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The Chief Executive published an executive order opening a new public tender to award six gaming concessions. Bidders can submit their proposals between July 29 and September 14. In the order published today in the Official Gazette, the authorities noted that the duration of the concessions is limited to 10 years, as established by the new approved gambling law. The city’s current six gaming concessions and sub-concessions will expire at the end of this year. The order also stated that all interested parties should submit their bids by 17:45 on September 14 with a security deposit of at least MOP…

News from 100 years ago The following news items were taken from the Mail Tribune archives 100 years ago July 28, 1922 MAIL STAND FOUND BY NIGHT PROWLER Among the many rumors flying around town this morning was one that the Mail Tribune had been vandalized by a gang of hooded vandals, and there would be no paper or paper today until extensive and expensive repairs could be made. Where the rumor came from no one seems to know, but whoever started it probably knows something about who walked into the Mail Tribune store early yesterday and made off with…

PITTSBURGH – A man is in the hospital after being shot in the ear. According to Pittsburgh police, responding officers arrived in the 2400 block of Starkamp Street in Brookline around 8 p.m. after a caller said their neighbor had been shot. When units arrived at the scene, they found a man with a bullet lodged behind his ear. He was conscious and stable, according to police. The victim told police he had been shot on the North Side near Frederick Street and then drove to Starkamp Street. Police said there was a ShotSpotter alert for the area that said…

PROMISE LAND, Pa. — It’s not exactly flowing with milk and honey, just ask the area’s struggling black bears, but the Promised Land offered respite Sunday to people in the northeastern city trying to escape a nearly one-year heat spell week that only threatened to intensify. Those with the resources fled to pools, beaches and higher elevations such as Promised Land State Park, 1,800 feet (550 meters) in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains and about 2 1/2 hours from the city of New York and Philadelphia. From the Pacific Northwest to the southern Great Plains to the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor,…

CHURCHILL, Pa. — UPDATE 12/7/22: The Allegheny County Medical Examiner has identified the man killed in the crash as 47-year-old Thomas Linwood Ligon. Ligon was from Monroeville. One person was killed and two others were injured in an overnight crash on Interstate 376 East. According to Pennsylvania State Police, the crash happened around 2:33 a.m. on the Parkway near mile marker 79.8. A 2019 Chevrolet Silverado was traveling westbound in the eastbound lane and collided with a 2016 Honda HR-V, which spun and overturned, police said. The Honda’s passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. Download the FREE WPXI News…

We’ve all been there, after a long hot day at a Disney park, all you can think about is limping back to your car and turning on the A/C when panic sets in – you forgot where you parked!!!! !! It’s one of the most frustrating ways to end a day at Disney. Those days will soon be behind us, but with the Car Locator feature coming to the My Disney Experience app and the Disneyland app! The new free feature will save your car’s location and works best if you have location services and Bluetooth enabled on your mobile….

WDSU News has been honored with a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. WDSU News received this national award for its breaking news coverage of Hurricane Ida in the “Breaking Television News – Large Market” category. The Society of Professional Journalists describes the Sigma Delta Chi award as “among the premiere awards given to the profession: a recognition of achievements in professional journalism in its many forms.” This is the second year in a row that WDSU has received the top honors for the “Breaking News – Large Market” category.This year, the honor went to WDSU…