Pennsylvania families.”

Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to prohibit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, following in the footsteps of their county counterparts.

“I feel very strongly that this is the right thing to do,” Councilman Bob Charland, D-South Side, said ahead of a preliminary vote last week. “I wish we had power to go further. We don’t. But I think this is a good first step.”

The legislation bars the city from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, following significant criticisms of the agency amid a massive crackdown on immigrants locally and across the nation. Allegheny County recently approved a similar measure.

The measure prohibits city employees or contractors from asking about someone’s immigration status, bans law enforcement action based on a person’s immigration status and forbids city workers from giving federal immigration officers access to people in city custody.

It stops the city from entering any 287(g) agreements, which allow federal immigration agencies to partner with local law enforcement. Some local communities, including Springdale, have entered into such deals.

“It is our duty as the council to protect our residents in every way we can,” Councilwoman Barb Warwick, D-Greenfield, said during a council meeting last week. “That’s what this bill is about really.”

Mayor Corey O’Connor has promised not to cooperate with ICE, continuing a stance taken by former Mayor Ed Gainey.

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